Very often we work on projects that are hosted on a remote server. There are multiple ways to work on the remote files:

1. ssh into the remote machine and use an editor like vi or emacs to edit the files

2. Develop on your local machine and FTP every change

The second choice is preferable if you want to use an IDE or if the conenction to the server is slow.

However, there is a 3rd approach, that combines the above two. If you are using Eclipse or NetBeans as your editor, then you can connect your editor to the remote server over FTP. I will only cover Eclipse since that is what I use. Read more »

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (www.thegateway.org) is a semantic web enabled digital library that contains thousands of educational resources and as one of the oldest digital libraries on the web, it serves educators in 178 countries. Since 1996, educational activities, lesson plans, online projects, and assessment items have been contributed and vetted by over 700 quality organizations.

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At 10jumps we will observe the strike tomorrow, 18th January 2012 for 12 hours to show our support to the protest!

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 »

About thegateway.org:

The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996 which makes it one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.

The older version of the website was on plone. The team hired us to migrate it to Drupal. It was an absolutely right choice to make. Given that, with Drupal comes a lot more benefits. Read more »

If you are familiar with Drupal Views, you might have come across a very nifty feature called exposed filters. If you expose one of the fields as a filter then views provides a widget and a search option, where the exposed field can be searched. There is good video to learn about filter here.

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 »