#! code

Whilst creating a large and complex form in Drupal 6 recently I hit upon a problem that took me a couple of hours to solve so I am posting the solution here in case anyone else gets similarly stuck. I am also writing this down so that I can remember the strategy in case I have to do the same thing again.

The Poll module is a useful little module that comes with Drupal and allows the addition of simple polls to pages or blocks. However, there was one major issue that I wanted to correct on a certain site, but I didn't want to directly edit the core functionality of the module. The default behaviour of the module is to record one vote per IP address or user, which is fine for normal uses but in some situations it does tend to fall over.

Phing allows you to set up certain parameters that can be used throughout the rest of the script. These might be used to define a non standard build directory, or to store database connection details that can be written to the connection file during the build.

Properties are defined using the property element, which you should place at the top of your build.xml file in order to make it easy for other developers to see what is going on. The following example defines a property and the uses the main target to print the property out.