#drupal-7

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FooTable plugin makes it really easy to create responsive HTML tables that look great on small devices. Using a concept called "breakpoints", you can define which column should be displayed or hidden when the table is being viewed using a mobile or monitor.

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Open Concept:

We've been strategizing, evaluating & deploying the Government of Canada's (GoC) Drupal 7 Web eXperience Toolkit (WxT) since it was first released over a year ago.  We've implemented this for government agencies inside & outside the GoC because it is clear that so many agencies need to meet the dual challenge of a site which is both bilingual & accessible. 

The Drupal Variant of the Web eXperience Toolkit is an open platform for web publishing which has a critical mass of public sector agencies collaborating with it publicly in GitHub.   It is also exciting to see institutions like the University of Ottawa adopting it because of their need to ensure that their website is fully bilingual and meets WCAG 2.0 AA.

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Learn how the Drupal 7 SEO Checklist module can provide you a to do list on how to best optimize your Drupal 7 website for SEO.

In this episode you will learn:

How to download and install the SEO checklist module

Additional tips for increasing traffic to your Drupal website

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This is a very nice tutorial on how to write a hook for your Drupal site to specify which image Facebook should pull in when people share your page on Facebook. (Note: We provided a more universal instruction on how to manually insert this meta tag - and a few others - a few years ago).

Update:

We've had to modify his code somewhat to get it to work. Here's what we added to our template.php file (obviously change mytheme to your theme's name, and optionally change the URL to the image you want to pull if you don't want to pull the theme's logo):

function mytheme_preprocess_page(&$vars){ global $base_url; $img = $base_url.base_path().path_to_theme()."/logo.png"; if($vars['is_front'] != TRUE){ if(isset($vars['node']->field_image['und'][0]['uri'])){ $img = file_create_url($vars['node']->field_image['und'][0]['uri']); } } $element = array( '#tag' => 'link', '#attributes' => array( "rel" => "image_src", "href" => $img, ), ); drupal_add_html_head($element,'facebook_share_image'); }

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Массовый вывод нод для рендера с помощью функции node_view_multiple()

При необходимости вывести более одной ноды для последующего рендера используется функция node_view_multiple($nodes, $view_mode = 'teaser', $weight = 0, $langcode = NULL).

В качестве обязательного параметра используется массив нод - $nodes, полученный при помощи функции node_load_multiple(). Для $view_mode указывается режим просмотра ноды 'teaser' (предварительный), 'full' (полностью) и др.

$nids = array(0 => 35, 1 => 40, 2 => 56); $nodes = node_load_multiple($nids); $views = node_view_multiple($nodes, 'full');

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Массовая загрузка нод с помощью функции node_load_multiple()

При необходимости загрузить более одной ноды используется функция node_load_multiple($nids, $reset = FALSE). Ноды после своей загрузки сохраняются в памяти, и при повторном запросе страницы уже не требуется обращение к базе данных.

В качестве обязательного параметра используется массив идентификационных номеров нод - $nids. Если нужно очистить кэш загруженных нод - $reset = TRUE.

$nids = array(0 => 35, 1 => 40, 2 => 56); $nodes = node_load_multiple($nids);

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EntityFieldQuery вместо Views

В Друпал 7 для получения сущностей (нод, пользователей, комментариев и т.д.) программным способом используется класс EntityFieldQuery.

$query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query ->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node') ->entityCondition('bundle', 'photo') ->propertyCondition('uid', $account->uid) ->propertyCondition('status', 1) ->fieldCondition('field_city', 'value', 'Moscow', '=') ->fieldCondition('field_date', 'value', array('2010-01-01', '2011-02-31'), 'BETWEEN') ->fieldOrderBy('field_date', 'value', 'ASC') ->pager(30) ->execute(); if (!empty($query['node'])) { $entities = entity_load('node', array_keys($query['node'])); $views = node_view_multiple($entities, 'full'); $build['#nodes'] = $views['nodes']; $build['#theme'] = 'theming'; return $build; }

В entityCondition('entity_type', $value, $operator = NULL) указываем сущность ($value):

entityCondition(‘entity_type’, ‘node’) entityCondition(‘entity_type’, ‘taxonomy_term’) entityCondition(‘entity_type’, ‘user’) entityCondition(‘entity_type’, ‘comment’)

В entityCondition('bundle', $value, $operator = NULL) указываем тип сущности ($value). Для терминов таксономии и комментариев нельзя выбрать):

entityCondition(‘bundle’, ‘photo’) entityCondition(‘bundle’, ‘product’)

В propertyCondition($column, $value, $operator = NULL) указываем название столбца ($column) и его значение ($value). Для ноды названия столбцов можно просмотреть в таблице node. Например, название столбца uid (номер автора ноды) равно $account->uid, status равен 1 (нода опубликована):

propertyCondition('uid', $account->uid) propertyCondition('status', 1)

В fieldCondition($field, $column, $value, $operator = NULL, $delta_group = NULL, $language_group = NULL) указываем название поля ноды field_city ($field), 'value' - из таблицы field_data_field_city последнее слово в названии столбца field_data_field_city_value ($column), само значение ($value), '=', 'BETWEEN' - оператор сравнения ($operator):

fieldCondition('field_city', 'value', 'Moscow', '=') fieldCondition('field_date', 'value', array('2010-01-01', '2011-02-31'), 'BETWEEN')

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If you are going to be developing (or are thinking of developing) a site in Drupal in the future, do yourself a favor and check out the latest version (3.x) of the Omega starter theme. It's pretty incredible, with HTML5 and responsive design capabilities baked right in, "giving you full control over your layout, advanced region placement and controls, and contextual layouts provided by the Delta and Context modules." (See the intro video for a basic demonstration).

A huge round of applause to the developers!

Learn more about Omega, or give us a shout if you need some help (and it's a non-profit project).