Articles with tag Drupal

Drupal vs Wordpress

Drupal vs Wordpress

Posted on: Mar 26th 2012
Time and again I have come across an issue regarding the two famous CMS Wordpress and Drupal. Which one is better? Which one is easy? Which one is lighter? And there are many such questions that I have come across on many sites.
Drupal Workbench - 1 Installation and Permissions

Drupal Workbench - 1 Installation and Permissions

Posted on: Dec 26th 2011

Drupal CMS comes with a very basic editorial workflow structure. You can create roles and give different permissions to those roles for example: A writer will only be able to write articles but he may not be able to publish them. Editor can write articles and can also publish articles. And Super Admin who on top of the two jobs can also delete any article.

Drupal cache_get and cache_set

Drupal cache_get and cache_set

Posted on: Nov 10th 2011

Drupal cache is very important when you are working on a site which will have a lot of visitors daily and performance becomes a crucial part. In this tutorial I will demonstrate how you can use the cache_set() drupal function to save something in cache and retrieve that on user request instead of unnecessary processing if the content has not changed.

SyntaxHighlighter with Drupal 7

SyntaxHighlighter with Drupal 7

Posted on: Aug 21st 2011

 

As told in my previous micro blog post, I was looking for an easy way to format the code that I was putting on my site based on drupal. I wanted it to be quick and easy to integrate with Drupal. And yes, I wanted something which would work on the client side and not on the server side. So, no  PHP code or things like that.

Using drupal features: example of a custom blog module

Using drupal features: example of a custom blog module

Posted on: May 1st 2011
Drupal features is a module which allows you to create your own modules where you can include your own views, content types and many other features. With features you don't have to go through the pain of making same views and features for some common type of features on your site like blogs, forums etc.Drupal feature is a module which can make life easy for people who are making websites based on Drupal day in day out. One of the biggest advantages of feature which I personally feel is re usability.