MySQL supports a range of different data types such as Numeric types, Date and Time types and String types. The Numeric data type include the exact numeric types such as INTEGER, DECIMAL and approximate numeric types such as FLOAT and REAL. The Data and Time types represent temporal values. Each temporal value has a range [...]
Drush is a command line scripting interface for Drupal that allows the developers and website administrators to perform different actions on the back-end of the website such as handling modules and changing configurations and settings. Features module manages different features in Drupal. A feature is collection of Drupal entities that together translate to a functionality [...]
The problem. Adding an option that user can use to control whether to open a clicked link in a new window. You may think it is really simple, just adding a “_blank” value inside the Target section in the view configuration. If you do this, all the links generated from this view will open a [...]
Drupal is a powerful content management system. You can create different content type for updating different type files like documents. images and media files. Creating a view can help you organizing your contents and displaying them perfectly. Normally, you can add a link that links to the content page in the view. It is convenience [...]
I use Montserrat font in my recent project, and this font seems broken in Chrome under Windows. This bug has been revealed long time ago. Try to visit a page with google fonts in Windows, such as: http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Montserrat. You can see, the font is broken even in the offical site of Google Fonts. It is [...]
Sometimes we need to output the url of an image, instead of the image itself, through Drupal Views. In my case, I have a term view, which presents a circled photo in each row. We have a perfect css solution for round-cornered photo: Use the image as background, and style it as: border-radius: 65px // [...]
JavaScript is easy to write and a powerful language for web development. It’s the most popular client-side programming language in the world. Normally, Drupal developers like to use it for creating some special function. The most important thing is how to link to a Javascript file in Drupal before using it. When you hand code [...]
I recommend SASS for Drupal developers, if you haven’t decided to adopt a CSS pre-processor. Never tried? If you are using linux as your working OS, just as many Drupal developers, then: Run “gem install sass” switch to your Drupal theme folder Put targeted css file(not .sass file) into .info file Run “sass watch my-sass-folder [...]
Gmap is a Drupal module that provides an interface to work with Google Maps API. It requires the Location module in Drupal to provide the location fields with clickable map display. Therefore, Gmap is capable of displaying location entities on the embedded map for every node that contains location. Gmap will create interactive markers on [...]
For developers/business owners looking for native solutions in Drupal for implementing an e-commerce website, there are two options to achieve their goal, Commerce and Ubercart. Ubercart is a long-time solution to e-commerce while Commerce is a new system created by some of the former members of Ubercart team. Each solution is a combination of contributed [...]