PHP

How to insert an image into primary links in Drupal

Drupal normally provides powerful and secure menu system to all of us. We are able to manipulate primary links and secondary links seamlessly and easily with little effort. However, sometimes we would like to insert an image instead of text. I found a good snippet but it does not work for me. This snippet is just for menu item but actually, I am talking about primary links or secondary links. Starting in Drupal 5, primary links and secondary links are not formatted by the theme engine, instead, a list of arrays are passed to the theme directly. By default, all menus are passed to check_plain() to prevent unexpected security holes so we cannot insert HTML tag here include . Fortunately, this is Drupal. We can customize theme to let us insert just only img tag.

How to list the latest 11-20 nodes in Drupal (2)

According to the question and my snippets, the same one asked me again to extend the previous codes to show the author's name besides the node title. In addition, it would be nice to display node title and its author in a table form. Fortunately, this is Drupal. It is very easy.

How to list the latest 11-20 nodes in Drupal

I found an interesting question regarding Drupal at Codenone. One would like to list the latest 11-20 nodes in a block. He tried to use Views module with no luck. I think so. Listing the latest nodes in a block using Views is very easy but I don't see any clue to get the next 10 nodes. Anyway, it is possible to write a snippet code to fulfill this requirement.

How to show author's full name in Drupal

I found a good question at Codenone regarding author's full name in Drupal. This is a good question because it clearly shows the power of Drupal. If you notice, all contents in Drupal will show their authors somewhere in the page. An author is identified by his/her username. And there is no full name stored in the database by default. Other CMSs usually store user's full name in its database so you might think Drupal is worse. In fact, you are allowed to add additional metadata using profile module which is included in the core modules. So showing author's full name in each node is very easy.

Extend Case Tracker Module is progressing

has begun for a while. One of the most interesting accepted projects in Drupal is Extend Case Tracker Module since I have currently used Case Tracker Module extensively. The student is approaching to the goal by configuring a demonstration site and also a blog to keep updating latest status for all of us and early adopters.

Building academic conference site using Drupal

I have just assigned to find a solution for building an academic conference site as quick as possible. I used to be authors and also reviewer assistant but I have never been an organizer. This is my first time in this area. Anyway, it seems there are many softwares available right now. Below are just a list I found in Google.

  1. BYU Paper Review System - This one is very old and maybe obsolete for so long. The most interesting thing I found is that it was written in C as external PHP module.
  2. MyReview - It has just released the latest feature-rich version last month.

I don't have much time to find more but it seems MyReview is one of the most popular player. Anyway, my favorite CMS is Drupal and most of our sites are Drupalized. It would be nice if we can build an academic conference site using Drupal. And I found Conference module for Drupal.