If you come from a background where you have created your own forms directly in HTML, you may find Drupal’s approach a bit confusing at first. Drupal presents an application programming interface (API) for generating, validating, and processing HTML forms. The form API abstracts forms into a nested array of keys (referred to as properties) and values. Rather than output HTML, we create an array and let the engine generate the HTML.

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A key requirement in today's business environment is the ability to communicate more effectively, both internally with your employees and externally with your trading partners and customers.

Does your orgnaisation know that Drupal is excellent for business? Drupal is a leading open source content management system that has emerged as the CMS of choice for many developers and website administrators out there.

Mobile computing is fast spreading with mobile computers spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history and even more so in Africa. Developing countries leapfrogged fixed land lines and rapidly adopted mobile telephony much as a result of the poor landline infrastructure. Making mobile phones affordable led to rapid adoption. In Ghana internet penetration is at 14% yet mobile penetration is at an impressive 85% and still going. 2010 statistics revealed Smartphone penetration was estimated at around 18% and has risen ever as they become more affordable.

Ever rendered a field value from a node object like this before

  $value = $node->field_name['und'][0]['safe_value']; 

That was common in drupal 6. I do the same even in drupal 7 but found the best way of rendering a field value from an entity using the Field API that ships with drupal 7.

You brooded over a business idea for some time, carefully built a team and made the right pitch to investors. You successfully launched out and invested your initial CapEx. But most of the things you had intended to do have not panned out quite exactly so. Most startups whether they be small companies or new services and products in incubators in already established organizations face such a similar situation.

For most startups they might have expected to reach a market share of some x% after some months of execution but the more they try the more it eludes them.

The future for online application is brimming with innumerable opportunities. In no other industry has there been a recombination of ideas as the one in the IT sector. Each day ideas are being churned out and businesses are being born.

Field Collection is a handy module, that allows you to organize collections of fields into separate entities for reuse. I was working on a project that required migration of content from a typo3 CMS to the drupal CMS.

Dries Buytaert (Creator of Drupal) announces the Spark Distribution ready for alpha testing. Spark distribution is a Drupal 7 distribution which aims to prototype cutting-edge authoring experience improvements for inclusion in Drupal 8 core.

What are Distributions?

Did you know you could update your Facebook fan page/wall automatically from you website?
Wondering how?

I found a tool to do that easily. RSS Graffiti is your solution.You may ask what is RSS Graffiti? RSS Graffiti™ is a Facebook tool that will keep your Facebook followers updated with your latest news from your RSS sources. What does RSS Graffiti actually do?

RSS Graffiti helps Feed Your Audience:
Publish to Fan, Profile, Group Pages
Engage your Friends and Fans