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Views: Change the text of the Apply button of the exposed filters

Xuan Ngo — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:51:44 +0000

In the template.php file of your theme, add the following code:

function YOUR_THEME_preprocess_views_exposed_form(&$vars, $hook)
{
  /**
    Only alter a specific exposed filter form
    Note: You need to change the form id to match yours.
  */
  if ($vars['form']['#id'] == 'views-exposed-form-YOUR_VIEW-views-page-1') {
 
    // Change the text on the submit button
    $vars['form']['submit']['#value'] = t('Search');
 
    // Rebuild the rendered version (submit button, rest remains unchanged)
    unset($vars['form']['submit']['#printed']);

Get a Google maps api key

Xuan Ngo — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:11:32 +0000

Instructions to get a Google maps api key.

Click here to sign in or get a Google account.
Read this FAQ to know what to put in the URL.
Go here to generate a key.

Best command to backup MySQL database

Xuan Ngo — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:50:51 +0000

Best command to backup MySQL database

mysqldump --hex-blob --extended-insert=false --complete-insert=true -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASENAME > backup.sql

--hex-blob: Ensure that blob columns are exported correctly. MySQL will convert BLOB to hexadecimal.
--extended-insert=false and --complete-insert=true

First Selenium 2 application in Java

Xuan Ngo — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:18:54 +0000

For similar example using Selenium v1, see First Selenium application in Java.

The following shows you step-by-step how to run your first Selenium 2 application in Java.

It is assumed that you have JDK installed and set in your computer. If you are getting the version number(e.g javac 1.6.0_06) by running the following command in the Command Prompt, then your Java Compiler is installed and set correctly.
```
javac -version
```

Ant build file to install xsltproc

Xuan Ngo — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:20:03 +0000

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!--
Description: Install xsltproc:
              -Decompress all zip files from zip directory to the defined destination directory.
              -Generate paths to add in the PATH environment variable(environment.path.txt).
Author: Xuan Ngo
-->
<project basedir="." default="nothing" name="xsltproc_install">
 
  <property name="dir.separator" value="\"/>
 
  <property name="iconv" value="iconv-1.9.2.win32"/>
  <property name="zlib" value="zlib-1.2.3.win32"/>

Good applications

Xuan Ngo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:45:25 +0000

InstallWatch records modifications made to your PC during the installation of software, hardware, or configuration changes.

IsoBuster is a highly specialized and easy to use CD, DVD and blu-ray (BD, HD DVD) data recovery tool.

Salome TMF

Xuan Ngo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:49:06 +0000

-- Replace a string in the action steps.
UPDATE action_test SET description_action=REPLACE(description_action, 'Pubication', 'Publication');

Draft, approval, publication, revision

Xuan Ngo — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:41:23 +0000

The basic use case of a content management system where contents need to be validated before they are being published is being implemented in the Revisioning module. Obviously, the module offers much more fonctionnalities than that but for this tutorial, I will stick to the following use case described on their project's website:

Rename filenames without special characters

Xuan Ngo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:11:08 +0000

REM *******************************************************************************
REM Description: Rename filenames(*.pdf and *.xls) without 
REM               specials characters(e.g. spaces, double underscores).
REM Author: Xuan Ngo
REM Note: Command Prompt's code page is different than Windows' code page. 
REM       Therefore, I switched Command Prompt's code page to be the same 
REM       as Windows' so that I can replace accent characters(e.g. à, é, â, etc ).
REM *******************************************************************************

Print the full path of the current directory

Xuan Ngo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:50:28 +0000

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