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chithra.k

Programmer Analyst
Kick-started her career as a Drupal developer. Chithra is now working in parallel with the sales team to close favorable deals for Zyxware. Collecting and reading books has always been her passion. A personal meeting with Yuvraj Singh and a long visit to South Korea are the top two items on her wish list.

[Drupal] How to disable the facebook/twitter/Gplus icons from Commerce kickstart's product page?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
Service links in commerce kickstart refers to facebook/gplus/twitter icons in the node page. These links help us to like/recommend/tweet specific page of our site respectively.In a recent project, I got a chance to work with Dupal commerce kickstart. One of the requirements I had to fullfil was to remove the twitter icon form the product's node page. Eventhough I searched everywhere in the net, I was unable to find a solution. If you wanna know how I nailed it, you may read on.
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[DRUPAL 7][UBERCART] How to remove the link of the titles and images of items in cart page

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In a recent project, one of the client requirements was to remove the link of the cart-image which appears in shopping cart page. In drupal, when a node is added to cart, it will be automatically linked to the corresponding node page. He wanted to hide it because, we were not using the default node page for the products. If you want to know, how we removed the link from the cart-image, you may follow the stepss below.
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[Drupal] How to fix the incorrect pager display in drupal 7?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In a recent project, I had to make use of pagers in two views. As per the requirement, I had to display different numbers of contents per page for both views. For the first view, I had to display 2 items per page and for the second one(search-results view) 10 per page.The problem I faced was, Eventhough if I had less than 10 search results, the page displayed the pager-links as per the contents of the first view. ie, both the views showed same number of pagers, which was wrong. If you want to know, how I fixed this, please read on.
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[Drupal 7] How to add your own custom operation in Views Bulk Operation (VBO)?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Views Bulk Operation module is helpful in the cases where we need to perform a particular operation for more than one row in a view. Some of the operations includes deleting multiple contents, publishing/un-publishing contents, change the author of the content, send email etc (Refer the image below). These are the default operations available with the module. Now, what if you need some of your operation to be performed other than this? That too is possible. You may read on if you want to know how it can be done.
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[Drupal 7] How to add a template file to theme a view inside your custom module?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
You may be familiar with the theme information link in views. The theme information link in view tells us which files are to be modified, to theme the view. You could get more information regarding the view from, http://viewshelp.doc.logrus.com/help/views/analyze-theme. This is the case where we have a theme with us. But what if you don't have a theme and you still want to theme the view's result? Well, read on if you want to find out how to theme a view by adding a template file inside your custom module.
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[Drupal] How to load a Drupal 7 form field with default values from CKEditor body content?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
One of our client's site, which runs on Drupal 7 allows users to create envelopes based on the custom values like name, address etc submitted by the user through that Drupal website. The requirement was to load this envelope in ckeditor so that end user can edit the default values given as per their wish. So we had to load the form field with the default values given in template. We used jQuery to do this. If you are looking to know how to load a drupal 7 form field with default values from CKEDITOR body content, then read on.
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[Drupal] How to send an e-mail with an attachment in Drupal 7?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Most of us know how to send an e-mail with attachment. But do you know how you can do this using drupal 7? Not sure, then read on. In this article, I am going to address 2 isssues. Sending an e-mail with an attachment. Sending an e-mail with multiple attachments. Sending an e-mail in Drupal 7 with an attachment The steps to be followed are: Step 1: Install and enable the modules MIME mail and Mail system. Step 2: Define hook_mail() in your custom module. The synatx is as follows:
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[Drupal] How to add fonts in CK-Editor?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Why do we use CK-Editor? Well, obviously to create customizable contents, right? If you are creating a page, you can change the heading style, color, font-size, font-style etc with the help of CK-Editor. Well,I don't know if you could create your custom color or font-size, but changing default fonts of ckeditor is definitely possible. For that you may follow the below steps: Step 1 : Create a css that contains the path to the fonts.
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[drupal 7] How to add webform inside a block?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
Whenever you need to create a contact/feedback form in drupal, everyone will be thinking of using "Webform" module. Using webforms to do so, is a good choice. Normally, the forms created using webform module are displayed as pages. There may be certain situations, where you need to display these as "blocks". If you need to know how to display webform as a block, read on. If you have a webform with you, that you have already created, by adding the required fields, then follow the below steps:
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