If you plan to use the securepages module behind a proxy that terminates SSL, there are some additional server configuration steps you need to take.

In order to detect what the protocol is in use, securepages tests the value of $_SERVER['HTTPS']. Out of the box, this merely reflects the immediate connection to your proxy. If this protocol differs from that used by the original client, then securepages can't work (the most likely outcome is a redirect loop).

To resolve this, you'll need to ask your proxy to send the X-Forwarded-Proto header. While you're free to use any header label you choose, X-Forwarded-Proto seems to have become the de facto standard.

Everyone knows the top-tier Drupal modules, but with over 5,000 modules available for Drupal it’s no surprise that many useful ones go unnoticed. As a public service to the Drupal community, Palantir is working to raise awareness of some of these unsung heroes.

In part 4 of our ongoing 5,162-part series, we present: Menu Block: Revisited

In Menu Block (Part I), I talked about its basic options. In this part, I’ll be going into the crazy non-obvious options:

Last week at DrupalCon Copenhagen Antoine Beaupre and I shared our plans for the 1.0 release of the Aegir hosting system. After the 0.4 release that we are currently working on, the project will start working towards a final 1.0 build, rather than head towards 0.5.

Our goal for Aegir has been to implement a hosting system with a stable documented API that provides a solid foundation for integration of other services. Once we hit the 0.4 release, we will have the infrastructure in place to support this. With our key goal met, we've begun determining our must have features for a 1.0 release.

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I like Prepopulate. I like to have that pseudo-RESTful way of preloading a form to minimize the amount of work a user has to do to get to the point of submitting a form. But I also like clean URLs. This post reviews in detail a technique to use a single prepopulated nodereference field to prepopulate a bunch of other fields based on that reference. Since Prepopulate’s recent 2.0 release, it because a whole lot more difficult to use the Form API to work magic on what it provides.

I use this in conjunction with nodereference to tailor node forms for their relationship with the referenced node.

CivicActions has been working with Google's “Make the Web Faster” project team to make some (last minute) improvements that make Drupal 7 faster.

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Yesterday afternoon we made a new Alpha release of Pay for Drupal available.  What is Pay you might ask? At its core Pay is a modular API for accepting, processing and tracking payments.  If you want to be able to accept payments on your Drupal site for simple transactions with out "Add to cart" or complicated checkout procedures then Pay is for you!  To learn more about Pay, take a look at our blog post last week and check out the project page.

As part of the Pay API we provide a set of base classes which can be extended to provide payment forms or payment methods and gateways.  Out of the box we're currently shipping with support for Authorize.Net and PayFlowPro payment gateways. While at DrupalCon Copenhagen I began adding support for PayPal Website Payments Pro and Standard. While still under development some of this work is now available for testing in the latest alpha.

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In part 1 of our Maestro module overview we explained the different task types that we have available in the module. One of these task types is the Interactive Task and this blog post will be to better explain this task type and how to create your own custom function for it to use.

In an interactive workflow driven process, there are many times you need to present information or request information to a user. Examples of this would include:

• Submit a task to a user to create or update a content type record. This may be a drupal article or something more site specific like a job request setup as a custom content type
• Prompt a user to review a piece of information to approve or reject it - possibly an article or that job request
• Ask a user for some information using a form - results of which need to be used in the subsequent workflow
• Ask a user to pick from a list of users who should be assigned a subsequent task in the workflow
• Show a user some information - may not require any action

Basically any task where we want to interact with the user and we want full control over what is displayed. We may need to prompt the user with custom submit actions and execute code depending on what action the user takes.

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