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How to Fix Caching for Views With Exposed Filters in Drupal 7

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One of the better features of the views module in Drupal is the ability to cache your view's output. This can come in handy when your view is doing a lot of computation. Caching your view will save your server a lot of unneeded work. One of the big current drawbacks of this feature is if you enable caching for your view and you have an exposed filter, you'll run into the following scenario: User A enters a value for the filter Read More…

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How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views

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I regularly work with Views and recently I have had a few odd needs. One of which was when a user selects an item, that item then disappears from the view. The view has exposed filters with AJAX turned on. Since I don’t know how many items I’ll need to filter, I’ll need a way to pass multiple values through an exposed filter. Views apparently does not do this out of the box. If I was filtering on a content field setup for multiple values this may be easier. But no, I am filtering on nids. Since nids are a system field, Views sets the filter handler to 'views_handler_field_numeric'. Which gives me a textbox for input and numeric operators. Read More…

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Faster Database Backups via Drush! Plus Capistrano Integration

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When working with Drupal sites, Drush is your go-to tool. This post is going to focus on the drush sql-dump command. This allows you to export your database to a sql file, so you can restore it later. This can be particularly useful when you are working in a development environment and need to deploy a site to production for the first time. Or when you start work on a new clients existing site, you need to export their live database and download it to your local environment. Read More…

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How to Write Drupal Update Scripts

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This is the second part in my two-part series about Drupal update scripts, specifically focusing on using update scripts for your custom modules as part of your deployment process. You can read the first post about Why You Should Spend the Extra Time to Write Drupal Update Scripts. Now that we know "why" lets talk about "how" and what better way to demonstrate how then look at real-world examples. Read More…

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