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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

What to buy a Drupaler for Christmas

With Christmas less than a month away now, I bet you're wondering exactly what Drupalers want for Christmas, so he's my list.A ticket to DrupalCON DCOn March the 4th-7th 2009 Washington DC is hosting DrupalCON.DrupalCON is a bi-annual conference/unconference for Drupal developers and users.It brings together the Drupal developers and Drupal users to share knowledge, make decisions on the future of Drupal, and get to know each other in person.Some sessions/topics that stand out for me are: Making
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Monday, December 1, 2008

Getting going with AHAH and Drupal 6

In my opinion one of the best things added to Drupal 6 was the AHAH (or Asynchronous HTML and HTTP) framework, so in this lesson I'm going to give you a quick overview of how to use it.What is AHAH and what can it can do?
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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules - Part 2

This is part 2 of "Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules", if you missed part one you can find it here.In part one we set up our event CCK node type so now we're going to look at setting up a view to list our events.Views SetupLets not waste time and get stuck in to make our events view.Go to yoursite.com/admin/build/views, click the "Add" tab and input the following details:Basic Information fieldsetName: eventsPage fieldsetProvide Page View: Check the boxURL: eventsView Type:
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules - Part 1

This tutorial was originally requested by droople.In this tutorial we will be creating an events listing system using CCK, Date and views as opposed to using the events and calendar modules.I'm going break this tutorial up into 3 parts so it's manageable.
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Monday, November 17, 2008

Drupal and Ajax working together

Drupal is a fantastic CMS which I have been actively developing for, for some time now. Yesterday was the first time I had really ventured into the Ajax territory but I learnt a lot and hopefully this guide should help others.Currently this example is Drupal 5.x only. I will update it for Drupal 6 in another post in due course.I'm going to create a simple module to demonstrate the communication between client and server.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Useful new hooks and functionality for developers in Drupal 6

Since the official release of Views 2 and now CCK for Drupal 6 I've had the pleasure of using Drupal 6 a lot more in my day job.So I thought I'd share some of the new hooks and functionality I'm finding really useful in Drupal 6:hook_menu_alterSeems like Drupal has been crying out for this hook forever and now it's here.What it doesLike the hook_form_alter but it allows you to alter menu items even core module ones.
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Creating a community search page in Drupal with usernode, views and theming

This is a really quick tutorial in response to sahilr's question here: http://drupalsn.com/learn-drupal/drupal-questions/question-2470.This tutorial outlines the procedures for Drupal 5 but if you are comfortable with Views 2 you can follow the tutorials principle and transfer it to Views 2 and it should work fine.To create a page like the community page here on DrupalSN you will need: Usernode module Views module Profile module (part of core) A) Profile moduleEnable the profile module and creat
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Creating a buddy list system in Drupal

Anyone who has used a social networking site won’t have failed to notice the importance of having a buddy or friend list system to allow site users to connect with each other. So in this simple tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a buddy list system in Drupal using the buddylist 1 module.
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Custom Drupal theme regions

From Drupal 4.7 onwards Drupal themers now have the ability to set their own custom block regions for their themes. This gives even more power to your theme and your ability to customize your themes. By regions I mean the regions in the page template where you can assign block content like left-sidebar,right-sidebar, content etc. Just take a look at the blocks admin area (yoursite.com?
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Drupal theming tips and tricks

In the overriding theme functions tutorial we touched on using a template.php file within your theme and hopefully you saw how powerful it can be for theming overriding, so I’ll show you a few tips and tricks I have learnt here and there.