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Consider that you are working on a Drupal website. It is not possible to work on the live website because it will result in crashing of the site if we make some mistake. So the best way to avoid this problem is by setting up the same site in the local machine and after that working on it. The following steps have to be performed if you want to setup a Drupal site in your local machine.

It is important to keep our drupal site up-to-date. New releases of contributed modules and Drupal core come out periodically to address critical security fixes, and it's important to stay on top of updates as they are released. It is difficult to download the latest version of each module separately and then remove the old one from the sites/all/modules folder and put the the new one in that place and all. Drush comes to help us in updating the modules in an easy way. The following are the steps to update the non hacked modules using drush

Ignoring files:From time to time there are files you don't want git to track. There are a few methods of telling git what files to ignore. In which .gitignore file method is one of the popular method

To connect into MySQL database with the help of PHP based web applications we are in need of mysql_connect or by PDO method. Here i have added a common function which will be useful for the php based websites to connect into the database.

Recently I ran into the problem of mouseovers on touch devices. In short, they doesn't exist. I had just created a layout of four images which listed at the centre of the home page as like our zyxware website. And if you check the site on mouseover the image it will expand and while clicking the image it will go to the link added. But the problem is the mouse over wont work on the touch mobile devices.

While accesing site from mobile it needs to be changed as per the mobile reqirement. So we need to check whether the site is accessing from mobile devices or from the desktop or laptop. There is an easy way to detect it witht help of Javascript.

In a drupal site if you want to display the location of a particular place then there are many modules to help you out. In this article I am writing about such a module. The name of the module is 'Location Map module'. In this article you can read about the configuration that has to be done while using the module. The module uses google maps to locate the particular locations.

Recently, I got stuck with a strange issue while using CKEditor. The problem was, When code such as v-aligns for tables or inline styles are added in ckeditor and saved then everthing things works fine, but as soon as the page is edited inline css and classes gets stripped off the content.If you are also facing the same problem then read on to know how to solve this.

cPanel offers a very simple point and click way to create subdomains in your hosting account. Read-on to know how to create subdomain for a site using cpanel.

This is a documentation on how the items displayed in a View can be grouped by using fields in the view. This can be performed using the 'Grouping field' option inside the Format settings of Views. Our client had a requirement where the view items displayed in the page needs to be grouped according to the filtered taxonomy term field.

Zyxware is conducting a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the technical festival, Shaastra 2015. The workshop will be held from Jan 3 - 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies and Mr. Vimal Joseph, Technical Architect.