The Quick Tabs module allows you to show data in tab form. The newly created tab is actually a Block which can also be shown in Panel.
After you have installed a Quick Tabs, you can find it @ Adminster –> Site building –> QuickTabsM.
I have created a Stories Tab with Arrows style. Continue reading Drupal – Show Content in Tab
The Image module allows you to add new node with a new content type called Image. The uploaded image could be viewed in original size, thumbnail size and previews size. This can be configure @ Administer –> Site configuration –> Images.
I would like to share two more features in this module.
After you have enabled the Image Attached features in your Drupal. you can now allow image upload in content types. Just go to a particular content type edit page and you will find the Image Attached settings. Continue reading Drupal – Image and Image Gallery
ImageCache allows you presetting the uploaded image like cropping and scaling. Download the following two modules.
Enable the features as shown below. Continue reading Drupal – Preset Image Processing Using ImageCache
The following CCK field modules are needed if you want to add an image field to content type.
Enable them in your Drupal site and add a new field to your content type as follow.
Continue reading Drupal – Add Image Field to Content Type
The Nodewords module could help you to add meta tags to any pages of your Drupal site. Let’s try it now!
In this example, the Drupal version is 6.19 and the Nodewords module is 6.x-1.11. There is a bug in this Nodewords version and you can never save the meta tag for other page. Luckily, someone has created a patch and just edit the nodewords.module as follow. Continue reading Drupal – Add Meta Tags to Drupal
I would like to edit some PHP and PHP template files but i dun want to modify those files in the default Garland theme. So i’d better create a Garland Subtheme which inherits those files from the Garland theme as well as i could create my own PHP and PHP template files under the subtheme folder for overriding the default.
Actually i am not very familiar with the theme architecture of Drupal, but the following example works as i expected. Continue reading Drupal – Create a Garland Subtheme
You can create you own customized view in Drupal with the help of the Drupal Views module. The Views module not only help you creating your own designed Pages but also the customized Blocks, Feed and Attachments. The following example shows you how to make use of the Views module to create a table view for all the Listed Item content type which i created a few days ago. You can refer to the following posts about for creating new content type.
Here comes the Views module. Continue reading Drupal – Create a Customized View
Recently, i was working on setting up a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Handy Heron) server. i found that the PHP installed by apt-get is 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12 and the PHP GD Library is not up-to-date and caused a warning in the Drupal report. I have to download the latest and stable packages in order to solve the problem.
Luckily, i found a very useful and up-to-date Debian repositories for my Ubuntu server. You could find the latest stable LAMP packages there. It is called Dotdeb. Just complete the following steps then you can connect to the Dotdeb repositories. Continue reading Linux – Get The Latest LAMP Package
Yesterday, we have talked about how to create and customized a new content type with CCK. As i have mentioned, there are some CCK field modules such as Email and Date. This article will show you how to add a Email Field in the content type.
First, download the Email Field module to extract it to your modules folder. You will find the There is a Email option under the CCK module selection. Continue reading Drupal – Field Modules for CCK
By default, there are 3 content types bundled with a new Drupal Installation. They are Blog, Page and Story. But the Blog content type is not available until you have enabled the Blog module in Drupal Core. So if you want to create your own content type, what you need is the Content Construction Kit module (CCK).
The CCK module is a very common module in the Drupal community. With CCK, you could add more fields in any content type rather than just having Title and Body in the node. Moreover, there are some field modules which provide a standard and ready-to-use field types such as Link, Email, Date… etc. You could find more information in the references at the end of this post. Continue reading Drupal – Create New Custom Content Type with CCK
Eureka! 