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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

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

Showing sections of a page based on user role

Published by Richard on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 10:48

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I recently had a need to show parts of a page based on a users permision. After piecing some code to gether from different threads on the drupal site I came up with this.

Find out what the name is in the array

<?php print_r($user->roles); ?>

The actual code

<?php if (in_array('ROLE HERE',$user->roles)): ?>

<?php endif; ?>

 

 

<?php global $user; ?>

<?php if ($user->uid) : ?>

<?php print l("My stuff",'stuff/user/'.$user->uid); ?>

CSS3 Gradient Background Repeat Problem

Published by Richard on Wed, 10/20/2010 - 10:45

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Drupal & CSS

I am a huge fan of using CSS3, and I love the gradient feature in CSS3. When you use the gradient feature on the <body> tag, a funny thing happens when you scroll down the page. The page seems to repeat the gradient as you scroll down.

This is because the gradient is actually a background image. Please observe the block of code I used for this gradient.

Drupal Changes their Design

Published by Richard on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 21:36

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Today I was in need of some information on an Ubercart module on Drupal.org. Following a link from the Ubercart site, I found the module I needed. However, I felt lost when I got to the site. I looked up at the url to ensure I was on drupal.org. Yes, I was.  The first thing that came into mind was, "this design is horrible. It is in no way user friendly."

Good thing I didn't create this post at that time.

On a second visit, I found some pretty useful stuff on the home page. Here is a quick list of things I find nice on the home page.

My top five menu modules

Published by Richard on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 22:39

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Recently, I was updating a Drupal site for a client. The criteria included some menu features that were not included in any of the menu modules I had previously installed. Having forgotten the module I used, I googled the specs. However, the results included a bunch of links to irrelevant pages/sites (Bing?). I then manually search through the Drupal contributed modules. In my search I found some pretty cool menu modules offered by the Drupal community. I have created a list of these below.

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