Lightbox2 is a very popular and powerful Drupal module. One of the helpful features is that you can render a Drupal node in a lightbox rather easily in either PHP or HTML. View detailed explanation. The issue is that when you click…
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Maintaining Lightbox2 Templating
Tagged with: drupal, drupal 7, javascript, jQuery, lightbox, templates, theming
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Posted in Development
Lightbox2 Slideshows with Multiple-value Imagefields
This is a pretty simple example that illustrates the use of Lightbox2’s slideshow feature. In the example, we have an imagefield that allows an unlimited number of images. We only want to render an imagecache version of the first image…
Showing a nodeasblock block as full content instead of teaser
By default, the Node As Block module displays a node in teaser mode. If you wish to show the full content, add the following to your template.php file. (note I’ve also added an edit link for good measure)
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function mytheme_preprocess_nodeasblock(&$vars) { $node = $vars['node']; $vars['content'] = node_view(node_load($node->nid), FALSE, TRUE, TRUE); // Add an edit link if (node_access('update', $node)) { $vars['edit_link'] = l('['. t('edit') .']', 'node/'. $node->nid .'/edit', array('title' => t('Edit'))); } } |
Using the path_to_theme() function
When we build Drupal sites we typically have a lot of custom design elements. It is important to be able to display images from the filesystem in a dynamic fashion (non-absolute paths). Should you need to move the site, you…
Add Javascript to a Specific Page
There are several ways to add javascript code to a page in Drupal. The method outlined below involves a modification to your theme’s template.php file. You’ll be editing (and un-commenting if necessary) your theme’s preprocess_page function. This basically lets you…
Altering the basic properties of a Drupal textarea
The following example, when placed in your theme’s template.php file, will shrink the size of all of the “body” textareas on your site to 5 rows, and set the textarea as resizable. The function we’re using to alter the textareas…
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