Making stuff better: the Agaric way
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We build individual, organization, and business sites. Our passions are for community-driven sites, democratic communication in the service of human coordination, and great design.
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Making stuff better: the Agaric way.
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Adding and modifying organic group action (create content) links
Key words and phrases:
og_links_alter now treats projects right (actually og_link_alter)
Description & Info:
Moshe is a Drupal God. Look at this! There's a hook for everything!
From og.modules own implementation of hook_og_block_details:
<?php
$links = module_invoke_all('og_create_links', $node);
// Modify these links by reference. If you want control of the whole block, see og_block_details().
foreach (module_implements('og_link_alter') AS $module) {
Add a span wrapper inside primary and secondary menu links in Drupal 6
Key words and phrases:
span wrapper for primary links
make tab-style links for main navigation menu
Description & Info:
This document takes us through the steps of figuring out how some output is produced (without an Integrated Development Environment with debugger) so that we can modify it. Skip straight to Agaric's answer in the resolution at the bottom if that's all you want!
All I want to do is throw spans around the links. Ah well. Here is the function below, modified to do exactly that.
It will do it to all sets of links passed through theme('links', $links) but so far on Agaric's example site, at least, that means only the primary links.
<?php
function examplezen_links($links, $attributes = array('class' => 'links')) {
Virtual hosts on Mac OS X Leopard with XAMPP
Key words and phrases:
vhost
virtual hosts Mac OS X 10.5
Description & Info:
On xampp for Mac OS X,
vi /Applications/xampp/etc/httpd.conf
And uncommented:
# Virtual hosts
Include /Applications/xampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
vi /Applications/xampp/etc/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Added (following their dummy-host example quite closely)
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot "/sites/example/htdocs"
Development resource list for making and reviewing patches for Drupal core
Key words and phrases:
patch review core Drupal
Description & Info:
Resources to help the development of Drupal core mentioned on the development list:
Main patch and review resource (rewritten by Catch):
http://drupal.org/patch/review
Setting up a test environment to review patches (pointed to by Ryan Cross):
http://drupal.org/node/28245
New Testing section of the Getting Involved guide (pointed to by Addison Berry):
Switch users in Drupal without logging out for development
Key words and phrases:
drupal user switcher
drupal user quick change
impersonate
masquerade
Drupal fake user role
Description & Info:
Ways to switch users in a Drupal site without logging out:
http://drupal.org/project/masquerade
http://drupal.org/project/impersonate
From code, not for development:
Safely Impersonating Another User
http://drupal.org/node/218104
Panels2 and Organic Groups
Key words and phrases:
panels2 panels 2 drupal organic groups og OG config configuration setup set up how to configure module
Description & Info:
So you want to use drupal's Organic Groups module and Panels2 because you've heard through the grapevine that really slick and useful things can be done with the combo..
Well, here's what one of the experts has to say about it --> http://www.tejasa.com/node/160
highly recommended and very useful...
do it!
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