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The Voting API is really nice when used in conjunction with a module like Fivestar. It takes all of the complexity out of setting up a voting/rating system. On occasion, however, you need it to do some things that aren't built in. Using the VotingAPI's API, I'll show you how to trigger a function (send an email, write a message to the screen, etc.) when a piece of content receives a fifth vote of four stars or greater. That is, a node may have four votes of five stars, and two votes of two stars. As soon as the next greater-than-four vote goes in, we want to do something about it.

Many components in Drupal have an optional title or description field. This text usually displays when a user hovers over an item. We had an interesting request: a client wanted to have a box that displayed text which would change every time you roll over a menu item. This can be accomplished using just a small amount of jQuery, and Drupal's built-in menu handling. The menu system in Drupal can handle descriptions on each menu item, however you have to do this through the menu admin.

This example serves as both an example of how to alter a Views2 query, as well as how to use the get_terms_by_count() function I've written.

The following steps will get you a completely rebuilt Navigation menu.

After the break, you'll see one example of performing an action based on whether or not the current user belongs to a certain role or roles. Note that the admin user (UID #1) matches as well.

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 wouldn't want to have to reset image paths everywhere. The base_path() and path_to_theme() functions do all of the dirty work for you.

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 modify the variables that are available in your page.tpl.php file(s).

This function returns an array of taxonomy term objects. It is much like taxonomy_get_tree(), and it does in fact use this function. We had a client that wanted a grid of product categories with an image for each term, but only for terms that have at least X associated nodes. This problem was solved using the function below, as well as another custom function to alter the views query (I'll post about this later).

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 is theme_textarea().

This tutorial is for Ubercart versions earlier than version 2.3. There is a newer version of this example for Ubercart 2.3 or later.

In this post I'll show how to set up an extra token for use in an Ubercart template. This will require creating a custom module (because we don't really want to modify others' modules). We'll use a few different hooks to create the token, and then simply modify the template to include this token. This setup requires the token module (which is required by Ubercart), so make sure this is enabled!