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What if you’d like to use a PHP variable in your javascript code?

You can use this code in your javascript:

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Just recently, the “Become a Fan” button in Facebook pages have been replaced with “Like”. For those who are using Facebook Pages for their online contests, you may want to revise your contest mechanics. (more…)

Sometimes, there will be a need for you to integrate Drupal content to a non-Drupal content. For instance, the non-Drupal content is in PHP and you want to have the same menu from Drupal to appear on your non-Drupal site. You can do that using the Drupal Services module and using PEAR’s XML-RPC2 Library. (more…)

Seriously, you do not need to manually query SQL statements just to get how many times the node has been accessed in Drupal. First, make sure that the Statistics module is enabled. Then, all you need to do is write this piece of code:


$node_stats = array();
$node_stats = statistics_get($node->nid);
print $node_stats['totalcount'];
?>

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There are times that you would like to edit how the pagination of Drupal is displayed. To give you more control aside from editing the stylesheet, let’s use the theme_pager() function in our template.php file. (more…)

Sometimes, we don’t want to limit our creativity by just using text in all of the menu items. Sometimes, we would want to use an image as a link in a menu.

For example, you want to have Home as an image link rather than a text link. Here’s a code you can use in your theme’s template.php file. (more…)

The first step you would want to consider in displaying your Drupal Search Form is to use install the search module. A fresh installation of Drupal does not include yet the search form in the installed and enable modules. Then, apply the desired settings that you want for your search form and add necessary permissions. (more…)

Recently, I experienced getting this error on osCommerce:

Fatal error: Call to a member function add_current_page() on a non-object

This happened while I was uploading a file and then I tried accessing the site. So, what I did is to delete the domain cookies so that I won’t get the error.

Sometimes, you need to get the current order ID of a transaction in progress. This is probably because you want to put a Google Analytics Tracking Code or you might want to save the transaction ID generated by your payment gateway into your database. (more…)

By default, an osCommerce installation would have a session setting “Force Cookies On = False”. The problem with such setting arises when your payment gateway sets the path where to return the result of transaction. This means that the session is lost. (more…)