Git provides a various set of commands to operate the repository on our local setup. Eg. git clone to copy the repo from the upstream, git status to check what files, etc are changed, git commit to save our changes, push and pull to update and retrieve from the upstream. Here are some other useful git commands which are mostly used by users in following cases.
Datepicker in drupal is rendered as separate select elements for day, month and year by default which makes it difficult to set a default value if we want to set it to some string value, eg. today, +2 months, etc. This page is to check how we can set default value for datepicker using a simple jQuery.
Consider you have the above string value. If you are sending this value from a php code, convert it to a date format using strtotime().
PHP provides various built-in functions to make our server development experience easier. This article is to check some unfamiliar behaviours of explode() and str_replace() functions.
The views module allows administrators and site designers to create, manage, and display lists of content. Each list managed by the views module, and the output of a view is known as a "display".
Hidden elements can be easily created on a Drupal form. When the form is submitted, $form_state variable seems to be holding the value of this element in various hooks, "form_alter", "validate", etc.
Note that if you have an ajax call or a jquery code which assigns or modifies the value of the hidden element, this value will not be sent when the form is submitted. For eg, An hidden element is created from -
Mysql provides a functionality to create a backup of your database using mysqldump. It also enable the user to provide an option --ignore-table which skips the table from the backup process. The doc from the MySQL says -
--ignore-table=db_name.tbl_name
Github provides different options to delete unwanted branches on your git terminal or from remote github repository.
Delete a branch from your local git terminal.
Use a simple --delete option to delete a branch from your local git.
git branch --delete <branch_name>
This will not delete a branch if you have a commit or any work in progress. To delete it forcefully, use -D with the branch name.
Datatable is a jQuery plugin which provides a great interface when it comes to display a table with quite a large number of rows. It helps in paging, sorting and several functionalities with only installing a simple plugin in our application. This page is to know how searching for a string can be done using datatable search filter.
Consider the datatable below -
ImageMagick is a popular tool used for creating and modifying images. Check below to know how ImageMagick and Imagick on Ubuntu is installed and configured.
Use a simple apt-get to install this as it is already included in the base repository.
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Use apt-get to install imagick -
Imagick is a PHP extension which makes use of ImageMagick library and is used to create and modify images in our application. This article is to know how Imagick on windows server is installed and configured.