On rare occasions you may have to work on a production site and need some development feedback. If you want to control which role sees your output, this snippet can help. With this logic in place, only appropriate roles will see your working on the site. <?php // This is to get whatever is in… Read more Drupal Role Specific Development Feedback
When using a multi-site setup, You may want errors only to appear for one site. In that case, use $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] in an if statement to only display PHP error messages for the domain of your choice: <?php if ($_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]===’specific.domain-you-want.here’) { error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set(‘display_errors’, TRUE); ini_set(‘display_startup_errors’, TRUE); } ?>
Some have a difficult time understanding what is meant in PHP by stream wrappers, context options and parameters. Judging by a few conversations with other developers, its obvious there is a bit of confusion about what a stream wrapper is and why it would have a context. While the PHP documentation does adequately describe what… Read more How to Understand PHP Stream Wrapper Context and Options
I was looking for a way to clear cache on specific sites as I have a a Drupal Multi-Site setup that has more than one database. Sometimes I only want to clear cache on one database at a time. Since it took longer than 5 minutes : ) to find advice on this subject, I… Read more Drush Specific Database Comands with Drush Aliases
When maintaining a team of developers and keeping track of all the code changes it is important to be able to select pieces of functionality that you can include and exclude at will. This will allow one to manage the progress of a project better. At times you may need to go back in the… Read more Git, How to Cherry Pick
Trying to clear your Drupal site chache with drusch cc or drush cc all? Drush should out put a list in response that looks like this: promt$> drush cc Enter a number to choose which cache to clear. [0] : Cancel [1] : all [2] : drush [3] : theme-registry [4] : menu [5] :… Read more drush cc Not Showing All Options (only showing 2 options cancel and drush)
Sometimes when migrating or setting up a local development site you may run into an error that looks like this: Warning: file_put_contents(temporary://file8UThke): failed to open stream: “DrupalTemporaryStreamWrapper::stream_open” call failed in file_unmanaged_save_data() (line 1898 of /Users/YouUserName/path/to/docroot/includes/file.inc). Likely the Drupal temp directory isn’t writable. An easy fix for this is to navigate to /admin/config/media/file-system and enter the… Read more Drupal: How to solve Warning: file_put_contents The file could not be created
I found this article by Artem Russakovskii very useful in working out the bugs for this module. More to come on this article. In the mean time check out Artem’s SmartDOMDocument – A Smarter PHP DOMDocument Class
The whole idea in making a module is to make it, well ‘modular’, right? The person who is going to install the module should not have to create and configure a view. Chances are they would not get it just right anyway (you know, with all the exact settings the module depends upon). This is… Read more Drupal 7: How To Create a Views View from Within a Module (default view)
This is intended as a simple reminder for all of those out there who find making a drupal theme a bit confusing at times. There are three main steps that all work together. 1) hook_theme which adds an array of callbacks and their arguments to the theme registry. You need to put this in your… Read more Drupal 7: How to Make a Drupal Theme Function in a Module