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I had a requirement to add a multi-level responsive drop down menu in a Zyxware theme. Please do refer the below reference links to know more about responsive themes and free Drupal themes. So for that I had to edit page.tpl.php, page--front.tpl.php, style.css, template.php etc. First I added the following code to template.php of my theme. The steps that I followed here are,

In Drupal, usually the date field value is saved in the database in UTC timezone format. One of our requirements for a project was to show the date in the site's timezone format. So we generated a general function to convert date in UTC timezone to any required timezone and format it. Just use the below function to convert date in UTC timzone to a given timezone and the format date using a valid timestamp,

Have you been trying to index your node to Apache immediately after its been created, updated or deleted! Read On!! By default Apache Solr uses a queue system to index data to Solr. We can preconfigure the interval in which the indexing should perform. Still, there occurs a delay for the node to get indexed.

The 2018 DrupalCon is all set to start today at Music City, Nashville, Tennessee. The event will be flagged off by the customary keynote address by Drupal founder- Dries Buytaert. Zyxware’s founder and CTO, Anoop John will be attending the conference on behalf of the company.

If you are a Drupal enthusiast, business owner, consultant or anyone one who loves web technology, this infographic will be useful for you. It explains the capabilities of Drupal in various aspects like types of project, integration capabilities, database choices, and interoperability. This infographic can be used as a quick check sheet for driving conclusions on technology choices.

Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular and lite editor software. This article describes how Drupal coding standards can be implemented in Visual Studio Code Editor.

E-governance has grown and developed rapidly reflecting the social, economic, and cultural changes happening. The increased usage of the web by the citizens, the ease of use, the ubiquity of digital connectivity, IoT have allowed for the emergence of a number of applications for Government to Citizen, Government to Government, and Government to Business Services. Leveraging the web for citizen engagement, delivery of government services to citizens, businesses and inter-government departmental services is key to strengthening the e-governance capability of a government.

For a recent project, I had a requirement to implement menu tabs in Drupal 7. Let see what are the necessary code for the same. First I created menu tabs in .module file using hook_menu() with the following codes.

A patch is a small file which shows what was changed in a repository. It shows the new changes in an existing file, details of the new files in the current directory, file deletion details etc. A patch file can be pushed to the git repository so that it is useful in the future for updating the changes in the corresponding file. For creating a patch file in your current git repository, make changes in your files. Now open the terminal. For unstaged changes, type the following command,

To render a Drupal form to a node, drupal_build_form function is used. This function allows us to render all forms except the admin forms. Note that, admin forms didn't find success while rendering the same. In-order to render a form the following syntax is used,

For a recent Drupal project there was a requirement to find the pages that a user visits on the site and send that to Google Analytics. Here, first we should save the page links that the user visits. But for this we need,

I came across a situation in my recent project, where user roles other than admin have to access the admin pages. The default admin theme was not provided for the admin pages in which the user role is not admin. Drupal has a module which allows us to add the admin theme to specific pages irrespective of the user role. Below are the steps which I followed to achieve this.

Developments in machine learning have a great influence on the e-commerce sector. Online purchase is steadily on the rise, allowing companies to capture all kinds of data on the customer experience, including

Administration Menu Source module is used to display different menus based on the roles existing in the system. This module is only available in Drupal 7. We can install the module using the following steps : Installation

Views query alter is used to edit the query in views that we created using Drupal. In cases where we cannot add fields in views, we can use hook_views_query_alter to change the query in views.

Have you ever found it difficult to access a private file within Drupal? Then read on.