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Come 24 February 2016 and Drupal 6 will reach its end-of-life and will no longer have active community support. The newly-launched Drupal 8 and Drupal 7 will be the community’s focus and Drupal 6 will not receive security updates which are so important for the functioning of a website. It will also be a prudent move not to launch a new project with Drupal 6 and get stuck with a soon-to-be-obsolete Drupal version.

Drupal has been the core of our business at Zyxware for over 9 long years now. Everyday, this brilliant CMS continues to surprise us with its never-ending choices of vibrant themes, multi-functional modules and tools. We have built thousands of Drupal websites for numerous clients across the globe.

We would have came across many Drupal sites run down into performance issues and we always start blaming the Drupal framework or MySQL queries, PHP versions. You need to debug into the actual cause for the issues rather than pointing on some non-even solutions.

In one of my recent project I had a task to create a content type with a select list field of all image styles. But how can we get all image styles in Drupal? In Drupal there is an option to create different image styles using a module 'image'. Image module allows users to upload images into Drupal with proper permissions along with this its thumbnails and additional sizes are created automatically. Image module also gives an image_styles() function that can be used to get all image styles and their settings.

In this article will be explaining how to store user IP address to a custom table during registration and display the result using views.

Finding the best of anything is always a tricky question especially if you are likely to have a bias in the decision and the decision is a subjective one. So we are not going to try to answer the question about which is the best Drupal company in India. Instead we can easily list out three of the oldest Drupal companies in India and let you make a call on which of these suites your requirements best. I have to add a disclaimer that we are the second oldest exclusive Drupal company in India.

One thing we have to keep in mind when asking around for the largest Drupal company in India is that we are only looking at exclusive Drupal companies. There are several aspects that we have to be aware of before we set out to list these Drupal companies.

If you had asked for the best Drupal company in India then the answer would have been a lot more difficult than the one to this question. This is a straightforward question and does not have to depend on subjective opinions and biases or the authors of this article. Drupal is fast growing into one of the most popular enterprise CMSes out there and every other vendor is trying to see if they can build their own Drupal teams but nobody can really go back and claim the spots in the list of the oldest Drupal companies in India.

As one of the oldest and largest Drupal companies based out of India, we have a claim to be in the list of top Drupal companies in India. However, it would be rather difficult to really compare the offerings and quality of services of the different Drupal companies and come up with a really objective way of comparing these Drupal companies in India. So creating a top Drupal company list is going to be a difficult task. Instead, we will list out 3 of the largest Drupal companies in India. Do also note that we have only listed the exclusive Drupal service providers and not the 'me-too' companies.

With the launch of Drupal 8 in 2015, the modern avatar of Drupal, has generated a new kind of buzz amongst web development communities. With this release, the Drupal CMS turned itself into a system to create ambitious digital experiences and offers numerous, exciting ways of editing and publishing content to the World Wide Web, life is definitely going to be easy for users and developers.

SSH keys are a way to identify computers, without using passwords. If you have used git, or if you are an active participant in the open-source community, you will be definitely familiar with the important role of SSH. In the case of remote servers, when using SSH logins, the server will ask for password each time you try to login. This could be avoided by adding public key to server's authorized_keys.

There has been a sea-change in the way people across the world browse the Internet. Over the years, there has been a proliferation in the devices used to access this deluge of websites.

The excitement of the Drupal 8 launch is yet to subside and the buzz it has created is truly phenomenal. However, the users of Drupal 6 are worried about the impact and the challenges they may have to face due to this new release. Come 24 February 2016, Drupal 6’s EOL (end of life) will be a reality and will no longer be supported by Drupal.

The online e-commerce and retail websites are growing at a super fast rate and are evolving into better sites constantly. As consumers expect to get newer and better experiences every time they shop, the technology driving these sites too needs to be growing and evolving simultaneously too. This will ensure that the modern shopper is given a whole new shopping experience with every trip to the online store. In its latest version, Drupal 8 has made adequate changes and additions to its platform to elevate the engagement level with the consumer.

Every marketer and entrepreneur would be familiar with the fact that if you need to attract consumers to your products or services, your website has to be mobile-friendly. For, example you probably are now reading this article on your smart phone, gotcha!! Consumers love to browse products even in their spare time - I know I do! And every time consumers want to search products, they prefer to do it from their mobile phones, which offers more convenience.

Painting a picture or composing music is something we associate with creativity instead of website development. Even the job titles such as 'UX analyst', 'software developer' and 'Drupal developer' does not give readers an inkling of an idea that it is creative work. However, building websites and applications is a lot like a work of art; the final product should be a harmonious collection of information that not only appeals to but also captivates the viewers. It should appeal to the viewer’s aesthetic sense so that they will enjoy browsing through the website. It is also an art of getting into the mind of the user to place content in such a way that even a first time user can easily find what they want rather than being cumbersome to use the application.

The introduction of a brand new Drupal 8 is all set to give developers a powerful yet flexible foundation that promises a brilliant experience to users of the web, commerce, and mobile. Everyone who supports online content, whether you are an IT developer, content manager, decision maker, or a site administrator, is surely in for a wonderful digital showcase.

The introduction of Drupal 8 is sure to create a flutter in the web development circles; this latest version of Drupal, with cutting-edge features, is certainly promising some radical changes. Drupal 8, which embraces a variety of technologies including Symfony, Backbone, Twig, and YAML, is all set to create a revolution in the crowded CMS market.