Drupal

When you need a fashionable ‘carousel’-like module for your Drupal website I bet you will choose jCarousel module (http://drupal.org/project/jcarousel) to fulfill the need. But what if you want to change the default look provided by the module (in 99% of cases, everyone wants this) what will you do? “Tweak a theme css!” - young Drupal geek will say. “No! Make a custom skin for it!” - old Drupal expert will answer.

Time from time, while developing websites with Drupal I encounter the problem of debugging email messages my site sends.

The common solution is to send test messages to your own mailbox to see how messages look like, debugging them this way. But this is not the most comfortable solution, moreover, it can become a nightmare debugging email on a localhost, especially on Windows, when you have to install local mail server, route all the stuff to localhost mailboxes and hassle with Mercury or some other thing...well in overall, it is not the most pleasant thing to do.

The task is very common, but in Drupal 7 you do this in a bit different way than in Drupal 6. Here’s how to remove format options from comments textarea in Drupal 7:

UPD: Well, the most easiest way to do this is to install Better Formats module (http://drupal.org/project/better_formats). But do we need another module installed to do this simple thing? Me, not, so let's dig into the code a bit.

Basically, we need to alter comment form. You can do this in two ways:

If you build a View with an exposed filter you may want to put this filter in a block. This is can be done to separate filter from view results and to display exposed filter in any part of your website.

To do this, go and edit your view.