Drupal Technical

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"An error has occurred adding the content type...Please check the errors displayed for more details.". This error usually occurs when you are importing an Ubercart product type to a content type using Drupal CCK and when you try to change the node name and type of the product in your Drupal website. Usually there will not be any other details of the error on display on the Drupal site when it has occurred. There is a fix for this error message and a solution to avoid it in the first place. Read on to find out more.
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You could encounter a scenario in Drupal Views where you wish you could programmatically change the display for certain taxonomy ids, so that Views could show a teaser display for certain taxonomy ids and a field display for another set of taxonomy ids. Read on to find out how to change Views display programmatically according to taxonomy id so that you can implement it in your Drupal site.
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Many Drupal users have reported that the Taxonomy:Vocabulary filter, which was an extremely useful setting in the Views module in Drupal 6, has been missing in the Views module in Drupal 7. Views itself is a widely used module and it is not clear why this setting was removed or whether it was intentional or not. However all is not lost and we can still achieve the same functionality in Drupal 7. Read onto find out more.
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In Drupal Views 3, if you try to create a node View to list the most popular search terms for a specified vocabulary the most popular search terms will be repeated if they are found in many nodes with the distinct option failing to catch them. However there is a solution to list the most popular taxonomy terms in Views 3 without repetition. If you want to implement it in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.
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In Drupal all content except comments are considered as nodes. Nodes can be sorted against a variety of criteria like the commonly used post date and published date. Nodes can also be sorted according to the term weight. If you need to have your nodes in your Drupal website sorted by Term weight, you can use the Drupal Views module to create a View and list and sort them there. Read on to get the details.
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Styling a Webform is more or less like styling any other ordinary HTML form. Often you would like to change the style of the submit button and replace it with an image via code in your Drupal website. Although this is extremely easy it might cause the button to stop working, forcing it to reload and fail to show the confirmation message. If you are facing this problem while styling your Webform in your Drupal website read on to find the solution.
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Webforms can be placed easily in a block in a Drupal website. You might face a scenario in your Drupal website where you have to place a Webform in a block and you need to get the nid of the node where the Webform block is placed to get an idea of which article the user was reading when they submitted the form. There could be other users for it too. Read on to find out how to implement it.
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If you are trying to load a Webform into a template variable to be printed in a block in your Drupal website, the obvious choice would be to use the drupal_get_form(webform_client_form_XXX) function with the machine name of the Webform as the argument. However this will not work as the logic is only partially correct. There are a few more steps prior to doing this. Read onto find out.
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A few users wanted a particular feature using Drupal Views in their Drupal sites. They wanted to have a Drupal Views block which should display the profile of the current user. The currently logged in user should be able to see their profile information but at the same time they should not be able to view the info of the other users. Read on to find out how to implement this feature in your Drupal site.
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It is quite easy to add ckEditor to your custom form in Drupal. The only thing you have to do is, add the following lines to your form: '#type' => 'text_format', '#format' => 'full_html', For example: $html = 'some html'; $form['front'] = array( '#type' => 'text_format',// to load the ckEditor options '#format' => 'full_html', '#title' => t('Front'), '#value' => $html, ); The above code will create a form element with its value inside ckEditor.
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A Drupal+Ubercart site with a store where users can purchase your products and no links to indicate the number of products anywhere in your site seems too annoying. It would be nice if there is a way to update the cart count as soon as a product is added to the cart. Here is the code snippet to get the total number of contents in the cart: <?php print count(uc_cart_get_contents()); ?> You can theme the content accordingly to show the contents in style: <?php print count(uc_cart_get_contents()); ?> items
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The Drupal Views module provides pagers that lets you browse the items in the View via AJAX. Most of the time using the pager to view the next page will leave you at the bottom of the page when you expect to go to the top. This usually turns out to be a nuisance. Views currently does not provide a way to fix that. But there is a workaround to let you scroll to the top of a View after using a pager to load the page in your Drupal site. Read on to find out more.
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Sometimes the best way to handle variable value changes on a Drupal site, would be with an admin settings form to show/edit the value. For example, while implementing a "send test mail" functionality on a Drupal site, we might want to set the recipient address at testing time. It would be easy to create an admin settings form instead of changing the addresses each time in code. Code: