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Have you ever wanted to add a simple Javascript print button to a webform so that users could print out all of their entered data? I had a need to do this today for a coworker.

I was lucky enough to be able to give another presentation at this year's excellent DrupalCamp Nashville, sponsored by Music City Networks, 7 Sudos, Tropo, The Tennessean, and a number of other splendid companies.

Although CCK automatically does some basic validation on your fields that you add to your Drupal content types, there are some cases where you'd like to do some additional validation for your site.

I was recently trying to figure out exactly how long my users' sessions were lasting on an existing Drupal site that I had built. Generally it seemed like users were remaining logged in for an extremely lengthy period of time.

I'm a huge fan of the Webform module (and building Drupal forms in general), and I just today noticed a feature I hadn't previously taken advantage of.

Ever wanted to add alternating background colors (a.k.a. "zebra stripes") to your webform fields? I had a need to do this a couple of days ago and struggled to find a method for this.

In a site I was recently working on, I found myself hard-coding links to files stored within my Drupal site's "files" directory.

Yesterday, I gave a presentation at DrupalCamp Colorado entitled "Form Alterations - Getting What You Want in Drupal Without Hacking". I wanted to make sure that everyone has access to the files from the presentation, so here those are:

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Articles from Fleet Thought

Have you ever wanted to add a simple Javascript print button to a webform so that users could print out all of their entered data? I had a need to do this today for a coworker.

I was lucky enough to be able to give another presentation at this year's excellent DrupalCamp Nashville, sponsored by Music City Networks, 7 Sudos, Tropo, The Tennessean, and a number of other splendid companies.

Although CCK automatically does some basic validation on your fields that you add to your Drupal content types, there are some cases where you'd like to do some additional validation for your site.

I was recently trying to figure out exactly how long my users' sessions were lasting on an existing Drupal site that I had built. Generally it seemed like users were remaining logged in for an extremely lengthy period of time.

I'm a huge fan of the Webform module (and building Drupal forms in general), and I just today noticed a feature I hadn't previously taken advantage of.

Ever wanted to add alternating background colors (a.k.a. "zebra stripes") to your webform fields? I had a need to do this a couple of days ago and struggled to find a method for this.

In a site I was recently working on, I found myself hard-coding links to files stored within my Drupal site's "files" directory.

Yesterday, I gave a presentation at DrupalCamp Colorado entitled "Form Alterations - Getting What You Want in Drupal Without Hacking". I wanted to make sure that everyone has access to the files from the presentation, so here those are:

Pages