I want to know basic main difference between drupal_goto() and drupal_render()
Thanks
These are 2 (very) different drupal functions.
drupal_goto() redirects users to a different page. It is the equivalent of the php header('Location: http://www.example.com/').
drupal_render() transforms an associative array tree to HTML automatically (to display the page the users will see).
For more information about these functions, please refer to the documentation.
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The standard ("ships with Drupal") user page appears to be compacted into the $user_profile() array. Then, it's unpacked and "printed" (to the screen) by the somewhat terse user-profile.tpl.php template:
<div class="profile"<?php print $attributes; ?>>
<?php print render($user_profile); ?>
</div>
Is there a guide somewhere that would help me understand what the typical internal structure of this array is, and what hooks I might need to employ in order to place DIVs, classes and so forth into it, in order to achieve certain basic design goals?
Take a look at https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/88407/how-to-create-a-profile-page. I strongly suggest to use the Panels module. It allows you to add blocks, views etc. to your pages and makes theming a lot easier. There are tons of information about Panels on the internet, so I suggest you have a look around first. The following links can be a good start:
https://www.drupal.org/node/496278
https://drupalize.me/search?query=panels
sorry i was new here so this problem maybe simple.
anyone knows how to check variable content?
like xx($a);
then page shows all relate information about $a. Is CakePHP allowed to do that?
i setup a kit on my cakephp
You might be looking for either var_dump() or print_r()
You can use PHP built-in functions like
var_dump() - displays structured information about variable
print_r() - the same, but preformatted with some differences
get_defined_vars() - returns array with all defined variables
Or use true CakePHP-way
Debugger::dump() - It will print out all properties and methods (if any) of the supplied variable
For more convenience you may use CakePHP Debug Kit plugin, which provides nice toolbar and some useful tools for your purpose.
If I want to translate the role to other language, how do I do it?
I can change that to other language as the default but I would like to use English so I don't have to deal with UTF8 issue in my code with Asian charactors.
if(in_array("administer nodes", $user->roles))
I have tried to find it from translation module but this seems not translatable as other text in Drupal.
So I'm assuming you've already tried using the t() or st() functions?
If that's so, you may need to try a client-side AJAX translation solution. One way you might do this is to create a vocabulary of terms (corresponding to the English role names), and have the Asian character translation as a secondary field. Then use views to create a view of this vocabulary, and create a lightweight module that:
1) loads a Drupal AJAX script on every page (or every page where role names might be utilized)
2) the script looks for a list of specified containers by id that you know will contain role names
3) searches the view you created for the English pattern, and replaces it in the container with any positive matches
Drupal API's example AJAX module
You could then expand the module/AJAX script to solve other similar translate fails on your site.
I'm currently making a bilingual Expression Engine 2.5.2 website. I'm using this technique to create the two langues, which works perfectly.
I have created a {country_code} global variable in the two index.php files which allows me to detect the current language.
Using this technique, I have no problems to get language-relative data when accessing an entry. My only concern is that I apparently have to privilege a language-specific "clean" URL.
Example entry:
{entry_id} = 123
{title} = My test article
{title_permalink} = my-test-article
{name_fr} = Mon article
{name_en} = My article
If I request http://www.example.com/index.php/en/blog/articles/my-test-article, I expect to to find, in english, "My article" using the template articles in the blog template group.
Everything is fine, but the french translation is accessible when requesting http://www.example.com/index.php/fr/blog/articles/my-test-article. The correct translation of the URL should be http://www.example.com/index.php/fr/blogue/articles/mon-article-test.
Anyone encountered a problem like this? Any solutions via extensions or modules?
I believe the Transcribe module solves this by both providing the ability to translate template group and template names, and having you create a separate entry for each language and piece of content in your site (hence, you have two separate URL titles). But that means buying into their entire methodology for a multi-lingual site.
Myself, I usually just stick to using the entry_id instead of the url_title, and live with the template names being in the primary language.
The best way I found to achieve this is by embedding templates with segment translations, duplicating template groups and duplicating channels.
In the blog/articles template:
{embed="shared/.head" segment_2_translation="blogue" segment_3_translation="articles"}
In the blogue/articles template:
{embed="shared/.head" segment_2_translation="blog" segment_3_translation="articles"}
In shared/.head template:
[...] {if lang == "fr"}English{if:else}Français{/if} [...]
And then you can create a Articles (FR) and a Articles (EN) channels, and each will have their unique URL titles. You can also add a relationship custom field for each channel to associate an entry with it's translation.
It feels messy, but it is the only way I could make it work without modules, plugins or whatnot.
I just finished the "15 min Blog Post tutorial" included in the documentation for cakephp. I was asked for another tutorial to change the layout for first tutorial.
However, I am fairly new to MVC programming/Cakephp and I have no real clue how to do so. Well, I know I need "default.ctp" placed in app/views/layouts/ and I presume I need to include
to include my data? . . .
I am really at a loss of what to do. I set up my default.ctp as I mentioned above, but when I go to localhost:9999/posts the layout is still the same. I guess I need to include a stylesheet (and if so, where?)
I guess if someone can point me in the right direction to a beginner's guide to layout styling or how to use it I would greatly appreciate any help.
I would advice you to read the following from the cookbook: Layouts and CSS. Then copy the layout from /cake/libs/view/layouts/ to /app/views/layouts/ and modify it to your needs. After that create you stylesheet (or modify existing one) in /app/webroot/css/ and include it in your layout.
Create in app/View/Layout a file named "my_posts_layout.ctp"
In your PostController set $this->layout = 'my_posts_layout';
This way you should view the content defined on my_posts_layout.ctp.
Lack of stylesheets has no impact here.
How MVC works in CakePHP:
The router dispatches an incoming request to an appropriate Contoller.
The appropriate Controller function executes (no output, just fetching data, setting up variables).
The appropriate view is rendered. In fact, the output of the view is just contained in $content_for_layout.
What you really get back in the browser is in the layout. Therefore you can put your view's output into the layout by echo $content_for_layout in default.ctp. (Of course you can also have different layouts.) In addition, the layout can be enhanced with elements.
I really recomend the CakePHP CookBook, easily found from the CakePHP homepage. Modifying default.ctp should edit your applications layout.
A more specific question (eg. code samples of your default.ctp, expected results etc) might help people provide a better answer than mine.