Drupal 4.7.x

Many of the Drupal 7 websites I make have the same functionality (e.g. blogs, news section, special offers). At the moment, I have to re-create the content types, fields, blocks and Views each time.
I am looking for a better way of working.

There seems to be a lot of modules that can help me, but I'm not sure which is the latest best practice.

Features - The module seems great for exporting content types, fields, menus and views. However, it does not seem to be able to export blocks, block positions or content.

Features extra - This module is designed for exporting blocks. However, on the project page, it says that UUID Features Integration is the future.

UUID Features Integration - This module doesn't seem to work (although A patch is available to fix things). Apparently, it [has been dropped in favor of Deploy.

Deploy - This doesn't seem to work with blocks and is designed more for exporting nodes. I'm not really sure how it is a replacement for UUID Features.

We've tested numerous setups to optimize Drupal for speed and stability. What have you found to work best?

So far our best setup has involved using Debian, with varnish, CDN and then SSD for the SQL database. Obviously that's a bit more complicated than the average user wants, and certainly costlier.

Can someone please recommend a good Shopping Cart module?

I'm really very new to Drupal, so it needs to be something pretty simple to use.

Am hoping to find some reputable responses.

Thank you!

Hi everyone!!!!!!!!
i have to update a drupal site runing in drupal 4.7.2 to drupal 7.
is it advisable to upgrade from 47.x t0 5.x and then to 6.x and then finally to 7.x or simply install drupal 7 and use node export module.plz give me some advise thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all,

Not really sure what happend, but i believe my host Updated my MySQL database and caused double UTF-8 Encoding. I undid this after hours of work.

But if i login as admin then after login in (which works fine) but then:

Click any link => Get logged out
Click any admin function => Get access denied.

I have no clue where to start to resolve this problem.
And advice is very welcome.

Thanks!

I am building a custom user profile theme and am looking for some help with php. I understand a fair amount, but am still a nube. In both cases below, the code breaks to the next line.

Issue #1

I want to have a custom label/header for one of the fields, "About [field_first_name]'s Job" e.g. "About Mike's Job". Similarly, I would like to have a label/header, "About [field_first_name]" e.g. "About Mike".

Here is the code to print the first name
<?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?>

This is the php I use on the page.

<div class="cells" style="width:600px;">
        <h2>About <?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?>'s Job</h2>
		<?php print render($user_profile['field_job_description']); ?><br />
        <h2><?php echo "About ";?><?php print render($user_profile['field_first_name']); ?></h2>
        <?php print render($user_profile['field_about_me']); ?><br />
</div>

Issue #2

I need to concatenate 2 fields into one line. Currently the php is rendered on a new line, as if a
was between the two fields. In this case I want the print render($user_profile['field_user_university']); and print render($user_profile['field_user_grad_year']); to appear on the same line.