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import
cron
batch api
drush
apache solr
indexing
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Dominique De Cooman
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Thu, 2010-08-05 14:40

Doing BIG imports and apache solr indexing using drush, batch api and cron

By big imports I mean creating millions of nodes and indexing them fo apache solr search. We needed to import 1 million records from file, 3 nodes for each record, one in each of our 3 languages. These nodes also had 3 taxonomy vocabularies, around 30 cck fields and we also needed to join another table containing a spatial coordinates for our geo field.

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multilingual
translations
variables
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Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Mon, 2010-07-26 11:32

The complete drupal multilingual variables list

This post presents the drupal multilingual variables list so far:

Only core and core module module multilingual variables are included.

<?php
$conf['i18n_variables'] = array(   
  'site_name',
  'site_footer',
  'site_slogan',
  'site_mission',
  'anonymous',
  'theme_settings',
  'theme_garland_settings',
  'site_frontpage',
  'menu_primary_links_source',?>

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locale
translations
international
i18n
language
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-07-22 16:52

Drupal how to update language translations?

How to update translations with drupal? The core only imports translations when you enable the language. It does not support updating languages.

We all know how to import language translations in the first place. We go to http://drupal.org/project/Translations and pick our translation and we copy the files onto our drupal core.

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taxonomy
autocomplete
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Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Fri, 2010-07-09 15:25

Drupal module release : taxonomy autocomplete settings, configure your taxonomy autocomplete widget

It is now possible to configure your taxonomy autocomplete widgets to match anything in search strings or to match them from the beginning. http://dominiquedecooman.com/contribtion/taxonomy-autocomplete-settings.
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rules
event
tokens
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Tue, 2010-06-29 22:21

Drupal custom Rules how to write your own events conditions, actions and custom object (+custom tokens)

The rules module is a very powerful module that allows you to make things react in your site when certain events happen (like a comment has been made) under certain conditions (for example when the user has role x).

A lot of events, conditions and actions are allready out of the box or provided by some contrib modules who have rules integration.

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forms
webform
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Sat, 2010-06-26 15:37

Drupal webform trick submitting hidden values

How to submit some hidden values along with a drupal webform? Our example. We have job node (nid 1) and we want to go to a webform to apply for the job. So we build a link on our node pointing to the webform node (nid 2).
In the node template type quickly a url: node , nid webform, nid job node

<?php
print l('Apply for this job', 'node/2/1');
?>

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cck
fields
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Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Wed, 2010-06-23 22:21

Drupal how to render seperate fieldgroups from a content type (and a display suite trick)

A cck fieldgroup can be rendered alone. We had some quicktabs we wanted to fill with our field groups. So we've builded a block for each field group to put in the quicktabs. Here is an example of one block where we called a single fieldgroup and rendered it.

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theming
cck
fields
formatters
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Mon, 2010-06-21 11:27

Drupal how to add another formatter to a cck field using hook_field_formatter_info

How to add another formatter to a cck field? A cck formatter is basically a theming function where the value of field is ran through. Formatters are available at "admin/content/node-type/[your node type]/display" in the cck interface.

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node
cck
fields
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-06-17 22:17

Drupal how to load content fields using cck content api avoiding node load

How to load only the content fields of a node to avoid a full node load?

Sometimes in scripts you need information stored in cck fields but you dont want to do full node loads neither do you want to query the table directly because setting a field from single to multiple value would make the table location of that field change.

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form
cck
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-06-10 16:31

Drupal how to disable a form element in a cck form using form alter

The standard way of altering form elements and setting them disabled does not work with cck fields.

<?php
function my_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  $form['my_element']['#disabled'] = true; 
}
?>

The FAPI process handler of the CCK field won't transfer the #disabled attribute to its children elements.
You'll need this snippet to make it work.
<?php
/**?>

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