Drupal does not handle special characters very well. One of the things that I have noticed is that in the Swedish characters in certain circumstances work fine in the l() and t() functions of Drupal. But when you start using them anywhere outside of a module they seem to lose their ability to...
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Over the weekend I spent a good amount of time updating movico to Drupal 7.
This is a more detailed code tutorial on how to create taxonomy terms programmatically. Doing this is a sort of preliminary thing to creating taxonomy terms and vocabularies per user.
What I was actually trying to do was create a hierarchical vocabulary of terms. In my scenario, I wanted to...
There is no such thing as "hacking" a module. Refactoring code is a normal thing. If you are nice enough to present a patch, persistent and lucky then your code or contribution can be pushed into the main branch of the module. But often this does not happen because "every man's drink is not...
Tim Kamanin shows us how to create Drupal 7 content, comments and categories programmatically, ie. using PHP code rather than the administration user interface.
Knowing how to do this is one of the keystones to building modules that are useful and when using Drupal as a framework of sorts. It...
Many like me use Drupal's multi-user blog out of convenience and in preparation for use later. But what if you are the only blogger? That link to the blog showing dozens of times on the front page is very unsightly. Even if you have hundreds of blogger's it's still a little ugly. In Drupal 6 you...
In Drupal "teasers" is when you just want to show the first few hundred characters of a text as an introduction, and link to the full text. Teasers have always been a pain to setup using the default administration area because of the non-intuitive workflow involved and lack of flexibility. It is...
Tim Kamanin shows how to use a view template file to theme a views exposed filter in a block. This is very useful since frequently you do not want the block to have the same functionality as the page.
If you build a View with an exposed filter you may want to put this filter in a block. This is...
Ok, so If your Macbook trackpad is not working, the last thing you suspect might be your battery. Yep, this is happening to me right now. New book same problem. You'll find dozens of blog posts about deleting files, upgrading and downgrading but what it comes down to is the hardware.
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