In Drupal 7, we can read the current user's custom data by:
global $user;
$user_obj = user_load($user->uid);
print_r($user_obj->data);
... and write by:
global $user;
$user_obj = user_load($user->uid);
user_save($user_obj, array('data' => array('key' => $value)));
Now in Drupal 8, we can read the current user's custom data by:
There are some instances that we need to alter the value of Views' field and add markup on its rendered output programmatically. The following codes shows how to achieve these tasks using hook_views_pre_render().
This solution should apply to Drupal sites that uses Nginx as web server with PHP FPM and the Nginx configuration is based on perusio's Nginx configuration for running Drupal.
The main setup is Drupal Panopoly distribution and using MongoDB Field Storage module. I encountered issue in Panels' in-place editor where after saving the non-reusable Text Fieldable Panels Panes
... it displayed empty body:
GeoIPLookup is available in Unix system as command line tool to look up for geolocation using IP address or hostname. It uses the GeoIP database/library usually found in:
The web browsers by default limits number of concurrent connections for each host. When that limit exceeds, the resources (like CSS, images, etc.) will remain in queue waiting to be downloaded until the prior downloads are completed. This results slow page load times user experience. One solution to reduce page load time is by domain sharding. This technique splits the resources download across multiple sub-domains (eg. static1.webfoobar.com, static2.webfoobar.com) resulting an increase in simultaneous connections.
As of this writing Drupal Panolopoly (version 7.x-1.30) recommended jQuery version is 1.7. Changing to its higher version, you will encounter some strange behavior in javascript enhanced widgets and menus on your site (still a limitation of Drupal Panolopoly is at most jQuery version is 1.7). However, the Twitter Bootstrap 3 minimum jQuery version is 1.9.0. Having the jQuery version set to 1.7, the only strange behavior I have encountered so far in Bootstrap theme is the navbar collapse button which it is not working.
Smart Paging is very useful module to automatically split up long Drupal content into sub-pages by number of characters or words. What if we don't need the Smart Paging's pagination on a specific node content? The following are the steps on how to disable Smart Paging's pagination for a node Article:
In this article, we will take a look inside the Smart Paging module's main admin page. Discussing the function of each configuration item. Its admin page is divided into two parts: the module's general configuration and default values. Below is the screenshot of the module's main admin page:
This article will show step by step guide on how to setup a View that shows list of Drupal 7 site contents that are filtered and sorted based on your visitor's location with the use of Smart IP and OpenLayers Proximity contributed modules.