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(Other) Harry Potter characters fixture - berkes

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:17:04 UTC

Just a funny, yet usefull fixture for testing users in a rails app. Using "somewhat real" fixtures, will keep testing both fun and realistic. Knowing that "Crabbe_ugly_nick" failed, is a lot easier to communicate then knowing "user_t_x01 failed"

(PHP) If a 'bin' exists in the user home, then add that to the PATH. - berkes

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:36 UTC

Put this line in your .bashrc. If the user has a directory named 'bin' then that will be added to the PATH. All scripts in that path (wich are executable) will be available as commands to that user.

(PHP) Routine to update and set variables in Drupal using hook_update - berkes

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:00:47 UTC

Drupal allows hook_update_N to run any sort of code. Most of the time, however, people only use this to alter the database scheme. But you can use it for much more. Like setting variables, creating nodes, importing views and so on. This code shows how to set a series of variables in Drupal. When you deploy this code, running update.php will set all the variables as in the listing. I typically catch this in a module called 'projectname_meta'. So this function would go in projectname_meta.install, and will be called from projectname_meta_install and projectname_meta_update_5002, for example.

(PHP) Howto run your own functions on any forms submission. - berkes

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:19:37 UTC

By using hook_form_alter, you can add your own callback functions to any Drupal form. These functions will be called when Drupal validates the form and when Drupal submits it. In example below, a module called 'simple_checkout' adds its own handlers to a form called 'ideal_payment_api_issuer_form'. That latter is generated by another module, but we can fill our own tables and run our own validation *in addition to those by the originating module*.

(Bash) Commandline oneliner to get your public IP adress - berkes

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:58:52 UTC

Use wget and sed to get your public IP adress (instead of firing up firefox and visting whatismyip.com). Usefull in scripts where you need your public IP adres. There are probably better ways, maybe even a GNUtool that I missed?

(PHP) make a tarball of only the changed directories in a git repos, since last tag. - berkes

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:26:20 UTC

make a tarball of only the changed directories in a git repos, since last tag. replace {tagname_last} with any name you siwh to give the tarball replace {tagname_previous} with a git reference (like a tag) from which you want to zip the changes.

(PHP) Remove Drupal's search block "search this site" label. - berkes

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:41:26 UTC

Wizzlern, a Dutch Drupal trainer, has a Dutch article online on how to remove the "search this site" label in the Drupal search-block.

(Bash) print a list of bookmarks on delicous in a certain tag. - berkes

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:59:52 UTC

Simple wget - grep - sed pipe to print a list of bookmarks on delicous in a certain tag. Replace {USERNAME} with your username. Replace {TAG} with the tag you want a list of urls for.

(Bash) Oneliner to add a public key to a remote servers authorized-keys - berkes

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:13:59 UTC

Instead of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, you can choose any location on your local machine where your *public* key lives. You may need to adjust the file permissions on remote authorized_keys aftwterwards, depending on the configuration of the remote ssh server.

(Bash) Simple rsync backupscript. - berkes

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:05:54 UTC

This script pulls in files with [rsync](http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/), storing them locally with hardlinks for unchanged, and real files for changed -files. * KEY=$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_passwdless -- an id_rtsa key without a password. --adding this to remote authorized keys must be done with care: you will prbably want to whitelist one IP-adress. * RHOST=ssh.example.com -- the host where to connect to using ssh, or rsync. * RUSER=example-username -- the username on the host. Must have _read_ access in the SOURCE dit (see below). * LPATH=$HOME/Archive/example-com/ -- where to place the backups * RPATH=/var/www/example-com/ -- the to-be-backuped dir. You probably want to add this as script (`backup_example-com.sh`) in `~/bin`, or any other directory available in `$PATH`. And then add it to crontab. See a howto here: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html

(Apache) Drupal on PCextreme - berkes

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:00:51 UTC

http://pcextreme.nl is one of the Best hosters for Drupal in Netherlands. But they require one change to the .htaccess in order to run.

(PHP) Target=_blank in Drupal link - berkes

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:17:14 UTC

(SQL) move Drupal tags from one vocabulary into another - berkes

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:41:13 UTC

I had several vocabularies but wanted to merge them into one. A simple query does this for you. The vocabulary_id where I wanted to merge all the tags into is 3 The vocabulary_id where the tags are to be merged from is 7, 8 and 12

(Other) vim search and replace - berkes

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:49:49 UTC

(Bash) Run Archivemail on all your IMAP folders. - berkes

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:49:15 UTC

Change 'username' (twice!) with your imap username,'password'with your imap password, and 'example.com' (twice!) with the url of your imap mailserver. Works on: Ubuntu with Evolution, sqlite3 and archivemail installed. Evolution is required because evolution stores the available folders in IMAP. sqlite3 is requird to extract those available folders and recurse trough them. This command looks up all the available folders in your imap box, recurses trough them and runs archivemail to archive all the online mail. NOTE: remove the -n (dy-run) flag to actually archive the items. NOTE: remove the -v (verbose) flag to be less verbose. TODO: option to purge empty directories. TODO: store username, password and mailserverURL in a $VAR.

(PHP) Track block/views/cck etc changes in RCS and migrate with Drupal updates. - berkes

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:08:00 UTC

Takes a .sql file and runs trough that, each line as an update_sql. Very usefull to track and migrate your blocks/views/cck etc changes.

(Bash) Store Drupal blockconfiguration in SVN. - berkes

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:59:17 UTC

A common Drupal problem: how to save e.g. your blocks configuration without dragging an X Gig database around. A simple command that dumps a table in a way that it can be inserted into SVN. Every row is dumped as a single line, and they are sorted. Minimising the differences. This example dumps the data for blocks.

