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Many Drupal users have encountered the following error in their Drupal sites. "user error: Access denied for user: 'user@host' to database 'database' query: LOCK TABLES sequences WRITE in [path]/database.mysql.inc on line xx". If you are facing the same error message in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have encounterd the following error in the status reports page of their Drupal site. "HTTP request status Fails Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality." If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users received a "user warning: Got error 28 from storage engine query: SELECT DISTINCT b.* FROM blocks b LEFT JOIN blocks_roles r ON b.module = r.module AND b.delta = r.delta WHERE b.theme = 'garland' AND b.status = 1 AND (r.rid IN (2,3) OR r.rid IS NULL) ORDER BY b.region, b.weight, b.module in /home/your-username-here/public_html/modules/block/block.module on line 433." If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users received a "Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' " error in their Drupal sites. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users encountered this error "An image thumbnail was not able to be created." when trying to upload a picture to Drupal 6.x. If you are encountering this same error in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have encountered a "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; upgrading MySQL client." during the setup of a new install of Drupal. If you are facing this error while installing Drupal then continue reading to find the solution.

Colorbox is a pretty nice JQuery plugin having a lot of cool features. Recently we had worked on a Drupal project in which we had to load some content programmatically via Colorbox. To be more specific we had to load the Drupal node/add form within Colorbox before presenting it to the user. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and want to know how to load a node/add form inside a Colorbox popup then follow the steps mentioned here.

We were requested by a client to create a Twitter application in their Drupal site which would post the published content automatically on Twitter. If you want to know how to create a Twitter app for posting published content on Twitter in a Drupal 7 site, then continue reading

In one of my Drupal based shopping cart site powered by Ubercart, the products were customizable(ie, end users had the permission to edit the product). So in order not to overwrite the existing product and to save the changes made by the end user, I had to create a new node with all the values of the product. So I created a new content type and related this to the product content type and saved the node as a new one. If you want to know how to convert a custom content type in a Drupal site into an Ubercart product, read on.

Tags are very helpful when it comes to searching. You may get accurate search results, if you have given correct tags for your content. In Drupal 7, there is a default 'tag' field for 'article' and 'page' content type. The million dollar question is 'What if these are not the content types that you have used to create your content'?. Don't worry , continue reading to find how to add tags for your custom content type.

A few Drupal users wanted to know how to show specific content in a page using Colorbox. If you are facing the same question with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users have requested to know how to load Javascript within Colorbox. If you are looking for a way to load a JS app in Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have wanted to know how to disable Colorbox for mobile browsers. If you are looking for a way to disable Colorbox for mobile devices for your Drupal site then read on to find out the method to do that.

Many Drupal users have reported that Colorbox was not working on their site. If you are facing the same issue with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out the possible solutions.

Many Drupal users reported that the Image floats left inside the Colorbox Window. If you are encountering the same situation with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users reported that when enabled the Colorbox module breaks their site's AJAX. If you are facing the same situation with Colobox in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

We were faced with a situation in one of our clients Drupal sites where we had to add View relationships programmatically with custom database tables. The site was running on Drupal 7. If you are faced with the same situation in your Drupal website and want to know how to add View relationships programmatically with custom database tables in Drupal 7 then read on to know the solution.

One of our Drupal clients requested us to create an online envelope editor in their Drupal site. The envelope was a product in Ubercart as the site was a Drupal e-commerce site. The envelope was to be edited by the user of the site using a form interface. We needed to add custom fields to the product content type in Ubercart to get the feature up and running. If you want to know how to add custom fields to a product content type in Ubercart, read on to find out how we did it.

Many Drupal users have wanted to know an alternative site to download the Colorbox plugin required by the Drupal Colorbox module as they were not able to download the Colorbox plugin as the site was down. If you are pondering over the same question regarding Colorbox in your Drupal site then continue reading.