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Drupal Tutorial: Form Overrides and Element-Specific Validations Image

Drupal Tutorial: Form Overrides and Element-Specific Validations

Chris | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 24 comments

Last week, I was working on some Drupal form customizations and validations for a client’s site (launching soon) and thought I’d share how you can easily alter Drupal forms. That is, if you know how and where to tap in.

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Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views Image

Drupal Tutorial: Adding a ‘Related Posts By This Author’ Block With Views

Chris | Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 29 comments

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can easily leverage the power of Views 2 to create a simple block that displays “Related Posts by this Author” information. To break it down, here’s exactly what we need to do: when a user has navigated to a specific node, we want to use that node author’s user ID as a key to load other posts by that author.

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CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free Image

CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free

Matt | Sunday, February 8th, 2009 17 comments

Although we thought this problem had been perfected years ago, we still manage to come across professional, high-trafficked websites using broken and outdated CSS image rollover techniques. This is absolutely unacceptable and unnecessary.

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jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly Image

jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly

Chris | Saturday, January 24th, 2009 5 comments

A couple of weeks ago, a client of ours needed a simple way to select some or all options in a multiple select form element that contained hundreds of options. Basically, they had various State/County combination’s that they needed to assign to different pieces of content.

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