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[Drupal] How to avoid local Drupal installation being redirected to the live site?

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

I had an issue with the Drupal installation on local setup that the login links are redirected to live. I have changed cookies name and base URL for my local environment, I have also emptied all cache tables, but still it redirects to the live site. The following procedure I did to get the redirection correctly to my local environment

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Let us consider a situation in which we have to use the custom settings that has been done in a drupal site to another drupal site. The common way which is followed in this type of situation is by doing the same custom settings in the new site. But this is not that easy to do. The same situation can be handled by using the 'features module'. The following steps have to be followed in order to use the Features module in Drupal.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

We can upload video to Facebook personnel account or Facebook business page using PHP sdk . Here I am using PHP SDK version 3.2 for uploading process. For downloading PHP SDK go to the link https://developers.facebook.com/docs/php/gettingstarted/3.2.3 and then click download button.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

I had a requirement in one of my Drupal projects to post a picture on Facebook automatically. We have many modules in Drupal to be used for the same task but the most simplest way is to use PHP sdk. To auto post a picture on Facebook we need

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

A comma-separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain-text form. A CSV file have of number of records, separated by line breaks; fields in each record separated by some other character or string, usually a comma or tab. All records have an identical sequence of fields.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

A feature is a set of Drupal entities, taken together to satisfy a certain use-case. A Drupal Module 'features' is used to create custom features. Let us check how to create a custom feature.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Entity Field query in Drupal 7 is the querying technique used in the Drupal to cut short the huge queries. It is like an ORM(object relation mapping) technique like doctrine. Let us go through the entity Field querying methods.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

For our Drupal site, a requirement were to use Facebook connect module and legal module. Once enabling both the modules and adding legal condition, Facebook connect module let us to login through Facebook on our Drupal site.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Altering a query is to change the results as desired by the user. hook__views_query_alter() in Drupal is for altering the query. Before start reading, you should have an idea about what is a view and how views created? See here.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

Altering a form means adding or change any forms in a module. In Drupal 7 form alter could be done using the function hook_form_alter()

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

Being a fresher to Drupal, your first step is to focus on the Coding Standards In Drupal 7. Drupal community is very serious about coding standards. Entire source code should follow the current standards, regardless of the (core) version.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

Article will be explaining how to create a Pop up using the colorbox module for our Drupal website. There are certain circumstances were we need to popup blocks to display messages, images, videos etc. My need was to display a text message on focus out from a particular field inside a content type. Steps are,

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

There is no Drupal website with out a block. As a Drupal developer there are certain cases we need to create custom blocks programatically. While working in a project I faced an issue with a custom Drupal block creation in Drupal 6 version. I think some of you also faced the same situation,Custom block creation in Drupal 6 is not a big issue. I think the below code will help to handle the situation.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

I have a requirement to post a comment on a Facebook user's timeline from our Drupal website. In submitting a Drupal form, I have to post a comment on Facebook. We need to access Facebook api so we have to download Facebook SDK for PHP. Facebook SDk allows developers to access the Facebook api ie to post the comment on Facebook. Also create an app on Facebook, once you create an app it will generate a Facebook app id and Facebook secret code.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

There are certain occasion where we need to customize the submit button as per the requirement, maybe for the visual impact of the site or as per the requirements from the client if you are developer. How to handle this situation ?. This is actually a simple task. Only thing we need to do get the new image for the submit button as suitable and matches for the page inside the Drupal website.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

We were working on a Drupal website which was handed to us by one of our Drupal clients. We were required to add a new content type to the Drupal site and create the associated views with it. While working on adding a feature we found that the taxonomy terms (tags) were not appearing on the node page of any content type. If you find that the tags have been missing then read on to know the most likely source of the issue.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

In my previous article "How to create a php script to add a new set of category by using existing taxonomy term as reference id in Drupal 6 ?" I have explained upto replacing taxonomy term using term id. In this article replacing taxonomy term using term name and also how to create a crone job for executing the script in regular intervals.

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

We are all aware about the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Yantex, Bing, etc. will blacklist the sites (In case of websites), if duplicate content has been identified. While we are establishing the business to world, we may require to implement country specific domains and multilingual support in the websites. Nobody will take care of how the search engines consider all those pages.

Technical Solution | 2 min read

Dropbox Uploader is a shell script that can be used to upload, download, delete, list files from Dropbox. It's written in BASH scripting language and only needs cURL.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

While cloning a new Drupal project in my local machine using ubuntu terminal, I got an error message like, "WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!, Permissions 0664 for '/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open". I found a solution for this type of error like change the file permission of id_rsa file.

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[Drupal] How to avoid local Drupal installation being redirected to the live site?

[Drupal] How to use Features module in Drupal 7?

How to upload a video to facebook using php sdk 3.2

How to upload a photo to facebook using php sdk 3.2

[Drupal] How to create map markers on the map automatically from CSV file.

[Drupal] How to create custom feature in Drupal 7

[Drupal] What is Entity Field Query in Drupal 7

[Drupal][Solved] Redirection issue while using FB Connect and Legal Module in Drupal 7

[Drupal] How to Alter Views query in Drupal 7

[Drupal] How to Alter form in Drupal 7

[Drupal] How to follow coding standards in drupal 7?

How to create a Pop up window using the color box module for Drupal websites

[Drupal] How to create a custom block programatically in Drupal 6

[Drupal] How to post comments on Facebook wall from Drupal site programatically

How to change or style a file upload submit form buttons in Drupal

[Drupal][Solved] Missing taxonomy terms in a node view

[Drupal] How to create a php script to add a new set of category by using existing taxonomy term as reference id in Drupal 6

[Drupal] Handle duplication with multiple languages in Drupal sites

How to implement the automatic dropbox upload script to post the back-up file to the sites dropbox

[Drupal] [Solved] WARNING: Unprotected private key file!