Technical Blog

In a Drupal site, I was working on, I found that many of the modules were unused. Their presence was increasing the size of the site and consuming time when searching for useful info. So I thought of removing these modules.It makes our job a lot easier if we are using Drush Read on to know how to remove unused modules in a Drupal site with the help Drush.

Customer relationship management is a model for managing a company’s interactions with customers. Sugar CRM is one of the largest open source CRM available. Drupal can be integrated with Sugar CRM using SugaronDrupal module. Read on to know how to pass the value of a field related to a field in another module in Sugar CRM while working with Drupal.

What do you do if you have to take your Drupal site into maintenance mode from the command line? Well you can do this easily if you have drush set up on your server. With drush you can do quite a lot powerful drupal administration tasks right from the command line. In Drupal 6 The following drush command will take your Drupal site offline drush vset site_offline 1 The following drush command will take your Drupal site back online drush vdel site_offline In Drupal 7

On one of our recent Drupal projects we came across an issue where the file browse button was not triggering the file selection dialog in IE10 in Windows 8. The problem was diagnosed to be the result of jquery not getting the click event from the button. The site was using jquery 1.44 and this problem is supposed to be fixed in later versions of jquery.

In this article I am going to tell you how to redirect anonymous users to a login form on 403 access denied pages in Drupal. There are some contributed module that provides you this feature but, if you really want to create a custom one for your site just try this. Here I will show you a PHP snippet that redirecting to login page for anonymous users on access denied.

I have a few images in a folder on a Drupal site I was recently working on. The Drupal site also had a content type that contained a title and an image field and I had a requirement to create a node for each of these images. Read on to find out how to add a file to the image field of a node programmatically in Drupal 6.

In one of our Drupal projects which sells products online, our clients requirement was to collect tax from some states and to exempt other states from tax collection. We implemented this by integrating taxcloud account with ubercart using uc_taxcloud module. Read on to know how we implemented this.

Sometimes we use Drupal view_query_alter to add or modify the view's where clause. To add a new WHERE clause we may use add_where property. Whenever we use an add_where, it will create a WHERE clause along with an AND condition. There will be some cases were we need to use OR instead of AND. So if you want to know more about how to use OR clause in hook_view_query_alter, read on to know more.

I have created a module for my Drupal project. That module requires a vocabulary that should be created when installing the module itself. To create the vocabularies, while installation itself we have to implement the code in the install hook. Read on to know the code to create a vocabulary named as 'Categories'.

When I was working on a website in Drupal 6 I wanted to theme the pager provided by views in a custom way. Finally I found a solution for the issue. If you also want to theme the pager in a View for your Drupal website you can follow the method below.

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.

One of our Drupal 6 clients wanted us to implement a feature where nodes belonging to a particular content type where to to be posted to their official twitter feed as soon as they were published. We had done a feature on How to automattically tweet published content on twitter from a Drupal 7 site. Read on to know how to do it in Drupal 6.

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.

When we try to theme a drupal website certain case we need to create particular region in the drupal website. Adding region for a drupal website is not a hard task, even a developer first creating a drupal website can create a region. In order to add regions inside a drupal website we only need to add a few lines extra for that. Below there are three version of drupal for the drupal 6 and 7 version creating the region is same but for the drupal 5 version it is slightly different. Adding regions to drupal 7.x and drupal 6.x versions

A few Drupal users have found out that Colorbox does not open the login link in a Menu when it was expected to do so. If you are looking a solution for this scenario with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out more. Here is the solution