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

There isn't really an out-of-the-box solution for gift certificates in Drupal Commerce; there's no module (at time of writing) you can simply download, enable and forget about. Being Drupal, there are many ways to skin a cat, so to speak, so in this post I'm going to outline how I got them working on a site I built.

At time of writing, Spotify doesn’t provide a track’s artwork via its API.

So, I’ve written a simple function to get the image; but please note, not only is it quick and dirty, but it’s horribly inefficient and should be used sparingly – at the very least, make sure you cache the results somewhere!

You can access a public-facing web-page about a particular track using the following URL:

http://open.spotify.com/track/[TRACK-ID]

Just a quick one, but it’s something that I got stuck with for a while.

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.