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How to transfer data in LibreOffice Calc to LibreOffice Writer in table format

Technical Solution | 1 min read

Suppose you have details in LibreOffice calculator and you want to convert this in LibreOffice writer table format. Moving data from Calculator to Writer will come often when you prepare reports. It can be done in different ways. Read on to know how to transfer data in LibreOffice Calc to Libre Office Writer in table format.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

In Drupal, Heirarchical select list simply means the select list has child and parent terms in Select lists. Getting a search field inside a Drupal view is quite easy but how can we get a hierarchical select list inside the 'Filter criteria'? Read on to know how to get hierarchical select list inside a View in Drupal 7

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

We need to develop websites which are capable of handling YouTube video.This feature can be implemented using media YouTube module. Read on to know to add YouTube capability to a content type in a Drupal website.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Drupal drush will work with php version 5.3 or greater. Is some situation default installed version may be less than 5.3. Read on to know how make drush work on PHP CLI versions less than 5.3

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Comma separated values, commonly referred to as CSV is one of the most popular methods for transferring data between systems. Creating code to export data to CSV is extremely useful in many applications. If you want to know how to create CSV files using PHP then read on.

Quality Assurance | 2 min read

Suppose you are testing a drupal website which sells random products. One of the cases you will have to consider is the e-mail invoice which the purchaser recieves after the purchase. In this article, I am going to share the test cases that you have to consider while testing the order verification mail. The cases are:

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Forms can be considered as an integral part of websites. Forms can be included to a Drupal website using Form API. Form API is so extendable that we can customize almost all of the form API elements. In this article I will be explaining 'how to increase the "coolness" of your form elements by adding "spinner" style.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

The Node Gallery module is one of the best options available to create multimedia galleries where both the galleries and the gallery items are nodes. The latest module version for drupal 6.x is 3.2. If you are trying to update the module from 2.0 to 3.2 you will find some issue with the cover photo of galleries. The cover photos won't come up after the update. Read on to know how solve the issue after the Node Gallery update

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OpenX is a free and open source ad server. It is a professional ad server which can be used for managing ads like Google DFP, and has many features like geographical ad delivery limitation, features to limit ad based on the user agent, client IP address, client domain, site variables, just to name a few. OpenX also provides a robust reporting interface. Read on to know how to install Openx in a GNU/Linux based server.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

In one of my project I had a requirement to create an image in a particular image style in a specific folder, when uploading the image itself. In this article I will be explaining how to achieve this using the function image_style_create_derivative in drupal 7 to create an image in a particular image style. One another advantage of this function is that this will create the destination folder if it does not already exist.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

In Drupal we use the global path variables for specific reasons. If in any case there is a change in your site url you just have to update the general configuration page and by doing so every link in your site would be automatically updated. Using the path variable is also less prone to errors.Read on to know how to use the global path variable in Drupal

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If you are a PHP programmer or a Web programmer you would eventually encounter a situation where you need to process XML. Since XML (Xtensible Markup Language) is a widely using format for exchange of information there are libraries to parse an XML file in PHP. Read on to know how to read an XML using DOM. The easiest way to read a well-formed XML file is to use the Document Object Model (DOM) library. In this section we are going to create an object and then load the well-formed XML file. Below is an example of well-formed XML (sports.xml).

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

@font-your-face module helps us to manage web fonts in all popular browsers and it provides the user interface for applying web fonts. If you want to know "How to configure a @font-your-face module in drupal 7" then continue reading

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Sometimes after ubuntu installation we may find certain notification box saying "System program problem detected". This is because the notification is enabled in the apport file in the system. You can enable/disable this notification. All you have to do is to edit the /etc/default/apport file and change the enable value to 0 to disable the notification and if you want enable this change this back. You can follow the below steps to disable this notification.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

Service links in commerce kickstart refers to facebook/gplus/twitter icons in the node page. These links help us to like/recommend/tweet specific page of our site respectively.In a recent project, I got a chance to work with Dupal commerce kickstart. One of the requirements I had to fullfil was to remove the twitter icon form the product's node page. Eventhough I searched everywhere in the net, I was unable to find a solution. If you wanna know how I nailed it, you may read on.

Technical Solution | 1 min read

I assume most of us are familiar with creating tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. But do you know how to learn what is inside that tar file without extracting it? If your answer is "No" then you have come to the right place. The following commands can be used to list the contents of a tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 files. These commands becomes handy when you have multiple tar files and if you are searching for a particular file or folder. To list the contents of a tar file : tar -tvf filename.tar To list the contents of a tar.gz file :

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

Version control system is used to track the history of the files. Also we can revert the files to another version. Version control system will increase the potential of parallel and distributed work , ie it will track time , merge changes and manage the history of changes in the file.If you are a Drupal developer you might find Git a useful tool. Here a few commands that are to be familiar by a Drupal developer

Drupal Technical | 5 min read

If we are using kaltura field in a content type in a Drupal website, the video uploaded using this kaltura field will be displayed automatically in corresponding node page. One of our Drupal client had a requirement that, on clicking a button, load a popup window and play kaltura video in that popup. Read on to know how to embed a Kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website

Drupal Technical | 5 min read

In this article will be explaining how to get feeds from a site programmatically into a Drupal site by passing its site url. The advantage of this, is that we could get multiple feeds at a time by passing their url. You can also refer previous article How to create Quick Tab Programmatically?, so that you can display the feeds in custom blocks.

Drupal Technical | 5 min read

Highcharts is a charting library written in pure HTML5/JavaScript. Without generating an image we can display a graph using the library. I have a requirement to generate a graph on one of my Drupal projects. In my situation, I have to generate a graph depend on user filtered data. So I choose javascript to generate graphs, it will increase the performance also. Otherw ise, it will increase the server load (if I generate a graph as an image.). Read on to know how to integrate Highcharts in Drupal

General

How to transfer data in LibreOffice Calc to LibreOffice Writer in table format

[Drupal] How to get hierarchical select list inside a View in Drupal 7?

[Drupal] How to add youtube capability to a content type?

[Drupal] How to make drush work on PHP CLI versions less than 5.3

How to create CSV files using PHP

Cases to be tested when user receives an Order Confirmation mail

[Drupal] Adding Spinner style to textboxes in Drupal 7

[Drupal][SOLVED] Cover photo missing when updating Drupal Node Gallery module from 6.x-2.0 to 6.x-3.2

How to install OpenX in GNU/Linux?

[Drupal] How to programmatically apply an image style to an image in a Drupal 7 site?

[Drupal] How to use the global path variable in Drupal

[PHP] How to read an XML using DOM

[Drupal] How to configure the @font-your-face module in Drupal 7?

System program problem detected notification after ubuntu installation

[Drupal] How to disable the facebook/twitter/Gplus icons from Commerce kickstart's product page?

How to list the contents of a tar file, tar.gz file, tar.bz2 file

[Drupal][Git] Basic gits commands to be familiar by a Drupal developer

[Drupal] How to embed a kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website?

[Drupal] How to display feeds from a given website programmatically?

[Drupal] Learn how to integrate Highcharts in Drupal?