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Hiding empty Panels panes
If you're using Panels to display dynamic content, you might want to dynamically check whether to display the panes based on what will be shown. For example, if there is no content to show in a certain pane, you probably don't want the pane to show at all.Read article →Views caching
A little while ago I blogged about views content cache as a way to increase performance of your Drupal site. Today I released version 2.2 of the module, that adds lots of lovely features.Read article →Drupal(Vol)Con 2010
Computerminds were due to attend the latest DrupalCon over in San Francisco, however Eyjafjallajokull had other ideas. With planes grounded and Europe at a standstill (in the air) we couldn't make it.Read article →Automating boring tasks with Selenium IDE
If you need to perform the same repetitive task on a bunch of nodes you can script the operation using PHP, but sometimes it can take a long time to write and test the PHP and even then you have to get the script to the server and execute within a certain time etc.Read article →Nodequeues for developers
Nodequeues are a really useful way of building ordered lists of content and they integrate amazingly with views and have quite a nice interface for adding/removing nodes. Out of the box you can create queues and choose node types that can be added to the queues, and roles that…Read article →Hudson and Simpletest
We've recently set up a Hudson Continuous Integration build server to help us with testing our sites. We got selenium up and running fairly quickly, it installs and tests all the sites and Hudson has aplugin to report the results from selenium tests. But we also wanted to run…Read article →Using Drush export content type, and views
We're not sure what to do with these: we've written two simple Drush scripts for exporting content types and views. Saving us from having to navigate a few pages and precious seconds.Read article →Extending the drupal context module to allow conditional contexts based on taxonomy terms
We are loving the Drupal context module here at ComputerMinds, it puts a lovely user friendly formal front end onto creating context's for your site, something we had previously been doing with various snippets of code. If you haven't come accross the context module before then…Read article →Drupal update hooks in a multi developer environment
With large Drupal projects, especially those in their post-live phase, good code and release managment becomes vital. Update hooks provide the mechanism by which database changes can be scripted and deployed to the live server, this article assumes you are already well versed…Read article →DrupalCamp day 2
Day 2 at Drupalcamp UK was as packed with goodness as the first day, here's some of the highlights:Read article →DrupalCamp day 1
A brief summary of some of the cool stuff I picked up from day 1 at DrupalCamp, interestingly most of it wasn't necessarily Drupal related ... day 2 and pics (featuring lots of ComputerMinds lanyards!) etc to follow ...Read article →Another case of Drupal's sensitivity
If you have a Drupal site with users and you want to allow them to add some profile data about themselves there are a few routes available to you, one of the oldest (and thus simplest) ways is to use profile module. You can add text fields, selects and other bits and bobs to…Read article →DrupalCon DC - Business Analytics in Drupal with Views
One of the interesting sessions that I attended at DrupalCon DC was one entitled: Business Analytics in Drupal with Views. In it, the presenters showcased two of their modules. One was a charts display plugin for views, and one was a 'group by' views field.Read article →Quick Guide to using drupal_add_tabledrag and enjoying jquery drag and drop loveliness
We are finding that the feature exciting most end users in Drupal 6 is the lovely new jquery based drag and drop, as seen on the blocks and menu edit pages - we will be quite happy never have to explain the concept of "weights" again. The best news is that you can add this…Read article →Simple quick ubuntu 8.04 setup as LAMP (couple of drupal "specific" tweaks)
I'm always hunting around for these various bits every time I do an Ubuntu rebuild - so I thought I would collate them all into one place. This is what we use for our dev boxes, not certified for a production webserver. Note this is specifically for Ubuntu 8.04 - it may well…Read article →Altering drupal comments in hook_comment op = validate (drupal 5)
One of those little Drupal annoyances this, there is now easy way to alter a comment (using hook_comment) before the comment is written to the DB. Hook comment is invoked during the validation phase, with $op set to "validate", and the comment array is passed by reference - but…Read article →Views 2: Making a drupal views block title link back to the view
We wrote an article about linking a view's block title to the companion page view, in Drupal 5. Someone asked for a Drupal 6 version, which can be quite easily done with a preprocess function, but it's not very flexible.Read article →Drupal 6 - Multiple instances of the same form on one page
There's an excellent article over on gtrlabs: Drupal 5: How to process multiple instances of the same form on the same page that describes in detail how to have multiple copies of the same form on the same page. There are some subtle differences to use this technique in Drupal…Read article →Drupal node operations
We love the views bulk operations module here at ComputerMinds, and frequently use it to create some lovely administrative interfaces.Read article →Ensuring a CCK field has unique values
Super quick one this: say you have a CCK field on a particular node whose values you want to ensure are unique across all nodes on your site, you could write yourself a nice little helper module, or some PHP directly into the CCK field validation section of the admin form, but,…Read article →Some nice quick views theming tricks in Drupal 5
Thought I would post this little function on here, we tend to use it a lot and it gives some nice little extras for you to play with when you come to template your nodes.Read article →Making a drupal views block title link back to the view
One for the small but handy category this. The standard "more" link the views module adds to it's blocks has no place on a modern accessible website, you really need a more verbose link in there. One solution has always been to add a bit of footer or header text into the block,…Read article →File uploads in Drupal 6 - Part 1
So you've got a nice new version of Drupal 6 and you're building a form, but you want to allow users to upload a file. Of course this is easy with Drupal, and we covered how to do just that, but for Drupal 5, in our previous article: Example code to build an upload form in…Read article →Organising your views in Views 1.x
If you're still stuck in the Views dark ages, and 1.6 is as good as it gets for you here's a quick tip to make things a little easier:Read article →Let's talk
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