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Suppose your Drupal projects handles products which can be shipped from one location to another and you are using Ubercart shipping quote' module to handle payment related to weight and shipping zones. Admin have the permission to add Zones rate and weight for each product, and the registered user's can buy the product. Here I am going to explain some of the test cases to be tested while testing this functionality.

In Drupal creating a custom theme and enabling the same enhance Drupal's core look and feel. But the enhancement feel could be further brought by theming each views in the Drupal site. Follow the theming steps to make changes in your Drupal content views.

There are situations where we need organic groups membership entity ID. Some of situations are : we use the function og_membership_delete() when we want to remove programmatically a user or node or any group content from our group, which will require parameter that is organic groups membership entity ID. Also when come across og_membership_load() function to get the entire organic groups membership object, which will also require OG membership entity ID as parameter. So in these situations how can we get organic groups membership object membership entity ID. See the following function I have written to retrieve the organic groups membership object membership entity Id.

Have you ever felt the need to change the sorting order of a View?. The most common method to change the sorting order would be to edit the corresponding View template file. Now there is a more elegant solution for doing that instead of editing a view template file. Read on to know how to use Drupal hook_views_query_alter to change views sorting.

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. -->