Knowledge Base

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:

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.

Zen is one of the best themes (in terms of solid, clean foundation) out there. And 7.x-5.x release is even better than previous ones. It comes with a drush command to create Zen subthemes in seconds. It also has very clearly laid out and documented CSS stylesheets in the css folder that allow easy modification of styles.

I had the pleasure of giving a presentation at the last Jacksonville Drupal Meetup - Building a killer PHP/Drupal dev environment.

Building a local environment for beginners and more advanced high performance environments:

Here's what I covered:

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.

I had the pleasure of giving the following presenation at DrupalCamp Atlanta.

If you have heard of Git Flow, and you use Ubunut Linux, then you can install it using the following instructions.

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. 

<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.