What happens if you need to open a file with fopen, but find that your function can exit at multiple points? It is tedious and error-prone to call fclose at each exit point. Alternatively, you could re-structure your code to only exit at the bottom, thereby calling fclose only once, but you would end up with many nested blocks that hamper readibility and are generally considered bad programming style.Read more

I recently came across an interesting bug that I thought to share with you PHP/Drupal heads.Read more

First we will define webinject and nagios.Read more

In order to theme the 1pixelout player in drupal, you need to paste the following code in the template.php file of the theme.

<?php
function phptemplate_audio_1pixelout_node_player($node, $options = array()) {
  $defaultoptions['leftbg'] = '0x000000';
  $defaultoptions['rightbg'] = '0x000000';
  $defaultoptions['lefticon'] = '0xFFFFFF';
  $defaultoptions['righticon'] = '0xFFFFFF';
  $options = array_merge($defaultoptions, $options);
  return theme_audio_1pixelout_node_player($node, $options);
}
?>

We were having a problem with a redirection issue in one of our projects. We had a page that had the url(i.e. path alias in Drupal) as /index. Whenever that page was called, Apache would append to it .php extension and the request gets routed to index.php which is NOT the desired effect.

This was due to the option "MultiViews" being enabled on our new Debian installation. For more info, read this.

I added this line to our .htaccess.Read more

To associate default user in case tracker project:

1-Add a CCK user reference field "Default assignee" in the project content type.

2-Create ajax function on .js file :

function get_default_assignee(path, field_id) {
   var field = $('#'+ field_id).val();
   $.ajax({
    async:true,
    type:"GET",
    url:path + "get/default/assignee/" + field,
    success:function(data) {
     $("input[@id=edit-assign-to]").attr('value',data);
    }
  });
 }

3-In your .module file create menu item :

$items[] = array(Read more

This article applies to Ubuntu with Apache 2, MySQL 5 and PHP 5 installed from the package manager.

When you start using Drupal on Ubuntu, one of the first things to do is to enable clean urls. That page will first ask you to run the clean URL test, which will show you if the underlying Apache infrastructure is ready for this or not. It it's ready, clicking the test link should bring you back to the same page, but with the radiobuttons enabled. Otherwise, you will get a "page not found" error.Read more

Drupal uses jQuery for all its JavaScript work. This library defines the variable "$" as a shorthand for jQuery, to allow writing concise code. However, other JavaScript libraries such as script.aculo.us and prototype also use the same variable name, making it a problem to use them in Drupal!Read more

The answer to working uploads with SSL is to make $base_url use the https protocol instead of http. Simple huh! Found here.

To let Mantis 1.0.x accept Arabic input, we did the following:

• First convert the existing database to UTF-8. You need to make sure that my.cnf contains the following:

[mysqld]
max_allowed_packets=16M
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
 
[mysql.server]
default-character-set=utf8

• Export the current database:

$ mysqldump -u root -p --opt --allow-keywords --hex-blob --max_allowed_packet=16M --quote-names mantis > mantis.sql

• Convert the contents to UTF-8:

$ iconv -f latin1 -t UTF-8 mantis.sql > mantis-utf8.sqlRead more