Comments for paul bennett

Comment on Drupal: Creating custom node templates by Eden

Eden — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:04:29 +0000

Hi there,

can you help me please, i am new for drupal and i want to design my own custom module. Now i have problem creating my node-modulename.tpl.php file. I know it is for appearance of my new page look but to code it, I don’t know where to start.

thanks for your help.

Comment on a really short tumblr review by Paul

Paul — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:15:16 +0000

@zzeed well it didn’t when I checked, but it may have now – quite a few changes since then I imagine

Paul

Comment on a really short tumblr review by zzeed

zzeed — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:30:59 +0000

so it doesn’t really have comments feature? hm… that’s a big shortcoming in blogging world.

Comment on Drupal: Creating custom node templates by Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:00:40 +0000

Hi Bobby,

Yeah, it’s a bit of a pick-and-choose situation…

Presumably the [0] is added because Drupal is automatically allowing for many child items for the CCK fields.

EG:
$node->field_regeventday[0]['view'];
$node->field_regeventday[1]['view'];

Whether this ever happens in practice, I’m not sure.

Paul

Comment on Drupal: Creating custom node templates by Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:57:09 +0000

Hi Brandon,

There probably is but I haven’t found it (yet).
If / when I do I’ll be sure to post.

Paul

Comment on Drupal: Creating custom node templates by Bobby Amlani

Bobby Amlani — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:17:37 +0000

I've tried looking through the entire $node->content object to try and reference a field using $node->content['field_regeventday']['#value'] $node->content['field_regeventday']['#view'] $node->content['field_regeventday'][0]['value'] $node->content['field_regeventday'][0]['view'] all don't really work. I'm not entirely sure why they don't work. Maybe i've got the path of the field reference wrong but the only one I managed to get working is $node->field_regeventday[0]['view']; the first part is referenced by object then continues on with array. Why are all the CCKs wrapped in a [0] tho?

Comment on 18 months on – stats for this site by Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:19:27 +0000

Okay, I’m officially a fan now. This is impressive.

Comment on Drupal: Creating custom node templates by Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:10:47 +0000

This is a great post. I’m new to Drupal and have used this method to customize the output of one of my custom content types. Combined with CCK this is very helpful.

However, I’ve been wondering, is this the “correct” way to achieve this. Once I do this, I am tied to the theme I modified, correct? If I change themes, I need to copy my node-custom.tpl.php file to the new theme.

It seems like there should be a way to tie a node template to a specific content type, rather than a specific content type in a specific template. Any thoughts?

Comment on 5 MySQL tricks you may not know by Paul

Paul — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:53:45 +0000

Thanks Giacomo,

There are still a lot of things I need to become familiar with – there are definitely a lot more great MySQL tricks then the few I’ve covered

Paul

Comment on 5 MySQL tricks you may not know by Giacomo Vacca

Giacomo Vacca — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:09:44 +0000

Useful post! I didn’t know 3 of the 5 tips.
It could be maybe interesting the usage of LAST_INSERT_ID.
If you’re in doubt of what’s the result of a query or stored procedure, you can retrieve the latest ID inserted by it with SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();

An example using perl here: http://varloggiacomolog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mysql-last-insert-id.html

Regards,
Giacomo