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In a recent project, one of the client requirements was to remove the link of the cart-image which appears in shopping cart page. In drupal, when a node is added to cart, it will be automatically linked to the corresponding node page. He wanted to hide it because, we were not using the default node page for the products. If you want to know, how we removed the link from the cart-image, you may follow the stepss below.

Views Bulk Operation module is helpful in the cases where we need to perform a particular operation for more than one row in a view. Some of the operations includes deleting multiple contents, publishing/un-publishing contents, change the author of the content, send email etc (Refer the image below). These are the default operations available with the module. Now, what if you need some of your operation to be performed other than this? That too is possible. You may read on if you want to know how it can be done.

You may be familiar with the theme information link in views. The theme information link in view tells us which files are to be modified, to theme the view. You could get more information regarding the view from, http://viewshelp.doc.logrus.com/help/views/analyze-theme. This is the case where we have a theme with us. But what if you don't have a theme and you still want to theme the view's result? Well, read on if you want to find out how to theme a view by adding a template file inside your custom module.

One of our client's site, which runs on Drupal 7 allows users to create envelopes based on the custom values like name, address etc submitted by the user through that Drupal website. The requirement was to load this envelope in ckeditor so that end user can edit the default values given as per their wish. So we had to load the form field with the default values given in template. We used jQuery to do this. If you are looking to know how to load a drupal 7 form field with default values from CKEDITOR body content, then read on.

Most of us know how to send an e-mail with attachment. But do you know how you can do this using drupal 7? Not sure, then read on. In this article, I am going to address 2 isssues. Sending an e-mail with an attachment. Sending an e-mail with multiple attachments. Sending an e-mail in Drupal 7 with an attachment The steps to be followed are: Step 1: Install and enable the modules MIME mail and Mail system. Step 2: Define hook_mail() in your custom module. The synatx is as follows:

Whenever you need to create a contact/feedback form in drupal, everyone will be thinking of using "Webform" module. Using webforms to do so, is a good choice. Normally, the forms created using webform module are displayed as pages. There may be certain situations, where you need to display these as "blocks". If you need to know how to display webform as a block, read on. If you have a webform with you, that you have already created, by adding the required fields, then follow the below steps:

If you want to switch among contents or nodes in Drupal 7 website, you can do this by adding navigation links(PREV and NEXT) to that particular content. This will help you to see contents without going to any other link. There are contributed modules in Drupal for this but if you want to know how this can be created programmatically, read on.

When we were working on a Drupal website using Ubercart, we wanted to override the text content of the default email sent out by Ubercart. Drupal does not give us a configurational method to implement this. If you do not know how to override the default email sent out by Ubercart during checkout, continue reading. Ubercart stores the default content for email in template files. These templates can be found inside the ubercart/uc_orders/templates folder. Ubercart uses three template files.

If you are working on a Drupal website with Ubercart and if you are handling custom product mechanisms programmatically, one of the main task you may come across can be, 'removing an item from your cart', when a particular condition is satisfied. If you are facing any difficulty with removing items from cart, I may have a solution for you. By default Ubercart provides custom function named uc_cart_remove_item() to remove an item. uc_cart_remove_item(node_id, cart_id, product_data)As you can see that the function requires three parameters:

In this article we will be explaining a small feature we implemented in our Drupal themes, its called Slideshow. Will be explaining how to create and implement Slideshow feature for your theme. Before we start, hope you all know about PHP templates and Java Script, because these two play a major role in implementing the slide show.

In this article we will be explaining how to use hook_views_query_alter() for Drupal views. While working on Views, I came across a problem. In my search option there is a drop-down menu listing taxonomy terms, what I have to do is instead of taxonomy terms I need to give two options and taxonomy terms comes as a subset of these two terms.

In this article we will be explaining a small feature we implemented in our drupal themes, its called Style Switcher. Will be explaining how to create and implement Style Switcher feature for your theme. Before we start, in my previous article How to create default Slideshow for Drupal 7 themes? I have explained how we can use form alter for theme settings page, kindly refer this too.

In this article we will be explaining how an anonymous user can switch the theme of a Drupal site. This is the continuation of my previous article How to create Theme Switcher module for Drupal 7 Part 1? If you want to know how to create a theme switcher module for Drupal 7 then read on to know more.