Zyxware Technologies

How to create custom regions in node.tpl.php in Drupal 6

webmaster — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:59:25 +0000

Drupal allows very fine grained control over how content is presented to the end user. The presentation layer is abstracted beautifully and cleanly designed hooks allows for moving data from the logic layer to the presentation layer. The template file that handles the basic page layout of every drupal site is page.tpl.php and the different regions available for a given theme are all available as HTML elements in page.tpl.php. Another important template file is node.tpl.php which decides how nodes are presented to the end user. Normally the content of nodes go into regions inside page.tpl.php and so does blocks and panels. But what if you want to have regions inside the display area of nodes? What if you want to use blocks to display content inside nodes? The answer is simple - template preprocess is the key.
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Programmatically set a Views filter in Drupal 6 and Views 2

webmaster — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:11:26 +0000

Views is one of the most complex of all Drupal modules and one of the most useful of all Drupal modules. The only downside is that, since it is very complex, not too many people have been able to contribute to the documentation of the module. If you search Google for finding out how to programmatically set a filter in Views2 you probably wouldn't find any help. Here is how you do it.
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Export RSS feeds to remote ftp sites from your Drupal website using Views

webmaster — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:44:53 +0000

Feed API provides a powerful means of importing feeds from other sites directly into your Drupal site. What if you want to export your feed as an XML file to a content distributor who wants it on his FTP site? There is of course the traditional approach of using curl to read your feed URL and dump the text as files on to the ftp site. There is not much control that you have over this process. However doing this via Drupal Views will give you fine grained control over the process
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Create Short URLs on the fly in your drupal website

webmaster — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:18:23 +0000

SEO requires you to have descriptive titles and URLs matching the title. But when you want to publish your URL some place where the length of the URL is an issue you definitely want short URLs. One solution to the problem is to use URL shortening services like tr.im to shorten the long URLs to short and sweet 9 character urls. But the URL will lose your sites identity. Don't worry there is the drupal way to solve this problem.
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15 Drupal SEO Modules for a real traffic turnaround

webmaster — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:38:42 +0000

We at Zyxware have been working on several drupal projects for more than two years now and we learned a lot in the process. Two of our internal projects include www.zyxware.com and www.ubuntumanual.org, where we have tried out different SEO tactics. There are a number of really good drupal modules that come in handy when you are dealing with SEO ing your drupal website. Here are a select few of them that really helped in attracting more traffic to our drupal projects.
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We love Drupal - It is official now

webmaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:10:43 +0000

We have been working with Drupal for the last 3 years now and we just love Drupal. Every day we work with it, we get more and more reasons to love it even more. As a token of our respect for this system, we have become official paid members of Drupal association. We can now proudly flaunt the association badges on our site.
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Change the page title of a view in Drupal + Views 2 using Argument Handling Code

webmaster — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:35:13 +0000

If you create anything other than a very small site using Drupal you will end up using Views and CCK, two of the most important contributed modules in Drupal. Views allow users to dynamically create different presentation of tabular data from the database. However this also necessitates dynamic page titles for pages using views.
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Strip HTML Tags from your OpenOffice Document using Regular Expressions

webmaster — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:48:33 +0000

Openoffice comes with a stripped down version of regular expression for both of its Find/Replace Utility as well as its Calc Formulae. It however still packs a punch for most common operations. Here is how you can strip HTML tags from an open office document using the Find/Replace dialog.
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Software Engineer (SE1) positions open at Zyxware (SE010908)

webmaster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:22:30 +0000

We are a startup company with a vision to become a flag bearer in bringing about positive changes in the world by applying our resources and capabilities towards finding innovative solutions to the problems in the world. But at the same time we are a profit making entity bent on creating value in the system and augment our resources to drive our vision.
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Fixed: Ubuntu Startup slows down at Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail

webmaster — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:58:12 +0000

If you install sendmail on your desktop and have not configured your system correctly you will very likely come across this problem. Ubuntu boot up slows down considerably and stops for a long time at the "Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail" line. This is because sendmail is trying to resolve your host and times out failing to do so. You can fix this problem easily by making a few changes in to yours hosts file.
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