Magento, the awesome ecommerce software that recently released their 1.0 stable, is interested in integration with Drupal.

I think Magento is great and it should be possible to integrate with Drupal, but to make this work well would be a very complex project.

The level of integration that you would want in such a combo is probably most closely matched by vbdrupal. VbDrupal is very powerful but also quiet a resource hog. Disclaimer: I last used VbDrupal about a year ago so maybe it's not slow anymore. A Drupal-fork would also be undesirable.

In the relevant Drupal group a proposal was posted for the integration but I think such a proposal should be preceded by a research of the feasibility of the integration and an analysis of what would be gained/lost on both ends (mage/drupal) when they are integrated.

This tutorial will outline the steps to create and awesome looking taxonomy menu, using Imagecache, Taxonomy Image, Views, and some SQL. I will make this blog post the first one to be labeled ‘expert' in my skill level taxonomy, but that's really just there to look cool ;). I will explain the code step by step, and if afterwards, all 11 (!) lines of code make no sense at all, you can copy and paste the code.

Prerequisites:

In this tutorial, we will be adding a container with metadata about your node to our node template. To see what I mean, look at the bottom of this node page. Code snippet is plug-and-play, so you can plug it right into your custom theme, or one of my own Drupal themes.

The box in question can contain any node information we want, such as link information, to ensure the blogosphere can link to us effortlessly, or statistical data about our node (hits etc.).

For starters, we're going to add a simple container to our node that contains a html link, a BBcode link, and the trackback url of our node. Open up your node.tpl.php file, and add a new div element at the end:

This article is the sequel to my first drupal adsense article. This time we're going to put adsense blocks in between teasers, on for example our frontpage. Same as last time, this does not require any modules, nor does it depend on adsense, it works with any phptemplate-based theme and with all sorts of ad code.

For starters, we're going to create a new block region. If there is not a template.php file in your theme folder, create one and open it up. See if there is a block regions function, if there is, add a new block to it: 'betwteasers' => t('between teasers')

If you didn't find a block region function copy this code into your template.php file (this code should be in between <?php and ?> tags):

function yourtheme_regions() {
return array(
'right' => t('right sidebar'),
'left' => t('left sidebar'),
'content' => t('content'),
'header' => t('header'),
'footer' => t('footer'),
'subnav' => t('subnav'),
'betwteasers' => t('between teasers'),
);
}

I thought Matt's idea of making Drupal wallpapers was awesome, and so are his Drupal Wallpapers. Right now the Druplicon is serving as my background background desktop but I'm sure that in a week or 2 I'll get tired of looking at the same image. Therefore I'm calling to all graphics talent (and wannabe-talent) to boot up your favorite image editor and add your wallpaper to the new Drupal-powered Drupal Wallpaper Repository! (ps you can login and upload with your drupal.org account)

If you're too busy to make a wallpaper now, just make sure to bookmark the page and get on it when you feel like procrastinating ;)

Just for kicks I installed userpoints on alldrupalthemes.com and set it up so that each (published) wallpaper submission earns you 10 userpoints. As of now you can't really do anything with the userpoints but perhaps I'll think of something later.

Part 1 - enhancing the comment layout

When browsing the drupal showcase forum I notice that few people take the effort the theme the comments, which is strange because comments are not only a very popular feature, but also exceedingly easy to theme!. For this comment theming tutorial we're going to spice up the comment template of the default Garland theme with some additional styling and a date widget just like the one in my latest free drupal theme Delicious Fruit.

With this blog post I'm launching my new website, alldrupalthemes.com . I made this site firstly, because I've heard many complaints about Drupal having comparatively very few goodlooking themes. The second reason for making this site is that I have used drupal and it's modules so much without being able to give much in return, as my php skills are not (yet) sufficient to write good standards-compliant modules.

Whats on alldrupalthemes.com now:

• 5 free Drupal themes
• 1 Drupal Tutorial

Whats coming up the coming 2-3 weeks:

• plenty more tutorials, some more advanced theming topics probably
• 2 more themes, a port of Delicious Fruit by Dieter Schneider, which is an excellent example of a Drupal site that doesn't look like a cookie-cutter CMS site! and a port of Judgement, a free theme that will demonstrate that with some advanced theming, drupals frontend and backend output can be displayed in a slick looking envelope-size brochure website design.
• Request-a-theme form
  

Please keep in mind that this site and the themes are brand new and not tested by anyone but me. If you find any bugs in the site, or in the themes, please use the contact form. Any feedback is much appreciated! I will also submit these themes to project/Themes (once I figure out how that works).

Some more background info in the readmore>>

This is my first ever blog post, so I'm going to keep it simple, and start with this easy trick to add adsense to your articles. This trick does not require the usage of the adsense module, or any other module. Actually, this trick does not even require adsense, because in essence, we'll be creating an in-content block in wich you can put any type of advertising you like.

First of all, we're going to create a new block region. Put the following code in your template.php file, if you don't have one, create a template.php file and put it in the directory of your theme:

function yourtheme_regions() {
return array(
'right' => t('right sidebar'),
'left' => t('left sidebar'),		
'content' => t('content'),
'header' => t('header'),
'footer' => t('footer'),
'incontent' => t('in content')
);
}