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Introduction

Disclaimer: The absolute numbers here are not representative for losooperimes of either application on your server.
The thing we're looking for here is how results compare to eachother.

Hardware:
-Acer Aspire 7720G l
-Intel Core 2 du0 T5250 with Santa Rosa chipset (1.5Ghz 667MHz FSB 2MB L2 cache)
-2GB DDR2

Software
-XAMPP package with Zend Optimzer disabled
-No opcode caching enabled
-MySQL query caching enabled with default settings
-Windows Vista running classic theme (yes vista is lame, I know)

-SVN checkout of joomla 1.5
-CVS checkout Drupal 6.1
-Jmeter
-Apache Benchmark

Part 1: Testing for load times with Jmeter

Test Setup:

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The purpose of this contest is to get a really nice design, to be used as a premium drupal theme, and to scout for hot designer talent for future work.

Take a look over at 99designs (from Sitepoint) to read the details and following the contest:
http://99designs.com/contests/5944

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No! I haven't posted on the blog in a while, but fact is I'm busier than ever and the stuff I'm working on is something that is going to change the landscape of Drupal theming greatly.

Besides doing client work, I have been working on premium Drupal themes to be sold on SOOPER. As far as I know, 2 other companies are doing the same thing. One of them is SEO Position, and the other is a new company that is going to take on the theme shortage with a huge effort, let's call this new start-up TNT for now. You'll learn more about them in the near future. (ps TNT is not owned by me).

The themes line of SOOPER is going to cater the market for omnipotent highly flexible themes that come with a high degree of configurability and generic but extendible designs, while the other 2 are going to provide a collection of niche templates.

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I normally don't announce theme releases anywhere but this one is
special. I've worked hard to make this theme work well and the xhtml
template I was porting was well-coded as well.

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It's easy to create a custom node with CCK, but what if we want to change how the node looks by default? It's a step up from theming your submitted and your terms code, but it's not really that hard. The main difference between theming the CCK node and the regular node is that in node.tpl.php, we have several content sections within a node, so rather than just printing $content, we will print out parts of the content individually. I will use code from the wallpaper node type of this site for my examples.

Step 0, before we get to the phptemplate part of this tutorial, you have to think to yourself if you really need to theme a specific node programmatically. In many cases, you can style a node just fine with CSS only, so first imagine how you want to theme your node and determine if you really need to get into the templating engine.

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In this tutorial, we will be adding a container with
metadata about your node to our node template. To see what I mean, look at the
bottom of this node page. Code snippet is plug-and-play, so you can plug it
right into your custom theme, or one of my own Drupal themes.

The box in question can contain any node information
we want, such as link information, to ensure the blogosphere can link to us
effortlessly, or statistical data about our node (hits etc.).

For starters, we're going to add a simple container to
our node that contains a html link, a BBcode link, and the trackback url of our node. Open
up your node.tpl.php file, and add a new div element at the end:

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If you haven't heard of Magento yet, it's the new open source ecommerce platform that's going to blow ubercart and oscommerce out of the water! A stable version has not yet been released but yet their sourcecode has already been downloaded over 100,000 times. The stable 1.0 version is planned to be releaed in the first quarter of 08, so it won't be long until we see magento shops spawning allover the web. You can check out the demo here

Magento is also going to be integrated with Drupal...