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Migrating from the Menu trails module to Menu position

Submitted by antti on Mon, 08/06/2012 - 20:42

The Menu trails module that is used for giving content a suitable position in the Drupal menu lacks a Drupal 7 version and it doesn't work all that well with multilingual sites. The Menu position module provides equal functionality, is still supported and even works better for multilingual sites.

I wrote a small drush command for migrating to Menu position. It will convert Menu trails rules to Menu position equivalents. In the simplest case you can just install the command to the ~/.drush directory and run "drush mt2mp".

Drupal 7 bootstrap explained: DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_LANGUAGE

Submitted by antti on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 22:39

I've covered DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION and DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_PAGE_HEADER earlier. In this part I look at what Drupal 7 does in the next bootstrap stage after those, DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_LANGUAGE.

This stage starts when drupal_language_initialize() gets called.

Drupal 7 bootstrap explained: DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_PAGE_HEADER

Submitted by antti on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 11:49

In the previous part of this series I covered DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION, next up is DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_PAGE_HEADER. _drupal_bootstrap_page_header() is the function that gets called when we get into this phase.

Drupal 7 bootstrap explained: DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION and Drupal's session handling

Submitted by antti on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 12:13

I looked for articles going through the Drupal bootstrap in detail and found some. Unfortunately, they all seemed to stop before actually getting all the bootstrap phases covered. I'm going to continue where Be Circle's Andre Molnar left off and cover DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_SESSION in this article. Go read the excellent Drupal 7 Line by Line article series to get an overview and description of the bootstrap phases that are run before this one.