Drupal 7

Today many websites use social media buttons(Facebook, Google plus, etc). One of the modules we use in our Drupal sites is Add This. However we have to copy the code to the block each time we want to alter the theme. Often we will not get the proper icon we are looking for. In such a scenario we can implement this functionality using the Drupal Widgets and Social Media module. If you are facing any problems with installing the Widgets and Social Media module and want to know how to install and configure the Widgets and Social Media module in Drupal 7 then follow the instructions given below.

We were requested by a client to create a Twitter application in their Drupal site which would post the published content automatically on Twitter. If you want to know how to create a Twitter app for posting published content on Twitter in a Drupal 7 site, then continue reading

In one of my Drupal based shopping cart site powered by Ubercart, the products were customizable(ie, end users had the permission to edit the product). So in order not to overwrite the existing product and to save the changes made by the end user, I had to create a new node with all the values of the product. So I created a new content type and related this to the product content type and saved the node as a new one. If you want to know how to convert a custom content type in a Drupal site into an Ubercart product, read on.

We were faced with a situation in one of our clients Drupal sites where we had to add View relationships programmatically with custom database tables. The site was running on Drupal 7. If you are faced with the same situation in your Drupal website and want to know how to add View relationships programmatically with custom database tables in Drupal 7 then read on to know the solution.

Testing is a very significant phase in the development of Drupal based websites. In this article we are going to discuss how to write test cases for numeric and alphanumeric fields on a Drupal site

One of our clients required us to create a Drupal based web application to generate QR code from text in their Drupal site. If you are looking for a way to generate QR code from any text in your Drupal site then read on to find out more .

When you make a fresh installation of Drupal 7, your URL will look like the following: http://localhost/~user/drupal7/?q=userYour site should have cleaner URLs while going LIVE. This is important in the SEO aspect too. So let us see how to enable clean URLs in Drupal 7. Here are the steps to follow:

Many Drupal users have reported encountering an error "Warning: file_get_contents(sites/all/libraries/colorbox/colorbox/jquery.colorbox-min.js) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in colorbox_get_version() (line 300 of /home/[website]/public_html/dir/sites/all/modules/colorbox/colorbox.module)" when trying to use the Drupal Colorbox module. The same users had also reported that the status reports returned a "Colorbox plugin At least 1.3.6 You need to download the Colorbox plugin and extract the entire contents of the archive into the sites/all/libraries folder of your server." message. If you are encountering the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to know the fix.

A few Drupal users encountered a "This image failed to load" error message when trying to open images in a Colorbox popup on their Drupal site even though they had not made any changes to their Drupal site. This error was more widely reported in Firefox than in IE or Chrome. If you are encountering the same error message in your Drupal site then read on to know the solution.

A few Drupal users had requested for a hassle free feature that would enable - A node, its title and the list of the images associated with the node to be displayed in a Colorbox. Most of them had requested for a Trigger Field to open the Colorbox with the above items. If you are looking for a way to open a node in Colorbox with an Image Gallery using a Trigger Field then continue reading.

Many Drupal users had reported that Colorbox does not display correctly in IE8 in their Drupal installation. If you are facing the same issue when using Colorbox in IE8 in your Drupal site then read on to know the fix.

Many Drupal 7 users had requested for a hassle free method of opening a node in a Colorbox so that the node opens as a Colorbox popup. If you are looking for a method for doing the same functionality in your Drupal site then read on.

Many Drupal 7 users had requested for a hassle free method of opening Webforms in a Colorbox so that the Webform opens as a Colorbox popup. If you are looking for a method for doing the same functionality in your Drupal site then read on.

Many Drupal users have needed to know how to place exposed filters in a fieldset in their Drupal website. If you are looking for a method to do that in your Drupal installation then read on to find out more.

Comment Management module helps a site owner to manage the posted comments on his website. Testing a Comment Management module involves a set of test cases and it is always helpful to keep a checklist for this. Here is something to help you out! Following are the test cases / checklists for Drupal 7 default Comment Management Module

Normally while using Flag module, the flag name is displayed as a link. If you want to change this behaviour and replace the link with a button, you can do this easily by using CSS. You need not alter any forms for this. For this you may add the below code to your CSS.

It is quite easy to add ckEditor to your custom form in Drupal. The only thing you have to do is, add the following lines to your form: '#type' => 'text_format', '#format' => 'full_html', For example: $html = 'some html'; $form['front'] = array( '#type' => 'text_format',// to load the ckEditor options '#format' => 'full_html', '#title' => t('Front'), '#value' => $html, ); The above code will create a form element with its value inside ckEditor.