(CSS) Goodlooking Required textfield - berkes

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:53:16 UTC

Grab http://blog.kissmetrics.com/common/images/required.png as example for a required image . NOTE: You probably don't want to use this trcik, but rather go for the defacto standard of a red asterisk to mark something required. An asterisk is language-independant and recognisable.

(Bash) Return list of modules for each Drupal multisite - berkes

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:24:23 UTC

A bash script that calls Drush for all your multisite sites and returns a list of available and installed modules for each site.

(PHP) Drupal function to return contents of a databasetable (for Debugging) - berkes

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:02:21 UTC

Drupal helper function to debug a table. Returns the contents and some explanation of a database table in a rendered format (HTML table). **NOTE** You REALLY do not want to put this function behind any kind of menu_callback and/or on other pages. Use it for debugging only: Because we return any contents, regardless of permissions and so forth, you potentially open up your site to data mining and or session hijacking!

(PHP) Allow per-region template overrides. - berkes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:18:37 UTC

A per-region override. ogt_blocks is ran for a region, if a region contains blocks, we search for a theme function named theme_region_regionname(). If exists, we run that, else we just return the concatenated blocks for that region.

(PHP) Easy debug variable to find what vars are available in a tpl.php file - berkes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:30 UTC

An easy debug trick: gives you a variable that you can print in any tpl.php to find out what vars you have available there.

(Bash) Remove all tables with a certain pattern from the database - berkes

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:18:22 UTC

This script removes (DROPS) all tables that start with foo_. Usefull if you had some CMS or application that (ab)uses table prefixing, and want to clean 0ut your database. NOTE: the data is remove FOREVER! So take good casre: make backups and all the likes. Try on a test-database first!

(PHP) Override specific links in theme_links based on their class. - berkes

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:44:47 UTC

Place the first function, phptemplate_links() in your template.php file. Alternatively (and IMO better) is to name the function your_theme_name_links() where your_theme_name is the name of your theme. From here on, you can add theme functions like your_theme_name_links_comment_add(), whom will render the specific links with the comment_add class.

(PHP) Assure hooks in a Drupal module are ran before the others. - berkes

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:14:27 UTC

Sets a module's weight to the lowest number. This assures that your module is ran before all other modules. Userfull if you want your implementation of a hook to be ran first. Add this to your .install file. Replace your_modulename with the name of your module.

(PHP) Print errors to screen on default php5 in Drupal - berkes

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:52:03 UTC

Add these lines to Drupals settings.php. Probably works on other systems, then Drupal too.

(Bash) Automatically remove all nonexsiting files in the current dir from svn - berkes

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:53:42 UTC

(Bash) Automatically add all new files in the current dir. - berkes

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:52:34 UTC

(PHP) Drupal - Unset (not include) all core stylesheets - Theme variable overrides. - berkes

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:27:05 UTC

Removes the core, and node styles from the $style variable. You most morbably already defined _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars), in that case just add the two lines there. _sympal_theme.. is the name of the theme where we use this.

(PHP) Drupal - Shorten a string - general API - berkes

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:05:02 UTC

Shortens a string, and adds a span with a title of the full string. Function is useful for listings where you don't want wraping; or for places where a long string liek a username can break the layout.

(PHP) Drupal - Theme table with columstriping - berkes

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:49:19 UTC

This snipped adds columnstriping to cells. It works fine for most cases, but will behave strange when combined with colspan. Cells get an additional class 'even-col' or 'odd-col'

(PHP) Put classes around your body - berkes

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:48:46 UTC

Put classes around your bodyy, to allow different colors for seperate pages and areas on your site. IT will simply add a css-safe version of the first argument in an url. Say the url is /about_us/our_company the class will be body.about-us Requires phptemplate

(PHP) Drupal formalter for a separate teaser field - berkes

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:12:08 UTC

A form alter to gove Drupal a separate teaser field.

(PHP) Form alter to force exposed views filters to fllow filter options - berkes

Sat, 19 May 2007 07:18:22 UTC

callback in a form alter to enforce an exposed filter to use only the options set in filter. Works for selectlists only.

(PHP) Per node type flag. - berkes

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:08:34 UTC

A form alter implementation to create variables to flag certain features per node type. E.g. Show foo on blogs only: example_blog == 1;

(PHP) link images to their own node. - berkes

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:30:43 UTC

This snippet is for use with image module, a small contributed module for image handling. (Yes: in Drupal you need a /contributed/ module for this o_O. The template snippet links the images to their own node.

(SQL) Remove all tables from a database - berkes

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:50:57 UTC

(SQL) Count amout of nodeviews in a year - berkes

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:23:08 UTC

Counts the total amout of nodeviews between now and a year ago (the last 31536000 seconds).

(PHP) image_attach theme image in the node - berkes

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:03:03 UTC

This snippet is for use with image_attach, a small contributed module that uses image module to create nice thumbs in any node type. The template snippet makes the images show up larger in the body node, and instead of linking to itself, it links to the attached image node.

(Bash) Move all mails with a certain subject into a backup dir. - berkes

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:05:42 UTC

Move all mails with a certain subject (in this case starting with the word "Undelivered" into a backup dir. It is by no means a mail filter, I needed it to clean out the maildirectory after a HDD crash wich caused over 1000000 (one million) local bouces and thus Undelivered mails and stuff.

(SQL) list of users that never logged in - berkes

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:22:36 UTC

Grab all users that never logged in.

(PHP) Get admin menuID - berkes

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:35:09 UTC

menu_get_item does not return a menu ID.