YAML is a data serialization language which is easily readable to both humans and computers. It is for this very reason that YAML is being used in Drupal 8. YAML stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language.
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I got assigned with a task of executing drupal-8 migrations. The only way to migrate data into Drupal 8 is through Drush. While I was progressing through working with Drupal-7 to Drupal-8 migration we got stuck with white screen death.
So we find out following are the methods to correct this error.
As the drupal is getting ready to migrate to a higher version 8. The older version is overhauled by the newer in every sense. As Zyxware is a regular contributor to drupal, its relevant that we need to upgrade our contibuted modules too.
Here I am listing some of the major changes found out during migrating modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8
It will be nice to have an icon and a popup help text for items that you need to give give some explanations. We can use CiviCRM help system for that. See how it can be done.
Inspectlet is a Website session tracking technology helps in recording videos of users visiting pages in your Websites and allows you to watch what the users(visitors) do in your website. Inspectlet helps to identity why visitors come to your sites and see exactly what the users looking for and how they want to use your site. Using Inspectlet you can get every mouse movements, scrollings, clicks, and keypress on your website.
I stood to install a new Drupal-8 site on local environment.I faced a lot of errors related to php and couldn't open the site on browser. I searched about the error and I knew Drupal8 was work in PHP 5.4.5 or higher versions. So I started upgrading my current php version.
If you are a Nginx web server user and using Drupal as your CMS, it is quite different for redirects. Imagine that you have two websites, so if we change from an old site to a new site some of the URL will return 'Page not found'. So for that reason we can redirect them to the correct URL. If you are also looking for a 301 redirect for your Drupal site please read on.
Commerce Marketplace module can be used when you want to set up a multi-vendor store. This module introduces a new entity type called "store". If you don't have any idea about how to set up your store or add products to your store, then read on. This article is going to save your day.
Lets consider a situation in which you are using addthis widget for sharing a page in your site via email and you want to attach an image with the mails that is been send from your site. In the article you can find out how to add a common image to the all mails send from a site and also how to attach images depending on different users.
Suppose your Drupal project has the option to upload Youtube videos which will be displayed in the site. Adminstrator has the option to upload videos in two ways
Admin can add Youtube through direct url uploading.
Admin can add Youtube through adding a video embed code of youtube.
If Config server firewall(CSF) is installed on your server then, you can edit the firewall configurations from the command line using the following commands.
Here is a document which describes how the contents in a View can be displayed in a table format as well as it can be dragged and dropped from one row to an another row without using any additional jQuery functions. We have done this in Drupal 7 and this can be achieved using a module named 'DragabbleViews'. You can download it from this link: http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews. This module requires the 'Views' module to be installed already in your system.
By default in drupal if we click on any taxonomy term, it will execute the taxonomy/term/% menu. We can change this default taxonomy/term/% menu path to a custom menu path. In one of my project I had a requirement to execute a custom function for my vocabulary in stead of executing the taxonomy/term/% menu and I had found a solution for this. The following are the steps to be done.
Getting search fields inside a view is easy that is adding a field in 'Filter :Criteria' and exposing it, so we get the search field and now you can search based on that field.And when we require more than one field to be searched we need to include it by adding the fields in 'Filter Criteria' and exposing it , which looks weird when we have 3 fields in a single search form.So what if we have an option to make it a single field say we have to search the contents based on 3 fields with a single search field.Isn't that interesting?Here comes the use of 'Finder' module which is safe and sound.
In this article I will be explaining a task I did for one of our sites in Drupal6. In this site, for every content type say event the users manually entered year along with the title in title field. So my task was to remove the year from title and save it in a seperate cck field.
This article will be explaining a module we implemented in site Free Drupal Themes, its called Theme Switcher. This module helps in switching between any enabled themes without logging in. In previous article How to enable multiple themes using command promte? I had explained how to enable multiple themes using drush.
Twig is a modern template engine for PHP. It is fast, flexible, and more secure. Twig is a template framework and is a direct replacement for PHP Template. There are lots of differences between PHP template and Twig.
Drupal 8 is developed with help of Symfony2 framework, and the template files in Drupal 8 are in twig format.Read on to find out more about twig and debugging of twig.
Suppose you have a drupal website which uses drupal ubercart module for handling payments. Your drupal website has several online products which can be purchased using credit card. In Drupal projects, we have to enter credit card informations in the Checkout page.
The term 'RSS' refers to Really Simple Syndication(Rich Site Summary). RSS allows you to group the content in your website and provides an easy way to view and share the contents in the site. RSS files are automatically updated whenever new content is published in the site. A user can subscribe to the RSS feed of a website using feed readers, such as Google, My Yahoo, Bloglines, Live Bookmarks etc. This keeps the user updated when new content has been added to the site. RSS is written as an XML file.
Webform is a helpful module that enables you to submit information such as contact forms, surveys etc. It is easy to configure webform in a drupal site. Now, what about displaying a webform inside a colorbox? Although it is easy to install colorbox module and write custom code to display webform, we also have to effectively handle form submission and validation errors. However, there is an easy way in drupal7 to display a webform inside a colorbox.