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Small and medium sized enterprises(SME) in India contribute to about 45% of the country's total industrial output. They are also creating about 1.3 million jobs every year. Being an industrial segment with 48 million members, they are struggling to exist and grow in revenue. As with any small business, one of the key challenges is to find cost-effective ways to reach out to more and more potential customers. A key opportunity here is the open and borderless market on the Internet.

Drupal Commerce is a software used for integrating commerce, content and community to create engaging web experiences that bring e-retailers more traffic for more results. With Drupal Commerce, online retailers have a simple yet powerful platform and flexibility to integrate a rich commerce experience anywhere within their environment.

Installing Drupal 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 machine is pretty simple. Here is a quick and easy way to setup a Drupal 7 fresh installation. All those new Drupal developers who would want to do a local Drupal setup, please read on.

If you are looking for a simple contact form for your Drupal 7 website, just follow the steps below else skip to the bottom of this article for a bit more complex solution.

Drupal, up until now a PAC (Presentation Abstraction Control) architecture, has taken a step closer to MVC (Model View Controller) architecture. Although nowhere have they mentioned about MVC, the new Drupal 8 is strictly object oriented. Another feature in Drupal 8, that is different from the existing versions of Drupal is that it is not entirely Drupal. Drupal 8 uses many components in symfony like it's ClassLoader, YAML file structure, twig and so on. For a detailed description please visit the Drupal 8 home page.

After the launch of Drupal 8, there is now an incessant need for converting existing Drupal 7 modules to Drupal 8 compatible versions. Due to the substantial changes in Drupal 8 from its previous versions, developers find it hard and time consuming to migrate from D7 to D8. This is mainly because Drupal 8 is object oriented and much closer to an MVC (Model View Controller) architecture, Drupal is no longer a PAC (Presentation Abstraction Control) architecture framework, Drupal follows the PSR-4 folder structure in compatible with symfony component which Drupal 8 uses.

The radical changes that Drupal 8 brought forward have been reflected in Drush 7 as well. Drush 7 now uses composer to download its dependencies. Before installing Drupal 8 you must make sure that Drush 7 has been installed. This is because Drupal 8 can be downloaded and installed using Drush like in the previous versions of Drush and also, Drupal 8 only supports Drush 7. Unlike earlier versions, Drush 7 cannot be installed using "sudo apt-get install drush" nor can it be updated by running "drush self-update" because that will result in updating to Drush 6 and no more. Hence the purpose of this article. Drush is a powerful tool to manage routine tasks in a Drupal site. Downloading, installing or enabling modules, running cron and much more can be accomplished using Drush. This is why its important to have Drush 7 before a Drupal 8 installation. Drupal 8 requires minimum version of PHP 5.4. Apache requirements haven't been mentioned, but I recommend apache2.4. After this we can begin installing Drush 7. Installing Composer

While am working with Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 module migration I have faced the following issue. Fatal error: Call to undefined function check_plain().As Zyxware is a regular contributor to Drupal, its relevant that we need to upgrade our contibuted modules too.

YAML is a data serialization language which is easily readable to both humans and computers. It is for this very reason that YAML is being used in Drupal 8. YAML stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language.

I got assigned with a task of executing drupal-8 migrations. The only way to migrate data into Drupal 8 is through Drush. While I was progressing through working with Drupal-7 to Drupal-8 migration we got stuck with white screen death. So we find out following are the methods to correct this error.

As the drupal is getting ready to migrate to a higher version 8. The older version is overhauled by the newer in every sense. As Zyxware is a regular contributor to drupal, its relevant that we need to upgrade our contibuted modules too. Here I am listing some of the major changes found out during migrating modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8

How to access the Drupal admin panel, when the login block is disabled? This is a common question among Drupal beginners. Read the article to know about the details.

Inspectlet is a Website session tracking technology helps in recording videos of users visiting pages in your Websites and allows you to watch what the users(visitors) do in your website. Inspectlet helps to identity why visitors come to your sites and see exactly what the users looking for and how they want to use your site. Using Inspectlet you can get every mouse movements, scrollings, clicks, and keypress on your website.