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.

Having just installed the Drupal 8 development version on to a local test site, it has raised a few thoughts.

Of course a lot of these could be fixed or the majority may disagree but either way. We have a long time before Drupal 8 will be shipping and as such have a lot of time to sort out any problems.

I have been playing about with creating my own base theme which I can use to easily roll out new sites quickly and easily for those who don't want to pay for a bespoke design.

The main problem with this is ending up with one theme for all, to get around this with out having to do any development work is use Drupal's core colour module which allows the user to select the colours of certain areas.

This will just show you the basic code that is required for use with a theme using the PHPTempalte engine with some comments on what the code is doing at parts.

Sorry but I will be using the English spelling, too used to typing with the 'u'.

In Panels you can change the style of panes very easily using some presets from the Panels module.

This tutorial will show you how to define your own styles as well as add a settings form to it so you can allow users to further configure the styling of the pane.

When creating an image gallery in Drupal using CCK/Fields the resulting output is just a string of divs resulting in a single column of images. This tutorial will show you how to use Views and Panels to override the standard node output to display the images of the gallery in a grid.

This is a follow up tutorial on the popular Create an album based image gallery in Drupal 6 using CCK and views but for Drupal 7. The tutorial will assume that you have Drupal 7 already installed and ready for use. The following contrib modules are required:

• Views
• Ctools
• Colorbox

I personally prefer Colorbox to some of the other lightbox modules, but feel free to use whichever one you want, they should all work in the same way. An alternative can be found in Shadowbox. Lightbox2 doesn't have a D7 release at the time of writing and Thickbox has been discontinued, with the maintainer now working on Colorbox.

I have come across the problem a couple of times now and have come across someone else looking for the same things on IRC where you want to have a different view for parent terms and child terms.

Although this probably can be done in Views, I am none the wiser on how to do it and neither were any of the participants on IRC. So my work around is to use Panels taking advantage of Ctools contexts.

This tutorial is written for Drupal 6.

I came across a problem with a panels page when I check the "Disable Drupal blocks/regions" box, the sidebars are supposed to disappear so that the content takes the full width. But it didn't work.

Switching back to Garland and the sidebars disappeared as expected. After a quick search, I found this post on drupal.org which is the same issue but one of the replies essentially says to hack core to get it to work, but that is not necessary.

I have been working on a import script to import products from a previous custom Drupal module in to Ubercart. For this I have been using the Batch API to handle the large amounts of data. Upon trying to import some products using drupal_execute(), I came to realise that drupal_execute() can not be run in during a batch operation using Batch API

This tutorial will show you how to add new form elements which will be available in $form_state['values'] once the form has been submitted using a submit button by taking advantage of the AHAH helper module.

The AHAH helper module does provide a demo, but the demo shows how to change a few fields depending on a selection made from a select element. The tutorials I looked at online either didn't cover the issue properly or just didn't work.