Drupal devel environment

firefox tips

Drupal modules rss feed
firefox -p -no-remote
devel module - intercept all redirects-
- firefox tamper plugin
  - ask if you want to redirect
iMacros
- record actions and hit play
drupal for firebug
- firefox extension
- drupal module
- run php code in context of drupal session
? watchdog log

admin menus
devel
simpletest - unit testing
- write a test case that creates data for me
- select which test you want to run through web ui
- involves writing code
login toboggan
- login form on every page you get an access denied
- login with email address
Xdebug - php debugger
- integrated with IDE
- step through code

Check in your entire source tree
- sometimes you have to hack code
Organize your source code
- keep delel modules away from sites/localhost/dev
- separate code I work on from 3rd party code
- custom/modified/as is
check in clean source for third-party modules - no tweaks
- do a diff, generate patch, do module upgrades, then reapply patch
test all upgrades against a production copy.
test updates
- copy production database
- for behavior changes - write update function that creates all changes are encoded in version control.
- for editorial changes
manage your branches and merge changes
- tools to make it easy to merge branches.
- which patches haven't been merge yet