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In this article, we will focus on contextual filters. Initially, we will explore the difference between contextual and regular filters. After that, we will create a view displaying content created by the logged-in user. We will also explore the “WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT IN THE URL” dialog box and the different options associated with it.

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 guidelines 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? Read this post to view the guidelines you should follow in addition to the Drupal coding standards.

It's not easy to become an entrepreneur, especially if you belong to the software industry. You will have to prepare yourself for a lot of ups and downs. The journey towards success will be peppered with a lot of difficult routes. Go through these simple tips to make sure you are better prepared to become an entrepreneur. These tips on how to become an entrepreneur will serve you well in the long run!

This article helps you install the Drupal Google Analytics module. Go through the accompanying screenshots to enable and configure the module for your Drupal 7 site. We will show you how to deploy the Tracking ID for your site. We will be going through the different options you will come across while enabling this module. At the end of the article, we will show how Drupal Google Analytics works with real-time examples. We hope this article lays the foundation for your site to generate valuable insights day in, day out.

This article explains why we went ahead with Organic Groups for one of our Drupal projects. As part of our research, we did a detailed analysis of the following platforms: Organic Groups, Open Atrium, Drupal Commons, Open Scholar and Domain Access. We have listed the positive and negatives in the article. You will understand why we finally decided to go with Organic Groups. Follow this article to make informed decisions while choosing a platform for your business needs.

The manual registry rebuild was done to rectify a fatal error that we encountered. A conventional Registry Rebuild did not work in our case. A drush rr command failed as well. We then installed Drush, took a backup of the database and truncated cache_bootstrap and registry tables.
The entire code and steps to perform are featured in this article. Go through them for a novel method to deal with rebuilding registries in Drupal!

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 it has two problems: (1) Drupal 7 is not unit-test friendly, and (2) Simpletest module requires reconfiguring the site from scratch. Any Drupal developer who wants to test Drupal today is using functional testing tools such as BDD, Sahi or Selenium. But because of the need to bootstrap Drupal, functional testing still takes a long time to complete. What is needed is an integration testing framework that doesn't bootstrap Drupal on every request and which makes it easy for developers to write and maintain tests. Red Crackle has developed such a framework specifically for testing Drupal. It understands Drupal so that all the mundane tasks of setting up test objects is done automatically in background and the developer just has to concentrate on writing business logic of the test.

This article provides you 10 ways to increase productivity at work. Read through these tips to stay ahead of deadlines. Share this article with others as well! The tips featured in the article are simple to follow and implement. You are probably using them in real life already! The tips include using to-do lists, doing one thing at a time and lots more! Read and follow these tips to ensure your time at the office is spent well.

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 on Ubuntu 14.04. On top of this, we will install Nginx and MySQL to have a working Drupal 7 website.