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Drupal allows very fine grained control over how content is presented to the end user. The presentation layer is abstracted beautifully and cleanly designed hooks allows for moving data from the logic layer to the presentation layer. The template file that handles the basic page layout of every drupal site is page.tpl.php and the different regions available for a given theme are all available as HTML elements in page.tpl.php. Another important template file is node.tpl.php which decides how nodes are presented to the end user.
Views is one of the most complex of all Drupal modules and one of the most useful of all Drupal modules. The only downside is that, since it is very complex, not too many people have been able to contribute to the documentation of the module. If you search Google for finding out how to programmatically set a filter in Views2 you probably wouldn't find any help. Here is how you do it.
Feed API provides a powerful means of importing feeds from other sites directly into your Drupal site. What if you want to export your feed as an XML file to a content distributor who wants it on his FTP site? There is of course the traditional approach of using curl to read your feed URL and dump the text as files on to the ftp site. There is not much control that you have over this process. However doing this via Drupal Views will give you fine grained control over the process
SEO requires you to have descriptive titles and URLs matching the title. But when you want to publish your URL some place where the length of the URL is an issue you definitely want short URLs. One solution to the problem is to use URL shortening services like tr.im to shorten the long URLs to short and sweet 9 character urls. But the URL will lose your sites identity. Don't worry there is the drupal way to solve this problem.
We are looking for Hardware Technicians for our Computer Sales and Services operations. The position is open for people with 0-2 years of experience and a Certificate or Diploma in Hardware Maintenance. The responsibilities would include providing service at customer sites, delivering products to customers, taking delivery of goods for servicing and servicing goods at the office. The person should be willing to work normal hardware shop operation hours.
We are looking for an accountant for our combined hardware + software operations. The position is open for somebody with 1+ years of experience and a B.Com degree. The responsibilities would include accounting daily hardware sales and purchases, accounting other operational expenses, accounting software sales and performing statutory company accounting procedures. The person should also be able to demonstrate knowledge in various regulatory matters in accounting. The person should be willing to work extended hours to sync with the hardware operations. He/she should also have to visit and consult with our Chartered Accountant on a regular basis.
Unlock the power of Drupal SEO with these 15 essential modules. Learn how to boost your website's visibility and drive more traffic today.
We have been working with Drupal for the last 3 years now and we just love Drupal. Every day we work with it, we get more and more reasons to love it even more. As a token of our respect for this system, we have become official paid members of Drupal association. We can now proudly flaunt the association badges on our site.
If you create anything other than a very small site using Drupal you will end up using Views and CCK, two of the most important contributed modules in Drupal. Views allow users to dynamically create different presentation of tabular data from the database. However this also necessitates dynamic page titles for pages using views.
Openoffice comes with a stripped down version of regular expression for both of its Find/Replace Utility as well as its Calc Formulae. It however still packs a punch for most common operations. Here is how you can strip HTML tags from an open office document using the Find/Replace dialog.