Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.
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We are happy to announce that Zyxware is now a Featured Service Provider on Drupal.org, a select club of Drupal providers with only another 4 members from India. This is a recognition of our contributions to Drupal over these years. We thank all our employees who have helped make this possible through their sustained contributions and members of the Drupal community who have guided,mentored and helped us as we grew in the Drupal space.
I have a few images in a folder on a Drupal site I was recently working on. The Drupal site also had a content type that contained a title and an image field and I had a requirement to create a node for each of these images. Read on to find out how to add a file to the image field of a node programmatically in Drupal 6.
If you are in the habit of running queries directly on your production database to generate custom reports then you will run into the requirement of having to connect to your Drupal database on the Acquia cloud hosting. One of our clients wanted to do this and this is how we got this working for them.
When you host your Drupal site on the Acquia cloud your site resides on a set of different VPSes that runs Varnish, Apache, MySQL and memcache. Additionally you have your staging server, your development server as well as your production servers - all of them being VPSes.
I have created a module for my Drupal project. That module requires a vocabulary that should be created when installing the module itself. To create the vocabularies, while installation itself we have to implement the code in the install hook. Read on to know the code to create a vocabulary named as 'Categories'.
When I was working on a website in Drupal 6 I wanted to theme the pager provided by views in a custom way. Finally I found a solution for the issue. If you also want to theme the pager in a View for your Drupal website you can follow the method below.
We are happy to announce that we will be conducting a Drupal bugathon at our office at Sasthamangalam, Trivandrum on the 12th of October, 2013. If you are a Drupal developer and you would like to get some guidance on how to contribute to Drupal you are welcome to join us. Bring your own laptops for the session.
Our Sasthamangalam office address is
SMRA 78, SRKM Hospital Road,
Sasthamangalam P. O.,
Trivandrum, Kerala - 695010
You can call us at 9446069446 for directions.
The following would be the schedule.
On one of our recent projects we had an issue where the Drupal site search was not working. There was a search.html file present in the home folder to handle a Google custom search page outside of Drupal. Since the filename was not the same as the drupal search path we did not expect it to be the cause for the Drupal search to not work.
As announced earlier Zyxware conducted a 2 hour training session on Introduction to Drupal at the MES Advanced Institute of Management and Technology on the 26th of Sep, 2013.
Zyxware, in association with MES - AIMAT, Aluva, Kerala, is conducting a training session on Drupal at MES - AIMAT, Aluva on Sep 26th, 2013. The session is targeted at beginners who wish to learn the basics of building a website using Drupal.
We have created and released a new module Boost Captcha to allow static page caching of pages with forms with captcha without running into the captcha session timeout errors. By helping boost cache more pages the module will allow for better performance without compromising on spam protection.
We have released a new Drupal module to fight spam - Spam Blackhole. This is a simple module to fight automated spam submissions on Drupal sites by bots that are not manually supervised.
The module requires that Javascript is enabled on the site that is running the module. The module works by replacing the form action with a dummy URL while the form is generated from Drupal and then replacing the dummy URL with the actual URL when the user clicks the form submit button.
When we try to theme a drupal website certain case we need to create particular region in the drupal website. Adding region for a drupal website is not a hard task, even a developer first creating a drupal website can create a region. In order to add regions inside a drupal website we only need to add a few lines extra for that. Below there are three version of drupal for the drupal 6 and 7 version creating the region is same but for the drupal 5 version it is slightly different.
Adding regions to drupal 7.x and drupal 6.x versions
A few Drupal users have found out that Colorbox does not open the login link in a Menu when it was expected to do so. If you are looking a solution for this scenario with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.
Here is the solution
A few Drupal users had found out that their site Contact form does not load in Colorbox when calling it with the relative page url. If you are facing the same issue with Colorbox in your Drupal site the continue reading.
Here is the most probable solution.
This article will be explaining how to create custom block and how to add the custom block in to quick tabs, programmatically. If you want to display the block inside a node you can refer our artilce How to print a block inside a node on a Drupal 6 website.
First lets create a custom block using hook_block. In this block what I want to display is when we provide a url, need to display corresponding alexa graph for the particular site.
One of our Drupal clients requested us for a feature in a mobile version of their Drupal website in which, a user accessing the mobile version of their website, should be able to automatically initiate a call on clicking the telephone number appearing in the website. If you want to know "How to start a call when a user clicks on a number in a mobile version of a Drupal website, then continue reading.
While working on Drupal Views, we might want to examine the query executed by the View to get its data. Analyzing the query may help us to identify why the view does not produce expected result. Read on to know how to view the SQL query executed by a View.
In Drupal, while viewing a content type it will display the content type view with a comment form. If we want to remove the comment form from the view node page we can disable/unset it using hook_node_view function. But what we have to do if we want the comment form in a separate tab.
There is a module called Talk. This module removes the comment form from a node view page and display it on a separate tab.
One of the most important aspects of a Drupal application is obviously its interface which is all what an end user gets to see. These Web Design issues/bugs negatively affect the final look and feel of the end product. Here are some of the most common design issues to be avoided by a Drupal tester.