In Jessy’s video he very nicely covers topics like:

1. standard validation
2. setting custom messages
3. use a remote function
4. extend the validator
5. change the default settings

Great job, Jessy. Thanks so much!

• Bakery
  • http://drupal.org/project/bakery
  • http://drupal.org/node/1278426

To mkae life a little easier, here is a pipe separated list of the 50 states of the US. All you have to do is paste the list in the “Allowed values list” box.

I hope it helps!

 
AL|Alabama
AK|Alaska
AZ|Arizona
AR|Arkansas
CA|California
CO|Colorado
CT|Connecticut
DE|Delaware
DC|District of Columbia
FL|Florida
GA|Georgia
HI|Hawaii
ID|Idaho
IL|Illinois
IN|Indiana
IA|Iowa
KS|Kansas
KY|Kentucky
LA|Louisiana
ME|Maine
MD|Maryland
MA|Massachusetts
MI|Michigan
MN|Minnesota
MS|Mississippi
MO|Missouri
MT|Montana
NE|Nebraska
NV|Nevada
NH|New Hampshire
NJ|New Jersey
NM|New Mexico
NY|New York
NC|North Carolina
ND|North Dakota
OH|Ohio
OK|Oklahoma
OR|Oregon
PA|Pennsylvania
RI|Rhode Island
SC|South Carolina
SD|South Dakota
TN|Tennessee
TX|Texas
UT|Utah
VT|Vermont
VA|Virginia
WA|Washington
WV|West Virginia
WI|Wisconsin
WY|Wyoming

Although this is very doable, I found it very difficult to locate documentation spelling out just how to do it. I’m not sure if it was not documented in a way that was easy to find or if it was the fact that I had a 3-day headache pounding away. Either way, I did finally come across a few links.

techcommons.stanford.edu

Drupal API

To give myself and others one more place to stumble upon what to do I have documented how to create a Views default view from within a module below. A default Views view is a view that weather enabled or not shows up on the /admin/structure/views page once a module is installed and enabled.

For the purpose of these notes we will call our module, ‘mymodule’. Everywhere you see ‘mymodule’ you need to replace with the name of your actual module name. This article assumes that you are familiar with module development basics and that you have already created your basic module files ( mymodule/mymodule.module, mymodule/mymodule.install & mymodule/mymodule.info ).

OK, let’s create a default view in a module!

Create a new file named mymodule.views_default.inc and save it into a directory named mymodule/includes/.

Inside the file you just created, paste the following function…

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/**
 * Implementation of hook_views_default_views().
 */
function mymodule_views_default_views() {
 
  //PASTE EXPORTED VIEW CODE HERE
 
  $views[$view->name] = $view;
  return $views;
}

You can now create a View in the Views UI as you normally would.
Then export the view. Select the entire export text as presented in the textarea of the export result and past it in place of where you see “PASTE EXPORTED VIEW CODE HERE” inside the function you just made and save the file.

OK, next, inside the file your mymodule.module file, paste the following function (remember that everywhere you see ‘mymodule’ you need to replace with the name of your actual module name.).

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/**
* Implementation of hook_views_api().
*/
function mymodule_views_api() {
  return array(
    'api' => 3.0,
    'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule') .'/includes'
  );
}

Now you can clear your cache and see the default View you just created in the list of default views at ‘admin/structure/views’

Please feel free to register and comment.

1) hook_theme which adds an array of callbacks and their arguments to the theme registry. You need to put this in your sites/all/modules/mymodule/mymodule.module file to rebuild the theme registry before it would be added.

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function mymodule_theme($existing, $type, $theme, $path) {
  $theme = array(
    // This is in the mymodule.module file.
    // example theme template register
    // for sites/all/modules/mymodule/templates/mymodule_theme_name.tpl.php
    'mymodule_theme_function_name' => array(
        'variables' => array('node' => NULL, $param2 =>NULL),
        'type' => 'module',
       ),  
  return $theme;
}// function

2) The themable function itself which starts with theme_ followed by the function name that was added to the registry with hook_theme

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// The $vars paramiter is an array of passed 
// variables corresponding to the 'variables' 
// key in the the above hook_theme() function.
function theme_mymodule_theme_function_name( $vars ){
... code here ...
// Return a string that contains the rendered representation of the data.
 return $output; 
}//function

3) Then call the function,

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 theme('mymodule_theme_function_name', $whatever_argument );

which actually calls the function.

It is important to remember all three of these or the theme will not work.

In the VIEWS UI, open the “ADVANCED” section and look under the “OTHER” subsection. Find the item “Use AJAX” and set the value to yes. I know, I know, (pause, make face) – right? Well, the guy on the thread that helped me complained enough about it so I’ll just keep my mouth shut.

I hope that if you were having this problem you found my post faster than I found that thread. : )

As, always, feel free to comment and make suggestions.

The interface on this Calendar is quite different than what is shown in other slightly older videos.

The new video for Drupal 7 Calendar New Interface Set Up.

OK, so here is the “How To”:

1) open your terminal and enter the following line. Note:The default location for screenshots is ~/Desktop.

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <your new path ie ~/screenshots>

2) Reset the System UI Server so you can see the change.

    killall SystemUIServer

The HTML5 datalist element provides an “autocomplete” feature on form elements. With it, you can provide a list of predefined options to the user as they input data.

Now, when a user is entering some text into a text field, a list can drop down with pre-filled values for them to choose from.

How to Make a datalist for a Form Field Input Element
The datalist tag was introduced in HTML 5.

Use the ID of the datalist tag to associate it with the appropriate input.
For example, if the datalist tag has an id=”myDataList”, then the list attribute of the input element will look like this: list=”myDataList”.

You can fill the datalist element by nesting option tags inside the datalist tag. Here is an example of the code for the HTML5 datalist element:

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<p>
<label>
  Enter your favorite Star Trek character:<br />
<input type="text" name="favCharacter" list="myDataList">
<datalist id="myDataList">
 <option value="Captain Kirk">
 <option value="Spock">
 <option value="Bones">
 <option value="Scotty">
 <option value="Sulu">
 <option value="Chekov">
 <option value="Uhura">
 <option value="Jean-Luc Picard">
 <option value="Data">
 <option value="Geordi La Forge">
 <option value="Worf">
</datalist>
</label>
</p>

Enter your favorite Star Trek character:

OK, so now you know. Go be nice to your users with the HTML5