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Facebook OAuth module helps to extract data from user's Facebook account details and map that user's Drupal account during registration. The user details will be extracted directly from the Facebook account details and user can define the custom field types to be extracted with validations. Validations means the mandatory field info's that should be present in the Facebook account details before extract using the FBoauth API.
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In one of the Drupal sites were working on, the members of the site frequently found that the nodes they had created were crashing. They would enter content into the node fields and try to save the node. The node would appear to save with apparently no error message. They found that it was not accessible at all afterwards. This wasn't occurring for everyone. We checked the dblog and we saw that the users were getting the error PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value:. Read on to know how we solved this issue.
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Views Bulk Operation module is helpful in the cases where we need to perform a particular operation for more than one row in a view. Some of the operations includes deleting multiple contents, publishing/un-publishing contents, change the author of the content, send email etc. In one of our Drupal project I need to perform a action to add a single field for all rows. Drupal provides a hook to declare the required operations and handle extra changes to the bulk operations settings.
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Entities are very important thing in Drupal. Entity type is connected with lot of tables in data type. i.e entity is a object oriented concept. Entities are used to show thw relation ship with different field tables. An entity is a container for bundles. Entities can contain multiple bundles. Examples of an entity are Node, User, File, Taxonomy term, Taxonomy vocabulary.
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Some alignment issues occurring in IE may be a test for your patience. We had once worked in a Drupal 6 site, and the design look well every where, but there is a small alignment problem shown up in IE. Applying a conditional style sheet saved our time. Read on to know about how to apply conditional css in a Drupal 6 site.
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SimpleAds module allows advertisement in Drupal websites. I had a requirement in one of my Drupal sites to add advertisements in the site contents area. I came across a Drupal module- SImpleAds which helped me to solve the fix and the below the details on the configurations to done to use SimpleAds module
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Bootstrap twitter is includes a responsive, mobile or tablet first fluid grid system that ... it is styling on small and medium devices but also on large devices if a .col-lg-* class is not present. My company has a lot of free Drupal themes developed. But there is a problem i.e these are not responsive. So we started to change this themes in responsive and For that we suggest the new bootstrap framework for responsive. We success fully converted the plane html code in to bootstrap grid format.
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In this section we are going to add social media icons to the responsive theme in Drupal. Before starting we need to upload and install any responsive theme(I used CoperateClean theme of Drupal). We will implement this social media icons by creating a block in Drupal and then setting up the cascading style for that block. Below are the simple steps to add a social media icons: Step1: Create a block