Drupal 7

'A picture is worth a thousand words', a famous adage. Images plays an important role in elaborating the contents. But at times there may transpire a situation where these images has to be saved from a remote site and then upload them into the corresponding content. If the images reaches a out bound limit, it becomes infeasible to have a endeavour. At such a instance the best approach is to programmatically save the images in your local system.

I have been working on an interesting project that integrates Drupal, Apache Solr and mahout for providing content recommendation engine. Needless to say it has been an interesting ride filled with a lots of sapid and amusing challenges. More details about this project will be shared in follow up post. In this post, quickly I would like to share a trick to delete a bunch of Drupal nodes using drush script.

Amending the view output is no longer a tedious task. Especially by taking the advantage of settings available in Views 3.x like exclude from display, style settings, rewrite results and their sub-settings. The change can be anything simple from adding a <span> wrapper for CSS styling to complex token replacement (thanks to token module for making the Views module more awesome).

The orthodox behavior of designing a contact page involves the inclusion of many contents like company or individual's physical address, phone number, email address and feedback form. Over the years it has become a trend to display the locality with the help of Google maps. But the jinx over Drupal Newbie is how to integrate Google map to a contact page? It isn't an arduous task, just involves some copy and paste work.

I did a small research with drush sql-sync. I believe I have arrived at an interesting inference to make it a bit faster, especially for old system by passing an additional argument.