How to get views result count programmatically - Drupal 7

The current project I'm working on has a lot of customization of Drupal Commerce and display of views. One of the customization I've done is while displaying views result, show total of two views results in one view i.e. there are two views viewA and viewB shown on page, which shares the output and so we need to show the sum of total results in viewA and viewB will be displayed in viewA header.

Here's how I've achieved this with only few lines of code:

by ychaugule on 08 Sep, 2014

Tweak exposed form in Views in Drupal

Views module provides the ability to site admin to allow users to select the filters and dynamically refine the results based on selection made. This can be achieved using exposed filters in views. By default the exposed form looks like normal form i.e. fields to select filter, Apply button to get refined results, etc.

Using views UI, we can tweak exposed form and do following things, without writing a single line of code:

by ychaugule on 03 Jul, 2014

How to setup Virtual Hosts in WAMP

Starting with WAMP, it allows developers to setup site in their local machine just like we setup on dev or production server. I've installed WAMP in my "C:\" drive. After installing WAMP, we get a directory called "C:\wamp\www" which we can directly access using "http://localhost" and any files and directory inside it by appending that to localhost. Suppose I've example as a directory in my "C:\wamp\www" directory so I can access it using my web-browser directly with "http://localhost/example".

by ychaugule on 07 Jun, 2014

Display CTools modal on page load - Drupal 7

Chaos Tool Suite is one of the best API module to use. The module mainly provides API.

I've worked on ctools before to create multi-step form and show that in popup. This time I'm working on a project which has a Quiz in it which is built using ctools. The site was having a requirement of displaying Quiz form when user clicks on link from E-Mail.

So to display ctools modal on page load we've to add below jQuery Code:

by ychaugule on 28 Feb, 2014

Drupal - Change label of exposed filter form button in views

Views one of the great module available in Drupal. Views can be used to show various types of dynamic data and can also be used to allow users to filter results based on his criteria. To allow users to filter results based on his criteria we normally use views "exposed filter" option in every filter we add in view (screenshot 1.0).

by ychaugule on 17 Feb, 2014