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How To Boost Your Site Through Inbound Marketing

News | 3 min read

Having a powerful CMS like Drupal is just the foundation for organizations to boost their digital presence. Today, business and public sectors are looking for more than just a website, they want a complete platform that enables digital marketing too. Inbound marketing is making sweeping changes in the way content of a website is viewed. An increasing percentage of site visitors are converted to contacts, leads and ultimately to business generated.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

You might be getting the most from your Drupal 6 website, but with versions 7 and 8 already on full gear, you might hurt your web presence sooner than later. Drupal 7 And 8 Offerings You Cannot Disregard It’s time to make a planned move to a more recent Drupal version now. Some of the features that make Drupal 8 move worthwhile include: Better Content Management Experience The content management experience is even more flexible and efficient with in place editing and advanced image handling.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

To load a node details using its id in Drupal 8 use the following syntax: $node_details = Node::load($nid); $node_details->field_FIELD_NAME->value;

Technical Solution | 4 min read

In Selenium Webdriver, a browser session can be closed using two webdriver commands: close() and quit(). This article talks about the details.

Drupal Solution | 4 min read

Discover the top 10 reasons why Drupal is the ideal choice for ecommerce development. From flexibility to scalability, learn how Drupal can take your online store to new heights.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

I want to programmatically create taxonomy vocabulary and it should be enabled and disabled while the module installs and uninstalls the process. So first of all I have created a YAML file based on the vocabulary name with necessary definitions.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

In this article lets see how to import and export translation strings to Drupal site. Drupal uses the .po (portable object) and .pot (portable object template) extensions for the translation files. Difference between .po and .pot files:

Drupal Solution | 3 min read

Businesses are getting more stringent about choosing a platform that guarantees effective content marketing. Marketers expect to see compliance with web standards, scalability, integration and customization, all bundled in a single offering. Users are looking for an ideal platform that places more power in their hands. To obtain measurable Return on Investment (ROI), more and more marketers are beginning to rely on Drupal, and the reasons are remarkably striking.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

To process very large data is very much time-consuming, it may lead to PHP timeout error. To process very large data, Drupal offers a batch API. The Batch API allows you to run one or more operations on a large set of data without timeout and feedback on the progress of the operation. Advantage of Batch API: Avoid PHP timeout. Display the progress of the process. Avoid out of memory situations. Let's look a simple example in Drupal 6 that use batch API:

Business Solution | 3 min read

Electronic health records churn out zillions of patient data bytes, which can transform care delivery. To be successful, organizations must work towards cost containment, stakeholder advantage, process efficiencies, high market worth, and targeted decision making. It is the power of the digital that propels this change towards customer-centric, value-based care. Here are four features, every healthcare organization must consider for successful consumer journeys during their digital strategy.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

We were asked to provide an estimate for a Joomla client who wanted to know the feasibility of converting their Joomla site to Drupal. Before we provide an estimate it is our practice to review the existing setup of the client. The version of the CMS is what we check first when we do the review. Read on to know how to know the version of Joomla sit without admin access.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

Thinking your site won’t be hacked or is not worth hacking, can cause you to not take that extra precaution needed. Hacking is usually for using the server to send spam emails or as a temporary web server to serve files of inappropriate even illegal content. Hackers search the internet with automated scripts to find possible security issues in software. Here are 5 ways to keep your site safe from hackers.

News | 2 min read

Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal acknowledges Zyxware’s contributions to the development of Drupal. Drupal powers more than one million websites. Being an Open source and Free software, Drupal relies heavily on sponsors and code contributions for its development and enhancement. According to Buytaert, 659 organization worldwide has contributed code to Drupal.org just in the last one year.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Advanced REST Client API is used to test interaction between various levels of software components. Testing is done using the API endpoints validation is performed based on the return value. Response can be Success true or Success false which can be tested by common testing techniques.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

Moodle is a Learning Platform and also it is known as a course management system (CMS). In moodle, we can add courses for giving training.

Drupal Technical | 8 min read

Drupal 8's routing system works with the Symfony HTTP Kernel. To do basic route operations, you don't need to learn very much about the Symfony HTTP Kernel. Routing system in Drupal 8 is introduced by replacing the routing parts of hook_menu() in Drupal 7, and its parts, used for creating tabs, menu entries, contextual links, access arguments and actions are taken over by other sub-systems of YAML files (.yml) that provide metadata about each item and its corresponding PHP classes that serves the underlying logic.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

In Drupal 8, third party libraries are downloaded and managed via composer. In Drupal each project must contain only one vendor folder. Composer Manager allows single vendor/directory shared across all modules which prevents code duplication and version mismatches by merging the requirements of all the found modules into the consolidated composer.json file.

Business Insight | 4 min read

Warren Buffett caught my attention when he did something wise that only significantly few rich people (you can count on the fingers of one hand) in the world’s history will ever dare to do. Warren Buffett, an investment guru, is one of the wealthiest businessmen in the world. There have always been rich people who lived on this earth. But what makes him different is what caught my attention, and I’m sure that of thousand of others.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

DrupalCon Dublin is right around the corner, and the preparations are going full steam ahead. DrupalCon is like a Carnival that has come to town for the Drupal developers especially those in Europe. The excitement is rocketing sky high with a thousand and one things to get done before the 26th of September. The conference is to be held at The Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland from 26th September to the 30th September.

General

How To Boost Your Site Through Inbound Marketing

Do You Really Need to Upgrade from Drupal 6?

[Drupal] How can we load node, file, taxonomy entities by id in Drupal 8?

What is close() and quit() commands in Selenium Webdriver?

10 Reasons to Choose Drupal for Your E-commerce Site

[Drupal 8] How to Create Taxonomy Vocabulary with Module Dependencies Programmatically on Drupal 8

[Drupal] Import and Export Translated Strings

How You Can Improve the ROI of Your Drupal Website

[Drupal] Batch API in Drupal

Four Features of Digital Transformation Healthcare Organizations Must Know

How to know the Version of Joomla Site without Admin Access

5 Tips to Shield Your Website from Hacking

Zyxware: One of the Top 30 Drupal Contributors

Advanced REST Client in API Testing

How to Add, Edit, Delete Courses in Moodle and how to Create Users and Enroll them to a Course?

Drupal 8 Routing

[SOLVED] How to Include Third Party Libraries in Drupal 8 for Custom Modules?

10 Wise Quotes of Warren Buffett for Business Success

How to send a mail programmatically in Drupal 8

Why you need to go to DrupalCon Dublin?