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In your Drupal website consider that you have created a block using views to display some content.Consider a situation where there is no content in the view.In normal situation if there is no content to be displayed, an empty block will be displayed which will be very odd for a website.So in this article I am mentioning so configuration changes that need to be done so that the block wont be displayed when there is no content.

In wordpress site one of the most commonly used plugin is Contact Form 7. In this plugin one of the main feature is that when a user submits a form we could get IP address of the user, but unfortunately we can't get the location. Here I will be explaining how we can create a custom plugin to get the location by using corresponding IP address and a third party service. You can also refer the article How to get the IP address and Country code using the API key of a third party service?

Recently I ran into a problem of counting the words, sentences and characters in every articles and to display it on the bottom of all the articles pages in Drupal site. So I have checked and found out the way of doing this task.

Debugging is a process of finding and reducing the number of bugs. In the web applications development we used to work mostly on the development site at first and debug the errors then we will go for the live site to just push the modifications which we made in the development site. In such cases there may be a chance of error occurrence in the live site even if we come up from the development site. Then we have to handle the debugging process in the live site at that point of time. In the development site process we can do the debugging process easily, there is no need to worry about the customers since because it is not viewable to the customers. But when it comes to the live site we have to consider about the customers who visit the site.

Drupal 6 will not allow you to create multiple access callbacks for a menu. In hook menu, the access callback will accept only string value, not an array. But I had a requirement in my project to add a custom access callback without removing the existing access callback. My custom access callback should be executed first. After that if some condition satisfies in my custom function the original access callback should get executed.

While working on a wordpress site I came across a problem to customize the file upload button in Contact Form 7 plugin. I tried a few tweaks using CSS to customize the button but no luck. Later I found a trick using CSS and jQuery which is explained below. In my previous article "How to display location of an user in a mail send using Contact Form 7 plugin by passing the IP address in a Wordpress Site?", I have explained about Contact Form 7 plugin.

With the coming of broadband the importance and relevance of audio/video streaming has increased to a pretty impressive level on the internet. Almost all media related websites contain video/audio streaming in one form or the other. Streaming videos is a good choice when you don't want people to download your videos and share with others. Here are some quick steps to test video/audio streaming.

Deploying a site from dev to live is a process that has to be done carefully especially sites where financial information is being handled such as shopping cart. From a testers point of view these are the basic things to be taken care of like user accounts debug code or even a permission change that have been pushed to the dev site.

Suppose your Drupal projects handles products which can be shipped from one location to another and you are using Ubercart shipping quote' module to handle payment related to weight and shipping zones. Admin have the permission to add Zones rate and weight for each product, and the registered user's can buy the product. Here I am going to explain some of the test cases to be tested while testing this functionality.

Kaltura is an open source online video platform. It offers video management facilities. If we have an account in kaltura, it helps us to manage all our media in one central repository. ie, all our videos can be accessed centrally through Kaltura video management console. Kaltura video management console, which has a rich video management system provides lots of services such as,