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This article adds a contextual filter for a view in Drupal 8. It also talks in detail about the WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT IN THE URL dialog box.

Have you ever tried to install an apt package from a third-party repository from behind a firewall? If you run apt-key command with a key server, firewall will block it. Read this post to find out how to get past the firewall to import key for a third-party apt package.

Are you wondering what code quality guidenlines your Drupal developers should follow in addition to Drupal's coding standards to make the code readable, secure and performant? What are the best practices so that developers can follow each other's code easily and make code review faster?

This article provides valuable tips on how to become an entrepreneur. Go through these simple yet effective tips to make your first steps towards starting a business.

Google Analytics is the world's most popular tool to gain quality online insights. Drupal offers a module to leverage its potential to the fullest. In this article, we will help you configure the Drupal Google Analytics module.

The biggest advantage this module offers is that you don’t have to copy the tracking code to each page you wish to track. Pasting the Tracking ID in the module’s configuration page will be enough.

This article explains why we chose Drupal Organic Groups over Open Atrium, Drupal Commons, Domain Access and Open Scholar. Read this article for a detailed comparison.

There are several cases where you will have to rebuild the registry in Drupal. I have encountered one such case in the form of this error:

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/files/mailsystem/HTMLMailSystem__SmtpMailSystem.mail.inc'  

This error seems to be occurring in many scenarios.

Ideally, a Registry Rebuild would take care of the issue. But it didn’t help in my case.

I even tried to run a drush rr command but it didn’t work.

That's right! I said it. Currently available Drupal testing methodologies are broken. They are nowhere close to being enterprise-ready. All Drupal developers who have worked on long-term projects have felt this pain. Yes, Drupal 7 ships with Simpletest module. But there are two big problems with it:

This article explains ways to increase productivity at work. Use these tips for yourself or share them with colleagues to boost productivity at the office.

Ubuntu 14.04's package manager (apt) installs PHP 5.5 by default. Although Drupal 7 core works on PHP 5.5, some contributed modules may not. In that case, you may either need to fix the module or downgrade to a lower version of PHP. In this article, we will show you how to install PHP 5.3.29 with PHP-FPM from source on Ubuntu 14.04. On top of this, we will install Nginx and MySQL to have a working Drupal 7 website.