Iam new in drupal. I want to create a page and want to add data in page directly with out using backend content. I have created a page like this, page-test.tpl.php. How can I call this newly created page in browser?
First you have to create your own custom module.Let the module name be test.Create 2 files namely test.info and test.module.Declare a hook_menu function inside the test.module file.Since your module name is test your hook_menu will be named as test_menu.
Hook_menu enables modules to register paths in order to define how URL requests are handled. Paths may be registered for URL handling only, or they can register a link to be placed in a menu.
Test.module
function test_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['test'] = array(
'title' => 'My Page',
'description' => 'Study Hard',
'page callback' => 'test_simple', //Calls the function
'access arguments' => array('access content'),
);
return $items;
}
function test_simple() {
return array('#markup' => '<p>' . t('My Simple page') . '</p>');
}
Test.info
name = Test
description = Provides a sample page.
core = 7.x
After adding this try clearing the drupal cache and then navigate to /test.Try this link if you are a beginner.Try reading hook_theme which allows you to use your custom template.More about hook_theme here.Hope it might help u mate.. :)
Pages in drupal are stored in the database, not in actual code files like old websites used to. The template files (.tpl.php) are exactly that - templates. So for example, lets say you have blog content. You'd have to create a content type of 'Blog'. you could then create a template file (ex. node--blog.tpl.php) which would format the way the blog pages would look. But you would still need to add new pages through the drupal interface in order to add them to the site. You could always use an input type of PHP if you'd like to include php in the body of the page.
If you simply want to display a php file in your browser from your site, you can just upload a php file of your choice to your sites/default/files directory and access it directly via the file path.
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I'm new to moodle plugin development and am trying to create a plugin that displays a page to the admin where I can add my on php code.
In brief, what I want the plugin to do I have already achieved in a standard php file that I upload to the moodle root. From here you can call the file e.g. yourdomain.co.uk/moodlelocation/myfile.php and it will run as expected.
The problem with this is it isn't secure since anyone can load the myfile.php and in turn run the scripts on the page. It also means any one else using this script (it will be given away for free when complete) would need to FTP into their hosting and upload two php files to their moodle install.
Due to this, I thought a plugin (a very very basic plugin) may be the best solution. They could then load the page in the admin via the "site administration". e.g. site administration > Development > MyPlugin. I am assuming I could then also restrict the plugin's main page to admins only (??).
So to recap, I can create a php page that has my script all rocking and rolling BUT I need to make this into a plugin.
I did some reading and I think a "local" plugin was the easiest way to go (??).
I have managed to get the local plugin up and running using the below in local/webguides/inex.php :
<?php
// Standard config file and local library.
require_once(__DIR__ . '/../../config.php');
// Setting up the page.
$PAGE->set_context(context_system::instance());
$PAGE->set_pagelayout('standard');
$PAGE->set_title("webguides");
$PAGE->set_heading("webguides");
$PAGE->set_url(new moodle_url('/local/webguides/index.php'));
// Ouput the page header.
echo $OUTPUT->header();
echo 'MY php CODE here etc';
?>
This works fine but with two problems:
Anyone can access it via http://domain/local/webguides/index.php
There is no link to it in the site administration (so the user would need to type the URL in).
Can anyone shed any light how I would achieve the two steps above?
Thanks in advance
p.s. ideally I'd like to keep the plugin to as few files as possible so if the required code could be added to the local/webguides/index.php file it would be preferred.
You need to create a capability, then require that capability before displaying the page.
First, have a look at local/readme.txt - this gives an overview of the files needed for a local plugin.
Or read the documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Local_plugins
Also have a look at existing local plugins so you can see how they are created - https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=type:local
At a bare minimum, you need
local/webguides/db/access.php - this will have the capability
local/webguides/lang/en/local_webguides.php
local/webguides/version.php
Plus your index file
local/webguides/index.php
In the db/access.php file have something like
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();
$capabilities = array(
'local/webguides:view' => array(
'captype' => 'read',
'contextlevel' => CONTEXT_SYSTEM,
'archetypes' => array(
),
),
);
You might also need 'riskbitmask' => RISK_XXX depending on if there are any risks in you code. Such as RISK_CONFIG, RISK_PERSONAL, etc.
In lang/en/local_webguides.php have something like
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();
$string['pluginname'] = 'Webguides';
$string['webguides:view'] = 'Able to view webguids';
In version.php have something like
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die();
$plugin->version = 2020051901; // The current plugin version (Date: YYYYMMDDXX)
$plugin->requires = 2015051109; // Requires this Moodle version.
$plugin->component = 'local_webguides'; // Full name of the plugin (used for diagnostics).
Replace 2015051109 with the version of Moodle you are using - this will be in version.php in the root folder.
Then in your index.php file use this near the top.
require_capability('local/webguides:view', context_system::instance());
So only users with that capability will have access to the page.
