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Building Beauty presentation documentation and links

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 15, 2011 - 11:40pm
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The Site

  • http://daniel-libeskind.com/
  • Horizontal continuum for all sections
  • Press request and access functionality with Organic Groups
  • Complex, structured project content type
  • News, press releases, etc.
  • Events listing
  • About Daniel Libeskind section, including sub-project listing with galleries
  • Project, one-by-one galleries
  • PDF Generator
  • Mobile version ...including for BlackBerry

Return user to current page: How to link to a form from a Drupal menu

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on September 13, 2011 - 6:55am
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Press login / press account links for anonymous and logged in users, respectively. Subtly added to a bottom menu. Via code in order to allow for the redirect back to the page you were on after login or editing.

There is surely a way, or should be a way, that does not involve hook_page_alter(), but hey, this works.

Adding non-menu things to primary links menu items with Drupal 7's page alter hook

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on September 4, 2011 - 3:58pm
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The request was to stick search in a menu. I said "I bet that's easy with hook_page_alter()!"

Not quite.

The primary links menu is output directly by the theme, and so is one of the very very few things that occurs after hook_page_alter().

You can tell the theme to stop outputting it directly, and put it in a block that is displayed in a region, or you can add it to the page rendering array in code with hook_page_build().

Settings for sets of sites: Putting Drush configuration into your project repository

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 27, 2011 - 3:09pm
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Inherit local-only options with 'parent'

Parent is not working across files. Filed support request: http://drupal.org/node/1262230

In an aliases file that lives with your project, so for our SDL project, sdl.aliases.drushrc.php, put in all settings that are true no matter who is using Drush and from where. This is the settings for an externally hosted development collaboration site.

Change the text of a tab, such as 'View', for one node type

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 23, 2011 - 5:13pm
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<?php
/**
 * Implements hook_menu_alter().
 *
 * Use a title callback to replace the text shown on nodes' "View" tab.
 */
function example_menu_alter(&$items) {

Organic Groups in Drupal 7 does not use entity IDs as group IDs

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 16, 2011 - 9:45am
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Update: Here is the code we currently use, abstracted into a helper function with lots of comments but it's really just two lines:

Collaboratively writing e-mail (sharing mail drafts)

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on August 7, 2011 - 2:38pm
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A test: I gave one GMail account edit access to another GMail account (yes, you can do this) and started editing an e-mail, saved it as draft, and then went to the other account— the draft was there, but not only was there no autorefresh of the other's changes when i edited simultaneously, but it forked and created two drafts of the same e-mail.

How to create a Feature without the initial download through the UI

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 4, 2011 - 2:29pm
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If you hate downloading and unzipping the initial feature you create as much as i do, because you haven't bothered with that foolishness since Drush, this post is for you.

This is the minimal information needed (from my experimentation) for Features to recognize your module as a Features module. Then you can add variables and other features through the UI (or Drush), and drush fu feature_example to update your module code (where feature_example is the name of your feature) and fu stands for features-update.

In feature_example.info:

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