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Awareness about context plays a key role in effectiveness of each task we have to do because clear thought and action is mostly not possible with vaugue assumptions or guesses. In case of web development using Drupal framework, better if we predefine each and every context we have to go through and it is very important to save our time and helps us to work efficiently. So if you are a web developer and have Drupal in your toolkit, there is an interesting module called Context, which helps you to define contexts and set up your web application based on the defined contexts. This article helps you to start with context module.

An entity is a useful abstraction to make grouping together of fields. Here I am giving you a brief view about how the custom entities created, adding extra fields, adding bundles etc all things attached to entity.

It was not easy to change calling order of hook implementations in Drupal prior to version 7. From Drupal 7 onwards you can control the order of hooks called for different modules. To accomplish it, there is a new hook introduced in Drupal 7. It is hook_module_implements_alter().

I had a requirement to add a multi-level responsive drop down menu in a Zyxware theme. Please do refer the below reference links to know more about responsive themes and free Drupal themes. So I need to edit page.tpl.php, page--front.tpl.php, style.css, template.php etc.

There are some constraints when giving passwords for mysql databases when using with drupal 6. Some special characters will make the site unavailable with the error "Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" even if the password is correct in Drupal 6.

What is htaccess ? The .htaccess file in Drupal is Powerful configuration file for web server. The .htaccess file loaded and executed when Apache server starts. .htaccess file in Drupal is used for varied functionalities such as Authentication, Redirect pages, Rewrite URL ,Directory Index and Limit access etc.

This article discuss about setting snippets for Geany, a light weight IDE especially for Drupal 7 web developers as per coding standards. For those whom doesn't know, snippets are a small piece of source code which are meant for reuse. For example: while coding instead of typing full if conditional statement structure for each time we can just reuse them by the means of creating snippet for the same.

In Drupal there is a lot of interesting modules. One of interesting module is the quiz.module. It is a framework for create interactive quizzes for your visitors. Also it allows for the creation of questions of different types, and to collect the questions into quizzes.