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I assume most of us are familiar with creating tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. But do you know how to learn what is inside that tar file without extracting it? If your answer is "No" then you have come to the right place. The following commands can be used to list the contents of a tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2 files. These commands becomes handy when you have multiple tar files and if you are searching for a particular file or folder. To list the contents of a tar file : tar -tvf filename.tar To list the contents of a tar.gz file :

Drupal provides a Shipping module that comes into use when you have a store and you want to ship your products to another location. Ubercart has a flexible module that provides custom shipping quotes based on configurable weight ranges and custom shipping zones. For this all you have to do is to download and install the uc_global_quote module. Steps: Step 1: Download the uc_global_quote module from drupal.org on to the sites/modules folder. Step 2: For configuring the module go to /admin/modules and enable shipping, shipping qoutes and flat rate modules.

If we are using kaltura field in a content type in a Drupal website, the video uploaded using this kaltura field will be displayed automatically in corresponding node page. One of our Drupal client had a requirement that, on clicking a button, load a popup window and play kaltura video in that popup. Read on to know how to embed a Kaltura video programmatically in a popup in a Drupal 7 website

In this article will be explaining how to get feeds from a site programmatically into a Drupal site by passing its site url. The advantage of this, is that we could get multiple feeds at a time by passing their url. You can also refer previous article How to create Quick Tab Programmatically?, so that you can display the feeds in custom blocks.

Drupal is an extremely flexible framework that you can manipulate in multiple ways. In Drupal, the theming is the final phase in the process of generation of dynamic web pages. It converts the data from PHP objects and arrays into HTML markup and CSS styles. Read on to know how to convert a PSD/HTML design to a standard Drupal theme

The performance of a site should be tested in order to ensure how fast and reliable a site is. In this article I will be covering the steps to be followed for carrying out some of these performance tests. The topics being 'testing the GZipped Content Delivery', 'Whether FTP is enabled on Server', 'MySQL Remote Access on Server' and 'Password Based SSH Access on Server'. Drupal Performance Test - GZipped Content Delivery In order to check the gzipped content delivery,

Consider a case where you want to enter regular expression and validate it. Here I will show you how to write a validation function. For example consider YOURMODULE_admin_settings_validate function In my example I am using a form and a submit button.From $form_state array you can get the input value after submit. You need this value to match with the string. See the code below.

In a Drupal site, I was working on, I found that many of the modules were unused. Their presence was increasing the size of the site and consuming time when searching for useful info. So I thought of removing these modules.It makes our job a lot easier if we are using Drush Read on to know how to remove unused modules in a Drupal site with the help Drush.

Customer relationship management is a model for managing a company’s interactions with customers. Sugar CRM is one of the largest open source CRM available. Drupal can be integrated with Sugar CRM using SugaronDrupal module. Read on to know how to pass the value of a field related to a field in another module in Sugar CRM while working with Drupal.

If you frequently have to set up git version control system for existing projects then you would very likely run into the problem of having to remove files, which should not have been in git, from git after they were added. Running a git rm will only delete the file from the head and the file would still remain in the repository. This may be alright for small files but this could be troublesome for large files as these would unnecessarily bloat the git repository. But don't worry git being a 'swiss army knife' of version control systems there is a solution to delete files permanently from both your local and remote git repositories.

We had recently conducted a session on Drupal at FOSSMeet 2014 at NIT, Calicut. The session was on introducing Drupal as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) Framework for Startups. The session was aimed at young entrepreneurs who are looking to take their next big idea online. The following presentation was used for the workshop.

What do you do if you have to take your Drupal site into maintenance mode from the command line? Well you can do this easily if you have drush set up on your server. With drush you can do quite a lot powerful drupal administration tasks right from the command line. In Drupal 6 The following drush command will take your Drupal site offline drush vset site_offline 1 The following drush command will take your Drupal site back online drush vdel site_offline In Drupal 7

I am assuming that you have root access on the server without which the following instructions won't work. First you have to cd to the directory corresponding to your mailing list. All mailing list settings will be kept at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/