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I had a requirement where I had to execute shell command from PHP. The requirement was that I had to find details of a domain using commands like whois and then store this information into files in a folder. The only input parameter for the process was the name of the domain which was passed on from the Drupal site. The PHP function (shell_exec) was designed to do things like this.

We need to develop websites for a variety of mobile devices along with regular desktop versions. To do this effectively we need to detect the mobile devices when they access the website which can be done through Javascript. Read on to know how to detect mobile devices using Javascript

We had encountered a situation on one of our Drupal sites where we had to create HTML links which on clicking should point to different locations on a different page. We solved this problem by making use of the 'name' attribute of anchor tags. If you are facing the same scenario in your Drupal site and would like to know how to use the 'name' attribute of anchor tags to redirect links to a location on a different page then read on to find out more.

Colorbox can be used to display content pop-ups. By default, the popup's height and width will be exactly the same as that of the original content. But there may be times, when you want to load the content as per the screen height. This can be done easily using jQuery. The steps you may follow to achieve this are:

The function of the script is to rename a specific-directory present under all sub-directories of a specified parent folder. Consider, you have a particular folder under all sub-directories of a folder and you want to rename all of those occurrences. Doing it manually would take much time. Here is a script to make it easy for you. The script takes the following inputs: 'path' is the absolute path of the parent folder, and 'foldername.txt' is a text file which contains the names of the subdirectories under each of which the specific directory has to be renamed.

Have you ever encountered a situation where you have to find a specific pattern in a string and had to replace it with a new pattern in PHP. You will often encounter such situations during web development or any type of programming. Read on to know how to find a specific pattern in a string and replace it with a new pattern using PHP.

Many Drupal users using Bitnami wanted to know how to create virtual hosts in a Bitnami AMI hosting server. If you are facing the same question with Bitnami for your Drupal site then read on to find out the solution.

Enabling the jQuery effects on a page is now no more a mess. Using a plugin called Adipoli, it is as simple as this to show different effects for our content: Add the necessary js files and css files. Select the element on which the effect is to be applied. Invoke the tooltip plugin. So here is the code: $(document).ready(function(){ $('.imgsmile').adipoli({ 'hoverEffect' : 'popout' }); }); There are still more effects that you can add up on other than popout:

Almost all the browsers have different settings for base margins and padding. It is always important to set margin and padding for the body and html tags while styling web-pages. Otherwise it might result in some inconsistencies while displaying the pages across various browsers. We can avoid such inconsistencies by setting margins and paddings on html and body tags to 0.

The Flag module in Drupal allows you to create different flags for your website. But the default settings in flag module will only allow you to display these flags under the user-profile page (if your flag type is user), OR under node page/node teaser/in contextual links (if your flag type is node).