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Suppose your Drupal project has the option to upload Youtube videos which will be displayed in the site. Adminstrator has the option to upload videos in two ways Admin can add Youtube through direct url uploading. Admin can add Youtube through adding a video embed code of youtube.

Here is a document which describes how the contents in a View can be displayed in a table format as well as it can be dragged and dropped from one row to an another row without using any additional jQuery functions. We have done this in Drupal 7 and this can be achieved using a module named 'DragabbleViews'. You can download it from this link: http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews. This module requires the 'Views' module to be installed already in your system.

By default in drupal if we click on any taxonomy term, it will execute the taxonomy/term/% menu. We can change this default taxonomy/term/% menu path to a custom menu path. In one of my project I had a requirement to execute a custom function for my vocabulary in stead of executing the taxonomy/term/% menu and I had found a solution for this. The following are the steps to be done.

The following is the shell script that will shutdown all computers in the network. This script will be really help full for system administrators who need not want to check all systems, whether all the systems in the office has been shutdown properly when the employees leave the office. The script will check all the active ips in the network and write the those ips to a file. It also login to each system and execute the shutdown command. The things that are to be done before running the script is to 'Make sure your public-key has been added in the authorized_keys file in .ssh folder of root'. This allows the script to login to each system by the method of public-key authentication rather than prompting for password. And also the 'StrictHostKeyChecking no' will avoid all prompts during ssh.

As you know that it is not easy to check manually the broken links in a website. Suppose if the site contains thousands of web pages and the pages keeps on getting added or deleted at the same time. In this situation it is impossible to manually test the broken links in a site. So in this case you need a tool to do this job. 'Xenu's Link Sleuth' free application helps you to check all links on web pages for errors. The application will shows which links are broken and which are active. So here I am explaining how to test broken links in a website by this application.

Suppose your Drupal project handles products which can be purchased through online and you are using Ubercart 'taxes' module to handle tax rates which are applicable to your product. Also Admin has the permission to add tax rates and conditions. And a registered user can buy the product. Here I am going to explain some of the test cases which you have to execute while testing this functionality. The cases you have to test are:

In this article I will be explaining a task I did for one of our sites in Drupal6. In this site, for every content type say event the users manually entered year along with the title in title field. So my task was to remove the year from title and save it in a seperate cck field.

This article will be explaining a module we implemented in site Free Drupal Themes, its called Theme Switcher. This module helps in switching between any enabled themes without logging in. In previous article How to enable multiple themes using command promte? I had explained how to enable multiple themes using drush.

Twig is a modern template engine for PHP. It is fast, flexible, and more secure. Twig is a template framework and is a direct replacement for PHP Template. There are lots of differences between PHP template and Twig. Drupal 8 is developed with help of Symfony2 framework, and the template files in Drupal 8 are in twig format.Read on to find out more about twig and debugging of twig.

Webform is a helpful module that enables you to submit information such as contact forms, surveys etc. It is easy to configure webform in a drupal site. Now, what about displaying a webform inside a colorbox? Although it is easy to install colorbox module and write custom code to display webform, we also have to effectively handle form submission and validation errors. However, there is an easy way in drupal7 to display a webform inside a colorbox.

If you need to import users from the data given in a file in drupal 6, then user import module is helpful. Using this module, we can upload the file in csv format, which contains user details and select the details from the uploaded file using the user import module.