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Adding watermarks to uploaded images is a much sought after feature in the Drupal community by many Drupal users. There is an easy way to add a watermark to an image uploaded in a Drupal website using CKEditor. Read on to find out the method to do that.
Many Drupal users have repeatedly reported that they get a Page not found error when they click on the CKFinder Browse Server button on their Drupal sites. If you also facing the same issue in the CKEditor in your Drupal site then continue reading to get it fixed.
"The server didn't reply with a proper XML data. Please check your configuration." A few Drupal users who have configured the FCKEditor to use file uploading using the built in file uploader received this error message when they clicked on the Browse Server button. If you find the same error message in your Drupal website then continue reading to get it solved.
Some Drupal users have found that after they configured the Drupal CKEditor module to use Drupal IMCE as the file browser, the upload button was missing. The same problem has also occurred with the Drupal FCKEditor module and has been reported by some Drupal users. If you have discovered that the File Upload Button is missing in your Drupal website then continue reading to get the solution.
"CTools CSS Cache. Unable to create The CTools CSS cache directory, ctools/css could not be created due to a misconfigured files directory. Please ensure that the files directory is correctly configured and that the webserver has permission to create directories." If you are getting this error message while inspecting the status reports on your Drupal site then continue reading to get the solution.
ImageCache Temp Directory /tmp is not writeable by the webserver. If you are getting this error message when you check the status reports of your Drupal website then there is an easy fix for it. Read on to find out more.
Drupal CCK fields currently allows child nodes of a parent node to refer to their respective parent nodes and this is the default behavior. If there are a number of parent nodes in your Drupal website with multiple child nodes for each parent node you might reach a situation where you need to allow a child node of one parent node to refer to another parent that is not directly its parent node, i.e. allow nodes to refer to multiple parent nodes.
Drupal CCK lets you specify how to display a field for an entire content type. There might be cases where you would want to specify how to display a field for a particular node, ie choose field formatter on a per node basis in your Drupal site. A common scenario would be to let an author decide which formatter to use for a field when they create a node. For e.g. you might wish to allow the author to select which type of ImageCache preset to use when the they are about to create the node.
The default behavior for Drupal CCK fields is to hide the labels when the corresponding field is empty. However there maybe situations where you need to show CCK field labels even when there's no content in the field to indicate to the users of your Drupal website that there is a category present. There are a variety of solutions to override this behavior in your Drupal. Read on to find out more.
Although there is no specific prerequisite for learning Drupal it would help to have a strong understanding of PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS and Javascript before you take up Drupal. This is more so if you are attending a Drupal Worshop conducted by us or by any other provider. You can always pick up and learn these as you learn Drupal but if you have already met the prerequisites then learning Drupal would be much more easier than if you have not.