InterWorks Blog - Drupal

Drupal 101: Intro to Views - The Essentials

Thursday, May 17, 2012
Views are a massive part of Drupal and you can't experience the power of Drupal without the Views module.  To get views up and running you need to install a couple of modules which can be found ...  [ More ] ...

Auditing a Drupal Core Install

Tags: audit, diff
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Determine current version of Drupal being used Downloading a clean Drupal Core Running an initial diff (show the difference) between the two Run a detailed diff on individual files Determine ...  [ More ] ...

How to bootstrap Drupal

Tags: bootsrap
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Create a page outside of the CMS workflow that has access to Drupal's built-in functions. There are scenarios, the deeper you get into Drupal, where you will need to access Drupal's database and ...  [ More ] ...

Interworks Hosts a Hello Drupal Event for Oklahoma State University Students

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Chris Armstrong and myself presented a workshop entitled "Hello Drupal" earlier today on the Stillwater campus for Oklahoma State University.  The workshop was open to students on campus that ...  [ More ] ...

Drupal 7 - Usage of Foreign Keys in Schema API and current default FK ERD

Thursday, April 12, 2012
What are Foreign Keys? What is the Schema API? Why Drupal only supports FK by documentation and not practice. Current mappings with an ERD. What are Foreign Keys? Foreign keys, put simply, are ...  [ More ] ...

Drupal 101: Custom Content Types

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Requirements: Drupal 6 or 7 That's it! When first setting up a website, it’s important to consider how you want to organize your content. How will you distinguish blog posts from the About page? ...  [ More ] ...

Drupal 6: Add/Remove field values from a Node Reference in a Content Type

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
When creating a Content Type, one of your options is to create a field with a type: 'Node reference'. Node references are a bit different than normal fields, in that they use other Content Type's ...  [ More ] ...

Drupal: Render Images with Style

Friday, January 20, 2012
In Drupal 6, a module called Imagecache allowed developers to create custom styles to dynamically manipulate an image. We typically use Imagecache to scale and crop images to specific dimensions, but ...  [ More ] ...

Adding a CSV Export button to Drupal 6 Views displays

Monday, January 9, 2012
Views is something that a lot of Drupal developers (myself included) likely could not do without. It provides a great way for us to display, sort, filter, and manage data and content for a huge ...  [ More ] ...

Setting up a Drupal 7 Locations Map

Tuesday, January 3, 2012
It's not uncommon for a client to have multiple locations within their organization. When those locations are updated and changing frequently, a flexible locations map page on the client's website is ...  [ More ] ...