Drupal

Suppose you website sells products. Both anonymous user and registered user will be able to purchase products. And the registration process takes place in two ways. Normal registration process. When an anonymous user first time purchase a product, registration process will take place automatically.

In Drupal we have got a module namely Registration with Profile , to bring an option to upload the profile picture. But here let us gather some information on how this can be brought programmatically. So let's start up with Form API. Following are the steps to get the profile picture uploading option in registration form. Step 1 : In registration form alter :

There are certain cases were we need a copy of our database. In this case we need to export the database in the sql format. This is a simple process and can done in few steps. Certain cases we need full database for example if we need a backup copy of database we need to export the full database and in cases we need to export only certain table from the database. Both are possible. Both the exporting steps are given below

Sometimes the best way to handle variable values on a Drupal site would be with an admin settings form. For example if you want to store different sizes of the same image which has to be displayed in a page, using admin settings form may be more useful as you have the option to change the image whenever desired.

Many of the sites now a days are designed to play video in pop-up window.This can be implemented using color box module and adding link to the video url in anchor tag with class as colorbox-load.Read on to know how to implement this.

If you want to display large amount of content in a page on your site then using text scrollers would be one of the best methods. For example if you have lot of news and events to be displayed in a site, then using text scroller will allow the user to scroll over all the data.This can be easily implemented using views and jcarousel module. Read on to know how to display contents as text scroller in Drupal sites?.

If we create a drupal website and if we are trying to add a new theme for the website from the themes available what to do ? The first thing is to find a suitable theme for the website as per the requirement of the site. Before searching for a new theme we need to do certains things, try to sketch out the general layout of the new site. There are few thing we need to give some importance.

When your trying to implement a new feature(say a module or theme) in your local machine for a website, first thing you have to test is the compatability in all browsers. If you want to test your feature in multiple machines, its not always easy to download and setup on each machine. In my case, I am using Ubuntu and I have to always test compatability of a site in IE browsers which cannot be installed in ubuntu. So what I did here is created a virtual host for my site in my local machine and using my ip address I created a virtual host in other machines so that I could easily access all my sites in my local machine from diffrent machines.