Did you know you can use Drupal in your custom PHP scripts, outside of modules? Possibly. But did you know that you can make your scripts much faster by reducing Drupal's bootstrap levein your scripts? Read on to see how.
The following script reads the first 20 nids (node-ids) from your Drupal database.
While using or coding Drupal, if you come across an error to the effect "mysql server has gone away", right in the middle of a request, you may need to do the following.
Find the my.ini file under MySQL server installation directory (mine is under "data" subdirectory), and in the "[mysqld]" section add the following line (or replace the value if it already exists):
max_allowed_packet=16M
Now restart MySQL server and try again. It should work. If it doesn't, try a value higher than 16M.
SpinSpire's current batch of Drupal training is at halfway point. We have completed 2 weeks of training and 2 weeks to go. The training teaches Drupal (content management, configuration & coding), jQuery, JavaScript, Linux, Git, HTML/CSS and much more.
The course content and discussion forum are publicly available. Check it out at http://training.spinspire.com/
On one of the Drupal 6 projects we had the need to assign a specific role to all users who create their own account (by visiting 'user/register'). Let's say the role is 'abc' and the role id (rid) is 3. So every new user should have the 'abc' role automatically. After much reseach I found the winning formula :-)
We are pleased to announce the beta release of our OpenID Helper Drupal module (see http://drupal.org/sandbox/jitesh_doshi/1460772). OpenID module, included in Drupal core, is very useful, but not very user-friendly. It expects users to know what their OpenID provider URL is. The OpenID Helper module makes it a little more user-friendly by giving the user a dropdown list well-known OpenID providers to choose from.
Software Quality Engineering (SQE), an industry leader in conferences, trainings and online communities has selected SpinSpire to design and develop their Drupal-based community web portals. SQE delivers training, support, research, and publications to software managers, developers, test professionals, and quality engineers worldwide. SpinSpire provides high-end Drupal development services for enterprises.
Under this deal, SpinSpire will migrate SQE's online properties to Drupal with features including content management, conference registration, groups & forums, revenue generation via advertising, targeted marketing, automated workflows triggered by system events, and extensive integration with social networks. Social login and social commenting will allow users with social network accounts to log into the SQE portals and to participate in conversations that also engage other people in their social network.
Stay tuned for site launch announcements in coming months.
<p>SpinSpire is pleased to announce the beta release of our Webform Single Use Options Drupal module (see <a href="http://drupal.org/sandbox/jitesh_doshi/1439044">here to view</a>). Webform module is a very useful and versatile module that we have used in many situations. But sometimes you need a webform select list to start removing options once they have been used in a submission.
In this article I will show how to setup git and Drupal in such a way that you can keep editing your site's modules, themes and libraries on your local machines and every time to do 'git push' it automatically deploys to your pubilc Drupal site - without having to login into your webhosting provider and doing checkout/reset on your working tree.
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Drupal 6 is very good. But Drupal 7 is even better. Much cleaner user interface (UI), and much cleaner application programming interface (API) as well.
Today, I'm going to talk about Colobox integration in Drupal 7. With Colorbox in D7, you can show your attached images in a very user-friendly (and nice looking manner).
Let's say you want to enhance the "Article" content type with Colorbox images ("Article" content type in D7 replaces "Story" content type from D6).
SpinSpire has won a contract to design and build a health insurance shopping portal for a major healthcare provider in Florida. SpinSpire was chosen by a global, multi-billion dollar software and consulting company, and Drupal+Ubercart were chosen over a number of other major content management and web store products. As of this writing, the project is in requirements and design phase, with SpinSpire leading the way.