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I hack the hell out of Views Exposed Filters

Warning: Wear your peril sensitive code goggles before viewing this post. My code is probably inappropriate for young audiences, the elderly, people with heart conditions, or overly sensitive coders who know the right way to do it.

Drupal 6 + Panels + Site Contact Form? YES!

For those of you who are trying to figure out how to place a contact form into a panels layout in Drupal 6.4+, I have found that the old method of:

<?php print contact_site_page(); ?>

was only producing a white screen of death. What DID work for placing a site contact form in both Panels and Lightbox2 was to use the PHP filter, and use the following:

<?php
&nbsp;&nbsp;require_once drupal_get_path('module', 'contact') .'/contact.pages.inc';
&
nbsp;&nbsp;print drupal_get_form('contact_mail_page');
?>

Hope it helps!

It's Best if You Don't See This

I don't think much of Mollom on my Drupal site. It's not that I don't like it, actaully I freakin' LOVE it! It is just that I never, ever, have to think about it.

Setting up pdftotext and search_files on a shared host (Bluehost)

So this week I had to get search_files module for Drupal 6 running on a shared host, Bluehost, for one of my customers. I had promised that we would be able to search his PDF files, but I didn't realize that search_files, as well as search_attachments modules require a Linux command line utility named pdftotext to be installed.

I did request that Bluehost install it on my box and was told that anything requiring root access wasn't going to happen.

Fine, maybe I can run it myself, after all, I did get SVN running on Bluehost, how hard could it be?

Wiki-Up that Drupal site

This morning, before our morning walk, and other family affairs, I poked around making Drupal my personal wiki. Why, that's probably what your asking? Drupal is a CMS, or CMS framework, and there are alternatives to Drupal for sure when it comes to wikis. PHPWiki, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, even the hosted PBWiki all come to mind.

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