Integrating Apache Solr with Drupal Autocomplete

Submitted by Sergey Cheban on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 17:00

Although Drupal has a good built-in search functionality that coumes out of the box, sometimes a client wants something more advanced and feature rich that scales well for a quickly growing website.  This is where Apache Solr comes into play.  Apache Solr is an open source project that is used on many high traffic websites like Zappos.com and is well integrated into Drupal.

RESTfully creating a repository in BitBucket.org

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Sun, 06/02/2013 - 12:01

Creating a  Git repository is simple, using the excellent BitBucket.org service. It can be a chore to go to the bitbucket website and manually creating new repositories every time, though. Since it is bitbucket, and Atlassian, they have exposed a very nice RESTful API on top their service offering. Below is an example of how to create a new repository from 'curl' command-line ...

Drupal jQuery behaviors

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Sun, 05/12/2013 - 14:49

In this article, I try to explain "Drupal Behaviors". Drupal provides a very clean way of attaching JavaScript code to HTML components. It includes jQuery library with it. So you have to do nothing to add jQuery to your app. But on top of it, you also don't have to attach onload event handlers in JavaScript. Instead you simply write "Drupal JS behaviors" which are JavaScript functions that get invoked when attached (document loaded) or detached (document unloaded).

Let's take a look at an example:

tikkits.com bags ticketing and seat selection for 3 Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy shows

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:22

Tikkits.com will be the exclusive online point-n-click seat selection and ticketing service for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy shows in Los Angeles (June 2, 2013), Atlanta (June 23) and Tampa (June 29). Tikkits.com thanks the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) and Paracha Entertainment for their continued trust in the Tikkits.com team.

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Automating Drupal user login and maintaining session in curl

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 22:04

Using the services module in Drupal to expose CRUD operations on nodes is a great way to expose RESTful service from Drupal. All you have to do is to enable rest_server sub-module and create a REST server in it. Now you start fetching your nodes in XML, JSON or many other formats. Now for testing, the 'curl' command line browser was used to make HTTP requests in an automated fashion. Making read-only requests to fetch nodes as JSON was easy.

SpinSpire launches DataWizard.me

Submitted by Jitesh Doshi on Fri, 03/15/2013 - 15:55

SpinSpire has launched DataWizard.me, a data visualization portal for the wind industry.  DataWizard.me automates daily data collection, insertion into a database, and charting of wind data at various levels of aggregation.  A custom chart, called Wind Rose, has been created to visualize wind data in polar coordinates.  This Drupal-based portal uses Google Chart Tools to create charts in SVG.

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