Using taxonomy and pregmatch to customizing your body classes in Drupal 7
Published by Richard on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 15:23
Drupal 7 has a lot of tools that will give you great flexibility while theming your site.
Using PHP to remove all nodes from a Content type
Published by Richard on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 18:51
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Today I had over 1,000 nodes to remove from a Drupal 6 installation. The bulk update only lets you remove 50 nodes at a time. What to do?
My Situation
All the node were from a certain content type. Actually, I need to remove all node that belonged to a particular content type. Lets call this content type "articles" My Solution Use PHP to remove all the node that belong to that node type. First I activated the PHP filter Then I ran this PHP script
Taking Money without completing the work
Published by Richard on Thu, 06/16/2011 - 23:00
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So I found this post on a Drupal forum:
@PersonWhoPostedBeforeMe, my point is that if Dave is unable to dedicate the time to this issue, and that if someone else was to spend their time to resolve the issue they should receive the bounty. I disagree with the paid approach in these situations as I've seen time and time again people taking donations but never coming through.
I can't connect my Virgin Mobile LG Optimus to the Internet - Fixed
Published by Richard on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 21:05
A few months back I purchased a Virgin Mobile phone. I decided to go with the LG Optimus. It wasn't long before my internet access became spotty. About a week ago, I could access the Internet at all. After some searching I found the answer. The answer that worked for me.
How to create a menu using views and your theme in Drupal
Published by Richard on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 11:38
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Recently, I ran into kind of a jam while working on a drupal project. I had a view pulling multiple elements of a node into a list. I was pulling things like the title, thumbnail and description. The thing was this list was suppose to act like a menu. What I needed was a views menu.
Bulk update comment settings on multiple nodes - Drupal
Published by Richard on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 10:43
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Recently, I needed to archive the blog section of a Drupal site. Part of this included removing all past comments and removing the ability to leave new comments. Removing comments is pretty easy in Drupal. There is a comment management section for that.
However, to remove the ability to comment on published nodes requires a bulk update. This is something that is not available in the standard Drupal site. Therefore, I had to resort to an alternative method of bulk updating the blog posts.
Use Jquery to add commas and remove non integers in Drupal Webform Module
Published by Richard on Thu, 02/03/2011 - 09:17
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Drupal's Webform module is top notch. I have made the move from Webform 2.x to Webform 3.x because of the usability and features. The only issue I have is the lack of a number field. Actually, both versions of Webform have this issue. If you want to format a textfield to restrict the character set to integers, the Webform module does not do this. However, I don't see this as a downfall. Webform is a very useful module. Besides, we can easily limit characters in an input is pretty with Jquery.
My Problem
Reducing the file size of PDF files With MAC OS X
Published by Richard on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 23:01
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Tonight, I found myself in need to scan a few documents. So, I fired up the Lexmark all in one and my Power PC. Using the Lexmark software, I began scanning. After about 10 minutes, I have finally have the results of my scanned documents, A multi-page PDF. I was stunned to discover the PDF was over 30MB. Thanks, Lexmark! In order to email this document, I was going to need to reduce the file size.
One feature of OS X that really impresses me is it's ability to handle PDF files. Did you know if you open a PDF with Preview, you can "Save As.." PDF and shrink the file?