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Drupal 7 Tutorial: Creating Custom Formatters with the Field API

by , Technical Lead/Fun Master

Custom formatters are a great way to control the output of your fields. In this tutorial I'm going to use an example that takes a user's Facebook URL as the input and outputs a button of the Admin's choosing, along with an option to open the link in a new window. To get started, we'll need to get a module skeleton sketched out. You'll need to create these two files: facebooklink.info facebooklink.module The first file, facebooklink.info, can be fairly simple: Read More…

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How to Add Theme Settings for Drupal 7

by , Front-End Web Developer

You know that list of checkboxes on the theme settings page that let you turn on and off parts of the theme like the logo or slogan? Well, you can add your own options to that list really easily in Drupal 7. In D6, this was kind of a pain, because you had to write all sorts of functions to save and load your settings to the database and handle everything properly. In D7, that's all done through the Form API, so the heavy lifting is done for you. All you need to do is tell it to add some form fields, and what the new setting is called! You'll need to create a theme-settings.php file in your theme, and add this code to it: Read More…