Sometimes, you want the visitor to go directly to the cart, instead of staying in the same page and having a success message telling him that his product has been added to the cart. In order to go directly to … Continue reading
I got you there, I too didn’t know there were n and m dashes “–” and “—”. Anyways, the process of using one of these in my life was something like this: Search Google for “mdash” Use my eye scanning … Continue reading
Everything went smoothly as usual in my local machine, but as soon as I moved the website to the client server, it wouldn’t run normally, instead it gives me the dreaded error message: Error displaying the error page: Application Instantiation … Continue reading
There is no official Drupal certification, but there is better. Today, at 2am, I decided to track my improvements in Drupal with Certified to Rock, my goal for now is not to be an 11, a tiny 3 will suffice, … Continue reading
Sometimes you want to hide the breadcrumbs in a single page an keep it in the others, either using a module or inside a node. You can remove the breadcrumb from a Drupal page with this line of code: This … Continue reading
You can check that a user is an administrator or not like this: if(user_access(‘administer’)) { print(‘I am an admin ))’); } else { print(‘I am not an admin ((‘); }
The view results count is stored in the view object and you can display it by adding a PHP header or footer to your view. In order to have PHP in views you need the module Views PHP, so install … Continue reading
This is a quick and easy solution to send an email from Drupal using PHP, i.e a custom module. you will do it in 2 steps (I assume your module is called “mod”): Define mod_mail() (implementing hook_mail() ), this function … Continue reading
We used to get the files directory using file_directory_path() in Drupal 5 and 6, the function was removed with Drupal 7 but you can still get the files public directory like this: echo variable_get(‘file_public_path’, conf_path() . ‘/files’); // Output: sites/default/files
This is how I get the current path and/or alias in Drupal: After this code has been executed: $path will hold the internal drupal path $alias will hold that path alias if the path in the url is actually an … Continue reading