My Live Chat plugin is fully customizable, easy to install, and requires just a free account at Mylivechat to complete the integration with Drupal websites. It allows you to live chat with website visitors, monitor site traffic, and analyze the web activities of visitors, including their search engine and keyword usage. First of all, what you need to do is to create an account in Live chat site and integrate My live chat in Drupal. Read on to know how to enable live chat in your site.
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The client requirement was to add an option to enable the purchase of free products in an eCommerce site implemented using the Ubercart module of Drupal. This option can be implemented using the module named 'uc_free_order'(with Ubercart and other dependent modules installed). At the time of purchase, the 'uc_free_order' module checks the price of the product to verify if the amount is less than or equal to zero. In this scenario, the checkout page and the credit card options will not be displayed. Instead 'No payment required' message will be displayed inside the 'Payment method' box. Read on to know how to configure it in the site.
In Drupal, all content is stored and treated as "nodes" - an abstraction to process data. A node is any posting, such as a page, article, or blog entry. Comments are not stored as nodes but are always tied to one. Treating all content as nodes allows the flexibility of creating new types of content. It also allows you to effortlessly apply new features or changes to content.Read on to know how to save node programmatically
SugarCRM is a popular open source CRM software. We had integrated data from Drupal 7 to SugarCRM recently on one of our Drupal projects. This article gives an overview about how to create modules in SugarCRM and connect them to a Drupal site. Read on to know how to integrate SugarCRM with Drupal
If you are a Drupal developer, you would often encounter a situation where your Drupal module needs to create a custom table automatically when enabled. If you are new to Drupal, Checkout How to create your own Drupal module to know how to do it. Drupal provides you this option using hook_schema. Read on to know how to use hook_schema in your Drupal module .
If you own/manage an online store using Drupal and Ubercart, you would have encountered situations where you wished to set different prices for different options of a product attribute in ubercart. For example, if your store sells books and you want to add extra price for hardbound editions, here's how you can do it. Read on to know how to set this up in Ubercart
You might think what is the big deal if your Drupal site performs badly.To put it simply, if the performance of your site is poor,you will lose a lot of potential customers. So, one of the core aspects of a Drupal website is its performance. We had worked on a Drupal site that had several blocks. To enhance the site's performance, one of the steps we had taken was to set up a time base caching for all blocks. Are you curious to know how we did this? Read ahead.
In one of the Drupal projects I was working on, the site had a content type with a field image which had multiple number of values for that field. We were required to create a separate slide show for each content of this content type. Using the jQuery Cycle plugin, you can create the slide show quite easily. Read on to know more
In one of our Drupal 7 sites, recently, we came across a situation where we wanted to set a menu link that redirects users to different pages based on their roles. Usually, we create separate menu items for each user and apply permissions based on their roles. However,since we wanted to avoid redundant menu items and didn't want to duplicate an entire menu branch for a shared parent menu item, we decided to set single menu item with different pointing locations. Here is how we achieved it.
Boost is one of the most widely used Drupal modules designed for static page caching. It creates html files for Drupal pages.When an anonymous user visits the page for the first time, boost generates an html page and then serves the html directly to the other anonymous users of the site, till the page cache expires, which increases the performance of the site for anonymous users, as everything is handled at the Apache level. Nevertheless, there will be situations where boost might not cache a page. Read on to know if you have faced a similar problem.
In this article, I would explain how to configure Alexa API to work seamlessly with your Drupal site. We have implemented this module in our site Top Drupal Sites. This module enables you to get the details of a site by passing the URL of the website. Read on to know more
Drupal 8 is the latest version of Drupal. There are significant differences between Drupal 8 and Drupal 7. Firstly, Drupal 8 requires the latest version of php5 to run. Drupal 8 uses a PHP framework called Symphony, which relies heavily on OOP. Another major change in Drupal 8 is the folder structure. In Drupal 8, all core modules are placed within core/ and all other modules are placed in root modules folder. Moreover, there are changes in the way modules are created. Read on to know how to create a custom module in Drupal 8.
When we combine different CSV files using ‘cat’ command, the resulting CSV file contain repeating headers. This usually happens when we combine different CSV files having the same headers. Let us check a simple method to remove the repeating headers in Libre office - Calc document.
In Ubuntu, new applications are usually available as deb packages. Although Ubuntu comes packaged with gui package management tools like synaptic, the command line provides a much faster way. Read on to know how to manage deb packages in Ubuntu from the command line using apt-cache.
This is a small shell script that will help to detect ip conflicts in a network. The notify-send command, used in the script, will enable a popup if any ip conflict is detected. You can run this script in cron. You will get a notification as pop up, if there is any ip conflict in the network.
In this article, I would explain how we can add a new set of categories to an already existing node by using existing taxonomy terms as reference id in Drupal 6. In order to achieve this, the following functions can be used: taxonomy_get_parents_all(), taxonomy_get_term(), node_save().
FSF-CiviCRM is a popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The first step in getting started is understanding the CiviCRM codebase. For better understanding, please download CiviCRM zip file from https://civicrm.org/download and install.
[Drupal] How to update an existing user's profile data programmatically using user_save() in drupal?
User profile plays a significant role in identifying and categorizing users based on their characteristics or preferences, planning specific features, influences navigation, and the way interaction happens in the system.Today, almost everyone creates a profile in jobsites or social media websites. Frequent updation of a user's profile data is extremely important. In this article, we will see how can we update an existing user's profile data. Below is the code snippet that is used to update user's profile data.
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
Theming with Drupal is extremely simple. You can build a simple theme from scratch. When you are developing a new theme, you have to follow certain methods i.e. creating a .info file and template files. If you want to create a custom Drupal 7 theme for your site, read the following tips.