Drupal

Just recently for one of my websites I did a bit of research to see how easy it’ll be to add keyword tooltips. What I want is when a user hovers over a keyword within a piece of content a nicely styled tooltip appears. There are a few modules on drupal.org that integrate with jQuery popup/tooltip plugins, however, I ended up choosing the Tipsy module. As the name suggests, the Tipsy module uses a jQuery plugin called Tipsy and the jQuery plugin creates Facebook-style tooltips.

Over the years of maintaining Drupal websites I noticed that a lot of developers – and themers – hard code date and time formats. I know this may sound like a rant, but I would like to demonstrate an easier and cleaner way of creating and managing date and time formats.

The Message module is a general logging utility tool which you can use to log any type of activity on a Drupal website. I’ve already written about how you can use Message module with Rules. If you’ve never used this module I would recommend that you read "Log Site Activity with Message and Rules" first, so you can get a good introduction on how to use Message module.

In this article we’ll look at creating messages programmatically via Entity’s entity_metadata_wrapper() function. Finally we’ll look at how to load and display a message log. This is useful if you need to manually add a message to a template file.

Check my latest video on using Field collection in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Power Site Building With Field Collection.

Need to highlight code within a Drupal site? Check out this video on setting up the GeSHi Filter in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Highlight Code With GeSHi Filter.

The Message module is a general logging utility tool that site builders can use to create user friendly logs. Let’s say for example, you want to create a log for all new “Blog” posts and then display a list of logs on a website via a block within a sidebar column. Message module makes it extremely easy to do all of this without writing a single line of code.

I just created a screencast on using the Tab Tamer module, hope you enjoy. For an in-depth article go to Control Tabs Using Tab Tamer.

Check out this video on setting up the Linkit Module in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Link To Other Pages With Linkit.

In Drupal 6 fieldsets allowed site builders to group form items together. If a client asked for the ability to attach extra supporting data to a content type, you were stuck creating another content type and then create a relationship between both types using a node reference field. In Drupal 7 you would simply create a field collection for the supporting data.

Here is a video on setting up multi-site aliases in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to “Drupal’s Multi-site Aliasing With sites.php“.