Tech
Right now you're probably thinking, is it technology? technical? techno?
The answer: Yes.
This is the most comprehensive reference on the interweb for all things drupal related, from theming to configuration, custom coding, and even server setup. There's even some stuff on Wordpress...
Well, uh, maybe not the most comprehensive, or comprehensive at all for that matter, but there is some really useful information here, and we are constantly adding more of it.
Some of us more than others...
Tech Fu
More tech than you can handle
Updating modules with Drush and Agaric's wrapper scripts
Key words and phrases:
Drupal shell updating modules
Description & Info:
cd /sites/PROJECTNAME/www/sites/all/modules/
sudo /srv/scripts/agaric-updatemodule.sh MODULENAMEFile uploads and Drupal 5 forms
Key words and phrases:
FAPI2
Description & Info:
sudo svn commit -m "uploading images will work so much better with the enctype set"
Allow people to upload user pictures during registration
Key words and phrases:
Upload user picture during registration
add image upload to new user form
image picture
user picture registration
Drupal user picture on registration
user picture upload
Drupal upload picture registration form
register with avatar
Description & Info:
Well that's annoying.
Spend a good chunk of time creating a module to address a need, return to the thread that's been discussing it since 2006 June to post your efforts and discover it's just been updated to report that the module has been around since 2007 November.
MySQL user at any host doesn't work, needs localhost in some local personal computer development environments
Description & Info:
Where the user, password, and database are all "xmp".
ben@blackbox:/var/www/xmp$ mysql -u xmp -pxmp xmp < IMPORT_THIS_TO_YOUR_XMP_DB.sql
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'xmp'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
i can't even get that to work
4GB SD card in a Nikon D50 does not work
Key words and phrases:
Nikon D50 secure digital card CHA
Description & Info:
"THIS CARD CANNOT BE USED"
I cursed the card that I picked up cheap at instead of my camera
apologies to Taiwan... the 4GB SD card (Secure Digital High Capacity Memory Card) from Taiwan, and more recently Abacus 24-7 didn't work 'cause the Nikon D50 only accepts up to 2GB. Blast.
Allow users to assign issues to other people in the project group (organic groups and project module integration)
Key words and phrases:
Organic groups project og gid
Description & Info:
Here is a first draft of a function used in our project module and organic groups integration.
Following this model which was proposed to add assignment to other CVS account holders on Drupal.org itself:
http://drupal.org/node/253825
http://drupal.org/files/issues/253825_12_drupalorg.patch
Adding and modifying organic group action (create content) links
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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) {
Image link rollovers for dynamic (user-uploaded) graphics with Drupal and CSS
Key words and phrases:
rollover with dynamic graphics
jquery rollover drupal
User-uploaded images for rollover links
"css rollover without background"
drupal add css from a theme
Drupal user-uploaded graphics for rollover
user-provided rollover graphics
rollover link for Drupal uploaded image files
Description & Info:
Eliminating other options:
This could be done with JavaScript, but we and the W3C and everyone's sanity would much prefer a pure CSS solution.
Can you have inline styles with pseudo classes (namely, :hover?)
No: http://www.frontpagewebmaster.com/m-351101/tm.htm
From http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/02/01/pure-css-image-rollover/
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')) {
Building a Zen sub-theme: In shell commands
Key words and phrases:
bash shell terminal command line make a Zen subtheme
sub Zen theme for Drupal via command line
Description & Info:
From the Zen documentation How to build your own sub-theme (6.x), translated into bash commands. The project is called example, and we have installed the zen theme to sites/default/themes.
Someone enterprising could make this into a simple bash script.
cd /sites/example/www/sites/default/themes
sudo cp -pr zen/STARTERKIT/ example_zen
