Drupal Technical

We have been facing the error message "Fatal error: Class 'PDO' not found in includes/database/database.inc on line 184" in one of our Drupal sites. Googling up the error text had brought out a number of solutions which did not help to resolve the error in our case as there is no single cause of the error. However we managed to solve it using a different method. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and want to know how to solve fatal error with Class 'PDO' in Drupal sites the continue reading for the solution.

Today many websites use social media buttons(Facebook, Google plus, etc). One of the modules we use in our Drupal sites is Add This. However we have to copy the code to the block each time we want to alter the theme. Often we will not get the proper icon we are looking for. In such a scenario we can implement this functionality using the Drupal Widgets and Social Media module. If you are facing any problems with installing the Widgets and Social Media module and want to know how to install and configure the Widgets and Social Media module in Drupal 7 then follow the instructions given below.

Many Drupal users wanted to know how to launch a video thumbnail embedded in a View in Colorbox using Video.js. If you are facing the same question in your Drupal website with Colorbox and Views then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users were getting 406 Error when XMLRPC was used on their Drupal site when trying to access the features of the BlogAPI module. If you are faced with the same error in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users were getting a "Page Not Found" error when trying to access a subdirectory in their Drupal site. If you are encountering the same error in your Drupal 6 website then read onto find out the fix.

Many Drupal users were getting Page Not Found error on all pages of their Drupal 6 website. If you are encountering the same error in your Drupal 6 website then read onto find out the fix.

Many Drupal users have encountered "Page Not Found" Errors on all pages except their sites homepage. If you are facing the same error in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have encountered the following error in their Drupal sites. "Method POST is not allowed for the URL /index.htm" error (Error 405). If you are encountering the same error in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users have encountered the following error in their Drupal sites. "user error: Access denied for user: 'user@host' to database 'database' query: LOCK TABLES sequences WRITE in [path]/database.mysql.inc on line xx". If you are facing the same error message in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have encounterd the following error in the status reports page of their Drupal site. "HTTP request status Fails Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality." If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.

Many Drupal users received a "user warning: Got error 28 from storage engine query: SELECT DISTINCT b.* FROM blocks b LEFT JOIN blocks_roles r ON b.module = r.module AND b.delta = r.delta WHERE b.theme = 'garland' AND b.status = 1 AND (r.rid IN (2,3) OR r.rid IS NULL) ORDER BY b.region, b.weight, b.module in /home/your-username-here/public_html/modules/block/block.module on line 433." If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users received a "Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' " error in their Drupal sites. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users encountered this error "An image thumbnail was not able to be created." when trying to upload a picture to Drupal 6.x. If you are encountering this same error in your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Many Drupal users have encountered a "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; upgrading MySQL client." during the setup of a new install of Drupal. If you are facing this error while installing Drupal then continue reading to find the solution.

Colorbox is a pretty nice JQuery plugin having a lot of cool features. Recently we had worked on a Drupal project in which we had to load some content programmatically via Colorbox. To be more specific we had to load the Drupal node/add form within Colorbox before presenting it to the user. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and want to know how to load a node/add form inside a Colorbox popup then follow the steps mentioned here.

We were requested by a client to create a Twitter application in their Drupal site which would post the published content automatically on Twitter. If you want to know how to create a Twitter app for posting published content on Twitter in a Drupal 7 site, then continue reading

In one of my Drupal based shopping cart site powered by Ubercart, the products were customizable(ie, end users had the permission to edit the product). So in order not to overwrite the existing product and to save the changes made by the end user, I had to create a new node with all the values of the product. So I created a new content type and related this to the product content type and saved the node as a new one. If you want to know how to convert a custom content type in a Drupal site into an Ubercart product, read on.

Tags are very helpful when it comes to searching. You may get accurate search results, if you have given correct tags for your content. In Drupal 7, there is a default 'tag' field for 'article' and 'page' content type. The million dollar question is 'What if these are not the content types that you have used to create your content'?. Don't worry , continue reading to find how to add tags for your custom content type.

A few Drupal users wanted to know how to show specific content in a page using Colorbox. If you are facing the same question with Colorbox in your Drupal site then read on to find out more.