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Drupal 6 will not allow you to create multiple access callbacks for a menu. In hook menu, the access callback will accept only string value, not an array. But I had a requirement in my project to add a custom access callback without removing the existing access callback. My custom access callback should be executed first. After that if some condition satisfies in my custom function the original access callback should get executed.

While working on a wordpress site I came across a problem to customize the file upload button in Contact Form 7 plugin. I tried a few tweaks using CSS to customize the button but no luck. Later I found a trick using CSS and jQuery which is explained below. In my previous article "How to display location of an user in a mail send using Contact Form 7 plugin by passing the IP address in a Wordpress Site?", I have explained about Contact Form 7 plugin.

With the coming of broadband the importance and relevance of audio/video streaming has increased to a pretty impressive level on the internet. Almost all media related websites contain video/audio streaming in one form or the other. Streaming videos is a good choice when you don't want people to download your videos and share with others. Here are some quick steps to test video/audio streaming.

Deploying a site from dev to live is a process that has to be done carefully especially sites where financial information is being handled such as shopping cart. From a testers point of view these are the basic things to be taken care of like user accounts debug code or even a permission change that have been pushed to the dev site.

Suppose your Drupal projects handles products which can be shipped from one location to another and you are using Ubercart shipping quote' module to handle payment related to weight and shipping zones. Admin have the permission to add Zones rate and weight for each product, and the registered user's can buy the product. Here I am going to explain some of the test cases to be tested while testing this functionality.

Kaltura is an open source online video platform. It offers video management facilities. If we have an account in kaltura, it helps us to manage all our media in one central repository. ie, all our videos can be accessed centrally through Kaltura video management console. Kaltura video management console, which has a rich video management system provides lots of services such as,

In Drupal creating a custom theme and enabling the same enhance Drupal's core look and feel. But the enhancement feel could be further brought by theming each views in the Drupal site. Follow the theming steps to make changes in your Drupal content views.

Checkout the importance of static testing and dynamic testing.

There are situations where we need organic groups membership entity ID. Some of situations are : we use the function og_membership_delete() when we want to remove programmatically a user or node or any group content from our group, which will require parameter that is organic groups membership entity ID. Also when come across og_membership_load() function to get the entire organic groups membership object, which will also require OG membership entity ID as parameter. So in these situations how can we get organic groups membership object membership entity ID. See the following function I have written to retrieve the organic groups membership object membership entity Id.

Have you ever felt the need to change the sorting order of a View?. The most common method to change the sorting order would be to edit the corresponding View template file. Now there is a more elegant solution for doing that instead of editing a view template file. Read on to know how to use Drupal hook_views_query_alter to change views sorting.