Drupal Technical

Most of us know how to send an e-mail with attachment. But do you know how you can do this using drupal 7? Not sure, then read on. In this article, I am going to address 2 isssues. Sending an e-mail with an attachment. Sending an e-mail with multiple attachments. Sending an e-mail in Drupal 7 with an attachment The steps to be followed are: Step 1: Install and enable the modules MIME mail and Mail system. Step 2: Define hook_mail() in your custom module. The synatx is as follows:

Whenever you need to create a contact/feedback form in drupal, everyone will be thinking of using "Webform" module. Using webforms to do so, is a good choice. Normally, the forms created using webform module are displayed as pages. There may be certain situations, where you need to display these as "blocks". If you need to know how to display webform as a block, read on. If you have a webform with you, that you have already created, by adding the required fields, then follow the below steps:

If you want to switch among contents or nodes in Drupal 7 website, you can do this by adding navigation links(PREV and NEXT) to that particular content. This will help you to see contents without going to any other link. There are contributed modules in Drupal for this but if you want to know how this can be created programmatically, read on.

When we were working on a Drupal website using Ubercart, we wanted to override the text content of the default email sent out by Ubercart. Drupal does not give us a configurational method to implement this. If you do not know how to override the default email sent out by Ubercart during checkout, continue reading. Ubercart stores the default content for email in template files. These templates can be found inside the ubercart/uc_orders/templates folder. Ubercart uses three template files.

If you are working on a Drupal website with Ubercart and if you are handling custom product mechanisms programmatically, one of the main task you may come across can be, 'removing an item from your cart', when a particular condition is satisfied. If you are facing any difficulty with removing items from cart, I may have a solution for you. By default Ubercart provides custom function named uc_cart_remove_item() to remove an item. uc_cart_remove_item(node_id, cart_id, product_data)As you can see that the function requires three parameters:

In this article we will be explaining a small feature we implemented in our Drupal themes, its called Slideshow. Will be explaining how to create and implement Slideshow feature for your theme. Before we start, hope you all know about PHP templates and Java Script, because these two play a major role in implementing the slide show.

In this article we will be explaining how to use hook_views_query_alter() for Drupal views. While working on Views, I came across a problem. In my search option there is a drop-down menu listing taxonomy terms, what I have to do is instead of taxonomy terms I need to give two options and taxonomy terms comes as a subset of these two terms.

In this article we will be explaining a small feature we implemented in our drupal themes, its called Style Switcher. Will be explaining how to create and implement Style Switcher feature for your theme. Before we start, in my previous article How to create default Slideshow for Drupal 7 themes? I have explained how we can use form alter for theme settings page, kindly refer this too.

In this article we will be explaining how an anonymous user can switch the theme of a Drupal site. This is the continuation of my previous article How to create Theme Switcher module for Drupal 7 Part 1? If you want to know how to create a theme switcher module for Drupal 7 then read on to know more.

In one of our Drupal projects, we implemented a feature where, users can login to the site through Facebook login(fconnect button). Facebook login(Fconnect) button was implemented using fbconnect module. Client requirement was to change the landing page for each user according to their role after login through facebook.

Drupal core itself has language support handling in at multiple levels. But If you need multilingual support on your site, locale module provides a user interface on top of basic language configuration.In this article I am going to explain how to add language support in a drupal 7 site. The steps to be followed are:

'Feeds' helps us to keep track of contents in another websites. In Dupal, we have 'feeds' module for this purpose.Through this article, we will be helping you to find out how you could create a custom feed using views in a drupal 7 site. Follow the below steps . Please note, you will have to enable the 'Views' module before padding up. Step1: Create a New View Goto Administer > Site building > Views > Add. Create a view name called "custom_feed" with description and the View type as "Node" and press Next button.

When we install a fresh copy of drupal, we can see that on the top bar icon, there is an image of drupal. This image is known as 'favorite icon' of a site. This is a default image which is provided by drupal. You may replace this with your custom image. If you want to know how you could change the favorite icon, please read on. To upload our custom favicon, follow the below steps. Step 1: Log into your Drupal 7 Admin panel. Using the top menu area, click on the Appearance option. This will show up the themes page where it lists all themes installed within Drupal 7.

Drupal 7's version of Organic group is totally rewritten by taking the advantage of many new Drupal 7 features, especially entity and field APIs. One of the major difference between drupal OG-6 and OG-7 is the expansion of the concept of what a 'group' is. In Drupal 7, any type of entity can be a group and any type of entity can belong to a group. The organic groups module allows us to create a working group where a number of people can create content which is non-public and it is visible to group members only.

Hierarchical select module helps us to display taxonomies, menu etc in a hierarchical form. It is easy to create a hierarchical form field as a content type's field. But have you tried implementing this in a custom drupal form?. Read on to know how to achieve the same.

It is very easy to create a content type through admin section of Drupal. But have you tried doing it programmatically? This article will explain to you how to do this in a very simple way. Even though fields can also be added to the content type programmatically, this section only covers the creation of content type. Let us pretend we have the following lists with us: