Drupal Technical

The first thing to get started is a theme folder. In this case, we’ll call it “base_theme.” The only file actually required to create base_theme is an .info text file which is saved as base_theme.info

This article discuss about setting snippets for Geany, a light weight IDE especially for Drupal 7 web developers as per coding standards. For those whom doesn't know, snippets are a small piece of source code which are meant for reuse. For example: while coding instead of typing full if conditional statement structure for each time we can just reuse them by the means of creating snippet for the same.

In Drupal there is a lot of interesting modules. One of interesting module is the quiz.module. It is a framework for create interactive quizzes for your visitors. Also it allows for the creation of questions of different types, and to collect the questions into quizzes.

We know Drupal 8 is the latest version of Drupal. It has lot's of difference from the previous version of Drupal. One of the major difference in Drupal 8 is in Configuration Management. In Drupal 7 there is version control system is used and for that there is different running site environments like staging, live etc are there. In Drupal 8 also have this environments but Drupal 8 comes with a file system-based configuration management system.

Today, people are looking for free and easy to use content management systems to run their website. Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) which help users create, structure, and publish content. From a company perspective the priority will be on saving costs and shifting attention back to customers. Here is a useful checklist for developers, to meet the above needs for building a small business website without compromising the quality.

CiviCRM is an open source tool which provides a web-based interface for Constituent Relationship Management. The main advantage is that it could be coupled with the Drupal environment (or any other CMS) and used as a Relationship management tool. Using the functionalities we can handle the relationships with the people, households, organizations etc. It also help us to create events, make personalised campaigns, make contributions etc.

In Drupal 7 by default we can't send html mail, since Drupal will convert all emails to plain text before sending. This could be overridden using Drupal 7 htmlmail contributed module. We may also need i>mailsystem module for implementing htmlmail, which is a dependency. The module also give html mail template, which could be customized as well in same way of theme templates.

This is a common question among Drupal beginners, when do not want the login block to display in our site. In most of these cases the login block would be turned off in the administration. We can get access to the login screen simply through the following URL.

Today most of websites are hacked by malware and viruses, Security is an important part of websites. Follow these steps to recover hacked Drupal site.

Webform module is a perfect solution, if you are looking for a more complex contact form or multiple feedback forms to add to your Drupal 7 website. This module will enable you to create and manage as many forms as you need. Recently, we had a need to create three different feedback forms for a Drupal website. One of the webforms was a contact form to connect with different contact persons of the company where as, another one was to send enquiries about the products and there was a guest book page to leave feedback. Here is how we achieved all these requirements in one shot using the webform module.