Changing Drupal System messages to your own custom messages
I am sure many Drupal developers out there want to have control over Drupal's system messages generated by modules and core and rewrite these messages to be more user friendly or even suppress them.
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Hidden Form fields to prevent Bot Spam
I was looking into a solution to prevent an online form not to send an email or save to database if filled by robots. The solution quite simple. 0 Comments Read more...
Installing Drush
Drush or drupal shell is a command line utlity that helps Drupal developers to execute a lot of tasks easily via a Shell interface instead of going through multiple steps point and click configurations.
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Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal
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
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.
Essential Drupal 6 Modules
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
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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