Assume we have a Views page which does not have a contextual filter setting and the view path is /eureka. If you provide an argument in the url such as /eureka/abc, the argument is ignored and the Views page will return all view rows. But sometimes we may want to show the user a page not found instead of return all rows. This can be done by adding a Global: Null argument in the contextual filter.
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Drupal 7 – Render user profile picture programmatically @ 2
Yesterday we have talked about 2 normal ways to render the user profile picture in Drupal 7.
Drupal 7 – Render user profile picture programmatically @ 1
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Drupal 7 – Render user profile picture programmatically @ 1
Normally, there are 2 ways render the user profile picture programmatically in Drupal 7. But before i show you the code, i would like to introduce the profile picture setting @ admin/config/people/accounts/settings. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Render user profile picture programmatically @ 1
BeansTag update
If you have no idea about BeansTag, please refer to BeansTag – The SEO tool for Drupal 7
Although BeansTag is not going to be approved as a Drupal 7 module, i still added some features to it as requested by the BeansTag users. But before i talk about the new features, i want to clarify a BeansTag concept
BeansTag depends directly on the url path.
For example, a node with nid = 1 has an url alias articles/abc, you can create 2 different BeansTags with the following paths.
- node/1
- articles/abc
Drupal 7 – Use queues for long running tasks in cron
Sometimes we may need to run some complex and time consuming tasks in Drupal cron but this may result in request timeout. It’s better to setup cron queues and run them in parallel requests.
Yesterday we have setup a hook_cron() task for batch updating nodes.
Drupal 7 – Batch update nodes by cron
Actually we can convert the tasks in the cron queues using hook_cron_queue_info() as follow.
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Drupal 7 – Batch update nodes by cron
The following piece of code will update a field of a specific content type by SQL and it is written in a custom module with hook_cron(). Since it updates the database table directly so you have to use it with extreme caution.
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Drupal 7 – Add Javascript files on specific paths by template.php
In my previous post, Drupal 7 – Add Javascript files on specific paths by custom module, we try to add .js files for specific paths by creating a custom module. Actually we could implement the same feature by using the theme template.php. Here is an example.
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Drupal 7 – Override the term path inside Tagadelic Tag Cloud
Implement tag cloud is easy in Drupal. You can find the module called Tagadelic in the my previous post.
Drupal 7 – Create a Tag Cloud with Tagadelic
But the term path inside the tag cloud is always fixed as default which is taxonomy/term/[tid]. I tried to override it by the Entity Path module but no luck. Luckily i find a workaround to override it. Actually Tagadelic is not just a simple Drupal module but also a API system. The following theme function theme_tagadelic_weighted() determines the term path in Tagadelic.
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Drupal 7 – Create a Tag Cloud with Tagadelic
If you want to create a Taxonomy Tag Cloud in Drupal, Tagadelic is a very good module which could serve your purpose.
After you have enabled the module, you could find some new blocks which are named as Tags in [VOCABULARY NAME]. Enable the block and your tag cloud is ready.
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Drupal 7 – Get specific nodes using EntityFieldQuery
Starting from Drupal 7, you can now select nodes with conditions using the EntityFieldQuery class. The following are a few examples.
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