Viziontech Software Solutions. The following tutorial will guide you step by step how to create a quick implementation of Ajax in Drupal.
We will dynamically update a page with content we will read from the server without the need to refresh the page. I tried to make it as simple as possible, just to describe the very basic blocks required to implement Ajax. I suggest you take it further and try to implement more complex implementations according to your site's needs. Let's start...... I was building an e-commerce website based on Drupal 6 & Ubercart the other day, and wanted to ajaxify the way products are being displayed. Step 1 – Create your “Data Module” In order to be able to return data to the client, we will start by creating a module that will return the data. Copy, pase & save the above code into “dynamic_products.info”. This tells Drupal to intercept all calls to “ or and call the dynamic_products_get_by_category_id callback function. More info about setting permissions can be found here. Drupal & Ajax - How to dynamically update view display. The following tutorial, will describe how to dynamically update your page with view results.
It will be based on the Drupal & Ajax - Basic Tutorial, which breaks down the steps of implementing basic Ajax with Drupal. So if you still haven't read it, now will be a good time to do so. I will also use the code from that tutorial to extend the implementation. What I'm going to add in this tutorial is: Load an existing view.Setup view parameters for execution.Execute the view.Load the themed view to the JSON object and return it. Step 1 - Create "Product" content type Let's define a new content type. DescriptionPriceCategory Only for the simplicity of this example, go ahead and define all fields as simple text fields. Step 2 - Create content It is now time to create "Simple Product" content items, so create a list of products(at least 6 products). About overriding themable output. Last updated May 7, 2012.
Created by dvessel on September 7, 2007.Edited by onefreewalk, hansrossel, add1sun, arianek. Module.inc. Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.
Drupal's module system is based on the concept of "hooks". A hook is a PHP function that is named foo_bar(), where "foo" is the name of the module (whose filename is thus foo.module) and "bar" is the name of the hook. Each hook has a defined set of parameters and a specified result type. To extend Drupal, a module need simply implement a hook. When Drupal wishes to allow intervention from modules, it determines which modules implement a hook and calls that hook in all enabled modules that implement it. The available hooks to implement are explained here in the Hooks section of the developer documentation. Functions File includes/module.inc, line 379 API for loading and interacting with Drupal modules.
Using the theme layer (Drupal 6.x) See also: Theme handbook (D6) Modules in Drupal have the capability to allow presentation to be overridden for use on individual sites; this capability is called theming.
In order for the theme layer to be usable, a module must be written to take advantage of it. To do this, logic must be separated as much as possible from presentation. To accomplish this, modules do as much of the work on the data as possible, and hand that data off to the presentation layer. Modules then provide default implementations that provide the basic presentation and serve as a basis for themes that wish to provide an alternate presentation. Ideally, your module won't produce a single line of HTML output that is not in a theme implementation. Registering theme hooks In order to utilize a theme hook, your module first has to register that this exists.
Your module's hook_theme (see the hook API documentation for details on hooks) will return a list of all theme hooks that your module implements. <? Dynamic theming. Modules. Extend and customize Drupal functionality with contributed modules.
If a module doesn't quite do what you want it to do, if you find a bug or have a suggestion, then join forces and help the module maintainer. Or, share your own by starting a new module. Views You need Views if You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently. Views can do a lot more than that, but those are some of the obvious uses of Views. Views for Drupal 8 Views is in Drupal 8 Core! Downloads This module has been included with Drupal 8 core. View all releases Chaos tool suite (ctools) This suite is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience. For the moment, it includes the following tools: Documentation.