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Go to – admin – input formats

click configure next to “filtered html”

disable HTML filter

The <p> tags were dispearing from the content on my nodes. Couldnt figure out what did i do wrong.

The solution as always was simple. I did the following

Go to – admin – input formats

click configure next to “filtered html”

disable HTML filter

How can we change the ul to ol in drupal view list, here I am referring to drupal 5. It might work in drupal 6 but I have not tested.

Took me hours to figure this one out, but as always the solution was simple

First create a view with type list then go to Theme wizard (if it is not present activate it from module [admin/build/modules] comes with the views module package.

Theme Wizard

• Select View : <select your view name>
• Select theme type: simple list

The wizard will create code for template.php file and view-list-<view name>.tpl.php file.php

Now pick the following line from the template.php file:
return theme(’item_list’, $items);
and replace it with
return theme(’item_list’, $items, NULL, ‘ol’);

Now wasn’t that simple but finding the solution is like finding needle from a haystack .. but finally Aal is well !!!

The drupal blog module present in the core is not sufficient lacking the main features of a blogging website. Wordpress provide us the standard features of a blogging website in a single package.

The missing features can be categories, archives, recent posts, latest comments, blogroll and there are many more I am just talking about the main ones.

First activate the blog and taxonomy module (admin/build/modules)

Go to admin/content/categories. Create the different categories for your blog. First create vocabulary eg “category” then add “terms” eg books, novels, reading, writing

Create the different posts in their respective categories

Then download and activate module taxonomy_menu to display the categories of a blog in your menu. Create a custom menu called sidebar_menu, shift the categories in the sidebar_menu. Then create region “sidebar_region” shift the sidebar_menu in sidebar_region using blocks.

Then create archives using this link http://drupal.org/node/52037. Use blocks (admin/build/block) to view block in sidebar_region

Then create recent posts by creating views (admin/build/views).

1. Create view ‘block’
2. View type ‘list’
3. Fields ‘node title’
4. Filter ‘node type=blog entry’
5. Sort ‘created time’ descending

View the block in custom region sidebar_region

Do not bother with all those modules out there for the archives of the module blog just use the code mentioned in the link below as a block and you are good to go.

http://drupal.org/node/52037

In the node.tpl file add the following:

<span><?php print t(’!date’, array(’!date’ => format_date($node->created, ‘custom’, ‘D, Y-m-j’))); ?></span>

Where we add format_date ‘custom’

How to create different template files depending on various factors.

I had a situation where i wanted a left column on some page while 100% width in the rest. But this requriement was complicated as i could not categorize it. I wanted left column in the description of a particular content type and 100% width on most of the view pages but not all.

The solution was to have the left column as a block and check in the page.tpl file that if the block is enabled then use a div with width = 50% else width = 100%

Eg the left column was in a block called “left_sidebar” so go in the page.tpl file use the following code:

Where $left_sidebar is a region defined in template.tpl file, $content is drupal variable to display content, left_div, wide_div and narrow_div are custom classes for your stylesheet (.css) file

<?php if ($left_sidebar): ?>
<div id="left_div">
<?php print $left_sidebar?>
</div>
<div id="wide_div">
<?php print $content?>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
<div id="narrow_div">
<?php print $content?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>


Form validation is made so easy using YUI JSValidate script. Click here to download and learn how to use it.

Basically there is nothing to learn there just add classname ‘jsrequired’ to every form element you need the user to enter and likewise.

I am using jcarousellight module in garland theme. The width is beyond the content area and it is displaying 4 images while I only require only 3.

To attain this go to modules/jcarousellite/modules/jcarousellite_views/jcarousellite_views.module

goto line 62

visible: 4

Make this number “4″ into any number your require

Download. I have created my first module which manually adds subscribers to lm_paypal subscription module, ie if the admin needs to add subscribers to the lm_paypal subscription they can do so using the module.

It is not an ideal solution for beginners but is useful who people who know what they are doing.

Click here to download the file.