drupal 6

Drupal's calendar module is a great tool for building calendars quickly with views. However, the default theme is still using tables, blech! After some searching, I came across a sandbox module to fix this, https://drupal.org/node/1675894#comment-7903527. Like some of the user's in that thread, I did not want to add another module to my site. So, I set off to theme the calendar in a responsive way. Surprisingly, this was much easier than I anticipated.

A recent project required me to create a different notification message per content type. To do this you can use the hook_message_alter() function to override the default message.

Today I ran into an issue where running the command: drush status ended with this error: Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error.. Not sure what was causing this problem so I turned to Google and came across this post: http://drupal.org/node/1140842.

Just wanted to post these instructions for my own sanity, and so I wouldn't lose them as I've used them numerous times over the past year.

We have a website that updates numerous nodes nightly with an uploaded XML file. This XML file is then processed with Drupal's batch api, and when the XML file is uploaded manually, the script works perfectly. However, in real life, this XML file is uploaded programmatically by a script running on another server. Programmatically, the file gets uploaded and the batch begins properly, but on the successive redirects, the batch fails. This is because, the pseudo browser window from our publishing script closes.

Drush to the rescue

Luckily we have Drush installed on the server.

Today I needed to change the format of a taxonomy term exposed filter to display the vocabulary hierarchy in groups instead of the normal '-Item', '--Sub-Item' format (see the before and after photos below).

Before

After

The Code

To accomplish this I needed to use hook_form_alter() to change the options list.

Today I ran into an issue of needing to programmatically remove file attachments from a node. To accomplish this I referred to the upload_nodeapi() function and found the upload_save() function. After examining the code I found that upload_save looks for the 'remove' parameter for the file object. If $file->remove exists, the file will be deleted from the database and file system. So by adding the 'remove' parameter to the files I needed removed before calling node_save() results in the files being removed from the node upon calling node_save(). Done!

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.