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Drupal 7 alpha features

Whats new in Drupal 7 alpha ??

** Improved User Interface

--- In-place editing of nodes and blocks. So your life is easy to edit data.
--- Administrative Dashboard and Customizable Shortcut Bar.
--- New cool administrative theme seven.

** Custom Fields

--- Now cck module is in core.
--- You can add now fields to Users, most of them are currently using content_profile for D6.
--- You can add fields to taxonomy terms too.

How to configure google maps with nodes in drupal

Hi Everyone,

Here is the solution.
Step 1: Install Locations Module
Step 2: Install Gmap Module
Step 3: Enable Gmap Location Module Which is part of Gmap Module.
Step 4: Set the Google Map Key Here admin/settings/gmap
Step 5: Go here admin/settings/location/main and select default country and check Use a Google Map to set latitude and longitude
Step 6: Go to content type edit tab and select Locations Collapsible tab, under that go to Number Of Locations and set min, max, Number of locations that can be added at once as 1,1,1 respectively

Drupal Performance Tips

Hi Everyone,

Tip 1: Enable the query cache in MySQL
How ??
* You can setup them in /etc/my.cnf (Red Hat) or /etc/mysql/my.cnf (Debian) file:
* # vi /etc/my.cnf
Append config directives as follows:
query_cache_size = 268435456
query_cache_type=1
query_cache_limit=1048576
* You can get the suggestions for my.cnf settings using this script MySQL Performance Tuning Primer Script. Place this script in /etc folder and run using sh /path-to-file/tuning-primer.sh

Tip 2: How to Compress HTML FILES using gzip and Apache mod_deflate

* Add this code in .htaccess

Debug Drupal using Xdebug, Eclipse and Wamp

Hi All,

I was searching for debugging tool for drupal since i do module development and deals with so many websites during my projects. I found Xdebug is the one way to go . I am listing here step by step process to debug drupal using xdebug and Eclipse.

Step 1: Download Eclipse PDT from here http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downl...

Step2: Download php_xdebug-2.0.4-5.2.8.dll dll and place in C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.5\ext.

Step3: Edit your php.ini file with the following code at the end of file....
[xdebug]

Migraine -- Synchronize your development, staging, and production sites' databases for Drupal 6

Often Drupal developers are in a fix when it comes to synchronizing their development, staging, and live (production) sites' databases. Migraine, a python script, comes to the aid of all Drupal developers for this purpose. This small script allows you to maintain separate test and production versions of your Drupal site. After you've made configuration changes on the test site, this script can migrate them to the production site for you.

Twitter Integration Module

Twitter Module aggregates tweets from Twitter for specific keywords. These keywords can be mapped to nodes so that the tweets become associated with a node.

For example when people tweet Slumdog Millionaire all those tweets are aggregated here. http://www.ilovebolly.com/movie/283419/tweetdeck

Twitter module is also capable of sending the tweets dynamically based on keywords used by people tweeting in twitter. It also provides an option to unsubscribe from displaying tweets from a particular user.

Alert Pay Integration For Drupal

Alertpay Integration module provides a way to integrate Ubercart with AlertPay which is the rising leader in secure online payment solutions that was founded to facilitate safe instant payments between individuals and online businesses.

It gives online users to buy products using the AlertPay payment gateway. This module is integrated with Ubercart module, for e commerce solutions in Drupal.

Movie History Module

Movie History Module provides a way to record users movie history and share with friends. This module also sends invitations to users for a movie plan. Movie History module keep tracks of all the movie history in user profile pages.

Job Classifieds Module

Creates a classified and job portal setup for Drupal.

Module currently supports drupal 6.x version.

Betting Module

Betting Module allows users to create, participate on bets and quizes. This module has Flickr photo integration, which fetches images that are related to bets dynamically from Flickr.

This module is integrated with userpoints to award points on correct answers. It tracks the points and give rankings among users. Users can inivte others to bets using Plaxo widget integration.

You can see the module in action here. http://www.ilovebolly.com/node/add/bet . Please Login to view this page.

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