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On "subscribing" to module porting/updating issues

6th Jun
2008

Come on people, STOP IT! You know who you are. "Subscribing" to an issue on a drupal.org project (can we guess which ones, people?) simply fills the thread full of useless comments, cluttering up any valid discussion enough to make any maintainer cry.

So, again, please stop. Bookmark the issue. Use RSS. Visit the Contributed Module Status group on groups.drupal.org, and help maintain the current branches status list - get some links to the relevant issues in there for us all to "subscribe" to!

And of course, if you really want the issue to enter into your "My Issues" queue, then contribute something more worthwhile than "subscribing" or "..."

/rant

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drupal

Embedding Views in PHP snippets with Views 2

21st May
2008

Just a quickie - embedding views in PHP snippets etc. Sometimes blocks or panels don't quite cut the mustard and we need to directly insert a view via some PHP.

I started off here - the method I've used before to achieve this. There's another howto on Innovating Tomorrow. However, views_build_view, and indeed theme_view, are both no longer part of Views...

After a bit of searching I found mention of a new function; its also mentioned in the Views 2 documentation (work in progress).

So, the resulting PHP is wonderfully simple:

print views_embed_view($view_name, $display_id = 'default');

I was tearing my beard out, so I hope this helps someone.

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code
drupal

6 is the Magic Number

13th May
2008

At last! There were a couple of sacrifices, but I've gone all 6.2! This is the first Leafish site to go live with Drupal 6 (although we do have a big Drupal 6 project in the works) so I've made some notes on the process, and a couple of hurdles I not so much overcame as simply ignored for the time being. Props to all those that have helped get the working modules below up to date.

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