I'm a huge fan of the Webform module (and building Drupal forms in general), and I just today noticed a feature I hadn't previously taken advantage of. This is the ability to programmatically add what are called "pre-built" option lists that can be used in your webforms.

Ever wanted to add alternating background colors (a.k.a. "zebra stripes") to your webform fields? I had a need to do this a couple of days ago and struggled to find a method for this. Little did I know that the webform module actually has a few template files included with it that you can use to override what's going on in the theme layer.

The particular thing I wanted to do was to add some CSS to the webform fields so that I could do some easy CSS zebra striping. I know this is super easy to do with the output of the Views module because of the "row-even" and "row-odd" CSS classes that are provided out of the box. I wanted to be able to do some similar CSS classes on my webform fields. Getting the job done requires taking the "webform-form.tpl.php" default template file in the Webform module directory and copying it to own your custom theme directory.

Here's the code I ended up using:

In a site I was recently working on, I found myself hard-coding links to files stored within my Drupal site's "files" directory. If you've ever coded these links before, you know that they normally look something like:
/sites/[sitename]/files/[someotherdirectory]/image.jpg

This can be somewhat painful to add to the site, especially if you have any plans to ever change the domain name of your site. It would really be ideal if you could leave the domain name out of the equation and just write the link in the format:
/files/[someotherdirectory]/image.jpg

This is actually possible to do using the .htaccess file that appears in the root of your Drupal installation. Basically you just need to add a single line:
RewriteRule ^files/(.*)$ /sites/%{HTTP_HOST}/files/$1 [L]

After you implement this rule, you should be able to start writing simpler links to your "files" directory.

Happy coding!

Well, I originally wrote this for a coworker, but thought that others might be interested in a simple strategy to use while investigating a problem during PHP coding, so here it is.

I was having trouble locating a good Firefox search add-on for searching drupal.org. A Google search or two reveals a couple of add-ons created by community members in the past couple of years that do searches of drupal.org via a Google search (using the "site:drupal.org" keyword). I know, however, that the searches on drupal.org recently received an overhaul (using Apache Solr) and now, searching on the actual drupal.org search is actually more efficient than a Google search in many cases. Especially if you know how to make quick use of the right sidebar of the search page which makes use of faceted search.

I knew it couldn't be that difficult to build a search plugin for Firefox, so I began searching the Mozilla site for instructions on that. If you're interested in doing this on your own, you can find out how to build what's called an "OpenSearch plugin" for Firefox at: Creating OpenSearch plugins for Firefox

If you'd like to download the add-on that I built and begin searching Drupal.org from Firefox, click on the screenshot below: