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In this article I will be explaining a task I did for one of our sites in Drupal6. In this site, for every content type say event the users manually entered year along with the title in title field. So my task was to remove the year from title and save it in a seperate cck field.

This article will be explaining a module we implemented in site Free Drupal Themes, its called Theme Switcher. This module helps in switching between any enabled themes without logging in. In previous article How to enable multiple themes using command promte? I had explained how to enable multiple themes using drush.

Twig is a modern template engine for PHP. It is fast, flexible, and more secure. Twig is a template framework and is a direct replacement for PHP Template. There are lots of differences between PHP template and Twig. Drupal 8 is developed with help of Symfony2 framework, and the template files in Drupal 8 are in twig format.Read on to find out more about twig and debugging of twig.

Have you ever seen your face? Not in a mirror, but with your own eyes? You may have seen other parts of your body, but never your face. When you think about it, there are so many things that are not humanly possible. That is why we need machines. Simply put, technology should aid in human development. But as any other thing, if technology is misused, it becomes a curse. The collective effort of mankind may never be able to find ideal solutions to technological challenges, as done by a state ­of­ the art A.I Quantum computer. This sets the stage for Artificial intelligence.

As Zyxware Technologies forges ahead in its journey to achieve the target of Rs.100 crores and 1,000 people by 2018-19, we realize that building powerful leadership capabilities is going to be a major differentiator.Hence, each of us need to take stock of our present, reflect on our past, and prepare for the future as leaders. Our goals will demand the best out of us.

In order to identify what to write on in this edition of the newsletter, I interacted with some people in Zyxware. The suggestions, at first glance, appeared varied. But the more I think about it, the more I feel that there is a common thread running through them. The common thread is that of the future of Zyxware as an organisation, its vision and how it plans to get there. I am putting together a response here which are broad answers to the questions. More specificity would require me to take up more space which I am afraid will not be possible in the newsletter. But I would be happy to engage in the comments section.

Anoop John, CTO, Zyxware Technologies, is a man of many interests and an ardent proponent of the free software philosophy. This man is a polymath who loves to speak, and funnily enough has an opinion on everything under the sun! An avid blogger, he has documented a lot of data in his blog, www.thondomraughts.com, which covers his thoughts on topics varying from activism, to sociology, psychology, ethics, law and much more! All that being said, he is a simple man who just wants to make a difference, bring upon a positive change in the society and help his fellow people. This interview with him sheds light on his journey, his philosophies and the kind of man that he is personally.

Webform is a helpful module that enables you to submit information such as contact forms, surveys etc. It is easy to configure webform in a drupal site. Now, what about displaying a webform inside a colorbox? Although it is easy to install colorbox module and write custom code to display webform, we also have to effectively handle form submission and validation errors. However, there is an easy way in drupal7 to display a webform inside a colorbox.

If you need to import users from the data given in a file in drupal 6, then user import module is helpful. Using this module, we can upload the file in csv format, which contains user details and select the details from the uploaded file using the user import module.

A new requirement from one of our clients was to create a 'custom view' tab in Drupal my account page. The tab should lead to a page that lists the user’s content in descending order by date of placement. We were all set to create it through code, but interestingly we came up with a different solution. All that was required was just a few minor admin configurations, and the tab was ready in a few minutes. Here are the steps to create a custom view tab in Drupal 7 my account page.

As Drupal sites are becoming increasingly flexible, it is obvious to list the nodes related to logged in user. This can be done with the help of PHP and MYSQL codes. However, we need not waste time if have the views module - the perfect icing on the cake !!! So, let's narrow down here.