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In this article I'm going to take a look at video streaming options for Drupal 6, from the point of view of setting up a user generated content video website. What provisions does Drupal 6 have for handling video content? Drupal itself has the upload module which allows you to upload files and attach them to nodes, but this doesn't really cut it for a fully fledged video content site as it has no support for embedded playback of these files.

There will come a time when you'll want to add a new region to your Drupal theme, weather you are using a stock theme, a modification of a base theme such as Zen (like me) or creating your own theme from scratch.

Drupal 6 makes the creation of new regions as simple as adding one line of code to your themes template.php file. However, by default new regions created in this manor will only be available to your themes page template (page.tpl.php) and a little extra work will be needed if you want to display it somewhere else.

Last week I wrote a short introductory article about Aptana's Jaxer. Today I want to follow on from there and introduce one of the new features that has been added in Jaxer 1.0.

By default, Drupal allows you to include a search box directly into your theme. In most themes, when enabled, this search box will show up in the primary navigation bar as an input box labeled "Search this site", with a submit button labeled "Search". But what if you want to alter or completely hide these labels, or even add a new class to the input box?

A Drupal site with several extra modules installed can leave quite a large memory footprint, especially when served through the beast that is Apache. Don't get me wrong, I think Apache is a great webserver and have used it for years without any real problems, but sometimes you need to squeeze a little more performance than Apache is willing to give.

I like to keep all my projects under source control, however big or small. It only takes a few minutes to set up and always saves me time in the long run.

I don't like the way Drupal formats the "Submitted by..." text for nodes and comments. So, I did a little bit of digging and found the offending code in the theme_node_submitted() and theme_comment_submitted() functions of node.module and comment.module respectively. These two functions are easy to override at the theme level by making a copy in your template.tlp.php file, and renaming the function to fit with your theme (replace theme with the name of your theme). I made mine look like this:

The Drupal statistics module doesn't offer a lot in the way on configuration; It's basically either on or off. When it is on, it's not particularly clever about the way that it keeps track of page reads, simply incrementing a counter every time a node is accessed, and there is no control over what counts as a hit and what doesn't.

If your or your site administrators do a lot of work on the site from day to day, writing articles, tweaking things here and there, then every single time they view a post views will be logged, resulting in a skewed post read counter.

Drupal 6 is a world class, award-winning CMS (Content Management System). It is free to use, modify and distribute, as it is Open Source software, licensed under the GPL (General Public License). Drupal is perhaps one of the most powerful and extensible CMS systems, capable of powering everything from small personal blogs to large, high traffic community websites.

If you've ever tried creating an Ajax application, you've probably run into one of the most common problems that face Ajax developers. How do you get the JavaScript that's running in your clients browser to interact with your server-side scripts?

I had a great idea for a new webmaster resource last night - a live keyword analysis tool, one that checks keyword weights as you type. Only thing is, it's not a new at all. It's already been done and can be found at live-keyword-analysis.com/