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Adding custom markup to Drupal menu items
There are times when it's necessary to add some additional markup to a particular menu item, for example a link to DrupalMinds might need a strong tag around the Drupal portion.Read article →Adding text to the Drupal feed icon
Drupal's handling of RSS's feeds is generall excellent, BUT sometimes it's nice to add a bit of explanation text to the standard orange feed icon.Read article →Drupal - changing the calander view to display single letter for day of the week
By default the Drupal event module will provide a nice calander block, listing the days of the week accross the top using 3 letter abbreviations (mon, tue etc).Read article →Removing tinymce from textareas
TinyMCE has a habit of popping up right where you don't want it - the log field on a node edit page is a good example.Read article →Adding an active class to the Drupal primary links
One of the most annoying things about developing a Drupal theme is the lack of an 'active' class on your primary links. By default the primary links are given a class of menu-X-Y-Z-active if they are active. From a theming point of view, this is next to useless, you need a nice…Read article →Tinymce width problems - CSS snippet
We have had a few sites recently on which TinyMCE was playing up on narrow themes. The buttons where not breaking onto new lines, causing the TinyMCE textarea to be much too wide.Read article →Adding new regions
Adding new custom regions (areas into which you can place blocks) to a Drupal template is dead easy ...Read article →Drupal 5.2 released
Drupal 5.2 was released last night, containing a couple of quite importants ecurity patches and some other minor bug fixes.Read article →Tinymce and filtered HTML
Just a quick one this - you will probably find that when you use Tinymce and the standard Filtered HTML input format, all your text bunches up and doesn't break correctly.Read article →Modifying the Drupal local tasks to include the destination
There is nothing worse than having your browsing flow interrupted by a login screen that does not return you to your origional destination. Drupal manages to get around this problem by allowing you to append a "destination=XXX" query string parameter to the 'user' login URL.Read article →Getting the drupal captcha module to work
This article applies to the current dev release of both the captcha and the textimage module. It involves modifying captcha.inc file which is distributed with the textimage module - it is therefore only a temporary solution and should be treated with caution!Read article →Example code to build an upload form in Drupal
Putting together an upload form in Drupal 5 is easier than you think - there are just a couple of things you need to remember ...Read article →Our top tools for developing and debugging with Drupal
It is perfectly possibly to work with Drupal using the free tools that come with Windows, nothing more than notepad and Internet Explorer - but just because its possible doesn't mean its a good idea!Read article →Issues with getting TinyMCE to work in Drupal 5
I'll keep this one nice and short - and hopefully save a couple of people participating in a bit of self inflicted baldness!Read article →Drupal cache serves blank page
We inherited another site today, with an interesting problem (actually it has many problems but that's another story). When the Drupal cache is enabled totally blank pages are often displayed. A quick google search fails to bring back much info, so it looks like were going to…Read article →Automatically subscribe new users to your simplenews newsletter
We have had a few situations now where we have needed to send out a newsletter to all our users, only to find that non of them have bothered to sign up to it!Read article →Using mod rewrite to stop attempted spam on the emailpage module
We inherited a site that was running a very old (probably un patched) version of Drupal 4.6. The site was getting a massive number of hits to the URL /emailpage - at least 20 a minute, even when there was no other traffic on the site.Read article →Creating a simple module to clear the Drupal 4.7 cache
The problem Drupal offers some powerful caching features, but they are by no means perfect as we discovered when building the site http://www.booktribes.com.Read article →Let's talk
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