Drupal Technical

Zyxware default image1
| 2 min read
I had a chance to work on the Drupal-8 environment with its development version only released. I could able to design a simple site using the same and got stuck with some issues on the flow.The following are some release issue i faced during the design of the same.
Zyxware default image1
| 3 min read
This article is for those who are new to Drupal Bootstrap and responsive design. Drupal Bootsrap is a responsive theme you can download it from Drupal.org. It is one of the best responsive theme and created using boostrap framework. Creating a sub theme of Bootstrap is explained in another article of mine. This article mainly concentrated about How to use LESS to style bootstrap theme Drupal.
Zyxware default image2
| 2 min read
SugarCRM is a model for managing a company’s interactions with customers. Sugar on Drupal module can be used for integrating SugarCRM with Drupal. SugarCRM stores the customer information in modular format. Before passing customer details to SugarCRM, if you want to check whether the entry already exists in sugarCRM then read on .
Zyxware default image2
| 3 min read
When you test a Drupal website , most of the time you come across the task "Implement Pathauto module" in you website. So before you start testing, you have to build an idea of what is Pathauto module and how you can test it. Pathauto, as its name suggests automatically generates user friendly URLs. Pathauto depends on the core module path, which is used to rename URLs. So please go through the explanation below to understand it more precisely.
Zyxware default image3
| 2 min read
While working on a Drupal site I came across this issue that if my site is having many feeds and what happens if many users try to access this, which can possibly make our site slow. One of the possible solution is that we could create another domain for our feeds so that users can access the feeds from that domain. Also you can refer the article How to create a custom feed on Drupal 7 site using views to know how to create feeds using views
Zyxware default image2
| 4 min read
Do you want to add a user to an organic group programmatically in Drupal, then here is a solution. In one of my Drupal module I had a requirement to add users programmatically to an organic group. So I have created a custom function in my module for this purpose. This uses the function og_group to add a user entity to a group. Refer the following code. Remember that, you can add only an existing user to a group. It will not create a new user.
Zyxware default image3
| 3 min read
One of our Drupal clients had requested us to look into the innards of their website and see if the site can contain the influx of new users without breaking a sweat. We went into action swiftly and while we were gathering the details of the site, we realized that we need to get the count of all users having a particular role. We used a simple query to get the details of the users. Read on to know how to get the count of all users having a particular role in a Drupal 7 website.