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After the core update, the site will definitely be malfunctioning as expected, as long as it isn't WSOD, you're fine! Ignore it and move forward with the migration process. If you were using a custom theme, then in all probability your site will appear broken because your theme was designed for Drupal 6 and the core is now Drupal 7. If you were using custom or contrib modules to display content or blocks the same would happen because the modules are disabled and still Drupal 6.

1. hook_init() It gets called at the beginning of a page request (but after the modules and themes are loaded into memory) and it?s typically used to set global parameters that may be needed in the request. One thing to note about it is that it is not run on cached pages. 2. hook_views_api() hook_views_api() is not a Drupal core hook but one from the Views module .It is used to register Views API information (including the necessary files for Views) usually for implementing hook_views_default_views().

Migrating or upgrading a Drupal website is a relatively easy process. But to any change there is a certain risk associated with it, more so in this case depending on the variability of content and complexity of theme. The least troublesome to migrate would be a site with little to no custom code or modules. But this wasn't the case for zyxware.com. This article outlines the migration process and links will be provided to detailed descriptions from all of these outlines.

In order to communicate and interact with other web applications we need to use standard communication protocol called web services. The web applications such as Facebook, flip kart, twitter etc can communicate to and fro with Drupal sites.Web services will also allow our Drupal site to pass along content and data to external web applications existing on remote servers.

If you were given the option to watch either an informational video or read chunks of texts on a website, which would you prefer? Obviously, the video! In fact, online videos are fast becoming a vital source for content marketing. These days, most of the companies across the globe are utilizing the medium, with customers preferring videos over white papers, case studies, and live demos.

This article is prepared with the experience of migration on zyxware.com and I have tried my best to generalize it to migrate any Drupal 6 website to Drupal 7. The issues mentioned in these articles, although common in sites that have been migrated, need not be present in yours. Please learn from these articles and keep these articles as a safe practice, not as a guide to migration. Migration is different for every website!

This step may seem irrelevant, but is absolutely necessary as the minor versions may have database changes which maybe reflected in major upgrade. (Minor upgrade example : 6.11 to 6.19 and major upgrade example : 6.19 to 7.34). If you are using git, make sure to checkout a new branch before updating code so that the code is backed up and take a dump of the local database you are working on.

This is probably the part that will crash your site, so proceed with extreme caution! Migration actually starts here. Unlike the previous steps you will not be able to use drush to overwrite your core to Drupal 7. This has to be done manually. You have to download the latest stable version of Drupal 7 and paste into the root folder of your website. Make sure to not overwrite .htaccess and robots.txt. When you overwrite, merge into the folders and replace the files. That being said, there are some prerequisites to this step.

"A youth from Kerala establish Zyxware Technologies, an IT Company that offers an array of services"

Drupal 7 comes with two primary options for e-commerce websites: Commerce. Commerce is new for Drupal 7 and redefines the way Drupal handles the e-commerce. Selecting correct e-commerce module suite for your webshop is an essential starting point. Commerce is an exciting entry to the Drupal shopping cart category written by some of the same developers who previously managed Ubercart.

First of all, Why we need to choose Drupal for implementing multilingual sites?. Drupal 7 is having the flexibility and scalabilty, compared to any other content management systems, online tools and desktop programs. So its very easy to maintain a multilingual site, which is essential for corporate sites.