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09 Aug

I installed jQuery UI... is it working?

Posted by webthingee in drupal, jQuery, php, theme

The power and flexibility of the jquery library is pretty awesome. There are a number of reasons that you may want load the files one at a time, or the individual .js files on an as needed basis.

Last week, I completed a blog post on getting jQuery up and running (http://blogthingee.com/blog/getting-jquery-ui-working-drupal-6x)... Now we can see if it is working.

For now, let's just assume you want them all the time, and you want to test them right now, or you simply want to test that you have all of the jquery ui goodness at your fingertips, here is how I would go about it...

02 Aug

Getting JQuery UI working with Drupal 6.x

Posted by webthingee in drupal, drush, jQuery, theme

After several attempts, I believe that I have a pretty good system/process for getting jquery ui to work with drupal 6.x. So I guess it's time to share :)

1. Check Current Jquery Version.
2. Update Jquery with Jquery Update Module
3. Download Jquery UI Module
4. Download the support files for the Jquery UI Module
5. Enable the Jquery UI Module

13 Jul

When you need to get a 404... but instead you get a View.. what do you do?

Posted by webthingee in drupal, snippet, views

The site shows a View profile of bloggers and lives at the url "/blogs". Unfortunately, this save View became visible at "/blogs/{anyrandomword}". This was not the desired result. To further this specific instance, I realized that my path for the teaser view of each bloggers' post's was at the dynamic url of "/blogs/{username}".

My goal was to preserve my View of each bloggers' profile at "/blogs", allow the user teasers at "/blogs/{username}, and ensure that any random text or characters after "/blogs" would go to a 404 page.

03 Jun

Keep Track of that Form Submission

Posted by webthingee in development, drupal, module, rules

This is the tale of a sites with their own classified ads, when they wanted to track how often users who post a classified, were "contacted". Their goal was to be able to see if the classified were successful, based on the volume of responses to the classified ads. A great idea... now I have to implement it.

The setup and layout for this content type is pretty basic.. The Classified Listing is displayed as a panel. The top half is info about the listing (node), and the bottom half is a contact form (send user email form), that sends and email to the user who posted the listing, from the logged in user.

05 May

Do You Want All Day

Posted by webthingee in drupal
I was working with the date module today and wanted to remove the (All Day) that appeared after the date when the field was rendered to the screen. I found a great post here... http://www.pridedesign.ie/content/drupal-date-field-remove-all-day

To summarise, it seems that a good way to turn it off (altogether) is just to override a theme function. Edit you template.php and add the following code:



function <yourtheme>_date_all_day_label() {
  return '';
}


However,
27 Mar

Get Up To Speed with WebEnabled

Posted by webthingee in development, drupal, drush

DISCLAIMER:
I DO NOT GET ANYTHING FOR MENTIONING THIS WEBINAR.
I BELIEVE THERE IS VALUE IN USING THE PRODUCT, THERE IS A FREE VERSION, AND I LIKE IT!

THAT SAID...
There are a number of tedious tasks when working in web development. Sometimes I get an idea, or want to experiment with something, and I have to take the time to set-up the site, configure the details, ect.... Now, I use WebEnabled, start up an instance of Drupal, use drush to get the modules I need... then start tinkering.

04 Feb

Change that Form Element - Give a fieldset a class

Posted by webthingee in code, drupal, php, theme
I looked for this a few times and didn't find it so I decided to write a quick blog post for future themers to discover. You see Drupal is full of forms and fields. There are any number of reasons that you may want an element on a form to be identified by a unique class or ID. I ran into this today when I wanted to theme a fieldset, provided by a module, that didn't have a class on the fieldset. Now there are many ways to theme a fieldset by using the divs that contain the fieldset.
19 Jan

More Bigger Again - Preprocess - this time to get some Class

Posted by webthingee in development, drupal, how to, theme

Last week I wrote about preprocess functions and wanted to do a little follow-up because I was having even more fun making changes, adjustments, and alterations. There is so much here for themers, there is an excess of options and they can be organized and structured very well. Again, as I often say, I do not profess to be a php-guy (I continue to get better, and using it daily now, someday I will be where I want to be with it...) so this structure and framework has been completely awesome for me. So what's next with preprocess...

12 Jan

Too Much?! more power from your node.tpl

Posted by webthingee in development, drupal, how to, theme

The less tpl files the better. Don't get me wrong... LOVE the tpl file, can't live without the tpl file... If I need several tpl files, let's do it... but, in some cases, one tpl file can provide enough power and flexibility to handle several content types, and keep the job of a themer a little easier.. o.k., not easier, but a little cleaner for my tastes.

The magic is the preprocess functions. Here's a little about the preprocess function.

05 Jan

It's hook_link_alter over jQuery or CSS alone

Posted by webthingee in development, drupal, module, php

Last year I would have tried to approach this problem with some kind of image/text replacement... This year it's a whole new ballgame. The Drupal theming layer is like an onion and I continue to pull back the outer pieces and get to better and better stuff. Maybe it is more like a Parfait (thanks Donkey from Shrek) ;)

So here's what I wanted to do. Drupal gives us a teaser output with comment links.

3 comments | 2 new comments

Great, awesome, cool... great to have, now I want more... I want an image to replace the word "comments". I'm not going to rely on css alone... I'm not going to rely on some jQuery (which I love)... I'm going to use hook_link_alter and get it done in the code.