Heartbeat demo download section

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

This evening, I uploaded a downloads section at the heartbeat demo site. The modules the site is created with, are downloadable from the site.

Expose database fields to views in a custom drupal module

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Developers who wrote a custom node module in drupal will know that you always have to make a couple of choices at the start of a project. Will I write a custom node module or use CCK to generate a content module. Or when using views, you might ask yourself it is better to write your own view. Or could it be wiser to use it all and take the best of all things into your project. Once I have such questions, I hear a little voice in my head “Time to test and compare”.

Sortables in a custom node form

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Draggables and sortables are commonly used in the drupal core. Taxonomy, menu, cck, … . The items that are sortable always belong to ‘a parent’. If this parent is listed as sortable in another parent, then it is a cascading system with a maximum of levels. The typical tree listing together with draggable handle icons, will tell the users that they can drag. This belong to relation controls a parent with its children that all have a positional sortorder variable. In Drupal, these are called weights. I wondered if this could be quickly implemented in custom modules where you have this relation ship. Since this is everywhere in drupal, why not do the test now?

Ahah forms in drupal 6

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Writing ahah forms in drupal 6 is very easy.   I used it in a project where a custom slide node form had to be updated by ajax, depending on the selected slide_template. The slide_template object is built into the node object as composite. This way I can approach the form as $node->template->has_new_tag() , and this [...]

Introduction to Jquery @ Drupalcon Szeged2008

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Because i am considerably new to drupal, I learned a big deal at the DrupalCon in Szeged. I am also new to jquery because untill now I preferred prototype with scriptaculous to do the fancy javascript in Onegana’s content management system. A couple of sessions handled jquery, jquery in drupal and even advanced javascript techniques and patterns in javascript.

Javascript has always been a lot of fun when writing, although programmers have to make sure that different browsers give the user the same nice experience they want.