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I have been using Drupal for nearly 4 weeks now, and SimpleTest even less. I just wanted to share some things which I found, and that others learning SimpleTest should look out for.

Ever wondered why SimpleTest runs are much slower in Drupal 7 compared to their Drupal 6 counterparts?

In Drupal 6's excellent SimpleTest module, a method called drupalPost() allows you to simulate a button press on a form by taking the form's data and using HTTP POST to submit it.

We had a problem in the office the other day, and one that took days to figure out.

We had a problem in the office the other day, and one that took days to figure out.

If you write PHP on a Windows computer then setting up a reliable method for debugging your scripts will at some point be something you will want if not need to do for when simply writing out variables to the page will not do.

If you are seeing the error "non-static method krumo::dump cannot be called statically" you might, like me, be wondering what the hell that means. Alternatively you might not even be seeing the error, or noticing that it's happening.

Here's a quick way to put Drupal 6 menus into multiple columns. You can choose how many columns you want, and let the code handle the rest.

I am using the SimpleTest module version 6.x-2.8 with Drupal 6.13. I wrote a custom module, for which I wrote some tests. However, SimpleTest doesn't seem to be creating a copy of the table associated with my custom module, because I get an exception message for every time I try to insert something into the table or query it in the SimpleTest.

All insert queries result into something like this in the SimpleTest results page:
Table 'db_name.simpletest692319new_table' doesn't exist query: INSERT INTO simpletest692319new_table(...)