Drupal Technical

In order to add a new jQuery or multiple javaScript/CSS to the Drupal site, it is better to use hook_library rather than using drupal_add_css/drupal_add_js multiple times. It is helpful if we are using the javaScript/CSS in multiple pages.

Fullcalendar is a jQuery plugin which gives a full-sized calendar with drag-and-drop and with many other features. Events can be dragged on to the calendar and can be resized. It uses AJAX to dynamically load the events on the fly. In this article I will explain how to enable the fullcalendar with different options and loading events dynamically from the database.

We had an issue pointed out by one of our Drupal client that traffic from specific page to be redirected to another URL. In Drupal redirecting trafic from specific page on specific domains can be handle either by including a Drupal hook_init function or setting the .htaccess. Function hook_init runs at beginning of page request but it loads all Drupal modules and database for every page which results in performance issues. On the other hand .htaccess files are read on every page request and the effect to the changes in the .htaccess files is quick.

Organic Group Module in Drupal allows to create and manage different groups. While creating a content, we can add that content to a group. The og_group() function allows to add a content to a group. <!break-->

I had met a peculiar Apache 2 error on Drupal upgrading. I can see my site loaded but can't access any of the sub-URL's in the site. When I provide the Url:www.test.com/admin/node, its shows "Requested URL /admin/node not found on this server". But if the url is provided like 'test.com/?q=node/', it allows to get the link.

Consider the situation that you are using the fancy box module in your drupal 7 site and you have to display the images when clicked on in a pop-up.You just need to follow the steps mentioned below which can guide you through the various procedures.

A bug was noticed in the Drupal site that permission for creating node not working on upgrading the module. We can create the node or view it if we are admin users but the node is not accessible to authenticated users or cant be viewed by anonymous users. I tried the fixing by looking at the permissions of the nodes to the specific users.It all looked fine and created a custom permission for the same.The issue still stayed.

In Drupal we can create a time based subscription for a user for a given role. The user will be assigned to that role for a certain limit of time, after that the role will expire. The subscription will be based on Ubercart product. When a user purchases the product, account of user is upgraded to a specified role for a given time limit. The user can also renew for the role by purchasing the product after end of subscription.

Syncing means importing all files, permissions and data's from master to the development site, so that we have a two copies of live sites to test our new developments. In Drupal, its very easy to create versions of websites using this syncing process. Once the site is live to Production, the above process helps to fetch the sites data in the current scenario and to update few more features in the live site. I had a task to sync live database to development site's and came across some issues while syncing live database with the dev database.

While working on a report generating system, I wanted to display footer value that should reflect based on the date filter, added in the report. I thought of creating a block in the content region and manage the contents in the block. But when I went to know about header and footer options in views module, I decided to go for it. This article is on how to use header or footer in views pages.