Validating your form submissions in Drupal can be easy. If you’re using CCK, somebody has probably coded a nice module to deal with email, phone or ISBN fields.

But what if your need is fairly specific to the website at hand?

You’ll need to create a module…don’t run and hide, its not that bad.

The validation module we’ll create consists of two files – and no more then 100 lines of code.

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Webscaped is now using Wordpress to power the content. I’m fairly impressed by the features and how easy it was to port an existing site.

Most of the changes were to create a new wordpress theme. Which was a breeze. The template files are really well structured, much simpler then Drupal. (But then Drupal is a larger beast).

The permalinks also allows for a nice amount of customisation, so I can setup the links to be the same as the old site, no problems redirecting search engine traffic then.

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The workflow module has just been released for Drupal 6. I took a look and was pretty impressed with the features.

After the jump I show how to create a simple workflow to generate an email when an anonymous user posts some news.

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