Today, I had a situation where I was displaying a list of teasers for news article nodes. The article content type had several different fields assigned to it, including main and thumbnail images. In this case, I wanted to have different output and fields displayed when a teaser was displayed compared to when a complete node was displayed.
In this tutorial I'll be showing how to create an Omega subtheme using the Omega Tools module, and have it working with the LESS CSS preprocessor.
A great tutorial that I found a few weeks ago that describes how to harden your Apache and Drupal configurations, and contains some great security-related points.
As the vast majority of the Drupal websites that I currently work on are built on Drupal 7, I thought that it was time that I upgraded this site. Following the core upgrade process and the CCK migration process, everything was upgraded smoothly without any issues.
One of my favourite things lately in Drupal 6 has been CCK 3, and more specifically, the Content Multigroups sub-module. Basically this allows you to create a fieldset of various CCK fields, and then repeat that multiple times. For example, I use it on this site whist creating invoices for clients. I have a fieldset called 'Line Item', containing 'Description', 'Quantity' and 'Price' fields. With a standard fieldset, I could only have one instance of each field - however, using a multigroup, I can create multiple groups of line items which I then use within the invoice.
To begin with, you will need a TypeKit account. You can register for one here - there is a free version if you just want to try it out.
Next, you'll need to create a kit that contains the fonts that you want to use on your website. I've used FF Tisa Web Pro.
To begin with, enter the following code at the top of your page.tpl.php file:
{syntaxhighlighter brush: php;fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; }<?php
if (ereg('iPhone',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
$iphone = 1;
} elseif (ereg('iPod',$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
$iphone = 1;
} else {
$iphone = 0;
}
?>{/syntaxhighlighter}
This creates an 'iPhone' variable, and sets its value to 1 if the an iPhone is being used. The value of the variable can then be used in an 'if' statement to create content that's only shown if an iPhone is being used.
If you do Drupal, and you're in the area, come and join us for the first South Wales Drupal User Group Meetup!
We'll be meeting in the communal area just outside of the SubHub HQ, at:
4, The Studios
3 Burt Street
Cardiff
CF10 5FZ
For more information and to signup, visit http://groups.drupal.org/node/95104.
Earlier this year, I posted a solution to an issue on the Drupal.org issue queue. Originally, I just posted the code back onto the issue, but have now created a patch that can easily be applied to any Drupal 6 installation. Here is a run-through of the process of creating and applying a patch. In this case, I made changes to the user_pass_validate function that's found within /modules/user/user.pages.inc.
Up until as recent as last week, whenever I added an image into one of my Blog posts, I was manually adding the caption below each image and styling it accordingly. That was until I installed the Image Caption module.
