Valid for: Drupal 7, Views 3. I have two multiple text fields on a Drupal 7 content type. I want to display those fields paired by delta in a view. Here the code I used in my module named mymodule.module. Thanks to hook_views_pre_render(). I use this piece of code to pair Youtube URLs and plain text description for a JSON output generated via Views Datasource. Remember to disallow multiple values when adding these fields to […]
I had a bad morning trying to repair my Cygwin installation from a virtualenv mess. It’s time to get a Debian and install it on a Virtualbox for my new django project! Windows: host Debian: guest Choosing the distro: what I want Python 2.6 Django 1.4 Apache + Mysql I’m a Debian fan from years so I go to the Debian website and download Wheezy netinst iso (32 bit, since I’m on a 32 bit OS […]
I got a Raspberry Pi Model B. It’s cheap and I want to do some experiments for fun. Experiment #1: I have a 1T external HDD (FAT) and I want to turn Raspberry into a very basic NAS. I used: 1 External USB HDD (with external power supply) 1 ethernet cable CAT. 5 (10/100) or better 1 HDMI cable and monitor / tv 1 smartphone microusb battery charger 1 SDHC (for the OS) Raspbian “wheezy” […]
How to use different date format per language in drupal, using i18n module.
PDF editing could be tricking. PDF Import, an extension for Open Office, promises to modify simple PDF documents with this popular and free (as in freedom) office suite.
How to translate your Drupal module into different languages using Translation template extractor 6.x-3.0 on Drupal 6.x, getting your module translated on every install.
Following code is useful when installing a module that create a new content type programmatically on Drupal 6.x. Basically, it adds two variables setting default values for comments (core Comment module) and attachments (core Upload module). Code to write on my_funny_module/my_funny_module.install. function my_funny_module_install() { // Disable attachments // Read http://api.drupal.org/api/function/upload_nodeapi/6 on "load" variable_set("upload_my_content_type", 0); // Disable comments for this content type // Read http://api.drupal.org/api/function/comment_form_alter/6 variable_set('comment_my_content_type', COMMENT_NODE_DISABLED); // Install schema as usual (if any) drupal_install_schema('my_funny_module'); } […]
This howto will show to a Drupal developer how to theme a CCK compound field as a table, using CONTENT_HANDLE_MODULE.
How to merge two or more torrent files using alternatively a virtual machine or the useful tool mergetorrent.
This howto requires: mplayer mkvtoolnix your Linux box 😉 Audio from Avi files (es. Xvid + MP3): mplayer -dumpaudio "mymovie.avi" -dumpfile mymovie_audio_track.mp3 Tracks from Matroska MKV file: List all tracks: mkvmerge -i mymovie.mkv File 'mymovie.mkv': container: Matroska Track ID 1: video (V_MS/VFW/FOURCC, XVID) Track ID 2: audio (A_VORBIS) Track ID 3: audio (A_VORBIS) Track ID 4: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) Track ID 5: subtitles (S_TEXT/UTF8) mkvextract tracks *.mkv 3:mymovie_audio_track.ogg 4:mymovie_subtitle.srt Creates two files, mymovie_audio_track.ogg (track 3) and […]
