Drupal

There are many reasons why you might want to add extra validation rules to a Drupal form. This is a simple tutorial on how to add a validation function to an existing form that is generated from a module that you have not created yourself. It could be in a core or contributed module.

There maybe times when you want to remove a page title from a page, but leave it as the meta title. By default, Drupal will display the node title in the h1 tag. If you take a look at page.tpl.php, you will see it there.

Images paths are often incorrect when developing/testing a Drupal website on a local machine.

Lets assume that you have a bunch of nodes for a content type and you want to tag them all with the same taxonomy term. First, find the term ID of the relevant term. In example, the term ID is 103 and the content type is "contact".

This is an example if an insert ... select statement.

Using .htaccess is one of the best ways to redirect a URL to a new URL. Particular care needs to be taken with Drupal sites for it to work correctly.

The Drupal link function is a handy and easy way to create hyperlinks in your module or theme.

Find the number of results in a view. Add this snippet to the header or footer of the view, depending on where you want the number of results to be displayed.

Drupal ships with an incredibly powerful and flexible categorisation system, called Taxonomy. However, many developers and site builders get confused when trying to decide if something should be a taxonomy term or a field in its own right.

You can use node relativity to attach nodes to other nodes. In this case, I am using it to attach reviews to product nodes, where the reviews are nodes in their own right. I want to be able to view the reviews (children) within the product node (parent).

If you have a live site and a stage (or dev) site, you will probably want to add any new files (such as images) from the files directory on the live site to the staging site, or vice versa.