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Creating Custom Content Panes via code [Drupal 7]

Posted on Wed, 2013-04-17 13:59

For whatever reason there doesn't appear to be a lot of documenation around on defining Custom Content Panes within code.

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Ordering blocks across multiple contexts while using Context module in Drupal 6

Posted on Mon, 2012-12-03 16:31

The Context module is great and does a lot of things. Web Omlette has a good summary of using the Context module for block administration.

One issue with the Context module comes when you have multiple contexts adding different blocks to the same page. An example being:

Context A places blocks 1 and 2 in the left sidebar.
Context B places blocks 3 and 4 in the left sidebar.

Although you can order the blocks in each individual context, you can't easily order them (you can apparently do so if you use the inline context UI rather than the admin one) when combining contexts.

If page X matches both context A and context B it can be a bit of a mess in terms of the order of the blocks. You are most likely going to end up with A1, B3, A2, B4 but this isn't guaranteed.

Drupal Views Nivo Slider - Display original image rather than Imagecache style - Drupal 6

Posted on Mon, 2012-12-03 12:27

The Views Nivo Slider which allows you to create views which display using the Nivo Slider.

An issue I have had as well as other people (albeit in Drupal 7) have found that the module forces you to use an Imagecache preset. With a slideshow you are generally going to upload the right size image and don't want additional processing to be done on the image from PHP GD or ImageMagick.

Rackspace Cloud Files + CDN + FileConveyor + Drupal 6 = Not as easy as it seems

Posted on Mon, 2012-11-12 16:14

Drupal 6 - CDN support

To get the most out of the CDN module in Drupal 6 you will need to apply a patch or use Pressflow. Pressflow is a customised Drupal core that provides various performance tweaks under the hood. A lot of these were included in Drupal 7.

Creating an 'express checkout' in Drupal Commerce

Posted on Wed, 2012-11-07 15:15

When you have a site which sells a single product the whole cart process seems all a bit too much especially as the cart adds nothing to the experience other than an additional screen and click which if anything will frustrate users.

Aten Design Group have a great little guide on the required steps to do various tasks. Although the post was written in 2011 it still applies to the latest version of Drupal Commerce.

Showing a different View if View is empty in Views 2 in Drupal 6

Posted on Thu, 2012-09-27 08:41

In Views 3 a useful feature was added that when you had an empty view you could show a different view instead. Unfortunately within Views UI in Drupal 6 you can only add a basic text area. You could set up a PHP filter but that could cause problems with security.

This tutorial will guide you through showing another view if the original view is empty.

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Create a new webform element in Drupal 7

Posted on Mon, 2012-09-24 13:28

Sometimes the default field types within Webform don't work as we want them to or we want to do something beyond which will work beyond a few hacks in the theme. The following will show you what is required to define a new field type and the necessary functions to make it work.

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Create a contact form in Drupal 7 using the Webform module

Posted on Thu, 2012-09-20 13:15

The following tutorial will show you how to create a contact form (or any form for that matter) using the Webform module in Drupal 7.

Download and enable the Webform module in the Modules interface. This tutorial will be using version 3.18.

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Drupal 7 - Defining rules within a module using PHP

Posted on Wed, 2012-09-19 08:47

It took a while to figure out with all information I could easily find relating to the Rules module using the UI to define rules.

But you can define some default rules within your module by using the function MODULE_NAME_default_rules_configuration() which sits within a file called MODULE_NAME.rules_defaults.inc in your module folder.

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UK Geocoding and mapping in Drupal 7

Posted on Tue, 2012-05-08 14:56

Geocoding UK addresses has always seemed to be a pain especially outside of Drupal. With Drupal 7 a few of the mapping/location modules that I have been used to using in Drupal 6 are either not available as a stable release or don't quite do what I wanted. A key example is Location which I have used on a Drupal 6 with which geocoding has never worked (I still don't know if it is something that should work out the box, it certainly seems to imply to me.)

A rash of new Drupal 7 modules has made the process a lot easier though.

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