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Seven Drupal Modules that help Themers Shine

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Imagecache

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the world is a better place because of imagecache, imageAPI, and filefield image. Imagecache has more and more contributed/add-on modules... it is without a doubt the premier image handler in Drupal

Imagecache Profiles

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this little gem has saved me from delving into php code on so many occasions.

Three Tweak-Thingees For View Carousel

I spent a good deal of time working with views carousel in Drupal 6 yesterday. There is a great screencast at Mustardseed Media to help you hit the ground running. Before starting, please remember that you need the jcarousel module if you want it to work at all.

Drupal Set Message - short

<?php
drupal_set_message('<pre>' . var_export($row, true) . '</pre>');
?>

// for use with devel module.
dsm($form);

http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/using-theme

For any template that uses fields, the fields will be in array. In order to use this effectively, you will need to understand enough PHP to fetch data from an array. This is a place where the devel module can really help you, because you can use its dsm() function right in your template to see what variables it uses. There is an alternative to dsm() that works without devel module, but it's a bit longer to use.

For example, I placed the following code inside views-view-table.tmp.php.