Drupal Technical

[Drupal] How to create a custom module in Drupal 8

Zyxware default image1
Drupal Technical | 2 min read
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.
Read more

[CiviCRM] Getting started with CiviCRM

Zyxware default image1
Drupal Technical | 3 min read
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.
Read more

[Drupal] How to update an existing user's profile data programmatically using user_save() in drupal?

Zyxware default image2
Drupal Technical | 1 min read
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.
Read more

[Drupal] How to build Responsive Drupal themes using Twitter Bootstrap V3

Zyxware default image2
Drupal Technical | 5 min read
Internet is overhauling every piece of human life. As the resulting phenomenon of booming telecommunications market, around 60% of people access sites through smartphones, tablets etc. Why say this? How web developers are related to telecommunications booming? We might have seen some sites look good in few devices and not in others. As all these devices have a different display, here comes the relevance of discussing responsive designs. The advantage of responsive designs includes, 1. It will simultaneously adjust its width with the device.
Read more

[Drupal] How to display search keywords in the search page as a block while using Facet API

Zyxware default image4
Drupal Technical | 4 min read
I was deep stuck in a Requirement Analysis, when one of my colleagues came to me asking about a feature in Apache Solr search. You may be wondering why she came to me, Trust me that was the exact thought I had at that time. Well, then I realized that the reason she came to me was because I had previously built a website using the Apache solr search with the help of Facet API. While doing that project I had thought of documenting some of the tasks which I had done, but couldn't do so.
Read more

[Drupal] The easiest way to set the max file upload size in a Drupal site

Zyxware default image3
Drupal Technical | 3 min read
One of our clients was trying to upload a pdf file on a node page in their Drupal website. The file was more than 25 MB in size and Drupal was not allowing them to upload the file as it had crossed the max file upload limit and they needed this to be done very quickly. As we were in charge they requested to come up with an easy way to do that. If you want to now the easiest way to set the max file upload size in a Drupal site read on to know more.
Read more

[Drupal] How to give images for menu items

Zyxware default image3
Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In Drupal, while adding a menu item, we can give it a title, description, path and such details. It is not possible to give images for these menu items at the time of creation, by default. If you are looking for a solution, then read on. This particular task can be achieved by overriding the theme function theme_menu_item_link() in our theme's template.php Use the below function in your template.php :
Read more

[Drupal] How to retrieve the content of a Drupal block

Zyxware default image1
Drupal Technical | 1 min read
There may arise situations when you would want to display the contents of a block inside a template file or along with any other output variables. module_invoke() function can be used for this purpose. The module_invoke() is a function to invoke a hook in Drupal. The syntax for module_invoke is different for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
Read more

[Drupal] How to reset the user credentials in Drupal site

Zyxware default image4
Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Forgetting a password is a usual scenario. The first thing that may come to your mind when you forget the password of your site is resetting it. If it is a live site, then we can ask to send a new password by mail. But what is if it is your local site where no mails are configured? well, I know a trick or two to solve this programatically. If you too want to know, then read on. Step 1 : Create a new file and copy the below script in that.
Read more

[Drupal] How to Implement Automatic Tagging in Contents using Calais?

Zyxware default image4
Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Tagging a content properly will definitely cause your website's contents to come up properly in search results. Tagging can be done manually and automatically. If you are using a Drupal6 site and you want to tag your contents automatically, I know exactly what you need. For that I would prefer you read on. Our goal is to tag the contents automatically for which we require the following modules :
Read more