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In Drupal, Heirarchical select list simply means the select list has child and parent terms in Select lists. Getting a search field inside a Drupal view is quite easy but how can we get a hierarchical select list inside the 'Filter criteria'? Read on to know how to get hierarchical select list inside a View in Drupal 7

Forms can be considered as an integral part of websites. Forms can be included to a Drupal website using Form API. Form API is so extendable that we can customize almost all of the form API elements. In this article I will be explaining 'how to increase the "coolness" of your form elements by adding "spinner" style.

The Node Gallery module is one of the best options available to create multimedia galleries where both the galleries and the gallery items are nodes. The latest module version for drupal 6.x is 3.2. If you are trying to update the module from 2.0 to 3.2 you will find some issue with the cover photo of galleries. The cover photos won't come up after the update. Read on to know how solve the issue after the Node Gallery update

In one of my project I had a requirement to create an image in a particular image style in a specific folder, when uploading the image itself. In this article I will be explaining how to achieve this using the function image_style_create_derivative in drupal 7 to create an image in a particular image style. One another advantage of this function is that this will create the destination folder if it does not already exist.

@font-your-face module helps us to manage web fonts in all popular browsers and it provides the user interface for applying web fonts. If you want to know "How to configure a @font-your-face module in drupal 7" then continue reading

Drupal provides a Shipping module that comes into use when you have a store and you want to ship your products to another location. Ubercart has a flexible module that provides custom shipping quotes based on configurable weight ranges and custom shipping zones. For this all you have to do is to download and install the uc_global_quote module. Steps: Step 1: Download the uc_global_quote module from drupal.org on to the sites/modules folder. Step 2: For configuring the module go to /admin/modules and enable shipping, shipping qoutes and flat rate modules.

If we are using kaltura field in a content type in a Drupal website, the video uploaded using this kaltura field will be displayed automatically in corresponding node page. One of our Drupal client had a requirement that, on clicking a button, load a popup window and play kaltura video in that popup. Read on to know how to embed a Kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website

In this article will be explaining how to get feeds from a site programmatically into a Drupal site by passing its site url. The advantage of this, is that we could get multiple feeds at a time by passing their url. You can also refer previous article How to create Quick Tab Programmatically?, so that you can display the feeds in custom blocks.

Drupal is an extremely flexible framework that you can manipulate in multiple ways. In Drupal, the theming is the final phase in the process of generation of dynamic web pages. It converts the data from PHP objects and arrays into HTML markup and CSS styles. Read on to know how to convert a PSD/HTML design to a standard Drupal theme

Consider a case where you want to enter regular expression and validate it. Here I will show you how to write a validation function. For example consider YOURMODULE_admin_settings_validate function In my example I am using a form and a submit button.From $form_state array you can get the input value after submit. You need this value to match with the string. See the code below.

In a Drupal site, I was working on, I found that many of the modules were unused. Their presence was increasing the size of the site and consuming time when searching for useful info. So I thought of removing these modules.It makes our job a lot easier if we are using Drush Read on to know how to remove unused modules in a Drupal site with the help Drush.

Customer relationship management is a model for managing a company’s interactions with customers. Sugar CRM is one of the largest open source CRM available. Drupal can be integrated with Sugar CRM using SugaronDrupal module. Read on to know how to pass the value of a field related to a field in another module in Sugar CRM while working with Drupal.

What do you do if you have to take your Drupal site into maintenance mode from the command line? Well you can do this easily if you have drush set up on your server. With drush you can do quite a lot powerful drupal administration tasks right from the command line. In Drupal 6 The following drush command will take your Drupal site offline drush vset site_offline 1 The following drush command will take your Drupal site back online drush vdel site_offline In Drupal 7