We received a website design from a client's graphic designer in an Illustrator format. We tried exporting the file to a Photoshop file and the .psd would never maintain layers. After struggling to slice out of the illustrator file, we finally stumbled across the solution in this comment: http://vectips.com/tips/export-illustrator-files-to-photoshop/comment-p…
To export from Illustrator to Photoshop:
Today we needed to override the menu links of one menu on our Drupal 7 site. We started with theme_menu_links(), but quickly decided that we didn't want to figure out what menu every menu link belonged to. After some searching we discovered this comment (https://api.drupal.org/comment/26939#comment-26939) which suggested using this naming structure:
THEMENAME_menu_link__MENU_NAME()
Today I needed to embed a YouTube video within the body of a responsive design. This is usually fairly easy with images, but iFrames need a bit of extra love to make them work. I Googled for a while and came across this link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12121929.
I didn't want to use an image, so I followed the comments and came up with the following code.
Today I learned a lesson the hard way: never stop networking when your only access to a server is via ssh.
Today I ran into an issue where running the command:
drush status
ended with this error:
Drush command terminated abnormally due to an unrecoverable error..
While using Amazon's AWS system, we needed to give access to one S3 bucket. Todo so, we ended up using Amazon's IAM. Once we created the user in the AWS system, we created the following policy to allow this new user to only be able to read/write to their bucket:
Recently I needed to have a dynamically changing background image for a Drupal 7 theme I was working on. Allowing the user to change this background image directly from theme's settings page.
Today I needed to redirect a node form submission to a separate URL. First, I tried the standard form api #redirect option in the form array like this:
Below is a list of Drupal functions that I can no longer live without, but for some reason I have trouble remembering them. So, here is a list of functions that I use regularly.
Check back as I'll continue updating this list.
I ran into an issue today where I needed to get a themed views title from within a views row style template file (tpl). I tried using drupal_get_title() and menu_get_item() but the title elements were all blank for these. Next I inspected the $views object looking for the themed title but it was not listed. Finally, I discovered within $views->build_info the title and substitutions variables.