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Our new Drupal 7 site: this one for fun.

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 16:59

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The New BBros.us site fresh for 2012, funner than ever.

 

• We committed to Drupal as our development platform at Drupal 4.7.

• We had built BBros.us in 4, 5, 6 and now 7.

• Here is my reflection on our new site. Caution adult content. ;) >>

Drupal Cumulus module for 3D Tagadelic clouds

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 21:17

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The easy to use Drupal Cumulus module allows you to display your site's tags using Flash that rotates them in 3D. It works like a Tagadelic cloud, but is more visually exciting. The Cumulus module is easy to use, after installing you create and configure Cumulus Blocks

Drupal 7 Form in a Block or Node w/ PHP

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 17:08

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A simple Drupal 7 Form in a Block example.

  • w/ basic form function
  • w/ validation and submission functions
  • errors return to the block area itself as well
  • note: Drupal 7 Form API ref
  • to remove error message from appearing w/in the element; remove the 2nd line w/ $temperrors and the following IF statement that uses it.

Alright Boys! Paste this PHP code into your block to get started:

Updated CrownedUp.com from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 15:40

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I upgraded CrownedUp.com from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. Many of the modules we like to use have ripened in D7 so its time to start thinking about upgrading sites. This CrownedUp.com blog is ultra simple so I thought a good place to test pre client. I did realize that I actually had about a dozen extra modules enabled to start. It was a little bumpy on upgrade but worked fairly painlessly.

• To start w/ use the Upgrade process @ Drupal.org
• Read my short notes >>

Format Drupal WYSIWYG editor to match theme CSS, including paragraph spacing.

Submitted by BeatnikDude on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 16:31

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I need the format of the WYSIWYG, w/ CKeditor pane, to match the display when viewing a node. Specifically I need this for clients so that they understand what they are actually formatting. You know What You See Is What You Get. Often you have a semi nice WYSIWYG editor but this does not perfectly match the display of the node.

First this means I want to hide all the extra formatting that can be added by Cut & Paste into the editor. A simple Cut & Paste will add all sorts of style elements. Second I need to remove the extra padding at the bottom of paragraphs, so that a single line break is a single line break.

following are my quick notes:

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