How to add extra fields to user profile in Drupal website?

The default Drupal 7/ Drupal 8 or any version has user profile section. The user profile section has only few fields like username, password, email address, profile picture and time zone. Is it adequate always? Probably not. For example, you would like to create a social networking website and you may need to add more information in the profile section like first name, last name, age, contact number, country etc. Another example is that you have a shopping website and you may need to provide service countrywide and you need to differentiate people countrywide. How to do that? This question was asked yesterday when I was giving training to a Drupal conference. Yes, this is possible and you may add unlimited no of fields to the user profile according to your site requirements. It’s very simple and easy. In this page, I would discuss how to add extra fields to user profile in Drupal website.

Installing views for Drupal website: How to install views for any Drupal website?

One of the excellent and popular modules of Drupal CMS is the Views module. The power and feature of views is excellent and provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content, users, taxonomy terms and other data are presented. I can’t think any of my Drupal website without views and I mostly like this module. Based on the importance of this module views, I decided to publish some tutorial for all of the Drupal lover. For creating this tutorial, I use Drupal 7. If your Drupal website has a different version like Drupal 8 or Drupal 6 then do not worry. The tutorials are alike except the options are located to different places. To start publishing views tutorial, I would like to explain the installation method of Views.

Install Drupal 7 on local host: How to install Drupal 7 on a local computer?

The best and popular CMS is Drupal and installation of Drupal 7 on a local computer is not complex. How to install Drupal 7 on a local computer is a first question and technique to install Drupal 7. When you start learning Drupal 7, you generally have to create a demo Drupal 7 website to your local computer and you do several experiment on the installed site. Moreover, if you would like to build a quality website using Drupal 7, you create that in your local computer and then host that website to your hosting account. So, its pretty important to install Drupal 7 on your local computer. Installation is pretty simple and straight forward for Drupal 7. This tutorial presents the local Drupal 7 installation on a Windows 7 computer.

Requirements:

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• Drupal 7
• WAMP

Note: In this tutorial we use wamp for apache server and mySQL database. We use this as using wamp it is very simple to configure the apache server and mysql. However, if you would like to use similar type of server and data base, you can also continue the Drupal 7 installation on your local computer.

How to log in to the Drupal 7 Administrator Dashboard? Dashboard panel log in…

After installing Drupal for your website, you have to access the Admin panel dashboard. Administrator panel dashboard is the place where you find all the option to configure or setup or to install or to create any content or taxonomy or anything. Without the control panel dashboard, your Drupal website is noting to control. After creating some tutorials, at the last tutorial, one guy asked me how to access the Dashboard panel. In this tutorial, I would explain how to access the Dashboard panel of Drupal 8 or Drupal 7 website.

Adding contact form as a menu to the Drupal website: How to add contact form as a menu to the Drupal website?

Contact form is generally used for getting feedback from the website visitors. In the tutorial, How to install "Contact Module" in Drupal 8 / Drupal 7 website? we discussed how to install a contact form for our Drupal website. In this tutorial, we would learn how to add contact form as a menu to the Drupal website. This easily creates a menu to your Drupal website and visitors can easily find the way to contact.

How to install "Contact Module" in Drupal 8 / Drupal 7 website?

Contact module is an important module of your Drupal website. Contact module is used for creating contact form through which visitors can communicate to the website owners or the support team or visitors can express their feedback. Contact module is a module which comes with many modules pre-installed with the default installation of Drupal. Creating a contact form is easily done using contact module. Before doing this, you have to enable the module first to create a contact form.

Install new module button absent in Drupal 7 / Drupal 8 install. How to enable “Install new module” link of Drupal website

A new feature of latest Drupal website is that it has Install new module button which is helpful for easy install for the novice Drupal user. Using this feature, anyone can easily install Drupal module(s) easily. But don’t you see this button Install new module in your Drupal website (Drupal 7 or Drupal 8)? Or it may happen, that the “Install new module” was at the first time of your Drupal 8 or Drupal 7 website. But it is missing totally. If you face this type of issues i.e. the “Install new module” is totally missing from your Drupal 8 or Drupal 7 website, then do not worry. This tutorial presents how to enable “Install new module” link of Drupal website without worrying much.

How to install a Drupal modules?

Facing problem of proper Drupal module installation? If you are looking this solution then this page is much much important for you. Drupal is a popular CMS for creating and maintaining a website. The core Drupal is nice but we can use Drupal’s modules to enhance the functionality of Drupal core. Each module has its own functionality. For example, CAPTCHA module is used to prevent spambots of all types, Wysiwyg module is used for allowing client-side editors to edit content and so on. Thousands of modules are available. To use any of the modules, you must have to use that module and need to install. Installation of Drupal module is easy but a little trick. Lots of websites and tutorials are there to install any modules. I still remember, when I started using Drupal, I need much time to learn how to install a module properly to a Druapal website. In this page, I would like to tell you the details about installing a Drupal module for your Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 website.

How to configure and use the Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7 / Drupal 8 website

Syntax Highlighter module does program code list syntax highlighting. If your Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 website has tutorial or would like to discuss related to programming, then you may use this module to highlighting your code block. Many renowned websites are using Syntax Highlighter for displaying code. In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure and use the Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7 / Drupal 8 website.

Requirements:

• Drupal Installed website (Drupal 7 / Drupal 8)

Extra Modules:

• Syntax Highlighter module

Extra Library Modules:

• Library files for Syntax Highlighter

Steps to install Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7 / Drupal 8 website:

How to create / define custom types of content in Drupal 7 / Drupal 8

The most useful features of Durapal 7 / Drupal 8 is custom content types. Using Drupal 7 / Drupal 8, anyone can build any type of custom type of contents. Now, you may think why custom type contents are required? Pretty simple, think about the employee information page and employee salary information page. Both page does not contain equal type of data. That's why custom type of contents are required. Drupal 8 / Drupal 7 provides this type of flexiblity for all Drupal lover. This facility is actually known as CCK i.e. Content Construction Kit. Using the build in CCK feature of Druapl 7 / Drupal 8, anyone can easily create customize content type for his / her website. This page gives you a basic idea about building a custom content page according to your choice using Drupal 7 / Drupal 8.

How to change site-name of Drupal 7 / Drupal 8 website?

After completing installation, you may need to change the website name / blog name of your Drupal 7 website. Change of Drupal 7 website can be done easily. In this page, you will learn how to change the website name of your Drupal 7.