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Create template specific to node in drupal 6

If you want to have custom templates for your node. You can create templates specific to node ID as follows. Add the below function in your template.php if its not exists. function yourcurrentthemename_preprocess_node(&$vars, $hook) { $node = $vars[‘node’]; $vars[‘template_file’] = ‘node-‘. $node->nid; } If the functio

Mar 9, 2012

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HTML

How to fix flash object z-index

If any of your html element is getting hide behind the flash object such as youtube video player, or any flash player/object Then you should call this function on body load. function fix_flash_z_index() { // loop through every embed tag on the site var embeds = document.getElementsByTagName(’embed’); for (i = 0; i

Feb 26, 2012

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PHP

Replace multiple space with single space in PHP

If you want to replace multiple space with single space from a string you can use preg_replace function for this. Refer the below example preg_replace(“!\s+!”,” “,$yourstring); For example $yourstring = “This contain space”; $modifiedString = preg_replace(“!\s+!”,” “,$yourstring); echo $modifiedString; // This contain

Dec 14, 2011

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PHP

How to get symfony project base url in template file

To get the base url of your symfony project , you can use the below in your template file. $sf_request->getUriPrefix().$sf_request->getRelativeUrlRoot() And to get your current app URL. $sf_request->getUriPrefix().$sf_request->getRelativeUrlRoot().$sf_request->getPathInfoPrefix();

Dec 3, 2011

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MVC

Self join criteria in symfony

For Example : SELECT tbl1.id FROM tbl1 a LEFT JOIN tbl1 b ON a.somecolumnname = b.somecolumn ORDER BY a.somecolumn DESC The criteria would be as follow $c=new Criteria(); $c->addAlias(‘a’, ‘tbl1’); $c->addAlias(‘b’, ‘tbl1’); $c->addSelectColumn(‘b.id’); $c->addSelectColumn(‘a.tbl1_id’); $c->addDescendingOrderByColumn(‘

Nov 21, 2011

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