Chris Armstrong and myself presented a workshop entitled "Hello Drupal" earlier today on the Stillwater campus for Oklahoma State University. The workshop was open to students on campus that are interested in investigating the power of Drupal as a content management system. The course materials were...
What are Foreign Keys? What is the Schema API? Why Drupal only supports FK by documentation and not practice. Current mappings with an ERD. What are Foreign Keys? Foreign keys, put simply, are a referential constraint between two tables on a relational database. What this means is that data...
Requirements: Drupal 6 or 7 That's it! When first setting up a website, it’s important to consider how you want to organize your content. How will you distinguish blog posts from the About page? What if you’re going to be posting a lot of videos or even audio...
When creating a Content Type, one of your options is to create a field with a type: 'Node reference'. Node references are a bit different than normal fields, in that they use other Content Type's values to populate the field values. This difference leads to some...
With iOS5 boasting such an wide array of HTML5 and CSS3 support there's no better time to start dipping your toes in the world of web app creation. So I thought I'd go ahead and put together a quick reference for all the little snippets...
In Drupal 6, a module called Imagecache allowed developers to create custom styles to dynamically manipulate an image. We typically use Imagecache to scale and crop images to specific dimensions, but Imagecache can rotate images, deal with opacity, add borders, change colors and even change...
Google just announced it will start incorporating social content in search results. This is an important, and powerful, step for Google as it seeks to learn as much about its users as it possibly can. The intent is to create a better search experience for...
This is a very interesting topic. It is debated, as it is very difficult to quantify the exact results of social media. Here is the answer… stop trying to find ROI and understand you never will. Not to say social media does not deliver results...
Views is something that a lot of Drupal developers (myself included) likely could not do without. It provides a great way for us to display, sort, filter, and manage data and content for a huge variety of uses. One such use is exporting this collection...
It's not uncommon for a client to have multiple locations within their organization. When those locations are updated and changing frequently, a flexible locations map page on the client's website is essential. We've implemented several solutions to this challenge. On one end of the spectrum,...
If you missed my intro into getting AddThis installed and configured, you can view it here. Requirements Drupal 6+ CCK AddThis (6.x through 7.x-2.x) Optional Maxlength After getting AddThis up and running (see previous post), you can customize AddThis a bit more to give you / your end-users even more control. You can...
Anyone can set up an account in Google AdWords or Microsoft adCenter and run an ad. Proper PPC management is much more involved than that. One must decide which keywords to target, write intelligent ad copy, and create a landing page optimized for conversions. All...
There are several reasons to overwrite an SQL query generated by a view whether it's to improve performance or join to tables not available to the view. After setting up the view, create a module with a function using hook_views_pre_execute. function [module name]_views_pre_execute(&$view) { if($view->name=="[view name]")...
(Note: In this post I use the terms private and protected interchangeably.) There are times you may want to have your protected Tweets available on your site. Perhaps protected Tweets are available to your members but not necessarily the world at large. Non-private accounts are easy...
The title of this post should be “Adding Social Media Sharing to Your Content” as the service we’re going to look at is not only for Drupal, but Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Joomla, TypePad, Posterous, Flash, the iOS or Android SDKs, an email newsletter or just...
A majority of the work for a Drupal site goes into theming the public facing side. Website usability has been drilled into our heads for years, so we tend to be very mindful of how navigation works, what colors are used, and how graphics are...
This is the first episode of several to come over the following weeks. I thought this would be a good chance to break that barrier of entry for many of you wanting to get your hands dirty with Drupal. In this episode we setup a...
Webforms are great when you want to make a quick and useful form in Drupal. However, sometimes we may want a little more control over that form or need to run some custom PHP code when the form is submitted. Keep in mind, we...
BEWARE: INCREDIBLY SIMPLE These steps work for: Drupal 6 Drupal 7 The Need We had a client request come in that required for us to add a new tab to the user profile for a new page. The Problem How in the world of Drupal are you supposed to add a tab?...
Drupal is a great tool, with its customizable templates. However, there are some things you just can’t seem to do with those .tpl.php files - and one of them seems to be rendering out an AJAX pager. Background For our new blog layout, we wanted to have...
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