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Drupal 8: Programmatically create a custom Block with sample code

Submitted by Arunkumar on Sun, 10/09/2016 - 16:21

In Drupal 8 by extending the Core class “BlockBase”. For each block we need to specify the ID and Display name for the block at annotation place. In BlockBase class there is function build(), we need to implement this function to render our content.

Drupal 7: View Contextual filter textfield into autocomplete textfield field

Submitted by Arunkumar on Sun, 10/09/2016 - 14:59

To make view contextual filter textfiled into autocomplete, in our module need to alter the text field into autocomplete by assigning autocomplete path to it. This autocomplete path already defined in module. Below is the steps,

Drupal 8 : Accessing User Roles and Custom User Permissions.

Submitted by Arunkumar on Sat, 10/08/2016 - 00:45

In Drupal 8 we create users permission using YML file of our module. It created as MODULE.permission.yml. In this yml we specifying machine name, title,description for permission and access right.

Drupal 8 : Logging Messages and Errors

Submitted by Arunkumar on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 23:26

In Drupal 8 the messages are logged using core class function. There are two functions used to log the messages into database.

Drupal 8 : Enabled Languages and Language codes

Submitted by Arunkumar on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 23:22

In Drupal 8 language related features are handled in core classes. To get list of languages that enabled in your Drupal 8 site using function languageManager.

Drupal 8 : Programmatically accessing path or URL aliases

Submitted by Arunkumar on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 23:17

In Drupal there is a core class “URL” is used to get URL path. There are some public function available in this class, by using the object URL class we can get URL path from Drupal system.

Drupal: Apache Solr Custom Search Query Example

Submitted by Arunkumar on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 09:19

Apache Solr search used as replacement for default site search in Drupal. Drupal have some of contributed modules to communicate with Apache Solr server. Using Apache Solr API module we can write our custom solr query to Solr server.

Drupal Feed Import : Migrate any Website into complete Drupal site -Part 2

Submitted by Arunkumar on Thu, 09/29/2016 - 00:32

To view part 1 Feed configuration In this part explain how to setup importer and importing a JSON file into Drupal content. Importer setup is help to specify our importer parse type and Drupal entity to save parsed data. In addition help cron job to handle importing and create or update entity information’s.

Drupal Feed Import : Migrate any Website into complete Drupal site -Part 1

Submitted by Arunkumar on Wed, 09/28/2016 - 23:58

Feed is module in Drupal to migrate any site into a Drupal website. Feeds support different type of parser to import data into Drupal CSV parser, XLS/EXCEL parser, OPML parser, JSON parser, etc.,. This document helps to import JSON document to Drupal website content. In order to automate the process of instructing your Drupal website to pull content from json file using feeds, go through the following steps:

How to use GIT commands, list of GIT commands and it uses

Submitted by Anishnirmal on Mon, 09/26/2016 - 22:25

This blog explains how to use GIT commands, list of GIT commands and it uses. It lists the necessary GIT command followed by it explanation. It covers GIT configuration, Creating repository, review history, make changes, branching, commits, remotes, sync changes, save fragments, patching and drush.

Drupal 8 Requirements and its core Multilingual Features

Submitted by sandykrish on Sun, 09/25/2016 - 23:25

Drupal is open source cms developed by a community.Thousands of organizations build solutions with Drupal websites with mobility.Technology and business leaders transform content management into powerful digital solutions with Drupal.

Installation and configuration of Xhprof for Drupal in Centos/Ubuntu

Submitted by Arunkumar on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 21:54

XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based navigational interface. The raw data collection component is implemented in C (as a PHP extension). The reporting/UI layer is all in PHP.

Manage user’s active logins in Drupal 7.

Submitted by Anishnirmal on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 10:01

Today with multiple applications being built using Drupal and with user's accessing Drupal from different devices, a security feature that is must needed is for the user to be able to monitor and manage the different sessions through which he is using the application. This module helps to manage a user's active logins. The user can view his active logged in information such as Hostname, Acce

Enabling video annotation and audio annotation in Drupal 8.

Submitted by Anishnirmal on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 09:50

In Drupal 8 annotations for video and audio is achieved using the following two modules.

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Drupal Memcache Accessing caches from Slabs and Deleting using keys.

Submitted by Arunkumar on Thu, 09/22/2016 - 01:56

Memcached is an open source, distributed memory object caching system that alleviates database load to speed up dynamic Web applications. Memcached stores data according to a key. Data can be of various sizes so you can store small bits (like 1 record pulled from the database) or you can store huge chunks of data (like hundreds of records, or entire finished html pages).