New wedding planet offers video courses and certification for wedding planners. They offer very high quality content to which paid members can subscribe and learn how to plan a wedding professionally. As Silicon Valley software engineers, our team customizes Content Management Systems (CMS) for an international roster of online business, information, and networking organizations. Read more »

Drupal is widely recognized as a great content management system, but we strongly believe that Drupal offers a lot more than that – a framework, a platform, and a set of technology – to build and run enterprise applications, specifically on the cloud. This post is an attempt to explore the benefits and potential of Drupal on the cloud.

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I had written about setting up php debugging environment with Eclipse on windows.

Well, turns out, setting up the debug environment on Mac OS X is also a little tricky since the library files do not always work. Read more »

Sure there are modules for getting an auto complete textfield in Drupal. But where would the fun be then :)

Here I will show you how to write your own auto complete AJAX textfield. It is surprisingly easy and we will walk through all the steps from defining a text box to writing a SQL query to fetch the results to display. Read more »

This is the part III of the Drupal Database Abstraction Layer

In part I of the database series we saw how to

1. Creating and deleting the tables when a module is installed or uninstalled.

2. Updating the table structure once the module is in use. So the users can apply a patch easily

In Part II we visited 

1. Ways to write secure database calls that can eliminate SQL injection

2. Reading from the database and iterating over results

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In the previous blog we saw how to

1. Create and delete tables when the modules are installed or uninstalled

2. Updating a table once the module is in use. This allows for applying patches easily

In this blog we will see two other aspects of the Drupal database layer

1. Writing secure SQL to avoid SQL injection

2. Reading from a database and iterating over results Read more »

If you develop modules in Drupal you know what I am talking about here. However for the uninitiated, this might be useful.

Hooks is the central mechanism which allows Drupal its extensibility. New functionality can interact with or extend existing functionality using hooks. Use hook, don't hack is a standard way to write code in Drupal.

user_hook() is a hook which is called when an activity is performed on the user. e.g. A user logs in, logs out, clicks on user profile, etc..  Read more »