Drupal Technical

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Drupal is a stable,reliable, and robust Content Management System. Views is a Drupal module, which provides a flexible method for site designers to control how lists and tables of content, or any other type of content has to be presented. The views module was a contributed one and was later adapted to the core from Drupal 8. Drupal views are being used by almost 75% of the Drupal based sites to present the elements in a page. Most of the websites still use the Views module versions such as 6.x. Drupal Views versions, 6.x-2.9, 6.x-2.10 and 6.x-2.11, in Drupal 6 are vulnerable.
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Universal Analytics is a set of technological innovations that is aimed at improving the way data is collected and processed in Google Analytics.The Universal Analytics Upgrade is a process which is used to upgrade all your classic Google Analytics properties into Universal Analytics properties without losing any data or changing your account settings.All Google Analytics properties will soon be required to use Universal Analytics. Any properties that don’t follow the upgrade process will be auto-transferred to Universal Analytics in the future.
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A new requirement from one of our clients was to create a 'custom view' tab in Drupal my account page. The tab should lead to a page that lists the user’s content in descending order by date of placement. We were all set to create it through code, but interestingly we came up with a different solution. All that was required was just a few minor admin configurations, and the tab was ready in a few minutes. Here are the steps to create a custom view tab in Drupal 7 my account page.
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My Live Chat plugin is fully customizable, easy to install, and requires just a free account at Mylivechat to complete the integration with Drupal websites. It allows you to live chat with website visitors, monitor site traffic, and analyze the web activities of visitors, including their search engine and keyword usage. First of all, what you need to do is to create an account in Live chat site and integrate My live chat in Drupal. Read on to know how to enable live chat in your site.
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The client requirement was to add an option to enable the purchase of free products in an eCommerce site implemented using the Ubercart module of Drupal. This option can be implemented using the module named 'uc_free_order'(with Ubercart and other dependent modules installed). At the time of purchase, the 'uc_free_order' module checks the price of the product to verify if the amount is less than or equal to zero. In this scenario, the checkout page and the credit card options will not be displayed. Instead 'No payment required' message will be displayed inside the 'Payment method' box. Read on to know how to configure it in the site.
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In Drupal, all content is stored and treated as "nodes" - an abstraction to process data. A node is any posting, such as a page, article, or blog entry. Comments are not stored as nodes but are always tied to one. Treating all content as nodes allows the flexibility of creating new types of content. It also allows you to effortlessly apply new features or changes to content.Read on to know how to save node programmatically
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If you are a Drupal developer, you would often encounter a situation where your Drupal module needs to create a custom table automatically when enabled. If you are new to Drupal, Checkout How to create your own Drupal module to know how to do it. Drupal provides you this option using hook_schema. Read on to know how to use hook_schema in your Drupal module .
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You might think what is the big deal if your Drupal site performs badly.To put it simply, if the performance of your site is poor,you will lose a lot of potential customers. So, one of the core aspects of a Drupal website is its performance. We had worked on a Drupal site that had several blocks. To enhance the site's performance, one of the steps we had taken was to set up a time base caching for all blocks. Are you curious to know how we did this? Read ahead.
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In one of our Drupal 7 sites, recently, we came across a situation where we wanted to set a menu link that redirects users to different pages based on their roles. Usually, we create separate menu items for each user and apply permissions based on their roles. However,since we wanted to avoid redundant menu items and didn't want to duplicate an entire menu branch for a shared parent menu item, we decided to set single menu item with different pointing locations. Here is how we achieved it.
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Boost is one of the most widely used Drupal modules designed for static page caching. It creates html files for Drupal pages.When an anonymous user visits the page for the first time, boost generates an html page and then serves the html directly to the other anonymous users of the site, till the page cache expires, which increases the performance of the site for anonymous users, as everything is handled at the Apache level. Nevertheless, there will be situations where boost might not cache a page. Read on to know if you have faced a similar problem.
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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.