Watch this video on Drupalize.MeTheming Basics for Drupal 7 will provide a solid foundation for translating designs into Drupal themes. You’ll learn to work with .info and tpl.php template files, how to add CSS and JavaScript, how to work with the render system new in Drupal 7, how to override templates, create regions, and use
Read MoreNathan Smith talks about the CSS framework that he created called Formalize, which allows designers to have more control over styling form elements. He sees it as a reset for forms, and created it because he was frustrated about the gap between the original design intention and the final implementation. He also talks a bit
Read MoreCatching Up With Drupal 8Project leader Dries Buytaert kicked development of Drupal 8 into high gear by naming his new co-maintainer: Nathan Catchpole! “Catch“ was one of the top 5 contributors to the Drupal 7 development cycle, spearheaded that version’s performance optimization work, and was recently interviewed on Lullabot’s Drupal Drama podcast. Moments after the
Read MoreText fields built using Drupal’s FormAPI have always supported a “Max Length” property; set it, and Drupal will kick back an error when someone submits too much data in the form field. CCK and FieldAPI support that property as well, allowing you to specify just how much text a user can enter into the fields
Read MoreI’ve been working on a Fantasy Site for next week’s Do It With Drupal conference, a Drupal version of the Meetup.com site. It’s involved digging deep into the Drupal 7 versions of Organic Groups, Views, Panels, Date, and lots of other modules. I quickly identified the main content types I needed: Group, Meeting, Place, and
Read MoreThis video goes through the process of finding a patch from the Drupal.org issue queue, and then applying it to a contributed module. After testing the patch and confirming that it fixes the bug, we then walk through the process of reporting back that the patch has been reviewed and tested by the community and
Read MoreIn this video Jerad Bitner walks you through the process of how to make a patch for a change to a contributed module on Drupal.org. We go through the steps for creating an issue, creating the patch and then submitting the patch. This video assumes that you have a git clone of a contributed module
Read MoreThis 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
Read MoreFrom 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. Blocks admin areaBy regions I mean the regions in the page template where you can assign block content like left-sidebar,right-sidebar,
Read MoreIn 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. 1) Organise your codeKeep your template.php file neat and tidy by using
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