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Drush - Short Tips
Thu, 05/09/2013 - 18:19 110 Comments
Drush

Quick notes on Drush, while on a Drupal installation folder:

To create an archive of the current Drupal site:
drush archive-dump --destination=/backups/mysite.tar

To restore the files and databases for all sites in the archive.
drush archive-restore /backups/mysite.tar

To create a mysql dump of the current Drupal database:...

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Drupal 7: How to check the available variables in a template (tpl) file
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 20:12 179 Comments
Drupal 7, drupal quick tips

There is a very handy php function that allows us to quickly check all the available variables in a tpl file (e.g. html.tpl.php).
Assuming that the devel module is installed, the following line should do the trick:

<?php kpr(get_defined_vars()); ?>

Alternatively, a print_r should work just fine:

<?php print_r(get_defined_vars()); ?>...
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Drupal 7: Reset User 1 Password quick and easy using Drush
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 14:55 419 Comments
Drupal 7, drupal quick tips

There are many solutions out there to reset User 1's password in a Drupal 7 website. A really convenient way is to use Drush, to generate a one time login URL - no mails involved. The output would be directly on the console, and it is simple to just copy and paste it in a browser. 
The drush command is the following:
 
drush php-eval 'echo...

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Drupal 7: How to remove "More information about formatting options" link
Mon, 09/10/2012 - 21:30 14,377 Comments
Drupal 7, drupal quick tips

The code below goes in your template.php and removes the "More information about formatting options" link.


<?php
/**
 * Remove the comment filters' tips
 */
function MyThemeName_filter_tips($tips, $long = FALSE, $extra = '') {
  return '';
}
/**
 * Remove the comment filter's more information tips link
 */
function MyThemeName_filter_tips_more_info () {
  return '';
}
?>...
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