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Drupal 7 Field API Simple Example - Digging Deeper 31 Mar 2011 | 04:39 am
This article is a follow up to "Drupal 7 Field API - A simple example". This article is intended for programmers. We build a proof-of-concept module who's sole purpose is to demonstrate features of th...
Stored Procedures and Drupal 7 1 Mar 2011 | 08:35 am
This article is for PHP programmers and those folks who are comfortable working directly with relational databases. Stored procedures are not a general purpose solution. However, as Drupal is adopted...
Modify and Delete Record Operations - Drupal 7 Multi-Step Form (FAPI) 22 Feb 2011 | 05:45 am
This post is part of a series. We discuss how to build a custom module using Drupal 7's API. In our previous posts "Drupal 7 Multi-Step Form (FAPI) with Table Report" and "Making Our Report Sortable...
Creating a Drupal Hello World Module 29 Jan 2011 | 03:14 am
We just posted our new online tool which generates a full custom Drupal module. This post talks about that tool and how modules fit in to the Drupal ecosystem. A little background first. Occasionally...
Making Our Report Sortable and Paged - Drupal 7 Multi-Step Form (FAPI) 9 Dec 2010 | 02:46 pm
In this post we are going to replace the stub code detailed in the my previous (Drupal 7 Multi-Step Form (FAPI) with Table Report). We are going to store our data in a new database table. We'll update...
Drupal 7 Multi-Step Form (FAPI) with Table Report 8 Dec 2010 | 10:56 am
In this post we are going to show how easy it is using Drupal 7's Form API (aka FAPI) to create a multi-step form with a simple html table report. We'll also demonstrate the development technique of ...
Dependent Lists and Ajax Form Submission 6 Dec 2010 | 01:55 pm
In this post we going to demo how simple it is to create dynamic forms with Drupal 7 Form API (aka FAPI). Our form will have 2 select lists (aka drop down combo boxes). Our first list lets a user sel...
Drupal 7 Adding Custom Content Type with Custom Fields (Field API) 2 Dec 2010 | 10:56 am
In this post we are going to use the custom field "news_date" described in the previous post "Drupal 7 Field API - A simple example". The module in this post automatically installs a content type wit...
Drupal 7 Field API - A simple example 20 Nov 2010 | 09:58 am
The following example uses Drupal 7 beta 3 release. A simple introduction and demonstration of the new Field API (CCK rolled in the Core Drupal API). When you install Drupal 7 beta 3, the system is ...
My Profile - Modiying the standard My Account/User Profile 2 Sep 2010 | 06:43 am
In this post we'll modify the standard "My Account" user/profile menu and edit forms. We'll code the routines that allow users to edit their own "my profile alias". In out previous post we discussed ...
