Top new questions this week:

Is there a standard Drupal way to link to 3rd party configuration forms?

I am writing a custom module. On my module's configuration form I would like to provide links to relevant modules' configuration forms; e.g. the cron configuration form. Is there a standard Drupal …

forms navigation-links

asked by Colin 6 votes answered by Ayesh K 4 votes

Lime for Drupal 8?

Now that Drupal 8 is going to be based mostly on Symfony, is the TDD/unit-testing going to change too? For Symfony, Lime is the preferred testing-suite. Is that true for Drupal8?

8 symfony

asked by berkes 5 votes answered by chx 2 votes

What's the difference between !, %, and @ in replacement tokens?

I'm using the Message module on Drupal 7. For Replacement tokens, the help text says: A comma-separated list of replacement tokens, e.g. %title or !url, of which the message text makes use of. …

tokens

asked by Patrick Kenny 5 votes answered by Clive 6 votes

Letting anonymous users vote in a poll when using Varnish

I have a poll on my front page that I want users to be able to vote on, but anonymous users always just see the results and are never able to vote. I've been trying just about everything I can think …

caching varnish

asked by Jason 3 votes

Unable to send email using "SMTP Authentication Support" module

I was working on a project where i used "SMTP Authentication Support" module to send emails. The authentications i provided were my personal gmail account details, It was working fine. Now when i am …

email

asked by Syed Hashim 3 votes answered by Prerit Mohan 1 vote

Conflict with db_set_active and variable_get

I am running a drupal multi-site system, with shared code and seperated DB. Each individual multi-site represents one continent and can have different language versions. What i want: I am working on …

multilingual db-api multi-site persistent-variables

asked by larrydahooster 3 votes answered by Beebee 4 votes

Session breaks Entity API

Whenever I try to use $_SESSION or variable_set it breaks the Entity API. It says "Fatal error: Call to undefined function entity_get_info() in …

7 entity-api

asked by Firenter 3 votes answered by Clive 1 vote

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

How do I display an external database data?

UPDATE: Jedihe was kind enough to put a video of how to do this: blip.tv/file/5151641 I'm trying to do something that I thought was simple, but I am having a lot of problems figuring out how to do …

views database external-data hook-views-data

asked by Lostsoul 14 votes answered by Jedihe 10 votes

Form Api File upload

I have the following code in my form. $form['new']['upload'] = array( '#type' => 'file', '#title' => t(''), '#size' => 40, ); On the submission handler, it returns the file name but …

7 form-api file-field

asked by Lucy 4 votes answered by zroger 6 votes

Can you answer these?

Are form data cached?

Is form date cached? I have an interesting bug on my site. There is a form for logged in users and it is used very frequently. Sometimes, after long time usage, some data doesn't change when it should …

forms form-api caching

asked by gregab 2 votes

Using Feeds to import multiple languages

I've already imported a data set of about 1500 articles, all in English. I have another set of the data with matching nodeids but in different languages. Can I import a second file into Drupal 7 and …

feeds import localization

asked by eternus 1 vote

autocomplete instant results in select options

I am trying to have my select options filled with autocomplete results. I have two fields, a textfield and a select(box). Autocomplete is working on my textfield. The thing that I am trying to get …

7 autocomplete

asked by user1973842 1 vote