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As the world of internet grows day to day, the more educated and ever-wanting userbase now needs more data asynchronously. They don’t like to wait or load another page to see their data. In such situations we developers need to use more and more AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)) in the development of websites. Using AJAX in your web-development workflow is not that much difficult as you think. There is already a wide range of famous ajax libraries that make handling asynchronous requests easy for us.
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Apache allows you to protect contents of specific directories in your website or the whole website from unauthorized access using a mechanism called httpd password protection. During development of new sites the partially built sites are protected from unauthorized access using httpd authentication. This could sometimes interfere with testing of integration with third party services that might expect some of your URLs to be accessible without authentication. Here is how you can exclude a given file or directory from httpd authentication
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Drupal’s Nice Menus Module provides a highly customizable and nice-looking dropdown menu for Drupal websites. To allow maximum customizability, it includes a CSS file and a javascript file where you can try out your own recipes. The following steps should help you make nice looking drop down menus for your Drupal website using the Nice Menus module:
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Boundary Value analysis is one of the techniques used in software testing which involves designing of test cases to contain values at the edges, or in other words, it includes values in the minimum and maximum conditions. For testing a Drupal site, these conditions are addressed in the test cases so that we can capture and resolve them earlier, since such extreme ends commonly cause software faults. Boundary value analysis is a black box testing technique.
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Have you ever wondered how that cool site you saw last day had those cool interfaces and you wished your Drupal site could have the same coolness? jQueryUI is your saviour here. jQueryUI is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries out there in the world of web development. jQueryUI allows you to add very cool user interface elements to your website without much effort.
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Solution for CKEditor not working in a Drupal 6 site. One day, all of a sudden we found out that the CKEditor was not working on our Drupal 6 site. It had literally disappeared from our website taking the whole text area on the edit page with it. This meant that we could not create any articles as long as the CKEditor was not working. On seeing this, the first thoughts that flashed through our head was to either update the module or apply a patch believing that the CKEditor module had crashed. However our fears were unfounded and the solution turned out to be more simple than we expected.
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Developing a Drupal website is a complicated and long process. You have to check whether all the design and functionalities meet with the client specifications. And before the site going to be live you have to check certain criteria.These checklists describes the criteria that should be tested before a site going to be live.
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Software Testing is the process carried out during software development, so as to ensure and verify that the product, be it a simple program or an entire Drupal site, developed has all the desired features, performs as expected by the customers and meets all their requirements. It also the ensures the robustness of the product. Here is the Levels of Testing in a Drupal Development Workflow.
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Acer has released the price lists of its Aspire One Netbooks for the month of June 2012. The prices are given as follows.. Model: AOD270-268kk LU.SGA08.012 Expresso Black Price: Rs. 18699.00 Intel® Atom™ processor N2600 (1MB L2 cache, 1.6 GHz)/ Mobile Intel® NM10 Express Chipset / 2 GB DDR3 RAM / 10.1" WSVGA/ No ODD/ 320GB HDD / MultiCard Reader /Blue Tooth/ 3 USB/10-100 LAN / 0.3M WebCam/ 3 x USB Ports /HDMI Port/ Stereo Spks / 6-Cell /Win7Starter
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Sometimes we may require updating several rows of data with different queries and make sure every query execute correctly to keep the database consistency. Here is a simple solution to enable such transactions with Mysql and Python. To do this, we can start a transaction and commit the changes to the table. The data will be written to the table only after the commit statement is executed. If there is an error in between, we can rollback, so that all the inconsistencies are cleared.
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Wine helps you to run windows application in Ubuntu. Sometimes even though wine exists on your system, fonts which work perfectly fine on other browsers might be displayed wrongly in Safari. To fix this common font issue found in Safari working under wine on Ubuntu, you need to update the Wine repository on your system.
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Password-protecting drupal development site with .htaccess file There might be few scenarios when we need to protect our site from the general public and make it accessible to a selected group of users. One of the most common scenarios in the development workflow of a Drupal site is when you want to avoid your half-complete drupal site showing up in Google search results.For such needs, it is advisable to go for password-protecting the site using HTTP authentication. If you have cPanel installed on your hosting server, you can use the ‘Password Protect Directories’ option from the ‘Security’ section on the cPanel home page. Click here to read on How to enable HTTP Authentication using cPanel (link to an article for the same on our site) For those without cPanel, here’s how to get Apache work your way:
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Once in a while you will come across a Drupal site where you have to login to the site without having access to the credentials of user 1. You can easily reset the password of user 1 directly in the database or you can create a small work around to login to the site. Here is how you can login to the Drupal 7 site programmatically as user 1 without knowing user 1 credentials.
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If you have a Drupal 6 site where you have access to the ftp account but not to the user 1 credentials here is how you can login programmatially to the site as user 1 without resetting the user 1 password. Now that you know that this is possible, remember to not give ftp access to users who do not have access to user 1 credentials as well.
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Frequently we come across Drupal sites (live or testing) where the user 1 passwords are not known to the owner of the site. You can retrieve the password by changing the email address of user 1 to your email address and then use the forgot password option to reset your password. But if you don't want to change the user 1 email address but instead just want to change the password of user 1 there is an easier alternative via the database.
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Directi is one of the largest domain registrars on the internet with their services such as ResellerClub, and they provide wonderfully complete to-go solutions for resellers. But there are times when you would want to build upon their platforms rather than just use their entire solution. For this, they provide you the Directi API. You can build upon these as you wish to build out customized solutions of your own. One of the first steps in registering a domain is checking the availability of the domain name you are interested in. DirectI API provides the checkAvailability function for this.
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