IE limits
Sometimes a Drupal site will work fine when you use a browser other than Internet Explorer but be completely unformated in IE. It seems to be a problem with the way Drupal organizes Cascading Style...
View Articleviews and 5stars
In a Drupal6 installation, you want to use a user rating from 5stars in a View. This might be to sort a list by the highest rating first, limit a list to those above a certain rating, or to display the...
View Articleall pages on a Drupal web site won't display (page not found)
You migrate you database from a dump but all of a sudden no page is found. No matter what you do you get a 'no page is found'.read more
View ArticleTurning Drupal maintenance mode on or off (site offline/online) with mySQL
If you are already on the Linux command line or inside phpMyAdmin when you need to take a site off-line for maintenance then you may prefer to simply enter the following than log into Drupal and...
View ArticleUsing drupal's taxonomy for navigation
"Taxonomy" in Drupal is the native way to categorize nodes. So what do you do with the nodes created? You can use it for navigation purposes. A link will get you all nodes with a specific taxonomy set...
View Articledrop-down menus in the Drupal theme CTI-flex
The suckershish menus in CTI_flex are afflicted with a common problem in many suckerfish implementations. There is a small gap between the parental branch and the leaves. If the font is set larger than...
View Articletaxonomy flat lists
This is a real world example of using a series of flat taxonomy lists to categorize information. We'll be categorizing BMW car models and organizing them by car style and engine displacement. Since the...
View ArticleGetting the URL of an attached image in Drupal7
$file=file_load($node->field_name["und"][0]['fid']); $image_link = image_style_url( "thumbnail", $file->uri);
View ArticleDrupal for facebook fatal errors
In a Drupal based installation that uses FaceBook comments, I was getting "fatal errors" whenever I put the site down for maintenance and once when the ISP took the site down for scheduled maintenance...
View ArticleMissing menu links
More than once I had all my menu links disappear. I would make a change in a block or in a theme's CSS files and suddenly all forms of links (menu links included) on every page would disappear. It...
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