Drupal Development

Today I faced again some interesting thing to create - on hover image to change the background and display text over it Here is how it looks: On the left side, you can see the default image, while on the right side with mouse over. To achieve such behavior in Drupal is pretty simple, a little bit CSS and you are done. Here is my view with div tags and Drupal fields: <div class="image-hover"> [field_images] <span class="image-overlay ">Read Full Article</span> </div…

Are you writing in different language than English, languages like Russian, Greek, Georgian, Hebrew or maybe Latvian? You find it's not attractive URL generated? In this article you will learn how to fix this using Drupal CMS and a neat module - Transliteration. Take a look at these screenshots: Here is Latvian URL in Chrome: Chrome handles special characters nicely. The same URL in Mozilla Firefox: First problems detected - special characters have been converted to %C%4 - not nice.…

<p>Some time has passed away, since I started my tutorial how to build a Drupal site from scratch. I'm making this post to list all series</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-1-planin… a Drupal site from scratch - part 1 - planing</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/building-drupal-site-scratch-part-2-applyi… a Drupal site from scratch - part 2 - Applying a…

Today, I encountered a problem that at first seemed like a pain, but in the end, turned out to be simpler than I thought. I needed to send a confirmation email to the submitter of a webform, letting them know that their email had been received, along with some plain text instructions. A while back, I wrote about how to add a contact form to Drupal, and today I want to share with you how to send a confirmation email to the submitter. This is the screenshot for webform I have on my site. As…

I have been working with Drupal since its 6th release, and one of the reasons I love it is due to Views. In all the websites I've built using Drupal, Views make up 80% of the site structure. I am familiar with what each View does and where to find it. However, I have always been puzzled by the presence of direct edit links for both Views and blocks in the theme region. At first, I thought it was related to the version of Views, but later on, I realized that this was not the case. Despite my…

Before proceeding with the upgrade, it's important to make a backup of your Drupal 6 site. This includes both the database and the files. This will ensure that you have a restore point in case anything goes wrong during the upgrade process. Once you have made a backup, it's time to put your Drupal 6 site into maintenance mode. This will ensure that no users can access the site while you are upgrading. To do this, go to the site maintenance page (admin/settings/site-maintenance), select "Off-…

Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management system that enables you to create visually appealing and engaging websites. One way to enhance the visual impact of your Drupal site is to add image hover effects to your thumbnails. In this article, we'll explore how to use Drupal to create image hover effects for thumbnails. Step 1: Install and Configure the Image Hover Effects Module To create image hover effects for your Drupal thumbnails, you'll need to install and configure the…

<p>Working on project, I needed to display how many nodes are in particular taxonomy.</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/taxonomy-count.png&quot; alt="" width="727" height="212"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To achieve such behavior - I created a term based view, turned on aggregation, under Relationships added Taxonomy term Content using, added taxonomy term name, nid and image fields,…

<p>By default, when adding new fields to content type, and then entering values in them, Drupal will display all of them on node:</p><p><img src="http://reinisfischer.com/sites/default/files/allfieldsdisplayed.png&quot; alt="" width="880" height="309"></p><p>But what if we don't want some or all of these fields to be displayed on our node?</p><p>Simple, we can change order, or hide them by using Manage…

By default Drupal offers 3 image styles enabled: thumbnail, medium, large: Image styles can be applied to images we are using in views, and not always 3 default options are enough.   In the image above, you can see, we have passed some default image styles in our Featured tours view. What are the options to make the images fit the box? Well, we could use Some CSS techniques, but we can use image styles options from Drupal, right? So I'm gonna create a new image style, called grid2: Go…