You Should Know That...

May 26, 2009 - James Andres

Drupal should NOT be installed with the "downloaded and unzip" method.

• Check Drupal core out from CVS. See Moshe Weitzman's Drupal Best Practices
• The core "Update Status" module is a life saver. See the Update Status project homepage on Drupal.org - which is in core as of Drupal 6.x. Enable the email notification feature on all live sites, sit back and wait for your Drupal sites to tell you when they need an upgrade.
• Using the install_profile_api module is a great way to update/upgrade Drupal. Check out the Install Profile API project on Drupal.org
• Every change to the system should be done with a hook_update_N() See: http://www.tributemedia.com/blogs/james_glasgow/updating_drupal See: Updating tables: hook_update_N() functions See: Dark arts of Deploying Drupal by Drupal Guru Jeff Eaton