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It was not easy to change calling order of hook implementations in Drupal prior to version 7. From Drupal 7 onwards you can control the order of hooks called for different modules. To accomplish it, there is a new hook introduced in Drupal 7. It is hook_module_implements_alter().

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 I need to edit page.tpl.php, page--front.tpl.php, style.css, template.php etc.

There are some constraints when giving passwords for mysql databases when using with drupal 6. Some special characters will make the site unavailable with the error "Access denied for user 'user'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" even if the password is correct in Drupal 6.

What is htaccess ? The .htaccess file in Drupal is Powerful configuration file for web server. The .htaccess file loaded and executed when Apache server starts. .htaccess file in Drupal is used for varied functionalities such as Authentication, Redirect pages, Rewrite URL ,Directory Index and Limit access etc.

This article discuss about setting snippets for Geany, a light weight IDE especially for Drupal 7 web developers as per coding standards. For those whom doesn't know, snippets are a small piece of source code which are meant for reuse. For example: while coding instead of typing full if conditional statement structure for each time we can just reuse them by the means of creating snippet for the same.

In Drupal there is a lot of interesting modules. One of interesting module is the quiz.module. It is a framework for create interactive quizzes for your visitors. Also it allows for the creation of questions of different types, and to collect the questions into quizzes.

We know Drupal 8 is the latest version of Drupal. It has lot's of difference from the previous version of Drupal. One of the major difference in Drupal 8 is in Configuration Management. In Drupal 7 there is version control system is used and for that there is different running site environments like staging, live etc are there. In Drupal 8 also have this environments but Drupal 8 comes with a file system-based configuration management system.

Today, people are looking for free and easy to use content management systems to run their website. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) which help users create, structure, and publish content. From a company perspective the priority will be on saving costs and shifting attention back to customers. Here is a useful checklist for developers, to meet the above needs for building a small business website without compromising the quality.