On the Cornell AAP website, many nodes use field collections, and recently had to make some content types translatable.  Field collections are not translatable by default - there is a patch that needs to be applied.  I'm going to write about how to do this so you don't have to waste a good part of your day figuring it out.  

At the time this post was written the module and Drupal versions used are:

Having trouble getting IMCE to play well with Foundation 5?

Why does IMCE not work with Foundation 5?

• Foundation needs jQuery 1.10 or higher
• IMCE uses $.browser which is not in 1.10
• IMCE needs to use another jQuery version or use the jQuery migrate js file which is outlined below. 

Work around:

This is a brief guide of where Drupal 7 will look for the template.tpl.php file in a hook_theme item depending on the 'template' and 'path' settings, or lack of.  For a thorough and complete explanation head to the official hook_theme page.

Our setup:

Module: modules/mymodule
Theme: themes/mytheme

We're going to output the value using $html = theme('news_filters').

Configuration 1:

Items needed:
1 cup of water
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 gram of yeast
1 2-liter bottle

How:

I had a bunch of PDF's that needed to be merged into one PDF file and present it as a file download to the user.  To do this I first installed Pdftk (the pdf tookit) on the server then ran the command via shell_exec().  Steps with code below.

On a recent project I had to show the total number of comments posted using Disqus for each node on a page. What the page did was loop through a bunch of nodes and render the teaser view of each node.  The teaser was shown by rendering node.tpl.php, and in that file I had to display the total number of comments. Clicking a teaser view took me to the full page of the node that also contained the Disqus commenting box.

To do this I had to do add code in two places:

I recently finished a project and soon after the customer asked that the site load a different theme if the visitor was on a mobile device such as an iPhone or Android phone. The site is in Drupal 7 and the mobile version needed to load the same content as the main site. I came up with these requirements: