Livereload is one the coolest things to happen to frontend development in the last little while, and actually it can really speed up your work. Basically it re-loads your CSS (and Javascript some of the time) automatically as you make changes. You don't have to make a change and then switch to your browser and manually reload the entire page, change 'notifications' are pushed to the browser where they will trigger that single changed file...
When developing we tend to use a lot of different domains to do our work on, I typically will use the .drupal top level domain, so my project URLs look something like: project-name.drupal When starting a new project, one of the annoying things that we have to do is create an entry in the hosts file for this domain: 127.0.0.1 project-name.drupal On Ubuntu there is a really simple way to automate...
This article discusses how we can use a combination of techniques to take the standard 'Confirmation Form' provided by the [Flag][flag] module and get it to load in a modal window rather than on its own page. We'll also extend this form slightly to allow the user to include some additional data before clicking 'Confirm'. As an example we'll use the Flag module to create an 'Abuse' flag that will apply to a comment entity...
This is a real quick one, but so useful! We often want to render a block within content, perhaps as part of a node (maybe in hook_node_view, and then made configurable like a field), but there's no obvious way to do this correctly for any block. Drupal normally renders its blocks per region, so there is no single function to embed a block. I came across this really simple solution by Damien Tournoud in a...
Facebook integration is obviously starting to become a de facto requirement with most web development projects. In most cases the requirements are reasonably straight forward and involve nothing more than including a ‘Like’ button on content, but what about actually adding your own bespoke content to Facebook like [The Guardian][guardian] – bring on the Facebook Canvas App. Canvas Apps are essentially just a way of wrapping some externally hosted content and putting this onto a...
Drupal 7 fields are great, but using multiple valued fields and [field collection][fc] you can quickly reach the point of having a form that looks like this: 
In this contrived example I've got two field collections and a multi-valued 'Links' field within that. Although it's reasonably clear what clicking 'Add another item' will do in each case, when the form is full of data it can become less so. We...
UPDATE: The Extra Field and Extra Field Settings Provider modules facilitate doing this sort of thing in Drupal 8. Read on for older Drupal sites, and for the concepts behind this. We often want to add things to the content of a node or any other entity in Drupal 7 using hook_node_view(), hook_node_view_alter() or a similar hook in a custom module. This could be anything from a custom social media link, a field rendered in...
When I create a git repository for a new project on Drupal.org I don't bother to create a master branch, branches named 6.x-1.x or 7.x-1.x have special meanings and are the ones that we're encouraged to use. However, drupal.org doesn't allow us to [change the default branch][branch-issue] on d.o itself, so even though there may be no branch called 'master', it's still the default branch, so sometimes cloning a repo will fail: git clone http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/darthsteven/1268648.git...
Part 1: Make the link work without javascript In this example we have a table listing log entries of some kind. We want to put a delete link against each log entry allowing the administrator to delete the log entry: The following code is responsible for printing out each link onto the page: $query = array( 'tok' => drupal_get_token('delete_log_item' . $flid), ) + drupal_get_destination(); $output[] = l(t('Delete'), 'admin/my-custom-log/delete/' . $flid, array('query' => $query)); The callback...
The Entity token module is part of the Drupal Entity Module package, it provides lots of new tokens to use everywhere that tokens are currently available. It does this by being aware of the structure of fields on entities and exposing extra options for fields that reference entities. For example, it allows you to use many more tokens about taxonomy terms added to content. Pathauto To see this in action we'll consider a simple example...