Drupal 7

I came across a situation in my recent project, where user roles other than admin have to access the admin pages. The default admin theme was not provided for the admin pages in which the user role is not admin. Drupal has a module which allows us to add the admin theme to specific pages irrespective of the user role. Below are the steps which I followed to achieve this.

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Administration Menu Source module is used to display different menus based on the roles existing in the system. This module is only available in Drupal 7. We can install the module using the following steps : Installation

Views query alter is used to edit the query in views that we created using Drupal. In cases where we cannot add fields in views, we can use hook_views_query_alter to change the query in views.

Have you ever found it difficult to access a private file within Drupal? Then read on.

To render a block, a few methods are used. One way to render is to use block_load() function. In order to render a block, the following syntax is used,

For one of my project, I have implemented the Chosen module to display a list of content in a select box with user-friendly option style. I used the following configurations:

In one of my works, I want to programmatically uncheck the checkbox option of 'Generate automatic URL alias' for a specific node editing form. For this, I have created the following form alter for the content type. I have added a custom after-build function for the necessary content type in the form alter.

When I planned to use media upload in CKeditor for uploading files to the site, I faced one problem, i.e. I could use only predefined image style as a preset to style my image. I wanted to use a custom preset to media upload. To achieve that we have to do some customization. Add the following custom code in our custom module.

You can create your custom color box styles instead of using a plugin provided styles. For creating custom color box style go to /sites/all/modules/contrib/color box/styles copy any one of the folders. (You can find plain, default, and Stockholm syndrome styles there).Place the copied folder into your theme folder. Rename the folder with your custom name. Also, rename the CSS and js files.

In Drupal 7 we can upgrade a module in many ways but we fail on upgrade feeds excel module. The reason being the newer version of the module is entirely different from the old version folder structure and file naming. We can overcome this situation by uninstalling the older version and installing the new version. Sometimes we cannot uninstall the module due to the module dependency and data lock. We can achieve this manually using the following steps.

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Fivestar module is a simple module that adds a "rating star" widget to the nodes. This module displays number of stars that you set; a click from a reader rates the page with that number. We can create custom widgets for changing the color of stars or for showing any other images instead of stars. For example, we can use symbols like a diamond, banana, flower etc.