Some days ago, i write a blog post about how to render a Drupal 7 block programmatically.
Drupal 7 – Render a Block programmatically
If the block is created by Views, there is a simpler solution provided by the Views API. And we can also pass the contextual filter argument too.
print views_embed_view(<view machine name>, <display id>, <arg 1>);
Done =)
Reference: Outputting a Drupal 7 View programmatically with Contextual Filters (arguments)
A long time ago, i have a post about hacking into the CCK module so we could have more options when settings the number of values per field in the field setting page.
Drupal – Increase Views Relationship Delta Limit
This is a dirty approach as mentioned by eosrei.
So in Drupal 7, we can do it by creating a custom module and alter the field_ui_field_edit_form. Let’s implement the following hook_form_FORM_ID_alter() in a custom module.
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The following piece of code creates a new node of a subscriber content type. This subscriber has two textfields which called First Name and Last Name. In this example, we make use of the node_object_prepare() function which helps preparing the node object.
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The following piece of code demonstrate how to create a webform programmatically.
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In Drupal 7, only 7 shortcuts are allowed in one shortcut set. If you want to have more slots, add the following line in the settings.php.
$conf['shortcut_max_slots'] = 10;
&anbsp;
It will raise the limit to 10.
Done =)
Reference: Remove the default limit of 7 shortcuts per shortcut set
Most common task in Drupal development is creating or altering forms. It could save a lot of CSS code if we group the form fields in div.
Here is an example.
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The following HTML allows you to show a video in LightBox2.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<VIDEO ID>?autoplay=1" rel="lightframe">Click me</a>
We could control the size of the popup.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/<VIDEO ID>?autoplay=1" rel="lightframe[|width:320px; height:240px;]">Click me</a>
Done =)
Reference:
i found a bug with the i18n module. Assume i have a node in Traditional Chinese and i edit it in English. The menu item set Menu settings will be disabled after save.
A simple workaround is to alter the node edit form such that the user will be redirected to the language same as the node.
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More than a year ago, we have talked about some basic theming in Drupal 6.
In Drupal 7, there are some changes on the theming functions as well as the block hooks. So here is a slightly modified versions from the example of Drupal – Introduction to Drupal Theming @ 3. The logic behind is exactly the same.
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Eureka! 