I've been using the Eclipse editor (www.Eclipse.org) for about 2 years now, and I really like the latest version of Eclipse which is 3.3. If you will be using Eclipse with Drupal, which is to say with PHP, you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble by installing the "all in one" version of Eclipse for PHP (http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/). Don't forget, you want the all in one PDT (Php Development Tools).

I received a few emails from drupal.org suggesting that there were security flaws with the Drupal core for versions before 5.6, and that if I wasn't up to 5.6 I should upgrade. So, I followed my own instructions from the last time I upgraded (http://www.drupnewb.com/node/26), and things went fine. I must admit, that the first time I upgraded Drupal it seemed difficult. This time it didn't seem difficult at all.

Unless, of course, my site has some big problem I haven't noticed yet.

Not sure what benefits this upgrade has besides patching the security flaw.

Has nothing whatsoever to do with Drupal, but I went to the San Diego Zoo yesterday (New Years Day) to see Zhen Zhen, the new baby Panda. Cute!

Here's the video I took. Not easy to get video of her, as they have a long line, and so really keep you moving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MK-xbNG_QI

So I read the manual install instructions for Ubercart, and it's pretty extensive. Among other things, you have to install a bunch of modules before you install Ubercart. This kind of makes sense, if you are writing a really robust system for Drupal you are bound to use some of the great stuff already available for Drupal.

Having worked in the past with a few shopping carts, and even written part of one myself (www.fluffycat.com/Java-Cart/), I thought I'd give one of the Drupal carts a go. So, I've decided to install Ubercart. I don't think I have any actual products to sell on DrupNewb, so maybe I'll just sell digital media like cat photos (if you can sell digital media with Ubercart) or something small like beach pebbles or pennies. I don't really want to sell any of these goods, but to thoroughly test Ubercart out want to set up the cart as if I intend to sell something.

Wooster does enjoy a good sunspot on the carpet.

I haven't posted for a while here at DrupNewb.com, and this is mainly because I took a job where I'm working with CakePHP. Comparing CakePHP to Drupal is like comparing Avocados to Oranges, because they aren't exactly meant to be the same thing. CakePHP and Drupal are both written in PHP. Both can use a number of DBMSs, including MySQL.

I read on Drupal.org that if I wasn't at Drupal 5.5 I should upgrade, as it fixed a "critical problem". DrupNewb was at Drupal 5.3. (Gasp!!!) I'm not sure that this critical problem would really have affected DrupNewb.com, but I certainly wanted to try out a Drupal upgrade.

I'll give a brief recount of some of what I did, but please follow the official Drupal 5.5 UPGRADE.txt instructions if you are doing this upgrade, as I am not covering all of what you need to do.

I have a few blog entries on similar subjects, such as images. Anyone reading one of my blog entries on images would never know there were more, and even if they did it would be difficult to locate the others.

This is what Drupal categories seem to be all about - a flexible taxonomy to tie together different nodes on the same topic.