krishna.rp

Assistant Project Manager

Krishna ia a Lead/ programmer passionate about systems and processes. She has over 10 years of experience in the Drupal industry as of 2017. She started as a fresh graduate developing Drupal code and now manages projects for Zyxware.

How to integrate custom tables with Views in Drupal 6?

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

While trying to fix an issue with Drupal Views, I wanted to use a single custom table to store the char count of the body field of different content types instead of creating separate CCK fields for each content type to store the same. The question that came to my mind was how to integrate my custom database table with Drupal Views? Drupal's Views module provides a hook for doing this - hook_views_data().

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

We start thinking about global variables when we want something to be available just everywhere. One case is when we want a particular variable to be available to all modules in a site. In Drupal, global variables are usually defined in settings.php. With that, all modules can access that variable.

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How to integrate custom tables with Views in Drupal 6?

How to add custom global variable declarations in Drupal settings.php