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Include CiviCRM functions from standalone PHP script

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With CiviCRM being such a light, flexible and powerful alternative to use, and as an Open Source utility it makes it even better. Occasionally you will need to include functions, and extend the API.

There is a Wiki that is pretty well documented, but even i will admit it will take some getting into, but once you are going then you can do a lot, and i mean a LOT.

Granted that not everyone uses Drupal, or Joomla, and if you are using a

framework like Codeigniter, CakePHP, Symfony, Plone or even another CMS like Continue reading →

Bootstrap and include Drupal from outside the Drupal root

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Working on a site that needed to get some pretty detailed membership information as well as some payment processing the natural solution seemed like the Drupal based CiviCRM .  However, there was one problem and that was the CMS they had managing the rest of the site was actually in Worpdress, so i would need to bootstrap Drupal.

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Ideally if there was a CRM plugin with payment processing and some of the advanced features of CiviCRM then this would have been the natural choice. But seeing as none existed CiviCRM was the choice.

As a result we would also want to use some of the Drupal classes, methods, and functions so we needed to bootstrap Drupal outside of the Drupal root. Continue reading →

Disable the drupal.css

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I am sure everyone has had a time when using drupal that you have had to create a page and needed to alter the output that may be given by a Drupal module. A lot of the time this leads to much frustration cursing and in the end some sort of core hacking or something of that nature as well as cursing and hours of confusion.

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I think that is one of the subtle failures by drupal is getting all the power it has harnessed and being able to easily access resources on certain topics. Yet once you manage to get into the details it can be pretty sweet.

In this case there is a bit that needs to be understood about themeable functions, and for that be sure to look here for the basics of theming and what it entails. This is more a practical example. Continue reading →

Site Security and file permissions matter

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The other day we were talking over a coffee about site security and was it really wise to trust plugins and without a second inspection, or a look at the code.

Now i am sure that many of us have gone and installed a plugin or two without actually looking at the code, but does it really mean we are at risk? I think the undeniable answer is yes, and this is for the very reason of the widespread, and almost unrestricted release of themes and plugins for WordPress. The allure of “free” themes and plugins often leaves the casual blogger or website developer at risk for being exposed by these various sites that offer “free themes”. Continue reading →