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While Drupal 7 is probably the "right" thing to do, there are a few good reasons to stick with Drupal 6. One is the status of the modules you need. … Drupal 7 versions will be less mature than their Drupal 6. They may have better features, but may also have bugs. Some just don't have Drupal 7 versions yet. …

Drupal 7 Module Development is also a good reference. …

A large portion of the Drupal 7 API has changed from the Drupal 6 API, so it is unlikely that a module will work as-is. … If a module hasn't been ported to Drupal 7, then it is likely that it either isn't needed or it isn't being maintained anyway (which is a warning sign). …

Personally, I would either write module that abstracts away the need for a global variable, or at least has a getter function for retrieving it. Something like function foo_get_the_service () { st …

Not only does variable_set persist across pages, it nukes the cache every time it is called. It should only really be used for settings, and similar read-mostly uses. If you read my answer to Where …

In Drupal 6, init functions are attached like Drupal.behaviors.foo = function () { // ... } In Drupal 7, it is like Drupal.behaviors.foo = { attach: function () { // ... } } …

The piece you are missing is RewriteCond. This should redirect just the subdomain RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^red\.sitename\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sitename.com/$1 [L,R=301] …

As a counter to @Letharion's answer, putting everything in SVN makes sense for some organizations and it really depends on how you do your rollouts. Putting contrib modules and themes in SVN can make …

Depending on what you would like to do, there are two potential approaches. On the simple end, you have fields on content types that only certain roles can edit. For example, you can have a field ca …

As part of your build script and/or revision control checkin script, write out a version number to constant in an include file. Write a custom module that does something with this include file, such …

If doing Drupal 7, you may also want to take a look at the files directive for .info files: Drupal now supports a dynamic-loading code registry. …

A non-ideal option, and not truly a base content type, is to use the Field Collection module. You can create one or more field collections for your common fields, and then attach the collection(s) to …

In many cases, there are standard Drupal functions that do validation. For example, for email addresses there is valid_email_address. Otherwise, there is the standard PHP Data Filtering library (man …

Drupal 7 Module Development says (pg 28) says that this is the current best practice, but I have never see this cross-referenced to official docs on drupal.org. …

In my mind, the big advantage of using Panels is so that you can extend/alter sites like this in the future, without needing a lot of rework. In a lot of ways, Panels provides a framework for futurep …