Drupal Video Tutorials

In this Drupal video tutorial, I show you how to install and set up the Path Auto module. This module allows you to create automatic path aliases for your Drupal site based on tokens (Drupal lingo for placeholders). I also mention bulk creation and deletions of paths and when you might want to do that.

This module is hugely popular in Drupal and chances are, you are already working with it. However, I still wanted to cover it for new Drupal users and because we'll be relying on it for subsequent tutorials.

In the second Drupal video tutorial on cool Drupal 7 modules, we take a look at the Administration Menu Module. This module provides us with a nice drop down menu to navigate our entire site. It's a huge time saver and something I recommend for every Drupal installation.

In this Drupal video tutorial, we cover A LOT of ground as we continue building our event registration system which relies on the Pay Per Node module, making it more user friendly for our customers and administrators.

We cover the following:
1:10 - Using Views and the References module, we create a node reference on the customer's registration page which links to our existing events for the user to select.

3:30 - Using the Auto Node Titles module, we create an automatic node title for registrations so we can hide the field from our customers.

5:00 - We create a custom module to limit the events listed on a registration page to just those a customer has purchased (As an aside, you may want to update this code so that it only lists upcoming events -- you could do this in Views with the Date module).

16:00 - We alter the menu for Pay Per Node to make our menu tabs a little nicer for users.

18:00 - We add a list of registrations on the actual event product for administrators to see who has registered for their event. We also use the Views Send module to allow administrators to email those customers.

25:25 Lastly, with the Calendar module, we create a Calendar to show all of our upcoming events.

In this video tutorial, I introduce you to the Drupal 7 Module Filter module. This module provides us with a nice administration layout for our website's module page. Relying on some ajax, you can easily find, enable and disable the modules on your site. This is definitely a must have if you have a robust site with plenty of modules installed.

In this sixth drupal video tutorial of this ten part series, we continue with Drupal 7 theming and I show you how to use the template.php and node--product.tpl.php file to create a custom layout for our product pages. This allows us to pass single variables into our Ubercart product pages and render them in a specific order. As a result, we end up with a 3 column layout of information.

In the fourth Drupal video tutorial of this 10 part follow up series on Drupal 7 and Ubercart, we switch gears to start looking at theming. Specifically, we download the Omega theme to create a subtheme theme of our own.

In doing so, we download a few different modules to help out, specifically Omega Tools. The tutorial covers three different methods to create an Omega subtheme for your site; using using Omega Tools, manually creating a subtheme and uploading it and finally, using Omega Tools and Drush via the command line.

In this Drupal video tutorial, I show you how to bulk import products into Ubercart using the Drupal 7 Feeds Module and UC_Feeds Module.

To do so, we first need to download and install the modules along with Job Scheduler. Then we walk through how to create an Importer and set up an excel spreadsheet, saving it as a CSV file. There are a couple sticking points in the tutorial that I make sure to point out - specifically, how to make sure you images are uploaded properly and how to configure weights in your spreadsheet.

In this final Drupal video tutorial of the 10 part series on Views, we conclude by looking at some cool modules that integrate well with Views. I show you a few that I have tutorials on (Gmap, EVA, Views Slideshow) so that you can continuing learning but others identified are pretty straight forward and I don't have tutorials for them.

To conclude the second half of the tutorial, we recap the series to help solidify the concepts covered in the 9 other video tutorials.

In the 8th video of this 10 part Drupal video tutorial series, we continue looking at the Views API and create a custom field handler. This tutorial starts off by looking at the views_handler_field_node that we used in Tutorial 7 and I walk you through what handlers are and how the node specific handler was created.

From there, we create our own handler by extending the views_handler_field. We override a couple functions from the parent class to provide an option for a user to render the word BLANK instead of actual output.