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drupal tutorials Welcome to my Drupal Tutorial listing. I have tried to make the tutorials as easy to find as possible by categorizing them by skill level and by the three major areas of Drupal development: Drupal Administration, Drupal Theming, and Drupal Module Development. If you are not able to find the information you are looking for feel free to post a Drupal question and I will do my best to answer it. (Note: you must login or register with this site in order to post content.)

How to fix the issue with images not showing up in the catalog or in the cart for Ubercart

Submitted by Aaron on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 08:14

I spent several hours banging my head up against the wall looking for a solution to the missing images on the Ubercart catalog and the checkout cart section. I searched and I searched and on google I found scores of other frustrated developers who had run into the same problem, but I didn't find any solution posted. It turns out that the actual solution is very simple, but downright unintuitive.

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How to add menus and links to your Drupal 6 website

Submitted by Aaron on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 16:50

Once you’ve created a page for your site you are probably going to want to add a link to that page at some point. If you had a Drupal developer like myself build your site then you probably already have a couple of menus in place already, but what happens if you want to add a new one?

Well, you can call me and have me do it, but in my opinion that would an expensive option especially since Drupal 6 makes it extremely easy to do yourself.

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How to find and manage existing content on your Drupal Site

Submitted by Aaron on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 15:07

One of the first questions people ask me after I show them how to create a page in Drupal is “So where is the page now?”. It’s a simple question but the real answer is a little bit difficult for laymen to grasp at first. You see Drupal doesn’t create new files when it creates a new page, so the page doesn’t exist in a folder on the server where you could go download it as is true with some other content management systems. Drupal stores the information to create the page that you see by storing the necessary information in several places in the database.

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How and why to use the l() function to create links in Drupal programming

Submitted by Aaron on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 17:57

If you have been doing web development for any significant amount of time chances are you know how to build a link by hand using the 'a href="link/to/some/page"' syntax. That method works fine and can even be used inside of Drupal modules, but it is generally frowned upon by the Drupal community. Using the l() function is the Drupal way of building links programmatically, and though it might take some getting used to, in the end you will find that it saves time.

l() is a function that is available anywhere within a Drupal installation. It accepts three arguments:

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How to add content to your Drupal website

Submitted by Aaron on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 20:49

Adding a new page to a Drupal website is probably the easiest thing you can do in Drupal, none the less there are a couple of important things to be aware of so I am writing this to help beginners understand.

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How to theme specific blocks in Drupal

Submitted by Aaron on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 19:33

Drupal blocks can be themed on several levels. You can create a custom html layout for all the blocks on your site, you can create a different layout for a specific region on your site, you can customize the blocks according to the module that created the blocks, or you can even theme an individual block with its own unique html and corresponding CSS styles.

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