Technical Blog

Many Drupal users had expressed interest in knowing how to print field values into an email without the label using the Drupal Webform module in their Drupal installations. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site then have a look at the solution.

Some Drupal users have reported that when they were using a combination of Drupal Views and Drupal Imagecache, i.e using an Image Cache preset to be displayed in a View they found %252F in the URL of ImageCache preset. If you are facing the same scenario with your Image Cache presets in your Drupal site and want to know more about this then continue reading.

Many Drupal users have reported that their IMCE file browser is not listing files uploaded via FTP. IMCE had no issues when displaying the existing files but it fails to display files which have been transferred via FTP. If you are facing the same scenario in the Drupal IMCE module of your Drupal installation then continue reading to get the solution.

Many Drupal users have reported that the IMCE toolbar in missing in their Drupal site. The toolbar found in the Drupal IMCE module is used for browsing the server and more importantly for uploading files to the server. If you find that the IMCE tool bar is missing in your Drupal installation then continue reading to find out the solution for this problem.

Many Drupal users have encountered a lot of instances of the following error in the dblog of their site "Got error 28 from storage engine query: SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm)". If you found yourself encountering the same error in your Drupal website then read on to find out the solution.

A few Drupal users have found out that their Drupal FCKeditor is not interpreting the HTML correctly in the content and the tags are getting outputted as plain text. If you are facing the same scenario in the FCKeditor in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

A few Drupal users have encountered an issue where the Drupal CKEditor Toolbar went missing in the preview after adding content to the node as though they had clicked on the switch to the plain text editor option. They were left with a plain text view of the content. If the text was removed from the body field the Toolbar seemed to appear again in the preview. If you are facing this issue in the CKEditor in your Drupal site then read onto fix the problem.

The Drupal FCKeditor by default allows only the admin user to access the Browse Server buttons to upload files. This is done as a security precaution. Many Drupal users have requested for a method to enable the Browse Server button for non admin users who can be trusted. If you need this feature in the FCKeditor in your Drupal website then continue reading.

A few Drupal users have encountered a situation where the FCKeditor removes the content within style tags. The output seems to come correctly with the styling included but the problem occurs when the user goes back to edit it when they realized that the inline stylesheet is missing. If you are facing this issue in your Drupal installation then read on to find out the solution. Here is the fix.

Many Drupal users have reported an issue with the CKeditor they had installed on their Drupal sites. The CKeditor seemed to insert unwanted tags in their content. If you are facing the same issue in the CKeditor you had installed on your Drupal site then continue reading to fix the problem.

Some Drupal users have reported that CKEditor in their Drupal 7 website failed to come up in the permissions page preventing the from assigning the correct permissions to the CKEditor. If you are facing the same issue then read onto find out the fix.

Adding watermarks to uploaded images is a much sought after feature in the Drupal community by many Drupal users. There is an easy way to add a watermark to an image uploaded in a Drupal website using CKEditor. Read on to find out the method to do that.

Many Drupal users have repeatedly reported that they get a Page not found error when they click on the CKFinder Browse Server button on their Drupal sites. If you also facing the same issue in the CKEditor in your Drupal site then continue reading to get it fixed.

"The server didn't reply with a proper XML data. Please check your configuration." A few Drupal users who have configured the FCKEditor to use file uploading using the built in file uploader received this error message when they clicked on the Browse Server button. If you find the same error message in your Drupal website then continue reading to get it solved.

Some Drupal users have found that after they configured the Drupal CKEditor module to use Drupal IMCE as the file browser, the upload button was missing. The same problem has also occurred with the Drupal FCKEditor module and has been reported by some Drupal users. If you have discovered that the File Upload Button is missing in your Drupal website then continue reading to get the solution.

"CTools CSS Cache. Unable to create The CTools CSS cache directory, ctools/css could not be created due to a misconfigured files directory. Please ensure that the files directory is correctly configured and that the webserver has permission to create directories." If you are getting this error message while inspecting the status reports on your Drupal site then continue reading to get the solution.

ImageCache Temp Directory /tmp is not writeable by the webserver. If you are getting this error message when you check the status reports of your Drupal website then there is an easy fix for it. Read on to find out more.

Drupal CCK fields currently allows child nodes of a parent node to refer to their respective parent nodes and this is the default behavior. If there are a number of parent nodes in your Drupal website with multiple child nodes for each parent node you might reach a situation where you need to allow a child node of one parent node to refer to another parent that is not directly its parent node, i.e. allow nodes to refer to multiple parent nodes.

Drupal CCK lets you specify how to display a field for an entire content type. There might be cases where you would want to specify how to display a field for a particular node, ie choose field formatter on a per node basis in your Drupal site. A common scenario would be to let an author decide which formatter to use for a field when they create a node. For e.g. you might wish to allow the author to select which type of ImageCache preset to use when the they are about to create the node.