EDIT:
You can add a link via settings.php using something like
defined('MOODLE_INTERNAL') || die;
if ($hassiteconfig) {
$page = new admin_externalpage(
'local_webguides',
get_string('pluginname', 'local_webguides'),
new moodle_url('/local/webguides/index.php'),
'local/webguides:view'
);
$ADMIN->add('localplugins', $page);
}
Then in your index page ad this
require_once($CFG->libdir.'/adminlib.php');
and remove require_login() and require_capability() and replace with
admin_externalpage_setup('local_webguides');
I'm using the drupal FAQ module which sends an email to the admin including the authors username as hyperlink, defined via:
'creator' => theme('username', array('account' => user_load($node->uid), 'plain' => TRUE)),
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/faq_ask/tree/faq_ask.module?id=9f4fbb7859c8fc24977f5d67cd589685236e442d#n480
unfortunately it only links to /users/joeblock and thus missing the site url https://example.com which means it won't work in emails.
Joe Block
I already tried the module pathologic hoping it adds the site url but didn't help (perhaps because the rendered ahref includes a / infront of it).
Is it possible to modify the hyperlink just for this instance to insert the siteurl?
Update:
adding $variables['link_options']['absolute'] = true;into includes/theme.inc worked.
function theme_username($variables) {
if (isset($variables['link_path'])) {
// We have a link path, so we should generate a link using l().
// Additional classes may be added as array elements like
// $variables['link_options']['attributes']['class'][] = 'myclass';
$variables['link_options']['absolute'] = true;
$output = l($variables['name'] . $variables['extra'], $variables['link_path'], $variables['link_options']);
}
Yes, it's possible! the faq module uses the theme username. This theme is defined in includes/theme.inc function theme_username
In your custom theme you can implement the template_process_username hook and alter the $variables array.
The theme username uses the url function to create the url. This function accepts the absolute attribute to build an absolute url.
to create this function you can create a custom theme https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/theming/howto/create-a-new-custom-theme-with-css-alone and put the yourthemename_process_username function inside the template.php file of your custom theme.
Otherwise you can add the function in a custom module.
Let's do an example with a custom module (with the markus name) because is much more common to create a custom module than a custom theme.
Create the site/all/modules/custom/markus directory.
Inside this directory create the markus.module file with this content:
<?php
function markus_node_presave($node){
if( $node->type == 'faq' ){
drupal_static('markus_faq_node_save', true);
}
}
function markus_process_username( &$variables ){
if( drupal_static('markus_faq_node_save', false) ){
// alter the link_options only when you came from the ask module otherwise, without
// this if, all the username links in drupal will be absolute url.
// Actually this is not a problem but it may be overkilling
$variables['link_options']['absolute'] = true;
}
}
create the markus.info file inside the markus directory with this content:
name = markus
description = "my custom module"
core = 7.x
package = "markus"
Now from the admin menu enable your theme.
It's better to implement the markus_process_username function in a custom module and not to edit the includes/theme.inc file because in this way you can update drupal much more easly. The drupal core should never be edited :)
I manage a Drupal 7 based website for my College's Student's Association. Most of it is standard static pages. Each year we run a room ballot for people to choose their rooms and this process will need an application to display current room allocations (in real time) and wiki style information about what the different rooms are like.
I need to be able to serve up static pages of HTML, javascript and css; bypassing the theming module. I need the relative addressing in the html page which serves as the root of the application to work properly (e.g. "javascript/app.js" should pick up that file from within the module). I then need to serve up json data from php using all the drupal APIs for permissions and database access etc.
I have a fair bit of experience in HTML, Javascript etc. and some in PHP, but I'm fairly new to Drupal module development.
You should create a custom module as you suggest, and separately put your HTML5 application in a sub-folder of the module. When it's accessed it will use the same relative paths as you'd normally expect so javascript/app.js will work if the file exists in the path under your HTML5 app's folder.
For the JSON data your custom module will look something like this:
function mymodule_menu() {
$items['my/app/data'] = array(
'page callback' => 'mymodule_ajax_callback',
'access callback' => TRUE,
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK
);
return $items;
}
function mymodule_ajax_callback() {
$type = $_POST['type'];
$nodes = db_query("SELECT nid, title FROM {node} WHERE type = :type", array(':type' => $type))->fetchAllKeyed();
drupal_json_output($nodes);
drupal_exit();
}
That code defines a menu path (using hook_menu()) at mp/app/data which uses mymodule_ajax_callback() as it's page callback.
mymodule_ajax_callback() simply grabs all nodes from the database that match the type parameter passed in the AJAX $_POST and outputs their id and title in a JSON string to the page (which will then be returned as your AJAX response when you request /my/app/path).
Hope that helps
Is is possible to display (via php) the main menu of a Drupal 6.20 site in a WordPress theme template file located in a subdirectory on the same domain?
Right now, I'm displaying the menu by copying the static html from the Drupal site and adding it to header.php in the WordPress template in the site located in mydomain.com/blog/. But of course that's not going to work when another menu item is added to the Drupal site, or the Drupal menu is changed in any way.
So is there a Drupal php function that will pull the menu into the WP file?
Failing that, is there a way with php to parse a Drupal page for the html of the menu (yes, this would be ugly) and display it in WP?
