Today I needed to create a view the filtered items by a range of prices. The prices for these nodes were stored in a CCK number field. After searching for an easy 'plug and play' method of doing this I quickly began writing my own code to accomplish this task. To summarize, I accomplished this by using the following functions:

• hook_form_alter()
• hook_views_query_alter()

Step 1.

Begin by creating your view and adding your CCK number field as an exposed filter. You'll want to be sure that you use the 'is between' operator.

Today I was working on a mobile theme for a client of ours and I needed to remove the printer friendly link from every page. The first thing I did was create a hook_link_alter() function in my custom module and quickly realized this would alter every theme. I came across this article (http://drupal.org/node/46961) that lead me to the $theme_key variable. Using this I quickly limited my hook_link_alter function to the proper theme.

Today I had a client call and say they were unable to send email through our mail server.

In a recent project I needed to have my secondary links display on the home page, but for some reason they weren't displaying.

Today I was researching some modules for a large project that I am working on and I came across the Context module. This module allows you to setup different conditions and add/remove content from the theme. For example, if I wanted an entire block region removed from a members only region of my site, I would setup my condition to be 'intranet*'. Then, I would set my 'Reactions' to remove the proper template regions from the theme. Pretty badass!.

In a related note to the backup restore that I performed yesterday, I decided to run the upgrade.sh script provided by community.aegir.com. First, I downloaded the script to my restored EC2 instance wget -O upgrade.sh 'http://drupalcode.org/project/provision.git/blob_plain/refs/tags/6.x-1.6:/upgrade.sh.txt' Next I logged in as the Aegir user and ran the uprade.sh script per the instructions: su -s /bin/sh aegir -c "sh upgrade.sh" The status message displayed ment

Today I had the unfortunate need to get a restored database from an Amazon EBS snapshot. To do this I logged into the Amazon AWS management console and determined which snapshot I needed to restore from. Once I highlighted the correct snapshot, I clicked the 'Create Volume' button. Next, I chose which availability zone the snapshot should reside in and click 'Create' Next, I spun up a new instance of the production server, using the same AMI (ami-294aa340).

I'm in the process of building a custom Ubercart module that allows users to dynamically enter sizes using Ubercart's uc_attributes module. The problem I ran into is that I needed to theme these custom attributes in the cart_view_form and cart_checkout_form to add a suffix behind value. Initially I overwrote the original theme file in my module using the phptemplate_ prefix. This worked great, however, after further consideration I realized the flaw in this logic. Overriding the theme like this would not allow other user's to override that theme file. So back to the drawing board I went.

Today I was working with an ExpressionEngine website (which I know nothing about) and I needed to get a modification date on the user profile fields. After searching the ExpressionEngines documentation, I realized that adding my own submit function wasn't going to be as easy as Drupal's hook_form_alter(). My next thought was to try MySQL.

Today I had the challenge of generating a view that needed to filter results based on the date/time a node was created. More specifically, I needed to filter bowling stats for a season. Easy, right? The problem I ran into is that the bowling season doesn't begin and end in the same year. So using an argument to only grab nodes created in 2011 didn't work. I needed the view to grab nodes between July, 2010 through July, 2011. Initially I experimented with Views Date Range.