Drupal Technical

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We have faced a situation in one of our Drupal sites where we needed to disable a Drupal block that was being displayed using Contexts. The block had to be disabled for all nodes that contained a particular taxonomy term. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site which is using Contexts and are looking to know how to disable a block on a node with a particular taxonomy term via Contexts then continue reading.
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A large number of websites on the web today have some kind of slideshow in them and they are probably using a library like jQuery to create the slide effect. When there are 10 images cycling in a slideshow, you might want to shuffle the order of the slideshow a bit. If you have a slideshow in your Drupal website and want to know how to change the order of the slideshow on every pageload then continue reading to know more.
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When we have a multi site Drupal installation, we might have to set a default theme for each site. The easiest way of setting a default theme for each Drupal site is by setting the theme from the settings.php file. If you are having a Drupal multistie installation and want to know how to set a default theme for each site in a Drupal multisite installation the continue reading.
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If you are a beginner in Drupal your might be wondering what a node is. The concept of a node is very simple. All you have to understand is that each and every content in Drupal is treated as a node. A page is a node, an article is also a node. If you want to add custom styles and formatting to the nodes of a specific content type then you have to theme a node. Read on to know how to theme a node in a Drupal 7 website.
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One of our Drupal sites we had worked on required us to implement region based content filtering and it was to be done through a value stored in a session. The Drupal site was also using Boost to enable static page caching. Boost stores pages as HTML files inside a cache folder and each page is served from the cache for anonymous users. To implement the filtering process successfully for anonymous users, we had to find a way to alter the URLs for the selected region. Read on to know how to alter URLs in a Drupal 6 website.
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We were requested by a client to create and integrate a Facebook Application on their Drupal site which would post the published content automatically on Facebook. For publishing a content from our Drupal site to Facebook Wall, we need to create a Facebook App. If you want to know how to create a Facebook App for posting published content on a Drupal site on Facebook Wall, then continue reading.
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On one of the Drupal projects we had recently worked on, the client wanted us track the last active tab. We had used the Drupal Quicktab module to create the tabs. However we noticed that the quicktab cookie used to track the last active tab is not persisting after closing and reopening the browser. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and want to know the solution then continue reading.
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This is a description of how you can display table listings with checkboxes on each row on a Drupal site. The requirement in one of my projects was that "Admin can select multiple checkboxes against the details of a user, and can run an update query when update button is clicked." To implement this, I made use of Drupal 7's table_select() function which saved my time and made my code less complicated. Now, if you want to know how you can make use of this functionality in one of your projects, you may read on.
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Drupal provides a number of contributed modules to filter the text in comments. One of the most notable examples of such a module is Mollom which can be used to filter out spam comments from genuine ones in a Drupal site. However if we need an extra level of control over the filtering options, we need to write a custom module. Read on to know how to filter the text n the comments in a Drupal website
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If you are searching for a way to alter the output of a View after it has been rendered, you may find this article to be helpful. We had recently come across a situation which forced us to rewrite the rendered output from a View and we managed to find a useful hook - hook_views_post_render. It helped us to rewrite the output of the view. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site and would like to know how to rewrite the output of a View using hooks_views_post_render. then continue reading.