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access a property via string with array in php?

I have a big list of properties that I need to map between two objects, and in one, the value that I need to map is buried inside an array. I'm hoping to avoid hard-coding the property names in the code. If I have a class like this: class Product { public $colors, $sizes; } I can access the properties like this: $props = array(...

Add image gallery to node in Drupal

I'm using Image module for Drupal 6 and the submodule of Image Gallery. Image gallery is identified by taxonomy term of certain vocabulary. What I need is to attach Image Gallery View supplied with Image Gallery to certain node. I am now trying to use Views Attach to do this. But how can I pass an argument of taxonomy term for gallery to...

Drupal vs FatWire - Any thoughts?

Hi folks, a company I am working for is considering the usage of a CMS, apparently two of the suggested CMSs are Drupal and FatWire. FatWire is proprietary and quite expensive, therefore it seems that there is a not so big community build around the product. Functionality seems to be extensive, even though a few design choices seem cou...

[Drupal] SQL error reporting by mail

I was wondering if its possible to have some kind of SQL error reporting that sends me an email that includes the error and the website that it's been found on. I'd like to take this precaution because of hosting multiple drupal systems. There is a PHP error variant: http://drupal.org/project/php_errors Hope you guys know a way to be...

Paging Results - Drupal Module

Hi I have custom drupal module. I receive result from a webservice that I need to page. Here is what I am doing $result = webservice_call_results(); $attributes = array( 'border' => 1, 'cellspacing' => 0, 'cellpadding' => 5, 'width' => 600, ); $rows = array(); foreach ($result->headers->RPMHeader as $data) ...

Drupal localhost redirecting to www.localhost.com

Hey! I am working on a drupal site which I checked out (svn) to my localhost. Now the problem is that when I go to: http://www.site.com it all works fine, but when I go to: http://localhost/work/site I get redirected to http://www.localhost.com/work/site I have ran the install.php script and all works great. It reins...

Are Drupal theme settings cached?

i want to change theme_username, a core theme function that outputs that dreadful "not verified" string on users who are not logged in (when they comment, for example). i want a checkbox in admin/build/themes/settings/MYTHEME to change that. but since that theme function gets called a lot, will it hurt the performance of any site using m...

What's the relationship between user_access and hook_perm in drupal?

It seems both of these functions are used to check whether a user has some previledge. And the difference isn't obvious to me. Can someone elaborate? ...

What are the skills a Drupal Developer needs?

I'm trying to write out a list of key Drupal competencies, mainly so I can confirm what I know, don't know and don't know I don't know. (Thanks D. Rumsfeld for that quote!) I think some of these are really broad, for instance there's quite a difference between making a functional theme and creating a theme with good SEO, load times and ...

C# web forms api to dynamically create forms

I am working on an asp.net project which has numerous form screens. All our forms are pretty much using a given set layout which needs to be made by developers ond an on again. Our current implementation requires that for every form control, a developers needs to write inside in the .aspx file the HTML of our forms (whilst embedding our...

How to create a database table in an installation file for a Drupal Module?

I am creating a module for Drupal 7.x, and I want to create a database table when the module is installed (enabled for the first time). How can I do this? Thanks. ...

Drupal Ctools Form Wizard in a Block

Hi everyone I created a custom module that has a Ctools multi step form. It's basically a copy of http://www.nicklewis.org/using-chaos-tools-form-wizard-build-multistep-forms-drupal-6. The form works. I can see it if I got to the url i made for it. For the life of me I can't get the multistep form to show up in a block. Any clues? /...

Creating a new CCK field from an imagecache preset?

I have an image gallery for which I have configured an Imagecache preset. It's my first time using Imagecache so I am not sure if I am using it right. Right now, I see that I can only configure the CCK imagefield to show me the imagecache generated image in either the preview or the full node version of the field. I would prefer to hav...

Basic PHP question for Drupal Views theming

My PHP and programming knowledge is extremely basic, so this is probably a dumb question: I am theming a View in Drupal 6, and I want to add an id with a consecutive number to each item in the view (first item would have the id #item1, the second #item2, etc). I am customizing the style output (views-view-unformatted--MYVIEWNAME.tpl.ph...

Is there a way (other than sql) to get the mlid for a given nid in drupal?

I've got a node, I want it's menu. As far as I can tell, node_load doesn't include it. Obviously, it's trivial to write a query to find it based on the path node/nid, but is there a Drupal Way to do it? ...

Drupal form with custom ID

Correct me if I'm wrong, after reading drupal fapi related articles, I got the impression that fapi generates 'id' attributes by itself. It allows developers to assign 'name' attribute only. If that's the case, is there a way I can set desire 'id' value for elements? Because, I want my elements to have meaningful 'id' so that html/jquery...

How we can implement SSL in Drupal pages?

How we can implement SSL in Drupal pages? I mean secure pages. ...

How can I make PHP scripts timeout gracefully while waiting for long-running MySQL queries?

I have a PHP site which runs quite a lot of database queries. With certain combinations of parameters, these queries can end up running for a long time, triggering an ugly timeout message. I want to replace this with a nice timeout message themed according to the rest of my site style. Anticipating the usual answers to this kind of ques...

PHP code in drupal pages treating > as ?>

While working on an existing Drupal site I've noticed a strange glitch that causes any PHP operator with > in it to act like a ?> tag. This is happening in in Drupal pages that I create that have a 'Input Format' of 'PHP code'. For example this line of code foreach($array as $key => $value){ results in a very broken page that prints o...

Drupal menu with submenus only shows submenu of current page. NOT a CSS problem

This is not a CSS problem. The HTML isn't there. I need the menu, with submenus to exist in HTML on EACH page. Right now, the submenu only exists in HTML for the submenu related to the page being currently viewed. Here's an example of what it SHOULD be like. <ul id="menu"> <li>Page1 <ul class="sub"> <li>sub1.1</l...