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How to programitcally call a view using exposed filter was discussed earlier. But if you want to pass a date field to the view's exposed filter form, you have to change your code a little bit. If you want to know how, you may read on.

Blocks in Drupal can be assigned to regions in specified pages. Two options which are already in Drupal 7's block configuration page are: All pages except those listed Only the listed pages And if you have enabled the PHP filter module, you may find another option: Pages on which this PHP code returns TRUE (experts only) In this article,I am going to explain to you, how you can display a block on pages based on the value returned by PHP code.

On a recent Drupal project we had developed, we had to use the Drupal date module to display the date in a popup in a custom form. However we noticed that a date description was appearing on the form. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to know how to remove the default date format option added by the date module.

In one of the Drupal projects I worked on I happened to notice a Javascript error message " ReferenceError: CKEditor is not defined " which caused a number of issues in the normal working of CKEditor. If you are facing the same error message when using CKEditor in your Drupal site and want to know how to fix then read on.

It is easy to show an image pop-up in Colorbox using Views in a Drupal website. You just have to change the image formatter in Views. However if you don't have a View and you still want to load the image in Colorbox, you can do it using jQuery. Read on to know how to load an image in Colorbox using jQuery in a Drupal 7 website.

In one of my Drupal based shopping cart site powered by Ubercart, the products were customizable(ie, end users had the permission to edit the product). So in order not to overwrite the existing product and to save the changes made by the end user, I had to create a new node with all the values of the product. So I created a new content type and related this to the product content type and saved the node as a new one. If you want to know how to convert a custom content type in a Drupal site into an Ubercart product, read on.

Tags are very helpful when it comes to searching. You may get accurate search results, if you have given correct tags for your content. In Drupal 7, there is a default 'tag' field for 'article' and 'page' content type. The million dollar question is 'What if these are not the content types that you have used to create your content'?. Don't worry , continue reading to find how to add tags for your custom content type.

One of our clients requested us to come up with a Drupal based web application to generate a PDF file from an HTML template. The client's site which runs on Drupal 7 allows users to create envelopes based on the custom designs submitted by the user through that Drupal website. The online envelope editor uses an HTML template during the edit phase of the envelope and generates a PDF file of the sample template when the edit process is completed. If you are looking to know how to generate a PDF file from an HTML template using dompdf then read on.

If you need to create a custom Search View then the Search API module is all you need to rely on. It is quite easy to create Views on search data using Search API. Read on to know how to create a custom Search View using the Search API, Views and Entity API.