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I created a view the other day, a simple view with one display, and change the Pager setting to Full. I had the view set for 50 records per page, and there were hundreds of records. When the first page loaded, there was no pager present.

And so began the head scratching.

Want to hear more about Drupal 6 for Administrators, or about me? I recently had an interview with DrupalEasy.com for their podcast. Listen in as Mike Anello talks with me about the new book.

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The interview can be found here.

Occasionally the needs arises to determine if a number is odd or even. Why would you need to do this? One example is the 'striping' of output, where information is presented in rows, and alternating rows have a different background color, like this:

You would think that languages would all have a function for this by now, but just as determining whether a year is a leap year is often still up to the programmer, so too is whether a number is odd or even.

At some point in the writing of code, the time comes to try and determine why it isn't working as intended. [Well, not MY code, but I'm writing this for everyone else -JAG] If you've had the need to investigate the contents of an array or object in php, you've probably seen something like this:

Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => apple [1] => orange [2] => banana ) [1] => Array ( [0] => apple [1] => orange [2] => banana ) ) [1] => Array ( [0] => apple [1] => orange [2] => banana ) [2] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => apple [1] => orange [2] => banana ) [1] => Array ( [0] => apple [1] => orange [2] => banana ) ) )