I have run across situations where I have needed to override the table on the checkout page of ubercart. An example is bilingual e-commerce site that I have created, in which the title is different between languages. The English title is shown by default on the checkout page, but I needed to swap that in with a Japanese title.

I regularly search the Drupal API for code. Anyone using Drupal does this. I previously used a Firefox add-on called 'add to search bar' that allowed any search on pretty much any page on the web to be added to the firefox browser toolbar.

However, bukem has created two addons that create this functionality, and do it well. Add to search bar, while it worked, never worked the first time, and had no autocomplete. The two search engines bukem has created both work every time, and also have autocomplete, just to make things a little easier.

Intro

Theming forms in Drupal 7 is mostly the same as Drupal 6, however there are some changes in how things are done in Drupal 7, and we will be exploring those changes in this tutorial. We will be working within a module called 'form_theme', and will create a form that looks like this:

This tutorial is for Drupal 7. The Drupal 6 tutorial is here: Themeing Drupal 6 forms into tables with checkboxes

Introduction

Sometimes we want to highlight table columns when they are hovered over. Table rows are easy - it's as simple as adding tr:hover{background:red;} to your CSS. This will cause all table cells in a row to be red when the row is hovered over. However, columns are not as easy. The main reason behind this is that HTML tables are grouped by row, not by column. This means that while it is easy to select a group of table cells as a row (using tr in your CSS, or targeting tr tags in your javascript), it is not as easy to group table cells by columns.

This tutorial is for Drupal 6. The Drupal 7 tutorial is here: Themeing Drupal 7 forms into tables with checkboxes or radios.

In the past year, I have started using SVN to deploy my Drupal installations. In the following post I will discuss my own personal SVN deployment strategy. This strategy allows me to work locally on a WAMP installation, and use SVN to deploy my sites to their remote installations.

I've recently created a new module for Drupal's Ubercart e-commerce solution that required me to add a new line item to the checkout process. It was a huge headache, as the documentation is incomplete, and there are no clear explanations/tutorials on how to do this process from start to finish. So I have decided to post the process here for three reasons:

I like to use the CSS Sprites technique on my sites, as it cuts down HTTP requests. However, it can sometimes be tricky to figure out how to put together an irregular shape in order to be able to use the method. An example is a site I was recently developing that used a 'speech bubble' like this: