A Drupal theme is a set of files that defines the presentation layer. Drupal has its own way of styling data. After the data is fetched from database or other source, the data needs to be passed to several hook functions for adding additional data, markup and style. In this article we will see how … Continue Reading
Drupal Views module is a Simple Visual Query Builder. It reduces the Need for writing the Custom code. Now with CCK and Views we can almost Store any Data as Content Type and list them in various ways in site with the Help of Views. I decided to explore and learn the views module coding, … Continue Reading
Following are some of the important points/Best practices that should be taken in consideration while creating a new custom module in drupal. 1) Use underscore “_mymodule_” for private function. 2) Use “ l() ” instead of “<a>text goes here</a>”. 3) Avoid writing all the coding inside a single module file, instead of that you can use .inc files and … Continue Reading
If you are using Dupal for your site with user login, you should probably check this feature. Every user would like to make their work easier. For that, we should provide bird’s eye view of the updates. It could be a simple snapshot or a dashboard. Drupal Homebox module is greatly helping drupal developers to achieve … Continue Reading
Drupal features module overview Drupal features module provides the UI and API for exporting the various component used in drupal like content type, Views etc. In this post we are going to see the key features. Components that can be exported by drupal are as follows, Content type CCK Views Taxonomy Menus User Roles Permissions … Continue Reading
One of the interesting Features of Drupal 7 is the Field API. Prior to Drupal 6, to make a custom field the Core Profile Module and Content Profile Modules are used. Now in Drupal 7 we can make any custom field to appear in User Registration Form. When Adding Custom Fields Such as Gender usually … Continue Reading
In Drupal views are used to display the content , images etc.. to the users. Views has the own default template , to create the custom template. In the Edit mode of views page , click on the Theme Information in the Basic settings block, in this block the theme information will listed in order like Display … Continue Reading
In Drupal the Blocks are used to display the sidebar contents, texts, images , videos etc. In some cases we need the same blocks to be displayed on right sidebar in the home page and the same block to be displayed in the bottom or in the content region in the inner pages. Say for e.g … Continue Reading
Backup and Migrate is One of the important modules that will help in moving the Data Base from Development Site to Live Site. While Recently working with this module I Faced an Issue. I Have Successfully taken the Backup from Development site using the Advanced Backup options and When I tried to Restore the Backup … Continue Reading
There are Basically 2 ways to Theme a page in Drupal i) By using theme functions in modules ii) By creating template files in the theme directory. For the Designer creating the template file would be much more convenient to theme than using the theme function. Sometimes there may be a need to theme node … Continue Reading
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