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In one of my recent projects i came across a situation where i had to add a machine name for the node title. If you have ever came across such a situation Drupal safeword is your friend.

If you are a Drupal developer and not a stranger to themes and its behaviors, let us see how to create a subtheme in Drupal. A sub theme is quite similar to a theme. When we create a sub theme, it has an independent folder structure as any theme. The only difference is that it inherits everything from parent theme. There are no limits in creating subtheme for a subtheme and so on.

As part of Drupal development project, we always use drush commands. Drush or Drupal shell refers to a command-line shell and scripting interface for Drupal. Drush enables developers to effectively manage and maintain their Drupal websites from the server command line. A few frequently used commands are listed below.

While handling a view in one of my Drupal 7 project I need to display only a text message for empty result. I used VBO (View Bulk Operation) in that view for delete, enable, disable etc operations. But it shows the VBO form even if there is no more data to display. To hide the VBO form in an empty view, do the following :

Zyxware is honoured to be part of DrupalCamp Bangalore 2015, the first and biggest Drupal Camp in Bangalore, held on 25th and 26th of July at the CMR Institute of Technology (CMRIT). Zyxware was also one among the silver sponsors for the event. A team under the leadership of Mr.Vimal Joseph, Technical Architect, Zyxware Technologies, represented the company at the event.

Drush commands are not the strangers for drupal developers. We use drush to clear cache, enable-disable modules, install-uninstall modules, set variables and even more.

Have you ever found it difficult to style a block with the block unique ID, if yes then read on this. There is this amazing module named Block Class which will help you in adding a class name to the blocks.

While working with entity, I always had a doubt as to why we use Entity and Entity Field query except Db_select() in Drupal. It is a great and fast way to organize and extract our data in Drupal sites. Here are a few more points to support these concepts :

Flex Slider is a power full Drupal module which integrates with the flex-slider library which allows us to build responsive and resizable slideshows

My last work was related to theming a Drupal website. While theming I've faced a major issue ie., in different OS and different browsers the styling of pages have slightly different changes . How to solve this issue?

The one thing that all bloggers want is to boost traffic to their blog. However, everyone does not have the appropriate online writing strategies. Blogging can be a really tough job. It requires a lot of time, money, and considerable experience to create a business blog that people like to read and follow. Moreover, you have to deal with a lot of competition.

Sometimes, we may come across a situation where we need to exclude a particular page from being indexed. We had a similar requirement in one of our projects where we had to exclude home page from being indexed by apache solr search. Read on to know how we executed it using hooks provide by apachesolr.

The article provides tips for creating an effective email newsletter that can increase traffic and revenue. It emphasizes the importance of catchy titles, relevant topics, unique and quality content, personalization, readability, providing information rather than advertising, offering incentives, listening to subscribers, and sticking to a schedule.

Drupal webforms are used to create custom forms in site, mainly for the surveys functionality. We can take the submissions results and analyse the averages of the submissions. Here we got a client requirement that he had to give a set of questions to the users to his users and he wants graphical representation of the submission results.

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile-first web sites. Bootstrap is the array of features and reusable components.