drupal

There was a little funky activity on a client's Drupal 6 website that was hosted at GoDaddy, and without having access to an Apache access log file, I wanted to be able to see what was going on. So I wrote the following PHP code snippet to do some manual logging, and placed it in the Drupal theme's page.tpl.php file:

I just ran into a situation for a Drupal/PHP client where I wanted to log some access information. There was some unusual access activity on the website, and I want to log IP addresses and URLs for a few days.

As part of that, I wanted to get the web client's IP address, and in PHP you get the client IP address like this:

$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

That returns something like this:

192.168.100.10

If you just need to get a web client's IP address from a PHP script, that's all you need.

Drupal FAQ: How do I remove the H1 title tag from the front page of a Drupal website?

I just ran into this problem on my new website, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary. Whenever you create a Drupal page you have to give it a title, but for the front page of a website that doesn't really make sense.

There are at least two ways to do this:

Drupal form FAQ: How do I redirect a user when they submit a form, and I'm writing a hook_form_alter function to alter that form?

In Drupal 6 you set the "$form['#redirect']" property in your hook_form_alter function when you alter the form, like this:

$form['#redirect'] = 'thank-you';

That syntax tells Drupal to redirect the user to the "/thank-you" URI on your website.

Here's the source code for a full hook_form_alter function I just pulled from a working Drupal module:

MySQL backup FAQ: How do I back up a MySQL database?

I can't speak about backing up MySQL databases that are modified twenty-four hours a day seven days a week, but on all the MySQL databases I currently work with, there are always times when I can guarantee that there won't be any SQL INSERTs, DELETEs, or UPDATEs occurring, so I find it's really easy to perform a MySQL backup using the mysqldump utility program. Here's how it works.