Drupal 7

Step by step guide to setup Apache Solr 5.x in CentOS 7 for Drupal 7 Panopoly distro using Search API

As of this writing, the latest version of Solr is 5.2.1. In this step by step guide we will install that version and integrate it with Drupal 7 Panopoly distro site using Search API module. Actually, Panopoly distro is already shipped with Search API and Search API Solr Search modules. All we need to do is to configure the pre-setup Search API Solr server and index. The good thing about using Search API is that it is already integrated with Views module and we can do unlimited customization with our search results.

Using SASS in Bootstrap Drupal theme

As of this writing, Bootstrap Drupal theme only supports LESS. This tutorial will show how to create bootstrap sub-theme supporting SASS and use Grunt to manage our workflow effectively. My operating system is Windows. Therefore, the shell commands, output, etc. that will be shown here are for Windows.

How to assign different separate domain for a Drupal page using Nginx

A client asked me to work on one particular page of his existing Drupal site to have its own different separate domain. This is one good solution if you have special web page that you want to quickly improve ranking on search engines.

Lets say, the http://www.webfoobar.com/node/88 is the page that we want it to have its own domain "test7.webfoobar.com". The following steps will accomplish this task:

Showing Drupal taxonomy terms' hierarchical structure in Views

This guide will show how to display Drupal taxonomy terms' hierarchical structure in Views. It is assumed that you have already existing setup of your own taxonomy terms hierarchical structure, a content type which has a field referencing your vocabulary with taxonomy terms hierarchical structure and posted nodes of this content type tagged with one of these taxonomy terms.

In this guide we will use the Drupal vocabulary that has the following structure as our example:

Solution to Drupal site's page's URL all contains its root path

I had a Drupal project where the website is hosted in shared web hosting and the issue was all its page's URL contains root path like for example: http://example.com/home/roland/public_html/contact (this URL should only be http://example.com/contact if without root path). We know that in shared hosting we don't have control in Apache web server's configuration files but we do only have the .htaccess to do some Apache stuffs. How can we remove the root path /home/roland/public_html from all our Drupal site's URL?

Display list of Drupal contents based on your visitor's state/province/region location in Views (using Smart IP and Location modules) and have a dropdown form available to filter other regions

In this article we will discuss how to setup a View that shows list of contents in a Drupal 7 site that are filtered based on your visitor's state/province/region location with the use of Smart IP and Location contributed modules and expose views filter to have a dropdown form available for visitors to enable them to filter list of contents in other regions. Smart IP module is used to identify Drupal site visitor's geographical location based on his IP address and Location module is used to provide the field and expose the views location filters.

Steps:

Solution on how to force re-index your Search API index application

The following codes below will just force to queue the node to your Search API index application batch process. But the actual index execution will not run yet and this depends on how often your cron runs.

  
// Clear field cache for the node.
cache_clear_all('field:node:' . $node->nid, 'cache_field');

// Reindex the node.
search_api_track_item_change('node', array($node->nid));
  

If you need to force index your Search API index application, you can use the codes below: