Drupal Technical

On one of our recent projects we had an issue where the Drupal site search was not working. There was a search.html file present in the home folder to handle a Google custom search page outside of Drupal. Since the filename was not the same as the drupal search path we did not expect it to be the cause for the Drupal search to not work.

As announced earlier Zyxware conducted a 2 hour training session on Introduction to Drupal at the MES Advanced Institute of Management and Technology on the 26th of Sep, 2013.

We have created and released a new module Boost Captcha to allow static page caching of pages with forms with captcha without running into the captcha session timeout errors. By helping boost cache more pages the module will allow for better performance without compromising on spam protection.

We have released a new Drupal module to fight spam - Spam Blackhole. This is a simple module to fight automated spam submissions on Drupal sites by bots that are not manually supervised. The module requires that Javascript is enabled on the site that is running the module. The module works by replacing the form action with a dummy URL while the form is generated from Drupal and then replacing the dummy URL with the actual URL when the user clicks the form submit button.

One of our Drupal clients requested us for a feature in a mobile version of their Drupal website in which, a user accessing the mobile version of their website, should be able to automatically initiate a call on clicking the telephone number appearing in the website. If you want to know "How to start a call when a user clicks on a number in a mobile version of a Drupal website, then continue reading.

While working on Drupal Views, we might want to examine the query executed by the View to get its data. Analyzing the query may help us to identify why the view does not produce expected result. Read on to know how to view the SQL query executed by a View.

In Drupal, while viewing a content type it will display the content type view with a comment form. If we want to remove the comment form from the view node page we can disable/unset it using hook_node_view function. But what we have to do if we want the comment form in a separate tab. There is a module called Talk. This module removes the comment form from a node view page and display it on a separate tab.

In a recent project, I had to make use of pagers in two views. As per the requirement, I had to display different numbers of contents per page for both views. For the first view, I had to display 2 items per page and for the second one(search-results view) 10 per page.The problem I faced was, Eventhough if I had less than 10 search results, the page displayed the pager-links as per the contents of the first view. ie, both the views showed same number of pagers, which was wrong. If you want to know, how I fixed this, please read on.

Recently PayPal changed their policies and creating a sandbox account was a bit confusing for me, when I wanted to test my ubercart site. However, I created one and thought of writing about it in case some one needs it. So, here it goes.