Heartbeat messages were showing up nicely on a project we have been working on lately, bringing up all the member activities including changing the user account details, adding or editing nodes and commenting on nodes. Everything was working fine right out of the box - except one minor inconvenience that we noticed: all comments were showing up twice in the heartbeat stream. As many love to say, this is not a bug, it is a feature.

Drupal 7 has the ability to run cron automatically, but if there are tasks that really depend on cron, it only makes sense to ensure that cron is running in pre-defined time spans.

To make sure of that, we can configure the drupal cron to run from a server side command. So from the console, In crontab, the following line will trigger Drupal's cron

Here is a useful snippet that you can use to change an already existing drupal textfield into a text area.

If you do not want to use i18n_string and i18n_field in order to translate the Order total, Shipping & Billing Information texts, that show up in the cart and on the checkout pages when using Drupal Commerce, the following hacky approach should do the trick.

First, the following funcion can be used in your template.php file:

Here is a nice little PHP snippet that will remove non-ASCII characters from a String. Code was taken from here.

Here's a snippet that will rename the edit tab to a custom string, on node edit, depending on the content type. It is easy to add different or additional validation criteria, depending on when you would like the Edit tab to show up with its brand new name. This code should be placed in a custom module.

Here is the code to be used in the theme's template.php file that will override Drupal's search form. If no template.php is available, just go ahead and create one.

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: drush sql-dump --result-file= /mydb.sql To drop all tables of the current Drupal database: drush sql-drop To import a new db file in the current Drupal database:

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: Alternatively, a print_r should work just fine: More info: http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-defined-vars.php

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 user_pass_reset_url(user_load(1));

 

and once logged in, the password can be easily changed in the user edit screen.