Creating a custom theme in drupal is nearly a simple thing if you are good at css styling. Let us take a walk through the structure of theme implementation in drupal.
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My Live Chat provides a Drupal Plugin for collaborating with the Drupal website visitors. My Live Chat Drupal Plugin is fully customizable. It is pretty light-weight and easy to install. This requires only a free account at Mylivechat to integrate with Drupal websites. Also it is a free. It offers fast and high performance live chat solution with the most user-friendly application. It allows to live chat with visitors, monitor traffic, and analyze their activities including their search engine and keyword usage.
Needing a Ubercart module that will calculate the shipping price for various regions depending upon the total weight of the products ordered. Ubercart shipping module is an interface to add different shipping providers. It's worth mentioning what we're trying to achieve here. Cotswold Seeds wanted to provide a single shipping cost for every order, as depending on shipping address, the order value and weight, they have the responsibility of selecting the shipping carrier.Only a single shipping quote is ever going to be provided for each order, because The user would not be given a choice here.
After smartphones born, people don't just use desktop computer or laptop anymore to visit the websites. They will go for smartphones, tablets, palmtops and so on. How can we keep design to all these different devices? There is a way, that`s responsive webdesign.As the name tells, its a matter of responding to the site user's device specifics.
I had an issue with the Drupal installation on local setup that the login links are redirected to live. I have changed cookies name and base URL for my local environment, I have also emptied all cache tables, but still it redirects to the live site.
The following procedure I did to get the redirection correctly to my local environment
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language, used for describing the formatting of a document written in any markup language. The idea of CSS is all about to enable the separation of document from its presentation which includes the elements such as the layout, colors, fonts and so on.
Let us consider a situation in which we have to use the custom settings that has been done in a drupal site to another drupal site. The common way which is followed in this type of situation is by doing the same custom settings in the new site. But this is not that easy to do. The same situation can be handled by using the 'features module'. The following steps have to be followed in order to use the Features module in Drupal.
Drupal 7 comes with two primary options for e-commerce websites: Commerce. Commerce is new for Drupal 7 and redefines the way Drupal handles the e-commerce. Selecting correct e-commerce module suite for your webshop is an essential starting point. Commerce is an exciting entry to the Drupal shopping cart category written by some of the same developers who previously managed Ubercart.
A comma-separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) in plain-text form. A CSV file have of number of records, separated by line breaks; fields in each record separated by some other character or string, usually a comma or tab. All records have an identical sequence of fields.
A feature is a set of Drupal entities, taken together to satisfy a certain use-case. A Drupal Module 'features' is used to create custom features. Let us check how to create a custom feature.
Entity Field query in Drupal 7 is the querying technique used in the Drupal to cut short the huge queries. It is like an ORM(object relation mapping) technique like doctrine. Let us go through the entity Field querying methods.
For our Drupal site, a requirement were to use Facebook connect module and legal module. Once enabling both the modules and adding legal condition, Facebook connect module let us to login through Facebook on our Drupal site.
Altering a query is to change the results as desired by the user. hook__views_query_alter() in Drupal is for altering the query. Before start reading, you should have an idea about what is a view and how views created? See here.
Altering a form means adding or change any forms in a module. In Drupal 7 form alter could be done using the function hook_form_alter()
Being a fresher to Drupal, your first step is to focus on the Coding Standards In Drupal 7. Drupal community is very serious about coding standards. Entire source code should follow the current standards, regardless of the (core) version.
Article will be explaining how to create a Pop up using the colorbox module for our Drupal website. There are certain circumstances were we need to popup blocks to display messages, images, videos etc.
My need was to display a text message on focus out from a particular field inside a content type. Steps are,
There is no Drupal website with out a block. As a Drupal developer there are certain cases we need to create custom blocks programatically. While working in a project I faced an issue with a custom Drupal block creation in Drupal 6 version. I think some of you also faced the same situation,Custom block creation in Drupal 6 is not a big issue. I think the below code will help to handle the situation.
I have a requirement to post a comment on a Facebook user's timeline from our Drupal website. In submitting a Drupal form, I have to post a comment on Facebook. We need to access Facebook api so we have to download Facebook SDK for PHP. Facebook SDk allows developers to access the Facebook api ie to post the comment on Facebook. Also create an app on Facebook, once you create an app it will generate a Facebook app id and Facebook secret code.
There are certain occasion where we need to customize the submit button as per the requirement, maybe for the visual impact of the site or as per the requirements from the client if you are developer. How to handle this situation ?. This is actually a simple task. Only thing we need to do get the new image for the submit button as suitable and matches for the page inside the Drupal website.
We were working on a Drupal website which was handed to us by one of our Drupal clients. We were required to add a new content type to the Drupal site and create the associated views with it. While working on adding a feature we found that the taxonomy terms (tags) were not appearing on the node page of any content type. If you find that the tags have been missing then read on to know the most likely source of the issue.