Drupal Tutorials - Theme

In this fairly simple tutorial I'll show you how to use Drupal to create a simple news archive. We'll cover creating a new content type, setting up a new View and then add a bit of theming to smarten things up.

In this quick tutorial I'm going to show you how to create "fancy" select menus in Drupal using the Jquery Dropdown module, something which is becoming more popular on the web.

With Drupal 7 going into alpha 6 the official launch is getting ever closer so in this tutorial I'll outline some of my favourite additions and changes brought into Drupal 7 theming.

Installing modules and themes is really important in Drupal and you can make life alot easier for yourself when updating if you follow a few simple points which I'll outline in this short tutorials.Organising your module and theme foldersDumping all your modules in the main modules folder in your Drupal site root is often assumed as the correct place to put them. There's nothing wrong with it and your modules will still work fine but it can make updating modules tricky.

This is the final part of the "Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules" series, if you missed the previous parts check them out:Part 1 | Part 2By now we have a simple events listing system, so in this part we're going to look at some more advanced stuff and take this system further and improve it.Make it look nicerRight lets make our rather boring table list look abit nicer by adding an event photo and a location then switch it to a list view instead.1 First things first, you sho

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

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.

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.

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

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.