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Daniel Sipos
07 Nov 2013

Using complex and/or filtering with Views in Drupal 7

Recently I was faced with a need I have to admit I never faced before. I had to create a View that displayed content of two different types but one of which published only in a given timespan whereas the other one published whenever.

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Daniel Sipos
21 Oct 2013

Cool module: TableField

TableField is a cool module that allows you to attach a table, as a field, to any entity. This means that you can have a content type for which all the nodes contain a custom table of information that gets filled in by the user manually or via a .csv import.

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Daniel Sipos
18 Sep 2013

Showing private Webform fields to anonymous users based on URL query strings

In this tutorial I am going to show you a way in which you can filter the visibility of Webform components based on query strings passed in the URL. I’m sure everybody knows the Webform module as the go-to module for creating surveys and gathering all sorts of information from people. It is indeed a great module that provides a lot of flexibility and can be used very well for event registration forms as well.

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Daniel Sipos
12 Sep 2013

Cool module: Autocomplete Deluxe

Autocomplete Deluxe is a cool Drupal contrib module that basically pimps up your site’s autocomplete elements. As I am sure you are aware, it can get sometimes difficult managing many taxonomy terms and assigning them to nodes using the default autocomplete field. Enter Autocomplete Deluxe.

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Daniel Sipos
09 Sep 2013

Top 10 used hooks in Drupal 6 and 7 contrib modules

I recently came across this list of all the Drupal hooks arranged in order of the number of times they are implemented in contrib - both Drupal 6 and 7 (with a bit of consolidation). This is a great piece of statistics and I wanted to talk a bit about the top 10 most used hooks.

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Daniel Sipos
04 Sep 2013

Cool module: Node "Authored by" select

Node "Authored by" select is a cool module that let’s you change the default author selecting autocomplete field to a regular select field. This can be very handy if you have a number of users on the site. Content editors then don’t have to remember the exact names when assigning authorship.

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Daniel Sipos
02 Sep 2013

How to Create Taxonomy Vocabularies and Terms Programatically in Drupal 7

In this article I will show you how to programmatically create new taxonomy vocabularies and terms to go with them. Say the module you are building has some functionality that relies on the Drupal core Taxonomy module. Obviously you can’t expect people to create their own vocabularies to work with your module so upon enabling it these should already be there.

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Daniel Sipos
21 Aug 2013

Cool Module: Shield

Shield is a cool module that lets you set up HTTP authentication for your Drupal site if you are running it on an Apache server.