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Drupal, template.php where do the $form names come from ?

hi, I want to customize my Drupal back-end forms. I'm using template.php file.. i.e. $form['menu']['#collapsed'] = true; $form['author']['#collapsed'] = true; $form['buttons']['#weight'] = 100; But I was wondering from where the section names (menu, author, buttons), come from. (They are not id or classes in html code, so I g...

Drupal: make a section invisible

is there any way to make a section invisible from template.php in drupal ? Something like: $form['name'] = array( '#visibility' => 'hidden', ... thanks ...

Drupal: How to make a fieldset dependent using CTools

Hello, I am using Ctools Dependency to make a fieldset hideable. This is part of my code: $form['profile-status'] = array( '#type' => 'radios', '#title' => '', '#options' => array( 'new' => t('Create a new profile.'), 'select' => t('Use an existing profile.'), ), ); $form['select'] = array( '#type' ...

Drupal: customizing modules question

hi, I've a question about how to customize drupal modules avoiding hacks. Let's say I've downloaded Lightbox2 module and I want to change the javascript file to display differently my lightbox. At the moment I'm modifying the Lightbox2 module, so I cannot update it anymore, so I know it is not the best practice. I was wondering if I ...

How do I replace the "node view" screen in Drupal 6?

I have no need for the node "view" screen/tab for certain types of content. Instead, when a user goes into /node/nid I wish to show the node edit form. Any ideas on how I do that? thanks, Omer. ...

Generating forms from the database

Hello I'm trying to teach myself Drupal and I've found something I can't find any tutorials for. I am trying to generate a form, with a dynamic number of text fields, to populate and edit the contents of my custom table. In regular PHP I would achieve this with: $count = '0'; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result) { echo "<input ...

drupal: [title] token... not filtered !?!

hi, I'm using path auto module to automatically stores images in the projects subfolder. I'm using the [title] token and I had a unpleasent surprise: the title "abc / dce", creates 2 folders. I was not expecting this because in the pattern descrition, [title] is clearly distinguished by [title-raw]. [title] Node title [title-raw] Unfi...

Drupal 6: display CCK Field value with php in views_customfield

SORTED http://drupal.org/node/467190#comment-2068324 Hi friends, I've spent all day to find but can't find :( How can I display CCK Field value with php in views_customfield? I tried the ones below, but no result $node->field_homepage_linking[0]["view"] $node->field_homepage_linking[0]["value"] value_get('field_homepage_linking...

Limit frontblock to display articles/stories only in Drupal

I am new to drupal, so sorry for this noob question, but I was wondering how to display articles only in the central column. Currently there are also blog entries, etc and I would like to get rid of them. I have a Views plugin installed but I am not sure how to do this. ...

Drupal Form can't access javascript function (errors "not a function")

using drupal with lightbox2 to open a form. this form is from a custom module. the module has a setting: 'onsubmit' => 'return form_submission(this);' and that appears to be working correctly. I've included the functions.js in the theme.info file and it's showing up, i can open that file and see the function. for some reason, i keep g...

Drupal Views api, add simple argument handler

Background: I have a complex search form that stores the query and it's hash in a cache. Once the cache is set, I redirect to something like /searchresults/e6c86fadc7e4b7a2d068932efc9cc358 where that big long string on the end is the md5 hash of my query. I need to make a new argument for views to know what the hash is good for. The rea...

One table, need multiple values from different rows/tuples

I have tables like: 'profile_values' userID | fid | value -------+---------+------- 1 | 3 | [email protected] 1 | 45 | 203-234-2345 3 | 3 | [email protected] 1 | 45 | 123-456-7890 And: 'users' userID | name -------+------- 1 | joe 2 | jane 3 | jake I want...

Large Video Uploads via a website

Some of the problems that can happen are timeouts, disconnections, and not being able to resume a file and having to start from the beginning. Assuming these files are up to around 5gigs in size, what is the best solution for dealing with this problem? I'm using a Drupal 6 install for the website. Some of my constraints due to the ser...

Multiple Questions per page using Drupal Quiz

I'm using the Drupal Quiz module, and have setup some basic quizzes and stuff like that. However some further customization is required, involving more than 1 question per page, and a multi-type answer in this type of format: Question 1: Describe 4 things you did last summer a) [ short answer space - text field ] b) "I wept" c) "My who...

how to Theme Catalog page in ubercart?

I would like to change the drupal ubercart catalog page from default grid to list. Is there any shortest way? Thanks & Regards, Satya ...

Drupal: $form['#redirect'] = FALSE; doesn't work.

hi, I've tried to change the redirection when I submit my edit-node form, by addming the following line to my template.php file, in my theme $form['#redirect'] = FALSE; I'm sure the template.php file works well because I have other lines in which I change, for example, the weights of some elements. But the redirection doesn't work. ...

No title node in Drupal

I want to have a content type namely quote usign CCK. But quotes in general don't have a title. But since the title is a required field, how can I avoid being putting the title while creating a new node. ...

Facebook Like Status Message Box in Drupal

I am building a Drupal website and want to have a facebook like box which create a content namely quotation in my facebook. How can I do this in drupal.. Below the box I want to display other quotations... ...

Drupal. Better content administration, sort by node's CCK fields?

Hi, I was asking myself if there's a better way of sorting content in Drupal. Right now, when I go to admin>content all the nodes are mixed up. I installed the module "Content administration" (http://drupal.org/project/nodeadmin) and now you can not only filter but also sort them by title, type, author... but that's all. Is there any g...

Is it safe to modify CCK tables by hand?

I'm not intimately familiar with CCK but I have a one-time custom setup and know that I could get some performance gains if I created indexes and changed the field type and length of some of the fields in my CCK table. Is it save to modify this table at all or will I end up destroying something in the process? Thanks ...