Create the custom autocomplete field using the custom module.
How to create a custom autocomplete form and to get the user names or or anything else?
Here is the example.
/**
*Implementation of hook_menu().
*/

$items['custom_automplete_form'] = array(
'title' => 'Custom autocomplete form',
'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
'page arguments' => array('custom_autocomplete_form'),
'access arguments' => array('access autocomplete'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM
);
/**
*Implementation of function custom_autocomplete_form()
*/ Read more »

If you are new to Drupal 7 and are creating views, there are lot of changes in what is exposed in the filters. One of the reasons is because Drupal 7 uses views 3.

One example is if you want to create a view of content and you want to add current user as a filter so the uses only see their content.  Read more »

We have been faced with the situation where we have to explain to our clients why we might recomment using Drupal as a platform. In many cases however, client knows the Drupal is proving its way high up in the list of CMS platforms.

But in cases where Drupal still needs to elaborate on its advantages then google is the best way to do a research. We have come up with a small list of the most important factors as to WHY DRUPAL? Read more »

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However, we needed to extend the functionality so all the fields of the content type are exposed as  ‘searchable’ fields, not just the exposed fields. If we expose every fields explicitly, then the views filter will create a textbox for each field, which is not pretty. So in our example, we wanted to search ‘Person’ content type. And if the user entered either the first name, last name, address, of any of the values for the fields in the Person content type, a result would be returned. Read more »

If you are using the Linkpoint API (or Firstdata) as your payment gateway, you might get an error that the connection was refused. The fix is very simple.

Make sure the port 1129 on your server is open both inbound and outbound. This is the port on which Linkpoint receives request for transactions.

To check if the port is open, you can run a curl command from the shell:

curl https://secure.linkpt.net:1129/ Read more »

Drush is a powerful shell for Drupal. It can many developer tasks really easy to manage from the command line. If you are installing it on Mac OSX, there might be a step or two which you have to perform for Drush to work correctly.

If you have pear or wget on your machine, then the process would be straightforward as described on the Drush site. However, if you are manually downloading the Drush then:

1. Download and untar the Drush in a directory outside your Drupal. Read more »

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You can create new view modes very easily using code or a module like Entity view modes

I will provide an overview of the code required to create a new view mode and defining a new node.tpl to display the node in the newly defined mode Read more »

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