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[Drupal] How to add a custom class in the BODY tag in your Drupal site?

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

In one of my recent Drupal projects I needed to add some extra classes to the body tag. Usually classes are added to the body tag in one of our template file namely html.tpl.php. The classes can be added via an implementation of hook_preprocess_html. Now let's see how it can be done.

Testing | 1 min read

An XML sitemap or simply sitemap is an XML file containing the URL's of a website. Sitemaps are important tools in letting search engines know of all content present on a site. This is more so in cases where search engines are not crawling the site well because of improper linkage or low significance. There is a module called XMLSitemap in Drupal that allows a site owner to easily set up a sitemap on a Drupal website.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

In one of our Drupal projects we were requested to create a Drupal module through which you could upload and extract a zip file and store the extracted files into the files directory in the Drupal site. If you are faced with the same task and wanted to know how to unzip a zipped file from within Drupal.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

If you are a Drupal Developer you will often encounter situations where you have to use the node_save() function to add a new node to your Drupal site. Drupal does not need you to specify the nid in the standard node object. However there will be situations where you need the nid of the saved node for performing additional operations. If you are looking to know how to get the nid from a newly added node using node_save() then read on.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Most Drupal developers know about writing theme functions in Drupal 7. Likewise we can create theme templates too. However Drupal developers rarely create their own templates. Read on to know how to create a custom template in Drupal 7.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

Triggers and Events are very important concept in the Drupal world. If you want to get your hands dirty tweaking Drupal or dive into Drupal development or simply configure a Drupal website properly you need to be familiar with the Drupal Actions and Triggers. If you want to know more about Drupal Triggers and Actions then read on to find out.

Drupal Technical | 5 min read

We had discussed about the basics of Drupal Actions and Triggers in our previous article. Have a look at the article How to create Drupal Triggers and Actions - Part I if you have not done so. In this article we are going to show you how to define Actions and Triggers in code.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

In Drupal 7 Image module offers an image field which makes available an image widget for file fields that can be added to content types. This will allow for upload of images to the image field which can then later be processed by the image module and be presented using the different image styles as configured. This means that image module should have the ability to process files uploaded using this field.

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Productivity Tools | 5 min read

Here is another Free Google App script from Zyxware. This is a simple Google Spreadsheet based Google App which we had developed in-house to manage tasks that are coordinated closely by our Project Management Office. We are releasing this utility as Free Software under a GPL license. We use Redmine as our project management system and manage all the project related tasks through redmine. However there would still have to have management / supervision effort put in to manage and review the execution of these tasks, groups of tasks and the project as a whole. This app helps us in taking care of that.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

A Drupal user using running a Drupal website in another language encountered a situation where the Double-quote (“) character is retained in the URL aliases generated by the Drupal Pathauto module. If you happen to be running a Drupal website in a language other than English and encountering such characters in the alias generated by the Drupal Pathauto module then proceed down below to know the solution.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A number of Drupal users using the Drupal Pathauto module in their Drupal site had reported that Google was indexing node-urls of the pages of their Drupal site instead of the url-aliases. If you are a Drupal user facing the same dire situation in your Drupal site then continue reading to know the solution to the above issue.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A number of Drupal users were encountering a scenario in their Drupal site where the Drupal Pathauto automatic alias checkbox was coming up on all pages by itself. If you are a Drupal user facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out to know the cause of the issue and the easy workaround for the issue.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A number of Drupal users were facing a scenario in their Drupal site where the Drupal Pathauto automatic alias checkbox is visible to anonymous users. If you are a Drupal user facing the same scenario with Drupal Pathauto in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A number of Drupal users wanted to know how to hide the URL path settings fieldset in a Drupal 7 website. If you are a Drupal user facing the same question in your Drupal site with your Drupal Pathauto module even after using hook_form_alter then read on to find out the solution.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A number of Drupal users were encountering a "PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: SELECT * FROM {menu_links}... " error message when clicking on the Drupal Pathauto Patterns tab of their Drupal installation. If you are encountering the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

Many Drupal users have wanted to know how to prevent the path alias from being changed when editing the title. If you are facing issues when the path alias changes after editing the node title in your Drupal module then read on to find out the solutions.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A Drupal user wanted to know how to disable Pathauto for migrated nodes in their Drupal site. If you are a Drupal user who is facing the same issue while migrating nodes in your Drupal site and would like to know how to disable Pathauto for migrated nodes then read on to know the solution.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Multisite concept allow us to run multiple sites in single drupal core installation . Each site in the multisite will have it's own modules and themes as well as files folders. Setting up multiple sites like this will save on patch administration, permissions administration, setting up APC etc. Follow the below steps for running multiple sites in single drupal installation.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

If you want to send out mails from your Drupal website hosted on an Amazon AWS you would want to install a mail server on the AWS instance. Sendmail is an easy mail server to install and set up. Read on for knowing how to install sendmail on your Amazon AWS if it was set up using a Bitnami AMI based on Ubuntu.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

One of the errors we come across in a Drupal 6 installation is "htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /includes/bootstrap.inc on line 860". This is an issue with the Internationalization and Taxonomy translation modules. This issue can be fixed by adding a line in the bootstrap.inc file. If you want to know how to solve the warning, continue reading.

General

[Drupal] How to add a custom class in the BODY tag in your Drupal site?

[Drupal] How to test XMLsitemap on a Drupal Website - A Testers View

[Drupal 6] How to unzip a zipped file from within Drupal?

[Drupal] How to get the nid from a newly added node using node_save()?

[Drupal] How to create a custom template in Drupal 7?

[Drupal Development ] How to create Drupal Triggers and Actions - Part I

[Drupal Development] How to create Drupal Triggers and Actions - Part II

[Drupal] Drupal 7 image field support for TIFF images

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[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto] Double-quote (“) character is retained in the URL alias

[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto] Google is indexing node-urls instead of url-aliases

[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto] Automatic alias checkbox coming up on all pages by itself

[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto] Automatic alias checkbox is visible to anonymous users.

[Drupal Pathauto][Drupal 7] How to hide the "URL path settings" fieldset?

[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto] PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: when clicking on Drupal Pathauto Patterns tab

[SOLVED][Drupal] How to prevent path alias from being changed when editing the title?

[SOLVED][Drupal Pathauto]How to disable pathauto for migrated nodes?

[Drupal] How to set up and configure multiple sites using multisite in a single drupal 6 installation?

[Drupal] How to Install sendmail system on Amazon AWS setup using bitnami Ubuntu AMI?

[SOLVED] Warning: htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /includes/bootstrap.inc on line 860