Drupal Technical

Organic groups module (og module) enables users to create their own groups and manage these groups. The Organic Groups module, provides user the ability to create, manage, and delete their own 'groups' on a site. Each group can have members, and maintains a group home page which individual group members may post into.Group membership can be open, closed or moderated.

A Drupal theme is just a few PHP files, a CSS file, and an info file. Place your theme folder in the location sites/all/themes/themename of your project folder. Theme folder contains images, stylesheets, js files and templates. There are several files associated with a Drupal theme. Each file must confirm to Drupal naming and content standards

In Drupal function hook_menu_alter() allows you to alter various properties of menu items. In your custom module, simply add the function. MODULENAME_callback_function will check the node type and hide the node view and edit from a particular node type. Here for our nodetype the hook_menu_alter() will call the callback function MODULENAME_callback_function, which will not show the view and edit tabs for our nodetype in Drupal.

Stupeflix API is a web service for developers to generate videos using texts, images and videos. To generate videos using Stupeflix API we need to do the following steps

The feedAPI module is a famous one for processing custom feeds in different formats like rss/Atom, csv, iCal etc. Now the feedAPI has upgraded to the "feeds",which have more features and easy to use and customize. However still a lot of Drupal 6 sites uses the feedAPI module for handling external feeds. Let us see how a new parser could be created in feed API module.

Ever since we have used computer, all might have heard of command line tool. Most commonly called bash. Command line is capable of taking input and outputting its results from and to computer. One of the features command line offers is it lets the users to create their own instructions. In this article we will take a tour through the steps on creating our own bash command.

In this article you can get an idea about how to share a link to user wall with the uploaded photo in Facebook from Drupal sites. To share a link on Facebook, we need to use the Facebook API so we have to download Facebook SDK for PHP. Facebook SDK allows developers to get access to the Facebook API. First, you need to create an app (https://developers.facebook.com/apps), because to reach Facebook we need app id and a secret code.

Flexslider is one of the most popular modules in Drupal to build responsive slideshows. The Drupal flex slider module integrates with flexslider library for creating slideshows. As per user reviews/feedbacks you could notice certain bugs reported mainly cross browser compatibility issues which you may face while integrating this module.

Email spamming, in simple words misusing the emails of a website is a common concern today. There are many ways by which this malpractice could be prevented. You might be familiar with 'captcha', one of the method used to prevent spamming. (For test cases for captcha refer: http://www.zyxware.com/articles/3308/websoftware-testing-checklists-cap…). Drupal provides some modules like Spambot, Honeypot etc for blocking spam.

Authorize.net is payment gateway service allowing users to accept credit cards or other payment mode through websites. It allows users to manage transactions, manage payments on the basis of low-cost without any extra transaction fees. Authorize.net deals with many transactions through payment gateway from simple to complex e-commerce products and reports. The only need by a customer to choose an appropriate API suiting your business and transactions and thereby directly creating an account with Authorize.net.