Technical Blog

If you are trying to load a Webform into a template variable to be printed in a block in your Drupal website, the obvious choice would be to use the drupal_get_form(webform_client_form_XXX) function with the machine name of the Webform as the argument. However this will not work as the logic is only partially correct. There are a few more steps prior to doing this. Read onto find out.

Many users of the Drupal GMap module have discovered that GMap in their Drupal website has stopped displaying on Firefox and IE9 but at the same it is working fine with Chrome. The fix for this issue is extremely simple. Read on to find out more if you are experiencing this in your Drupal site.

A few users wanted a particular feature using Drupal Views in their Drupal sites. They wanted to have a Drupal Views block which should display the profile of the current user. The currently logged in user should be able to see their profile information but at the same time they should not be able to view the info of the other users. Read on to find out how to implement this feature in your Drupal site.

You might have encountered a situation in your Drupal site where the Drupal View you had created has been working correctly. However any recent content added to the site was coming up in the View but not when searching for it through your exposed filters. Read on to find out the fix for this issue.

It is quite easy to add ckEditor to your custom form in Drupal. The only thing you have to do is, add the following lines to your form: '#type' => 'text_format', '#format' => 'full_html', For example: $html = 'some html'; $form['front'] = array( '#type' => 'text_format',// to load the ckEditor options '#format' => 'full_html', '#title' => t('Front'), '#value' => $html, ); The above code will create a form element with its value inside ckEditor.

A Drupal+Ubercart site with a store where users can purchase your products and no links to indicate the number of products anywhere in your site seems too annoying. It would be nice if there is a way to update the cart count as soon as a product is added to the cart. Here is the code snippet to get the total number of contents in the cart: <?php print count(uc_cart_get_contents()); ?> You can theme the content accordingly to show the contents in style: <?php print count(uc_cart_get_contents()); ?> items

The Drupal Views module provides pagers that lets you browse the items in the View via AJAX. Most of the time using the pager to view the next page will leave you at the bottom of the page when you expect to go to the top. This usually turns out to be a nuisance. Views currently does not provide a way to fix that. But there is a workaround to let you scroll to the top of a View after using a pager to load the page in your Drupal site. Read on to find out more.

Drupal Views is an incredibly useful module for Drupal users. This means that it will be a frustrating experience if it breaks by any chance. You might encounter a situation where the Views admin interface suddenly stops working leaving you with a broken UI with a flat set of lists with no AJAX and no theme. If you are experiencing a broken Views in your Drupal site and want to know the fix, read on to find out.

Drupal Views allows you to output results in a variety of formats including a grid view. There might be a situation where you would want to insert an additional div tag inside the td tag of the grid view to bring in additional styling like having a custom background color and spacing between the grid elements. You can implement this in two ways in your Drupal site. Read on to find out more.

The Drupal Webform module allows you to track and download Webform submissions in your Drupal site. You might occasionally face issues while downloading submissions to your Webform like getting an empty file or getting none at all. If that is the case then read on to find the fix.

Drupal Webform 3.17 users might find that the webform module has suddenly stopped working after upgrading to Webform 3.18. New webform elements fail to start showing up in the overview page. There is a simple but not so elegant solution for this issue. If you are having the same problem in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Webforms are used to create HTML forms with ease, track submissions and send confirmation emails to users after submission in a Drupal website. Users are notified of successful confirmation via messages send out by the Drupal Webform module. If you webform is redirecting users towards a blank page then follow the instructions below to fix it.

Drupal Webform can be used to create forms and track the results of submissions in your Drupal installation. Drupal Webform can also be used to send confirmation emails to users when they have successfully completed submission. There could be instances where you might want to send an attachment along with confirmation email. Read on to find out how to add an attachment to the confirmation email of a submission in a Drupal Webform.

You might encounter this "Undefined index: base table.." error message in you Drupal site if you had recently upgraded to Drupal Views 7.x-3.x-dev. This is not exactly an error message but it is a notice which a number of users have encountered on their Drupal sites. Read on to find out the possible solutions to remove this message.

Having a list of distinct active taxonomy terms is useful for visitors to your Drupal website as they can browse using categories. However implementing it in Drupal Views will produce duplicate terms. There are a number of solutions to overcome this scenario and create a View of distinct active taxonomy terms. Read on to find out more.

Drupal Views are not usually used to display search results in a Drupal site. However If you really need to display search results in a View here is the solution. Read on to find out more.

You might encounter a situation where you might have to sort users by the number of nodes they posted using Drupal Views. Drupal Views does not provide a ready-made solution for sorting the users according to the number of posts. However there is a work around to achieve this effect. Read on to find out more.

You have created a View for a custom content type and wanted to bring out info related to the node author. However you failed to find the Node: Author Name in the list presented by the Views Fields while all the other relevant fields for this content type are available there. So what could be the wrong and where is the missing field in the View? The fix is pretty simple. Read on to find out more.