The first part of the challenge is to output only the menu, with as little (or none) of the surrounding HTML as possible, so you have as little work to do in parsing the HTML as possible.
The second part is to take that output from Drupal and actually display it on your WordPress site.
You could add the Drupal database as a secondary database in WordPress using the a new instance of the $wpdb object, write the query to get the right content from the tables, and format the results. That could work, but might be overkill.
An alternative workable option may be to use JSON to format the output of the primary links, using the drupal_json function in Drupal, then consume the JSON feed in Wordpress.
I'm assuming:
you have admin access to login to the Drupal site, which you'll need to create nodes, and clear the theme cache
you want to output the Primary Links menu, which 90%+ of Drupal sites use. This is probably true, but it is possible your site uses custom menus. If so, this is still possible, you'd just write slightly different code in step 3.
The steps would be:
Create a Drupal node (you can call it anything, it's just a placeholder)
Get the node id of your dummy page (ie., node/234). From the node id, create a one-off page template in your Drupal site's themes folder. It should be called page-node-xxxx.tpl.php, with xxxx being your node id
Add this code to page-node-xxxx.tpl.php:
<?php
drupal_json(menu_navigation_links(variable_get('menu_primary_links_source', 'primary-links')));
?>
This will create a JSON feed of your menu items.
Clear the theme cache of your Drupal site by visiting http://yoursite.com/admin/build/themes and visit http://yoursite.com/node/xxxx to see the raw JSON feed.
You should now be able to use a jQuery method like $.getJSON or $.ajax in your Wordpress theme to consume and display the JSON feed, or possibly use json_decode and curl to output your array as HTML.
A good thing about Drupal's drupal_json function is that it already sends the correct JSON headers, so now all you have to do is write the jQuery or PHP that does what you need.
I'm assumed you are more of a Wordpress specialist and have a working knowledge of Drupal but maybe not a lot of familiarity with its inner workings. So, sorry if it seemed too basic (or not basic enough :).
The Drupal theming engine is very modular - you may be able to make an appropriate PHP call into Drupal to get just the menu rendered, then emit that HTML as a part of your WordPress page.
g_thom's answer is very good and if you wish to create a very simple module to output the main navigation you can write something like this:
<?php
function getmenus_help($path, $arg) {
// implementing the help hook ... well, not doing anything with it just now actually
}
function getmenus_all() {
$page_content = '';
$page_content = json_encode(menu_navigation_links(variable_get('menu_primary_links_source', 'primary-links')));
// fill $page_content with the menu html
print $page_content;
return NULL;
}
function getmenus_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['getmenus'] = array(
'title' => 'Get Menus',
'page callback' => 'getmenus_all',
'access arguments' => array('access getmenus'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
);
return $items;
}
// permissions
function getmenus_perm() {
return array('access getmenus');
}
In your PHP code you can then write something like:
function primary_links() {
$primary_links = file_get_contents(SITE_URL . '/getmenus');
$primary_links = json_decode($primary_links);
$primary_links = (array)$primary_links;
$i = 0;
$last = count($primary_links);
$output = '';
foreach ($primary_links as $pm) {
$href = $pm->href;
if (strpos($pm->href, 'http://') === FALSE) {
if ($pm->href == '<front>') {
$href = SITE_URL . '/';
} else {
$href = SITE_URL . '/' . $pm->href;
}
}
$output .= '
<li>
'.$pm->title.'</li>';
$i++;
}
return $output;
}
I hope this helps!
PS: Make sure you update the module's permissions to allow anonymous users to have access to the path you set in your module - otherwise you will get a 403 Permission Denied.
I have a drupal page (content type page) that should accept GET values using clean urls.
I put the following code in the page body using the php code input format.
<?php
$uid = $_GET['uid'];
$user = user_load($uid);
print $user->name;
?>
Now the following link http://www.example.com/mypath/?uid=5 results in user 5's name being displayed. Great.
My question is: Can this be accomplished using clean urls such that going to http://www.example.com/mypath/5 has the same result? (Similar to using arguments in views)
You can do what you ask in the menu system using hook_menu in a module, but you can't create an alias where a part of it is a name. The whole alias is a name, so you can't extract info from it. Using hook_menu you can do this:
function my_module_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['path/%user'] = array(
'title' => 'Title',
'page callback' => 'callback',
'page arguments' => array(1),
'access callback' => '...',
'access arguments' => array(...),
);
return $items;
}
Then in your callback function you will have the value or argument 1 in the path which corresponds to the uid (in reality it will be a loaded user object because of %user).
Yes. Use arg() instead of $_GET
Keep in mind that arg() uses the $_GET['q'] by default and so effectively translates an alias before returning the result. Thus, the parameter you are trying to access may be in another position.
For example, the path myalias/5 might translate into taxonomy/term/5. In this case, arg(2) is 5.
For more information on the Drupal arg() function, see http://api.drupal.org/api/function/arg/6
If you use Views to assemble these pages, that part can be done easily for you by putting UID as an argument provided in the URL.