Sometimes... most of the times... I don't want the "split summary at cursor" option on the sites I develop. There are any number of reasons I don't want it. Most of the times, it just isn't relevant and others... I just don't want the users asking a milion quesitons.


And inevetibally, there is more stuff I don't want in my forms, want differently, or want moved.


My solution has been that on all the sites I develop I have a custom module. In this modules is one of my most used hooks... form alter. I have it all set up and commended out some of the lines but leave them in for quick reference...


I'll show it to you, then explain a little more....My module name is theme_thingee, and here's how I have it set up.

I came across this little extra nugget while looking for some stuff for preprocessing. How many times have I typed out base_path and path_to_theme... With this little gem I am just a few keys faster, and lovin it.



function themename_preprocess(&$vars, $hook) {
$vars['theme_path'] = base_path() . path_to_theme() .'/';
}




This little snippet saved my bacon today. I decided it was worth a blog post. Sometimes finding the right code is a matter of googling the right words. So I will describe this is making a page template based on the node type you want to present, but you don't you know how to do it on a node, and now you want it on a page. :) Hopefully that will help some SEO.

After a long day of work and more work I decided to do a little more work... I was just getting started in a project for a new client with a Drupal site that was in development (almost done). I was given all of the access information, however; I was not able to access the site as user1.

Well, if I can't access the site as user1, then I'm pretty stuck.

The problem was not the username that I was provided, I know this because I could see the name in the database table. It was the password, it wasn't the right one.

I spend the majority of my time around Drupal in the areas of website building and in the theme layer. Anytime I can find things to make my theming life easier in either... I take it.

One of the 'limitations' (using that friendly) is the options for theming. IMPORTANT to note... Drupal 6 ROCKS!! THEMING!!. One of the important 'additions' I try to create when working in the theme layer is to improve my ability to use CSS. Some sites require fancy, creative, and/or custom stuff revolving around menus.