Drupal Technical
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Sugar CRM is a web application used for customer relationship management. Checkout our article on How to integrate Drupal with SugarCRM.Now, let's see how to push the data from Drupal to SugarCRM
Technical Solution
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We had just completed switching our site from Windows IIS MySQL PHP to LAMP environment. As the deployment was via git, we downloaded project files with the ftp credentials and deployed the site via git. However, the 'sites/default/files' folder were of some GBs in size. We only had ftp credentials and was unable to get a compressed copy due to certain reasons. What we did to resolve the problem was use wget command to copy files recursively.
Drupal Technical
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We had faced a peculiar problem with slideshow in colorbox in one of our Drupal projects. Everything works well before an image cache is set to slideshow images to make them same in size. After setting this image cache, colorbox slideshow begin to behave so strangely by showing a very small window with scroll bar and images are hardly visible. Please refer the image below. But after refreshing page images appears with expected size. But loading another page, and returns to the previously loaded page also make the situation again.
Drupal Technical
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Are you looking for a way manipulate dom elements using javascript based on some values from PHP, then this article is for you. We had recently worked in a Drupal 6 site having the same scenario. Our requirement was to enable some checkboxes using javascript based on the values of some variables available in the backend, This was accomplished using Drupal.settings
Drupal Technical
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As the World wide web is starting to resemble the wild wild west, you have to ensure that your Drupal site is always up to date. If you are ignoring the security updates of Drupal, then you are simply making your Drupal site vulnerable to the worst enemy of all - Negligence. Updating a Drupal site requires time and effort which is why most people ignore it. Here is a quick way to update your Drupal site using Drush and Hacked module.
Drupal Technical
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Drupal uses a variety of caching systems to improve the site performance. However in certain scenarios they may not be sufficient and more powerful external caching mechanisms are required to improve the performance. One such mechanism is memcached. If you want to know how to install memcached in CentOs then read on to know the steps.
Drupal Technical
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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.
Drupal Technical
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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.
Drupal Technical
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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.
Drupal Technical
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Many Drupal users wanted to know how to add additional form widgets to their Drupal theme settings. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site and want to know how to add additional form widgets to your Drupal site's theme settings then continue reading.