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I had a requirement to post an image on a Facebook user's timeline from our Drupal website. In submitting a Drupal form, I had to post an image on Facebook. We implemented this feature using the Facebook SDK for PHP and Drupal. Read on to know how to upload a photo to a user's timeline in Facebook from a Drupal website?

Pivot Table / Data Pilot is a powerful feature in spreadsheet applications that allows you to prepare reports from lists of data very easily. This will allow you to speed up preparation of reports that you have to generate as part of project management. Although the example I have created and the instructions I have listed out is specific to the timesheets from Redmine the concept can be applied for any lists of data. Once you get the hang of it you wouldn't want to prepare reports any other way. If there are questions please ask somebody around you who knows this well. We have at least one person each in each of our offices who knows this well.

If you are a web developer then in some point of time some client may have asked you to develop sites one for desktop and one for mobile, (probably in iPhone) with almost same contents. If you meet that client again after 2 or 3 years he will ask you to develop more than 5 sites to view it in different popular devices. I don't think it is a good solution to have bespoke designs for each device, since our device landscape is rapidly progressing. So we developers should start thinking radically to meet with this issue.

One of our Drupal clients wanted to make the current image of the slideshow in a page as the background of other pages. It is possible to achieve this effect using a combination of jQuery and Ajax. Read on to know how to make the current image of slideshow in a page as the background of related pages in a Drupal site.

We need to develop websites which are capable of handling YouTube video.This feature can be implemented using media YouTube module. Read on to know to add YouTube capability to a content type in a Drupal website.

Drupal drush will work with php version 5.3 or greater. Is some situation default installed version may be less than 5.3. Read on to know how make drush work on PHP CLI versions less than 5.3

In Drupal we use the global path variables for specific reasons. If in any case there is a change in your site url you just have to update the general configuration page and by doing so every link in your site would be automatically updated. Using the path variable is also less prone to errors.Read on to know how to use the global path variable in Drupal

If you are a PHP programmer or a Web programmer you would eventually encounter a situation where you need to process XML. Since XML (Xtensible Markup Language) is a widely using format for exchange of information there are libraries to parse an XML file in PHP. Read on to know how to read an XML using DOM. The easiest way to read a well-formed XML file is to use the Document Object Model (DOM) library. In this section we are going to create an object and then load the well-formed XML file. Below is an example of well-formed XML (sports.xml).

Sometimes after ubuntu installation we may find certain notification box saying "System program problem detected". This is because the notification is enabled in the apport file in the system. You can enable/disable this notification. All you have to do is to edit the /etc/default/apport file and change the enable value to 0 to disable the notification and if you want enable this change this back. You can follow the below steps to disable this notification.

Service links in commerce kickstart refers to facebook/gplus/twitter icons in the node page. These links help us to like/recommend/tweet specific page of our site respectively.In a recent project, I got a chance to work with Dupal commerce kickstart. One of the requirements I had to fullfil was to remove the twitter icon form the product's node page. Eventhough I searched everywhere in the net, I was unable to find a solution. If you wanna know how I nailed it, you may read on.