Webform is basically the standard
module for creating custom forms in Drupal. By default Webforms are treated as
editorial content and therefore just have an automatically created id (like
nodes). However most of the time you want to be able to create forms in a local
environment and deploy them to your live website. Today I will explain you how.
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Making a Fixed Header React to Scrolling
Creating a fixed header which dynamically reacts to scroll events isn't that
difficult. You don't need a library or any kind of widget. All you need is a
few lines of JavaScript and a little bit of CSS. Well... and you need a header
element somewhere in your document.
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Automated Drupal Updates using Drush
Drupal updates can be a real pain. Either the update path from one
of the modules is broken, you need to reapply a patch for a bug, which still
isn't fixed or something else goes wrong. In seven years of Drupal development I
basically had it all and I grew so accustomed to it, that I started to do
updates one module after another. I also create a separate commit for every
single updated module. This way I can revert the update immediately, if
something goes wrong. Luckily I found a way to automate this process.
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Use MAMP's PHP Version in Terminal
MAMP is a commercial server stack developed and sold
by appsolute. On Mac OS its pretty much the best LAMP
stack you can find. MAMP comes as a free version with limited functionality and
a fee-based version (MAMP PRO). In MAMP PRO you have some additional features.
For example you can easily change the used PHP version and you can also use this
PHP version in the Terminal. But with a little script I wrote, this can also be
accomplished with the free version.
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jQuery Teamspeak 3 Status
Things you should never do: Creating a PHP script which connects to a different
server, to retrieve some information and display it on your website. And you
should most certainly not do this on every single page request, without even
caching the results. Recently I have been asked to help my brother with a module
he downloaded, which did exactly this. So I created this jQuery Plugin
instead.
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