There's an infinite amount of posts all over about how to 'tame the beast', as it were... Despite this, here's a few ways I've dealt with browser specific quirks and general unpleasantness, to make my designs cross browser friendly and client friendly (...
<?php
if($node->type == 'story') {
$nodetype_class = 'story';
}
elseif($node->type == 'blog') {
$nodetype_class = 'blog';
}
elseif($node->type == 'page') {
$nodetype_class = 'page';
}
?>
<body class="<?php print $nodetype_class; ?>">
This looks...
Adding the following to template.php allows files named page-nodetype.tpl.php to override the base page.tpl.php. This way, nodetypes can have their own design or blocks without relying on the general template.
function...Snippet to change the node created on date for use in story nodes:
In node-story.tpl.php or other node tpl:
<?php print format_date($node->created, 'custom', 'F jS, Y'); ?>Prints:
March 25th, 2009
Check out...
This is a handy bit to know when you get a db dump and don't know the admin password that's been setup. (And are too impatient to wait for an email response? :P )
update users set pass=md5('kittens') where uid=1
Replace kittens with desired password. This effects User ID 1 (...
Recently I needed to update a Drupal 5 site to Drupal 6 that used views. The old views from 5 weren't showing up after the update, I couldn't find much information on this strangely. If you're having problems finding out where your views went they...
Looking to override the breadcrumb separators? Add the following to template.php-
Replace 'kitten' with something like > or » or even an image.
function phptemplate_breadcrumb($breadcrumb) {
if (!empty($breadcrumb)) {
return '<div class="breadcrumb">'. implode('...Continuing the story of ditching TextMate, after switching over to Vim, I was still using textmate's search project function, which I found helpful searching through hundreds of module folders and theme folders for larger projects. But, heh, besides the fact that my trial was expired, it is...
By divider I mean the '|' that I currently have on my site's titlebar. Now, this is all fine, to have $site_name and $title appear with a | separator, but It kind of looks weird on the front page when there is no page title.
It's pretty easy to just have it called differently when you...
Tabled Layouts.. what are those? Oh Right! That ancient practice that is now shunned. But, I mean tables have their purpose to display data, so we all are still styling them right?
After recently being thrown into the old, unsophisticated world of HTML Emails...