HTML5 video is a new standard that allows you to add videos to your site without the need for plugins. Any additional software is not required in the user's browser for playing HTML5 standard video play. Drupal comes up with a contributed module that is video.js module. Video.js is a HTML5-based video player with a built-in Flash fallback for older browsers.Read on to know how to install and configure a HTML5 video player for your Drupal site using Video.js
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We as a PHP Drupal web platform developer most often has to face the situation to export data from one table to another table of same database or to table of another database (if site uses multiple databases) during the process of any change in normal work flow.
Most of us normally think to export the data from one table to another by firstly querying the required data from source table and then looping through the query result and inserting them to destination table. This can be simply achieved with a single query.
You may be familiar with creating custom forms and creating custom views. But are you familiar with displaying a view according to the submission of your custom form and that too in the same page? If you want to know how you can do this, you may read on.
Panels in drupal is a very usefull feature for displaying the contents in a well organized manner. The site administrator will have full control over the panels.Creating panels via User interface is not a complex task. But there may arise situation when you need to create this via code. This article explains how to achieve this via code.
Creating a custom content pane using the ctools content type.
Step 1) In the custom module implement the hook_ctools_plugin_directory , to know where the ctools plugin is actually stored
[Drupal] How to send a notification mail to the corresponding email id when a users adds a feedback?
While working on a Drupal project my task was to enable the Drupal feedback module and when a feedback is added by a user, send a mail to corresponding email id. However in the feedback module there in no option to send mail by default. In this article I will be explaining how to send a notification mail to the corresponding email id when a user adds a feedback.
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure HTML5/JavaScript. Without generating the image we can display the graph. I had a requirement to generate a multiple graph on a single page in a Drupal site. Read on to know how to implement multiple graphs on single page in Drupal using highchart.
One of our Drupal clients required us to cancel the recurring fee order option which was pre-configured in Ubercart using Ubercart recurring fee module in their Drupal 6 site. If you are a Drupal user facing the same situation with Ubercart in your Drupal site and would like to know how to cancel the recurring fee order then read on to find out the solution.
You can see certain options in our theme ie in settings page of our Drupal themes like LOGO, SLOGAN etc. We can also add our own options to a theme In this article I will be explaining how to add additional theme settings options to a Drupal 7 theme using hook_form_system_theme_settings_alter.
I had a requirement to post an image on a Facebook user's timeline from our Drupal website. In submitting a Drupal form, I had to post an image on Facebook. We implemented this feature using the Facebook SDK for PHP and Drupal. Read on to know how to upload a photo to a user's timeline in Facebook from a Drupal website?
If you are a web developer then in some point of time some client may have asked you to develop sites one for desktop and one for mobile, (probably in iPhone) with almost same contents. If you meet that client again after 2 or 3 years he will ask you to develop more than 5 sites to view it in different popular devices. I don't think it is a good solution to have bespoke designs for each device, since our device landscape is rapidly progressing. So we developers should start thinking radically to meet with this issue.
One of our Drupal clients wanted to make the current image of the slideshow in a page as the background of other pages. It is possible to achieve this effect using a combination of jQuery and Ajax. Read on to know how to make the current image of slideshow in a page as the background of related pages in a Drupal site.
Suppose you have to display the thumbnail image of each video uploaded in a content and while clicking on the thumbnail the corresponding video should be loaded in the page. This can be done by embedding the video in page and implementing jquery function to load video.If you are not sure how to display the thumbnail images of the videos uploaded from vimeo/youtube in Drupal then read on.
In Drupal, Heirarchical select list simply means the select list has child and parent terms in Select lists. Getting a search field inside a Drupal view is quite easy but how can we get a hierarchical select list inside the 'Filter criteria'? Read on to know how to get hierarchical select list inside a View in Drupal 7
We need to develop websites which are capable of handling YouTube video.This feature can be implemented using media YouTube module. Read on to know to add YouTube capability to a content type in a Drupal website.
Drupal drush will work with php version 5.3 or greater. Is some situation default installed version may be less than 5.3. Read on to know how make drush work on PHP CLI versions less than 5.3
Forms can be considered as an integral part of websites. Forms can be included to a Drupal website using Form API. Form API is so extendable that we can customize almost all of the form API elements. In this article I will be explaining 'how to increase the "coolness" of your form elements by adding "spinner" style.
The Node Gallery module is one of the best options available to create multimedia galleries where both the galleries and the gallery items are nodes. The latest module version for drupal 6.x is 3.2. If you are trying to update the module from 2.0 to 3.2 you will find some issue with the cover photo of galleries. The cover photos won't come up after the update. Read on to know how solve the issue after the Node Gallery update
In one of my project I had a requirement to create an image in a particular image style in a specific folder, when uploading the image itself. In this article I will be explaining how to achieve this using the function image_style_create_derivative in drupal 7 to create an image in a particular image style. One another advantage of this function is that this will create the destination folder if it does not already exist.
In Drupal we use the global path variables for specific reasons.
If in any case there is a change in your site url you just have to update the general configuration page and by doing so every link in your site would be automatically updated. Using the path variable is also less prone to errors.Read on to know how to use the global path variable in Drupal
@font-your-face module helps us to manage web fonts in all popular browsers and it provides the user interface for applying web fonts. If you want to know "How to configure a @font-your-face module in drupal 7" then continue reading