Drupal Technical

In one of my Drupal 8 work I needed to configure SMTP using swiftmailer Module. The module extends the basic mail sending functionality which is provided by Drupal by delegating all mail handling to Swift Mailer library. This library provides features, such as :

This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.

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.

Drupal has established itself as a solid platform for Educational websites. The fact that all Ivy League colleges have Drupal websites is proof enough of Drupal’s popularity as a great Content Management Framework to build educational websites. A recent study conducted by TheDropTimes find that 80% of Top 100 Universities use Drupal. Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University are the eight old and distinguished colleges in the north east of US are the highly sought after Ivy League colleges.

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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.

We have already created a Drupal wiki page on this on going project. You can find it over here and detailed explanation over here