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The radical changes that Drupal 8 brought forward have been reflected in Drush 7 as well. Drush 7 now uses composer to download its dependencies. Before installing Drupal 8 you must make sure that Drush 7 has been installed. This is because Drupal 8 can be downloaded and installed using Drush like in the previous versions of Drush and also, Drupal 8 only supports Drush 7. Unlike earlier versions, Drush 7 cannot be installed using "sudo apt-get install drush" nor can it be updated by running "drush self-update" because that will result in updating to Drush 6 and no more. Hence the purpose of this article. Drush is a powerful tool to manage routine tasks in a Drupal site. Downloading, installing or enabling modules, running cron and much more can be accomplished using Drush. This is why its important to have Drush 7 before a Drupal 8 installation. Drupal 8 requires minimum version of PHP 5.4. Apache requirements haven't been mentioned, but I recommend apache2.4. After this we can begin installing Drush 7. Installing Composer

While am working with Drupal 7 to Drupal 8 module migration I have faced the following issue. Fatal error: Call to undefined function check_plain().As Zyxware is a regular contributor to Drupal, its relevant that we need to upgrade our contibuted modules too.

YAML is a data serialization language which is easily readable to both humans and computers. It is for this very reason that YAML is being used in Drupal 8. YAML stands for YAML Ain't Markup Language.

I got assigned with a task of executing drupal-8 migrations. The only way to migrate data into Drupal 8 is through Drush. While I was progressing through working with Drupal-7 to Drupal-8 migration we got stuck with white screen death. So we find out following are the methods to correct this error.

As the drupal is getting ready to migrate to a higher version 8. The older version is overhauled by the newer in every sense. As Zyxware is a regular contributor to drupal, its relevant that we need to upgrade our contibuted modules too. Here I am listing some of the major changes found out during migrating modules from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8

Inspectlet is a Website session tracking technology helps in recording videos of users visiting pages in your Websites and allows you to watch what the users(visitors) do in your website. Inspectlet helps to identity why visitors come to your sites and see exactly what the users looking for and how they want to use your site. Using Inspectlet you can get every mouse movements, scrollings, clicks, and keypress on your website.

I stood to install a new Drupal-8 site on local environment.I faced a lot of errors related to php and couldn't open the site on browser. I searched about the error and I knew Drupal8 was work in PHP 5.4.5 or higher versions. So I started upgrading my current php version.

If you are a Nginx web server user and using Drupal as your CMS, it is quite different for redirects. Imagine that you have two websites, so if we change from an old site to a new site some of the URL will return 'Page not found'. So for that reason we can redirect them to the correct URL. If you are also looking for a 301 redirect for your Drupal site please read on.

Suppose your Drupal project has the option to upload Youtube videos which will be displayed in the site. Adminstrator has the option to upload videos in two ways Admin can add Youtube through direct url uploading. Admin can add Youtube through adding a video embed code of youtube.

Here is a document which describes how the contents in a View can be displayed in a table format as well as it can be dragged and dropped from one row to an another row without using any additional jQuery functions. We have done this in Drupal 7 and this can be achieved using a module named 'DragabbleViews'. You can download it from this link: http://drupal.org/project/draggableviews. This module requires the 'Views' module to be installed already in your system.

By default in drupal if we click on any taxonomy term, it will execute the taxonomy/term/% menu. We can change this default taxonomy/term/% menu path to a custom menu path. In one of my project I had a requirement to execute a custom function for my vocabulary in stead of executing the taxonomy/term/% menu and I had found a solution for this. The following are the steps to be done.

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.