Drupal webform_viewreference Module Tweek

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

The Drupal module webform view reference according to the modules page adds a webform component where you could use a View as a datasource for your normal webform select component. Instead of hardcoding all the selectable values in the component values field you just select a reference to a View similar to the CCK nodereference. The selectlist/radiobuttons/checkbox then automatically gets filled with all the nodes from the View.

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Drupal Latest Members Module Updated

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

I’ve just closed a few open issues and added bug fixes for Drupal’s latest members module. Now version 6 is stable I’m going to start planning a build for Drupal 7! Latest Members provides a block that shows all of the new members photos (aka user pictures). The block settings can be changed so the admin can choose how many user pictures get displayed.

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Drupal: HTTP request status fails / Drupal Status Page Reports Errors

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

HTTP request status Fails

Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.

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Override Drupal Menu CSS .leaf .expanded .collapsed Bullets

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Time and time again when you design themes for Drupal you will need to override the CSS for much of what comes with core.  One such target is the Drupal menu.  The menu uses images to create a bullet like effect which most people would not want in their custom designs.

Luckily the CSS that does this can be overridden with a few additional lines of code in your themes CSS file.

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Customize Drupal Menus – Remove The Most Annoying Code

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Want to customize the menu in Drupal? Wondering what are all those classes in the menu for – when you are not even using a core theme? The most annoying code in the whole CMS is in Drupals menu system and ouputs something like this:

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Using Drupal Video Tutorial

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

A video tutorial from lullabot.com explains how to use Drupal.

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Hacking Drupal Project / Theme “Bluecurve” For Drupal 5.x

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

This Drupal theme project was created for Drupal 6.x. In order to hack it to work with Drupal 5.x the following changes can be made to page.tpl.php….

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Manually Repair Broken Blocks In Drupal

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Quite a few times I have had to manually repair MySQL databases in Drupal installs because new PHP code in a block is crashing. When you add a block written in PHP it may behave differently to when you have tested it outside of the CMS because of the way Drupal works.

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Drupal Module RoleSignUp Bug / Feature Request

Friday, August 17th, 2007

This is a great module for auto assigning roles… however there is a possible bug or unwanted effect in the function theme_rolelist in rolesignup.module I am posting my suggested fix here incase it does not get adopted by the modules developers, so that other developers can find it useful.

Navigate through the file rolesignup.module in the modules directory and modify the function so that it appears like so…

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qwyghxh A Super Drupal Spam Bot

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

I noticed a few weeks back that many of my CMS installs were being invaded by a user called “qwyghxh”.

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