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Multiple numbers of commits on a pull-request can be merged into a single commit using the squash and fixup option provided by Github. This article is to check how to merge different commits on your Github repository or remove any unwanted commits on your pull request.

Consider the following example to do this -

1. Create a local git branch on your terminal. 

$ git checkout upstream/master -b test_branch

where -

Eway provides a Rapid API response "Transparent Redirect" to complete payment on their site. This article is based on how the response from eway can be processed in order to update the transaction on our site. From the eway docs -

There is a normal procedure in javascript to hide any element based on page load or click event. For eg, when the page is loaded and DOM is built, using the below code snippet, a button is able to hide the element after it is clicked.

$.function($) {
  $("#button").click(function() {
    $('#div').hide();
  });
}

Similarly, an element can be hidden based on some condition when the page is loaded. Eg - consider the below snippet -

Modal popup window is more elegant way of showing information to the user in views,webform, etc. We can also insert an ajax modal popup link for a webform in a global text field of a view. When the view is rendered, the link is displayed to display the webform in an ajax dialog box, but many a times, when the webform is filled with newer values and saved on the ajax itself, the parent page, in this case, the view, is not refreshed to show the updated values in the form.

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.

Get string from PHP

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}