December, 2009

Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal

10 December 2009 by jay boodhun

With most of the sites i built there has been a need for me to use customised submit buttons. While some of them were fine with just CSS, some required image buttons to be used. Drupal form api doesn't support input submit button type as image, so i had to use the help of PHPtemplate overrides and hook_form_alter to achieve this.

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Displaying CCK content in Drupal Views RSS

09 December 2009 by jay boodhun

The only thing that shows up using the built-in configuration in Views RSS is the non-cck parts of a node, namely Title ,Body and Teaser.
So after a lot of digging around on Drupal forums i came across this solution which seems to work pretty well.

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Essential Drupal 6 Modules

08 December 2009 by jay boodhun

After building a few sites with Drupal 6, i have made a list of some of the best modules available for the CMS. Drupal is considered as an out of the box CMS with bundled functionality like user management, menu management and content management as core. Once you start integrating modules the CMS becomes super powerful. The tricky part is to evaluate and identify which ones.

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When IE6 is Dead

08 December 2009 by jay boodhun

For the past 5 years Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been a web developers worst nightmare. Firstly because it is not a standard compliant browser as Microsoft has set its own standard with IE and CSS rendering- it doesn’t happen. IE needs very specific (non-valid) commands within your CSS to render properly.

There is a whole lot of arguments any web developer can come up with to justify that this browser should cease to exist.

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