While working with Apache solr in drupal, I had to sort the results based on relevancy, date, and popularity. The Apache solr sort module allowed me to sort based on relevancy and date, but sorting based on popularity wasn't available. What I mean by sorting based on popularity is that sorting based on the view count of each result.
Keeping your drupal modules folder very clear is important part of development. This is the common structure :
This structure will give better understanding about the modules to other developers and prevent them from hacking the Drupal's contributed modules.
Drupal comprises several layers of execution and it obviously consumes pretty much time to render content from dynamic PHP code. Caching is a key technique to maximize the performance of Drupal. Before adopting a caching mechanism in Drupal, one must consider the type of site and the type of users coming to the site. Not all sites could have same caching mechanism.
Caching techniques could be classified at various levels depending on type of data being cached and the user affected. Drupal can have broadly two kinds of users.
Once the installation of a Drupal instance is done, I guess almost 90% of the developers would first download "What You See Is What You Get". Inline formatting, Text format options, Hyperlinks, Media and iframe support all these makes WYSIWYG a heaven to opt first after installation. No developer would have the heart to say any shortcoming in this feature rich but yet simple module, I am no exception to this too !
Panels provides great salvage to those lost in the sea of page partition and block placement. It might take more than one blog to completely explain all the concepts, merits and advantages of using panels module in our site. But those who use Internationalization might differ a bit with my statement ! Yes, One of the shortcomings that I noticed recently in the panel's module is its ability to deal jointly with the Internationalization.
KnackForge's contribution to Quiz module is already eminent with Cloze module, Quiz Question Import and maintenance of thereof. To add another feather in our cap, we take pleasure in announcing the kick start contribution of Mark the Words module.
The topic looks so simple isn't it? It looked simple to me when I ran into such a kind of need. The first and foremost PHP function that I thought to get this done was array_combine. It did produce the desired result, the below piece of code shows my implementation,
Drupal family members would be well aware about the power of Feeds module. More than many times, thereof has served us in creating new contents with less work and time. Recently I looked the feeds module from a unseen angle, "How to create feeds importer from my custom module?". To make my requirement clear please visit Quiz Questions Import module's page and if possible use this to get a clear picture about what this blog can do for you.
Often times it is needed to create module specific custom tables to store persistent data. Drupal offers a set of hooks in connection to this. Most commonly used among these are hook_schema() and hook_update_N(). First hook, hook_schema() holds the structure of table in the form of PHP array.
