Blog of Lukas White, Manchester-based Web Developer specialising in PHP, Drupal and Zend Framework

I haven’t blogged for a while, but I have been writing. I recently wrote an article for PHP Master (part of the Sitepoint family) on geolocation, called Targetted Geolocation with Geonames.

If, like me, you often develop on a Windows platform and then host using a *Nix-based server, Concrete5 has a gotcha which will probably hit you when you come to publish your site.

At some point no doubt you’ll reach the point where you’ve copied the codebase to your server, created a database dump and imported it into the MySQL instance on your *Nix-based server. Try browsing to your site at this point, though, and you’ll get a message a lot like this:

Drupal 7’s block module can be a little limited in its permissions; “Administer Blocks” is a rather sweeping capability, and often it’s useful to be able to make it that bit more granular.

Having played around with Less for a while, I’m quite taken with it. Especially with useful tools such as Twitter's newly released Bootstrap being optimised to work with it.

One of Drupal’s weaknesses, I feel, is that out-of-the-box usability for administrators is a little poor (the Drupal team themselves would probably agree with me, however this is something that’s now being addressed in a big way).

There are, however, plenty of ways to make the experience better through a set of Drupal modules which I’ll be covering in this post.

However before even thinking about modules, it’s important you have a good admin theme – and there are a few good options.

I’ve just spent hours trying to get an install profile to work, which was giving me this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_result() in [site_root]/includes/path.inc on line 54