Technical Solution

cURL is a very powerfull system which allows us to transfer data across a wide variety of protocols. cURL is commonly used to send data across websites which includes API interaction. Using a cURL request, we can do the basic HTTP request, the more complex FTP upload or interaction with an authentication enclosed HTTPS site. In this section we will go through how cURL is intialized, how to send cURL request and close the requests.

By default, all HTTP requests made out by cURL are GET requests. It simply fetches the URL and doesn't submit any POST variables. However, if we need to fetch and retrieve URL by the POST method with cURL, you will need the snippet below:

If you want know how to configure Google Analytics for your Drupal site checkout How to check Google Analytics on a Drupal website?. We can also get the analytics info from within a Drupal site. Read on to know how to view the Google Analytics report from within a Drupal site.

I had a requirement where I had to execute shell command from PHP. The requirement was that I had to find details of a domain using commands like whois and then store this information into files in a folder. The only input parameter for the process was the name of the domain which was passed on from the Drupal site. The PHP function (shell_exec) was designed to do things like this.

We need to develop websites for a variety of mobile devices along with regular desktop versions. To do this effectively we need to detect the mobile devices when they access the website which can be done through Javascript. Read on to know how to detect mobile devices using Javascript

We had encountered a situation on one of our Drupal sites where we had to create HTML links which on clicking should point to different locations on a different page. We solved this problem by making use of the 'name' attribute of anchor tags. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and would like to know how to use the 'name' attribute of anchor tags to redirect links to a location on a different page then read on to find out more.

Colorbox can be used to display content pop-ups. By default, the popup's height and width will be exactly the same as that of the original content. But there may be times, when you want to load the content as per the screen height. This can be done easily using jQuery. The steps you may follow to achieve this are:

The function of the script is to rename a specific-directory present under all sub-directories of a specified parent folder. Consider, you have a particular folder under all sub-directories of a folder and you want to rename all of those occurrences. Doing it manually would take much time. Here is a script to make it easy for you. The script takes the following inputs: 'path' is the absolute path of the parent folder, and 'foldername.txt' is a text file which contains the names of the subdirectories under each of which the specific directory has to be renamed.