Drupal 7

[Drupal] How to create a custom view tab in Drupal 7 my account page?

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Drupal Technical | 1 min read
A new requirement from one of our clients was to create a 'custom view' tab in Drupal my account page. The tab should lead to a page that lists the user’s content in descending order by date of placement. We were all set to create it through code, but interestingly we came up with a different solution. All that was required was just a few minor admin configurations, and the tab was ready in a few minutes. Here are the steps to create a custom view tab in Drupal 7 my account page.
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[Drupal] How to integrate My live chat software with Drupal 7?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
My Live Chat plugin is fully customizable, easy to install, and requires just a free account at Mylivechat to complete the integration with Drupal websites. It allows you to live chat with website visitors, monitor site traffic, and analyze the web activities of visitors, including their search engine and keyword usage. First of all, what you need to do is to create an account in Live chat site and integrate My live chat in Drupal. Read on to know how to enable live chat in your site.
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[Drupal] How to set a menu link that redirects users to different pages based on their roles

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In one of our Drupal 7 sites, recently, we came across a situation where we wanted to set a menu link that redirects users to different pages based on their roles. Usually, we create separate menu items for each user and apply permissions based on their roles. However,since we wanted to avoid redundant menu items and didn't want to duplicate an entire menu branch for a shared parent menu item, we decided to set single menu item with different pointing locations. Here is how we achieved it.
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[Solved][Drupal] How to hide menu tabs and menu links in Drupal 7

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Technical Q&A | 3 min read
Drupal module uses a lot of functionality. Once we enable a module we add many functionalities to Drupal. Sometimes we do not want to display the functionality provided by module but we do want the functionality to work in the background. For example creating a new account is functionality that can be hidden from users. This can be done by hiding some tabs or links in Drupal. Read on to know how to hide existing menu tabs in Drupal.
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[Drupal] Adding Spinner style to textboxes in Drupal 7

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Forms can be considered as an integral part of websites. Forms can be included to a Drupal website using Form API. Form API is so extendable that we can customize almost all of the form API elements. In this article I will be explaining 'how to increase the "coolness" of your form elements by adding "spinner" style.
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[Drupal] How to programmatically apply an image style to an image in a Drupal 7 site?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
In one of my project I had a requirement to create an image in a particular image style in a specific folder, when uploading the image itself. In this article I will be explaining how to achieve this using the function image_style_create_derivative in drupal 7 to create an image in a particular image style. One another advantage of this function is that this will create the destination folder if it does not already exist.
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[Drupal] How to embed a kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
If we are using kaltura field in a content type in a Drupal website, the video uploaded using this kaltura field will be displayed automatically in corresponding node page. One of our Drupal client had a requirement that, on clicking a button, load a popup window and play kaltura video in that popup. Read on to know how to embed a Kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website
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[Drupal][Drupal 7] How to add text to a flag in a node when working with the Drupal Flag module

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
One of our Drupal clients wanted to us to enable members of her site to bookmark their favorite nodes. We went to work immediately as we knew that this task could be accomplished by the Drupal Flag module. The flag module did enable us to implement that feature easily. Nevertheless we needed to add text near to the flag button/link on a specific node without affecting its display in a view. Read on to know how to dd text to a flag in a node when working with the Drupal Flag module.
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[Drupal] Drupal 7 version of Moneris payment gateway module for Ubercart

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
We had recently worked with a client of ours to help port the Drupal 6 version of the Moneris Payment Gateway module for Drupal to Drupal 7. Moneris is a popular payment gateway in Canada. The upgraded module has been submitted in an issue under the Moneris issue queue - https://drupal.org/node/1276770. Once it is tested and verified by the community the maintainer will be pushing the code to the repository.
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[DRUPAL 7][UBERCART] How to remove the link of the titles and images of items in cart page

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
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.
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[Drupal] How to fix the incorrect pager display in drupal 7?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In a recent project, I had to make use of pagers in two views. As per the requirement, I had to display different numbers of contents per page for both views. For the first view, I had to display 2 items per page and for the second one(search-results view) 10 per page.The problem I faced was, Eventhough if I had less than 10 search results, the page displayed the pager-links as per the contents of the first view. ie, both the views showed same number of pagers, which was wrong. If you want to know, how I fixed this, please read on.
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[Drupal 7] How to add your own custom operation in Views Bulk Operation (VBO)?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
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.
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