If you've never heard of the iToggle jQuery Plugin, it basically transforms checkboxes and radio buttons into slick iOS-style On/Off sliders. It is pretty awesome! Check out the plugin page to see it in action.

What started as a learning excercise to learn how to build custom Views Handlers ended up giving birth to the iToggle module.

The Module

The module creates 4 custom Views Handlers:

Sometimes when developing with Drupal you need to execute heavy scripts during cron, for example: your website has a "subscription" feature where users pay a montly fee to access premium content.

Without getting into implementation details, basicly we need to periodically iterate through every registered user with the subscriber role and check whether his subscription has expired or not and, if it has, remove his access, display a warning, etc.

That's right! All you Drupalers out there know how frustrating it can be to use jQuery 1.3.2 with Drupal 6 and the lack of an "official" contrib solution out there to fix this only makes matters worse.

I've tried a couple methods in the past but have had no luck. However, I finally came across an (apparently) 100% working method to use jQuery 1.5.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.11 Drupal 6!

The solution

If you work with Drupal you've probably heard of Drush. In case you haven't, you really should! Let's dive in!

How to install Drupal from the terminal

First, download Drupal using wget:

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wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.20.tar.gz