I wanted to try the latter with Drupal Views, and could not find any documentation that worked out-of-the-box with my project so here is what I ended up with:

Create a new module
See Creating modules – a tutorial: Drupal 7.x

viewsimport/
├── views
│   └── view.my_exported_view.inc
├── viewsimport.info
├── viewsimport.module
└── viewsimport.views_default.inc

Export view(s)
Export whatever views you want to be able to import (revert). From the views list (admin/structure/views) you should be able to select “Export” on the views you want to export.
This will display PHP code in a textarea. You should copy the contents and paste it in a file, say named view.my_exported_view.inc.
Remember to add “<?php” on the first line.

My example files
Here is my modules/viewsimport/viewsimport.info file:

Here is my modules/viewsimport/viewsimport.module file:

Here is my modules/viewsimport/viewsimport.views_default.inc:

Some of the articles I stumbled over:

• Adding Default Views and Pages to a Custom Module
• Managing Drupal Views, the proper way

Fooling php cli is simple using faketime:

Say you have this PHP script:

Rendering this script with php through faketime will give you results like this:

The same can be achieved using the datefudge command:

Faking time for a webapplication

Faking time for a web application is not that simple since apache will fork a process for each request and thus create a new php processes.
In this post I will show you how to use FakeTime Preload Library to fake time system wide while running tests on a web application.

First I need to install faketimelib as described on the librarys homepage.
In short:

For the demonstration I will use a php script like this:

Running this script should yield something like:

Now I create a file in my home folder, faketimerc, with a new future time. I will use this file in different ways to show how I can manipulate the time.

If you now create an environment variable, FAKETIME, give it a future time, and running the same script would yield something like this:

As you can see, the processes you run while the environment variable is set to a future time will get a fake time. Once the variable is unset new processes will get normal time.

This can be achieved also by creating a file. “.faketimerc” in your home folder:

If you want to change time for a php application that runs though apache you may want to set the fake time system wide so that the php processes spowned use the faked time. To do this you need to create a file, /etc/.faketimerc, just the same as the one I created in my home folder.

I will use w3m for this demonstration. I assume a normal ubuntu server with apache2 installed.

As you can see, the date command and when rendering the script with php, gives me the fake time, but when rendering the script through apache I loose the fake time. This is because the environment variable LD_PRELOAD is not set for the apache process.

To fix this I need to set LD_PRELOAD for apache by editing /etc/apache/envvars. Lets test it again:

Fake time!

PS! If you also want your PostgreSQL server to use fake time:

Both scripts use the same python VMBuilder library, and contain accactly the same code…

Here is what you can do:

Download (git clone) a copy of veewee from GitHub and copy the templates.

To verify that you have the new templates:

After a bit of searching it appeared that I was missing a file: /etc/bash_completion. Next I discovered that there is a /etc/bash_completion.d/ directory and under this a file named ‘git’. I copied the bash_completion file from my workstation and followed the instruction in /etc/bash_completion.d/git and suddenly I had bash completion and a prompt that gave me branch name and the status of the git repository I was currently in.

Just to give you a hint, here is the comment from the /etc/bash_completion.d/git file:

You’re not alone.

The trick: Hit the “stop” button as soon as you enter the automatic setup window and set your settings manually. If you wait to press “stop” it will not stop and the best thing you can do is to cansel and start over again.

Ref: http://www.givesatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/can_t_setup_an_imap_connection_in_thunderbird_3

The solution to this is writing your own ctags configuration file (~/.ctags) and letting ctags know what regex strings You want to tag your PHP files with:

Next trouble was to move my passwords from MyPasswordSafe to KeepassX. Both programs can export/import XML files, so I made a PHP file that did the job. I even created a project on githut for it.