by Rahul Singla | Mar 14, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x, PHP 5.x
While working on the next release of my open-source Drupal module Reference Links, I needed to delete all votes for links attached to a node when the node itself was being deleted. Here, remember the votes were stored for the links attached to the nodes (and not the...
by Rahul Singla | Mar 7, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x, ExtJs, Javascript
I faced this the first time, when I was working on the File Browser add-on for the 2.x branch of my Take Control module for Drupal. Drupal’s core CSS is significantly incompatible with the ExtJs’ CSS, and considerably disorients the layout of widgets like...
by Rahul Singla | Feb 20, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x
I initially used FamFam Silk Icons for the File Browser, but had to later switch to GPL licensed icons due to incompatibility of Fam Fam Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license with Drupal’s requirement of GPL 2 license.So, I decided to create icon sets...
by Rahul Singla | Feb 20, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x, ExtJs, Javascript, PHP 5.x
The installation of my Take Control module for Drupal requires a bit more effort compared to a regular Drupal module.The following video tutorial demonstrates each step required for installation. I have used CPanel’s File Manager for the purpose but the process...
by Rahul Singla | Feb 16, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x, PHP 5.x
All Drupal module developers would probably be aware of Drupal Form API’s form_set_value() method, which allows you to “change submitted form values during the form processing cycle.”You can use this method in the form validate handler to process a...
by Rahul Singla | Feb 15, 2010 | Blog, Drupal, Drupal 6.x, PHP 5.x
While working on a major enhancement to my open-source Take Control module for Drupal (to be released soon), I needed to generate public/private keys for making secure asynchronous Ajax calls.A quick Google search revealed that PHP’s Open SSL package should do...
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