Clean up your curl – fixing relative links in scraped content
A few years ago I Added jQuery browser check for ODT and Skillport eLearning. This week I updated that functionality and noticed a relative link in some remote content I was scraping via cURL. The...
View Articlegit branch – auto setup rebase = always
I was revisiting Randy Fay’s Rebase Workflow post and went down the ‘rebase’ rabbit hole again. Each time I learn a little more. Probably because I understand a little more… This time I landed here:...
View ArticleWorking on a file in two git branches at one time
I have a file in two different branches of a project that is so drastically different (hundreds upon hundreds of changes) that merging was becoming unreasonable. I’ll call that file CONVOLUTED.module....
View ArticleReponsive design and the iPad viewport
I had been noticing that the iPad’s viewport in webkit browsers was odd but I couldn’t put my finger on it. So I opened Safari on the iPad and ran some JS in firebug lite; the result: 768×504 in...
View ArticleDrupal 6 – Contact Override custom module
Just created a quick and dirty custom module: Contact Override. I posted it on bitbucket: bitbucket.org/_vid/contact_override Nothing too exciting, just an override to the D6 contact form. It appends...
View ArticleDrush enable all inactive modules
I’ve been using make files a lot lately and when ever I’m ready to release an updated file I like to verify that all the project versions are up to date. To leverage Drupal’s update functionality each...
View ArticleConcatenate fields in a Fillable form
Recently someone referenced an old blog post: use data from one field to populate other fields in an acrobat fill-in forms and asked me how to concatenate multiple field values into one. So I put...
View ArticleUpdating select lists in bulk – w/ jquery, drupal
So I wrote this script 1 year and 1/2 ago about bulk label operations (Drupal 7 CCK – Creating ‘Label Bulk Operations’). Well the updateLabels() function from that code came in handy today. I needed to...
View ArticlePHP redirects if the headers have already been sent.
I ran in to a situation with some inherited code today. The developer wanted to redirect users to a course listing page if they landed on a date/time listing that couldn’t be found. See this code...
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