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You might have joined different tables in the same database. How would it be if you could join different tables from different databases. Sounds good!! right? I had to go through an uncountable number of tutorials and blogs to make this happen. All thanks to Drupal. There are certain conditions you have to ensure before using this method. First to make sure is that you have both databases on the same server. And the second is a fit. The second is about user, ensure both have the same. Requirement was to get all the users in both databases.
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Selenium is a free and open-source automated software testing tool for testing web applications. Selenium is a set of tools that helps testers automate web-based applications more efficiently. The main advantage of selenium is that it will operate across different browsers and operating systems.
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As we all know current IT industry trend is to moving towards automation testing. Automation testing means using a software tool to run repeatable tests against the application to be tested. Automated Testing can perform regression testing quickly. It will be useful to execute the set of test cases frequently. Automation testing can also be done on different machine with different OS platform combination, simultaneously.
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Now a days infinite scrolling becomes the most popular pager in websites. Basically it do append new content to the same page through ajax rather than redirecting to a new page. It is more user-friendly and it take less time to load new contents to the page when comparing to the conventional pagination. Because of the use of ajax it takes less bandwidth than ordinary pagination.
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When looking for Drupal native e-commerce carts its limited to two packages Ubercart and Commerce. Ubercart is the long leading one and Commerce is the new one, but developed for drupal 7. Commerce is a bit complex when compared with Ubercart but it offers more features like shipping, inventory control etc. And another issue with Ubercart stores who want to upgrade to Drupal 7 is, lot of Ubercart contrib modules weren't being upgraded to 7. So the solution is Commerce.
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The way Drupal manages translation have been advancing over several versions. Drupal requires the combination of core & contributed modules to make a site multi-lingual. We will be using Drupal 7's content translation method. One challenge you will be facing is to translate the content into the languages needed. There are lots of tools available for this online like google's translate. Using this method, for example, Arabic node will hold all Arabic values and English node will hold all the English values.
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A website will be having two kinds of users mainly, users with administrative privileges and simple users. Most of all a single root user. An administrator one of the main challenge will be in monitoring the site users and its contents. Admin should be notified regarding the new user registration and extra add-ons, etc. For a website with multiple users managing site contents and updates from user roles could become a nightmare.
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There are a lot of pragmatically created crawlers today. If is a website is open for registration these crawlers can maliciously faux accounts of their own. In such cases, we usually use CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is like a protective shield for our website from those bots.
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Article marketing has become one of the most popular ways to make money online. This is because people constantly search for information related to products and services on the Internet. Moreover, it helps to generate more interest about your products/services and builds brand recognition and credibility among your customers. A well-written article would surely help to build trust, and also help in increased lead generation. Given below are a few tips for writing great articles:
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When writing web content, you should picture the prospective customer reading your text. Treat your web visitors just like people who are fond of reading printed text. However, there is one thing you need to remember: web copy is entirely different from print copy and web copy is often scanned or may be glanced at, but not essentially read.
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Views bulk operations module is used for performing multiple operations for multiple rows on a view. Here we can have default action on the view configurations and can also add our custom actions as per the requirements. Views bulk operation module reuses and extends Drupal core Action system. Also most of the Drupal core actions are VBO-compatible actions.
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What is Twig? How will it change Drupal themes? Drupal 8 is coming with lot of improvement in theme layer. Twig is a template engine and easy to learn. Twig is help to create template without knowledge of PHP. Twig is part of the symfony2. It created by SensioLabs. The changes in classes and arrays combined to attribute object. In Drupal 8 .tpl.php file is replaced by *.html.twig template files.
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