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A Facebook Content Management System (CMS) for Facebook Page Templates

03.23.2010 10:58PM by Evan Johnson

Update:The project now has a name, and a website! Head over to Faceil.com to learn more and get updates.

There's something big in the works here at Chili Pepper Design I wanted to share on my blog quickly:

Coming Soon: A Facebook Fan Page CMS

Right now the social networking site Facebook is quickly becoming the king of the web. Some sources claim that Facebook has passed Google as the...

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Learning Drupal Module Dev: Dependent AHAH/AJAX Forms

03.21.2010 11:32PM by Evan Johnson

So, I've been working on a simple module for a Drupal project lately. I wanted to have two administrator settings for the module, the second of which depends on the first. A "dependent dropdown". It would be cool if it was "AJAXy" too, I thought. Well, it just so turns out that in Drupal 6 there are built in AHAH (Asychronous HTML and HTTP) functions in the Forms API...

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How to programmatically create Views in Drupal 6

01.14.2010 10:08PM by Evan Johnson

So, this stumped me for a while. I needed my small custom Drupal module to select a bunch of nodes based on a CCK Date field and the Publish status. It is a pain to query the CCK tables directly, so every forum post I could find told me to do this via Views. That’s all well and good, but the instructions for doing this all involved creating...

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Custom Loops for Custom Taxonomies in WordPress 2.8

09.23.2009 04:24PM by Evan Johnson

WordPress 2.8 saw a big expansion and enhancement of it’s Taxonomy API, allowing for easy creation of custom taxonomies. The default WordPress "category" and "tag" taxonomies are sufficient for most blogs, but the ability to define additional sets of terms ("vocabularies") makes the platform a much more flexible and powerful Content Management System than it was before. Ever since Justin Tadlock opened my eyes to how...

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