I’ve spent the last week running some proof-of-concept tests for features in our new (semi-secret) Drupal project. Nothing I can link to here. I did solve an interesting problem with importing users from an existing registration system and requiring them to reactivate their accounts.

I also wrote a hack to path aliasing behavior in Drupal 4.6.5. I want to use Pathauto to map taxonomy categories but not nodes. The problem that I encountered is that Drupal’s l() function always looks for url_alias entries. I rewrote that lookup function to only work in the event that the given $path variable starts with “taxonomy” — in one test, it cut queries for a page from 320+ down to 150. Nice little performance bump.

It lloks as though performance optimizing Drupal may be my next big project.