Looking for a Drupal command line tool? Here you are. (Or jump to cheat sheet)
Drush – The command line tool for Drupal development
As a powerful tool, Drush provides much more functionality other than module management. For excample, you can clear the cache using the following Drush command.
drush cc
In Drupal development, we spend quite a lot of time on module management.
A typical Drupal website requires about twenty modules. That means you need to repeat the above tedious steps for twenty times. Besides, you have to move your focus between the browser and the shell prompt.
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You can find the Ubercart invoice email template files @ sites/all/modules/ubercart/uc_order/templates. You could copy and edit the uc-order–customer.tpl.php to fit your needs but you could not select it @ E-mail customer checkout notification > Email an order invoice in Rules. This is because you have to implement the hook_uc_invoice_templates() before the new template is selectable.
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In Drupal, we can use a progress bar when uploading an image or file. But that needs a PHP PECL extension called uploadprogress. The following steps work for Ubuntu Precise (Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS).
1. Install the php5-dev package.
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Nice Menus is a must have module for all my Drupal 7 projects. It helps creating horizontal menu in just a few minutes.
The horizontal menu is aligned to the left by default. Here is a small CSS trick for you to align the menu in center and it also works for Superfish menu.
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Use the following code to print the breadcrumbs of the current page.
<?php print theme('breadcrumb', array('breadcrumb' => drupal_get_breadcrumb())); ?>
Done =)
Reference: StackOverflow – Get $breadcrumb variable in toolbar.tpl.php – Drupal 7
During Drupal development, sometimes we may need to manipulate some server data in Javascript. In this case, we could create a custom module to retrieve the database data and pass it to browser such that we can it it in Javascript.
1. Implement the hook_init().
function <module-name>_init() {
drupal_add_js(
array(
'eureka' => array( // we should use module name for best practice
'data' => array(
'Name' => 'ykyuen',
'Blog' => 'Eureka!',
'URL' => 'https://eureka.ykyuen.info/',
),
)
),
'setting'
);
}
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Not long a ago, i have 2 posted about rendering Blocks and Views in PHP.
We can render the Drupal 7 block by PHP in another way.
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In Drupal Development, very often we will use Views and Views Filter for searching data. For example, I have a content type which has two name fields.
I would like to have a single text input filter which could search for these 2 fields with an Or condition.
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After so many days we have talked about setting up Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB and some PHP caching. We can now try to run a Drupal instance on them. Before we starts, let me listed out all the previous posts.
It’s time to start the Drupal installation.
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Eureka! 