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New feature added in Local Menu module to exclude particular menu

Submitted by anupom.gogoi on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 10:28

Last night I have committed the patch in Local Menu module to exclude particular menu. Thanks Bartezz to share the patch. Now admin can specify which menu to exclude from the Local Menu block. Hopefully users will like this new feature in Local Menu module.

Top 10 things you must do after installing your Drupal site

Submitted by anupom.gogoi on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 19:12

Following are the list of items that I always follow after installing a new Drupal site. Please put some comments if I need to add some other points here or if you are doing it differently.

1. Install Administration menu module.

Administration menu module provides an easy and time saving way to navigate to your site. This is a very helpful module to all drupal developers and administrators. The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website.

How to theme user login form in a drupal site?

Submitted by anupom.gogoi on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 14:10

How to theme user login form in a drupal site? Let's say, we need to alter the descriptions in user login form. Following eaxmple will add new description to the title and password fields:

1. Add the following function in templete.php file. This function is used to register theme implementation of user module. You can find more on this in this url http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_theme/6.

function THEME_theme() {
  return array(
    'user_login' => array(
      'template' => 'user-login',
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
    ),
  );
}

Lets build a simple module "Hello World"

Submitted by anupom.gogoi on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:13

What is helloworld module and why we need this? helloworld module is a simple Drupal module which prints the text "Hello, world". In every programming language, you can find a simple "Hello, World" program. This is the simplest programs possible in a computer language. In Drupal, we need such type of a module which prints the text "Hello World". So that all beginners who want to develop a module can follow this. So lets build a simple module helloWorld.

1. helloworld.info

Why I choose Drupal?

Submitted by anupom.gogoi on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:04

On the world of web, you can find a lots of open source content management system. For example, Drupal, Joomla, wordpress etc. I have worked with almost all of them. After working 2 yrs with Drupal, i have found that Drupal is the best content management system among all of them. Following are the reasons:

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