Drupal

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In Drupal, some modules add tabs to pages and these tabs(Primary tabs) are shown in the top of each page for authenticated users. Some of these tabs are not needed for some roles. There are cases where we want to hide such tabs like, Bookmarks, File browser, Orders etc., from primary tabs for roles other than administrator. We can remove these undesired tabs from primary tabs programmatically.
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This article explains how to programmatically, save custom additions to the user object when a new user account is created in Drupal. We can understand this with an example. Say, we want to create a default album with every newly created user, then we can use the following to save the custom additions. Similarly any of your additions can be done after referring the following.
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In Drupal I have faced a problem while using . Some jQuery functions are available only in some versions. For example thejQuery pluginsre is jQuery function on It is added in the version 1.7 of jQuery only. So while adding this function to my site I have faced the problem with the plugin because the version of jQuery available in my site was 1.5.
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Comment module in Drupal makes it possible for users to comment on the nodes we create. And also the users get a chance to discuss on the topic as well. In this article I try to demonstrate how the comments for a node can be wrapped inside a fieldset. Isn't it a good choice? If you haven't done it, now will be a good time to do so.
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Drupal 7 Views provides an option to add php to the Views footer in a View page. The option is called Global PHP. It allows you to add PHP code to views, to modify its output without adding code in a separate php file. However this option shoud be used with caution as a php error here can bring down the whole site and it would be difficult to detect. There is an alternative though. Read on to know how to add an SQL query to the global footer in Views without directly placing the PHP code in a view.
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Zyxware Technologies is all set to take part in DrupalSouth 2015 to be held from 5-7 March 2015 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre(MCEC) in Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Anoop John, Founder and Managing Director, Zyxware Technologies, and Mr. Babilo Augustine, Director, Zyxware Australia, would represent the company at the event.
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Sometimes working on Drupal Views is very intimidating as this a very complex module serving a variety of needs. No wonder it is one of top Drupal modules. Once I had a particularly difficult time trying to figure out how to get a relationship right in Views by trying to get the user name from the users table using a userid from a field in my custom table. However I managed to figure out the soution by reading the query generated by Views. Read on to know how to add a relationship between a custom table and Users table in Views below
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A landing page refers to a particular web page that a visitor usually reaches upon clicking a link or an online advertisement. This page usually displays information that is directly related to the keywords that has a user has searched for, or the has the relevant keywords directly on the page. Landing pages are basically conversion tools i.e. the primary objective of a landing page is to turn a visitor into a lead.
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Performance testing is one of the testing methods which is carried out to ensure the quality of the product/website we deliver. It mainly focuses on the speed of the application, possible load the product can support, amount of stress the website can handle, user's access to the website etc. Following are the some of the checklists that you can refer while carrying out the performance testing of your application. Read on to know more.
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Debugging is a process of finding and reducing the number of bugs. In the web applications development we used to work mostly on the development site at first and debug the errors then we will go for the live site to just push the modifications which we made in the development site. In such cases there may be a chance of error occurrence in the live site even if we come up from the development site. Then we have to handle the debugging process in the live site at that point of time. In the development site process we can do the debugging process easily, there is no need to worry about the customers since because it is not viewable to the customers. But when it comes to the live site we have to consider about the customers who visit the site.
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Drupal 6 will not allow you to create multiple access callbacks for a menu. In hook menu, the access callback will accept only string value, not an array. But I had a requirement in my project to add a custom access callback without removing the existing access callback. My custom access callback should be executed first. After that if some condition satisfies in my custom function the original access callback should get executed.
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In one of my drupal projects, I had a requirement to open some search result page in a new tab. I had given '#' as a place holder for the href attribute of the search link that needs to execute a javascript function on click to open the search result page on new tabs. I have added necessary code on the click event of this link to open the search results in new tabs and it was working properly. But when I click on this search link the current tab will go to the top of the page, since the '#' attribute will redirect to the top of the page.
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Sometimes we face the White Screen of Death(WSOD) without an error message. White Screen of Death happens due to several reasons. Some of the common WSOD that we face are while making changes in configuration or while running the security updates. If this happens while updating the module, the entire site might face WSOD. WSOD would even stop the bussiness of a site. So this is a major issue from the client /SEO perspective. If you want to fix the WSOD, you need to first identify the error. If you are facing a WSOD, then read on to know more about its causes.