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Displaying the total number of rows in a view

Submitted by root on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 18:29

Put a pager, make sure your items to display is not set to unlimited, and put this in your header or footer:

<?php
$view = views_get_current_view();
print $view->total_rows . ' ' . t('items in this category');
?>

Great site for checking nameservers

Submitted by root on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 16:31

Jus enter any domain here:

http://intodns.com/example.com

And it will give you info about your nameservers.

Here are some practical commands for use with mac os x:

dscacheutil -flushcache
traceroute
nslookup

Displaying a block with a field from the current node using Views 2 and Drupal 6

Submitted by root on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:45

I have a CCK field with an image on my page nodes. I want to display a block with the CCK field value on its related node, but nothing on non-pages.

This often works in the views preview, but not on the actual page. This was driving me nuts and I spent a few hours finding this solution:

Create view with

  • Filter: node nid > 0
  • Argument: node nid, Action to take if argument is not present: Provide default argument: node nid from URL; validator: basic. Action to take if does not validate: Hide view
  • Create a new block display and you're done!

Counting inodes (files, folders, symlinks)

Submitted by root on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 10:39

Many hosts restrict the number of inodes you can use on a VPS or shared account.

If you have shell access, the following commands are useful to determine how many inodes you are using:

ls -R /path/to/directory | /usr/bin/wc

cd /path/to/directory
for i in $(ls);do echo -n "`pwd`/$i: ";find $i -print|wc -l 2>/dev/null;done

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