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[Drupal] How to give images for menu items

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

In Drupal, while adding a menu item, we can give it a title, description, path and such details. It is not possible to give images for these menu items at the time of creation, by default. If you are looking for a solution, then read on. This particular task can be achieved by overriding the theme function theme_menu_item_link() in our theme's template.php Use the below function in your template.php :

Drupal Technical | 1 min read

There may arise situations when you would want to display the contents of a block inside a template file or along with any other output variables. module_invoke() function can be used for this purpose. The module_invoke() is a function to invoke a hook in Drupal. The syntax for module_invoke is different for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Forgetting a password is a usual scenario. The first thing that may come to your mind when you forget the password of your site is resetting it. If it is a live site, then we can ask to send a new password by mail. But what is if it is your local site where no mails are configured? well, I know a trick or two to solve this programatically. If you too want to know, then read on. Step 1 : Create a new file and copy the below script in that.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

Fusion is a base theme, with different layout and Drupal UI configuration. This theme includes a "starter" subtheme for CSS theming. If you are also looking to start a subtheme using fusion base theme, continue reading...

Technical Solution | 2 min read

The apt-cacher-ng configuration requires certain changes to be made on the client side. Few changes has to be made on the client system so that during the download process the client system can check for the packages in the apt-cacher-ng server. And if the apt-cacher-ng server doesn't have the required package it will download it from the web. So the client configuration helps to make the download more faster and also helps to reduce the internet connection usage. The few things that are to be noted before configuring apt-cacher-ng clients are

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Tagging a content properly will definitely cause your website's contents to come up properly in search results. Tagging can be done manually and automatically. If you are using a Drupal6 site and you want to tag your contents automatically, I know exactly what you need. For that I would prefer you read on. Our goal is to tag the contents automatically for which we require the following modules :

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

Multiple database access in a site can create overheads. There is a chance of this being adversely affecting the site performance if the size of the website is considerably large. Consider a function that returns the details of a new product. And if we call this function in different regions of a page, the query will be executed for each function call. ie, multiple database requests are made for the same result.

Technical Solution | 2 min read

One of our Drupal clients had requested us to work on their Drupal website which was built around the ability to search the content on the site. Since the default Drupal search was a bit heavy they had opted to use ElasticSearch which was a dedicated lightweight tool for this purpose. Before developing we wanted to check ElasticSearch was running on their server. Read on to know how to check whether Elastic Search is running on your server

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

I was working on a project where the requirement was to display slideshow in a page.Slideshow was created using views_slideshow module with fields as content type field holding image. After all the images were rendered using slideshow a blank image was being displayed before the next transition of slideshow.Here we encountered a problem of unwanted blank image being displayed if you are also facing the same issue then read on to know how to solve this.

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

HTML5 video is a new standard that allows you to add videos to your site without the need for plugins. Any additional software is not required in the user's browser for playing HTML5 standard video play. Drupal comes up with a contributed module that is video.js module. Video.js is a HTML5-based video player with a built-in Flash fallback for older browsers.Read on to know how to install and configure a HTML5 video player for your Drupal site using Video.js

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

We as a PHP Drupal web platform developer most often has to face the situation to export data from one table to another table of same database or to table of another database (if site uses multiple databases) during the process of any change in normal work flow. Most of us normally think to export the data from one table to another by firstly querying the required data from source table and then looping through the query result and inserting them to destination table. This can be simply achieved with a single query.

Drupal Technical | 3 min read

You may be familiar with creating custom forms and creating custom views. But are you familiar with displaying a view according to the submission of your custom form and that too in the same page? If you want to know how you can do this, you may read on.

Technical Solution | 2 min read

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

Panels in drupal is a very usefull feature for displaying the contents in a well organized manner. The site administrator will have full control over the panels.Creating panels via User interface is not a complex task. But there may arise situation when you need to create this via code. This article explains how to achieve this via code. Creating a custom content pane using the ctools content type. Step 1) In the custom module implement the hook_ctools_plugin_directory , to know where the ctools plugin is actually stored

Technical Q&A | 3 min read

Drupal module uses a lot of functionality. Once we enable a module we add many functionalities to Drupal. Sometimes we do not want to display the functionality provided by module but we do want the functionality to work in the background. For example creating a new account is functionality that can be hidden from users. This can be done by hiding some tabs or links in Drupal. Read on to know how to hide existing menu tabs in Drupal.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

This article lists some of the basic MySQL commands how to create a new database, a new database user and granting privileges to a user. How to create a new database from terminal. The first step here is to log in as the MySQL root from terminal using the following command. mysql -u root -p Now this will prompt for the MySQL root password. Enter password : After entering the MySQL root password we will be able to log in to the MySQL prompt. The next step is to create the new database.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

While working on a Drupal project my task was to enable the Drupal feedback module and when a feedback is added by a user, send a mail to corresponding email id. However in the feedback module there in no option to send mail by default. In this article I will be explaining how to send a notification mail to the corresponding email id when a user adds a feedback.

Drupal Technical | 4 min read

One of our Drupal clients required us to cancel the recurring fee order option which was pre-configured in Ubercart using Ubercart recurring fee module in their Drupal 6 site. If you are a Drupal user facing the same situation with Ubercart in your Drupal site and would like to know how to cancel the recurring fee order then read on to find out the solution.

Technical Solution | 3 min read

Apt-cacher-ng can be defined as an apt proxy which caches the packages which you download locally on your computer. Consider you are using a network of computers and you have to install a package on each system then it will be great to configure an apt-cacher-ng on any system in your network so that it will cache the packages once they have been downloaded. Read on to know how to configure Apt-cacher-ng server in Ubuntu

Drupal Technical | 2 min read

You can see certain options in our theme ie in settings page of our Drupal themes like LOGO, SLOGAN etc. We can also add our own options to a theme In this article I will be explaining how to add additional theme settings options to a Drupal 7 theme using hook_form_system_theme_settings_alter.

How To

[Drupal] How to give images for menu items

[Drupal] How to retrieve the content of a Drupal block

[Drupal] How to reset the user credentials in Drupal site

[Theming][Drupal] How to make a fusion sub theme in Drupal 7

How to configure Apt-cacher-ng clients-in a network

[Drupal] How to Implement Automatic Tagging in Contents using Calais?

[Drupal] How to avoid the overhead of executing a database query many times in a page request

[Drupal] How to check whether Elastic Search is running on your server?

[Drupal] How to solve the problem of extra blank images displayed after rendering all the images in views slideshow

[Drupal] How to install and configure a HTML5 video player for your Drupal site using Video.js

[Drupal] How to write MySql single export query

[Drupal] How to show a custom form and a view in a same page

How to resolve the issue "Adobe AIR could not be installed. Install either Gnome Keyring or KDE KWallet before installing Adobe AIR." while installing Adobe AIR 2.6.0 Linux (15.4 MB)in ubuntu 12.04

[Drupal] How to create a custom content pane for panels by programatically in drupal 6

[Solved][Drupal] How to hide menu tabs and menu links in Drupal 7

[MySQL] How to create a new database, database user and grant privileges to a user

[Drupal] How to send a notification mail to the corresponding email id when a users adds a feedback?

[Drupal] How to cancel recurring fee order in Ubercart in a Drupal 6 website?

How to configure Apt-cacher-ng server in Ubuntu 12.04

[Drupal] How to add additional theme settings options to a Drupal 7 theme?