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Drupal

• Drupal, How To

  Show a list of items related to the current node

  04.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This mini tutorial guides you through the steps required to create a view that:

  determines which taxonomy terms are associated with the current node such as a news item
  combines these terms into a default View Argument for Term ID

  The result is a list with nodes which match at least one of the terms. So if your [...]

• Drupal, How To

  Enable Keyword-Search Within a View

  04.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This mini tutorial guides you through the steps required to create a view that can be filtered or searched using keywords. When the View is run, the Views module joins the result of the View with the Drupal search index, yielding a filtered sub-set. You can choose to have the search box above the view [...]

• Drupal, Programming

  Full Menu Tree with Active Trail in Drupal 6

  04.27.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  One of the issues I wrestled with in building websites with Drupal was how difficult it seemed to access the entire menu tree in your page template. There are several modules available that people use to “solve” this issue, but at the cost of overcomplexity and one specific feature: knowing which menu item is active [...]

• Drupal, Programming

  Making MenuTrails Work with Views 2 in Drupal 6.x

  04.21.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Want to make your breadcrumbs work properly when using a Views page and Menu Trails? The following worked for me.
  First, the good part: in modules/menutrails/menutrails.module add the following function:

  /**
  * Implementation of hook_views_pre_view()
  *
  * This will be invoked on every view request before the view is
  * themed, even if the view is cached
  [...]

• Drupal, How To

  Blank Administration Pages in Drupal 6 after Timeout

  01.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently I’ve “converted” to a MacBook Pro for all my development and design work. I was working on a Drupal 6.7 installation and I tried to move it to a Windows server. The site seemed to work OK but all the Admin pages were unresponsive and finally returned a blank page. My logs said “HTTP [...]

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• Show a list of items related to the current node
• Enable Keyword-Search Within a View
• Full Menu Tree with Active Trail in Drupal 6
• Making MenuTrails Work with Views 2 in Drupal 6.x
• Blank Administration Pages in Drupal 6 after Timeout