If you are developing a module for Drupal you might need to use tabs to simplify a bit a screen which has too much functionality. Typically a settings page that might need too many options to comfortably fit on a single screen. Since I had to search and experiment a bit to find out how to do it I decided to write a short post with my findings. In this article I assume you have a basic understanding on writing Drupal modules.

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Cuando generamos un View, y queremos darle un formato en particular tenemos que agregar una llamada desde nuestro templates a la función views_embed_view, pasando por parámetros el nombre de la vista, el display_id.

<?php echo views_embed_view( 'nombre_vista' , $display_id = 'default' ); ?>

Cuando hacemos esta llamada nos genera un html con el contenido de la vista. Si queremos darle un formato html especial tenemos que generar un archivo con el nombre view_view–nombre_vista.tpl.phpA esta función llega un objeto con el nombre $view->result, que contiene todo el contenido de nuestra vista.

Por ejemplo si quisieramos mostrar el contenido de la vista en una listado con el title y el teaser, el código seria el siguiente.

<ul class="destacados_libros">
  <?php if (!empty($title)): ?>
  <li class="top_titulo"><?php print $title; ?></li>
  <?php endif; ?>
  <?php foreach ($view->result as $row): ?>
    <li><?php echo $row->node_revisions_teaser; ?></li>
    <li><?php echo $row->node_title;?></li>
  <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

A missing feature in Drupal is the ability to preview changes made to the home page. If you have a custom page as your home and you promote several pieces of content to it there is no way for you to preview how it will look. If the content breaks the layout or doesn’t look as good as you expect it to do then you’ll have to make several changes to fine-tune your home. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a preview of your home and when you are satisfied with the all the changes hit a publish button to see all your changes commit at once? Well you can! Read on to see how.

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At Easytech we are using Drupal for projects which require a CMS (Content Management System). It’s very powerful, full of modules to extend the functionality and written in PHP which is a Language for which we have a lot of programming experience. For a project we are working on we used the Related Content module. This module allows you to link a particular piece of content (a node in Drupal parlance) to other content such as images, videos, audios, etc. One problem with the current implementation of the module is that it wasn’t designed to work when you have lots of content on the site. The patch we currently submitted to Drupal fixes this by separating the Related Content into a tab and adding a filter to be able to quickly locate content items. Here’s a screenshot:

If you are interested in getting the patch its here. In case you want to download a patched version of the module I have included a tar file with the latest version as an attachment in this posting. Try it out and send feedback to: miquel <at> easytech <dot> com <dot> ar.

Here’s a tar file with the patched version to try out: relatedcontent-5.x-1.1-patch.tar.gz. To install it just download it and untar it in the modules/contrib directory of your Drupal installation.