Drupal Development

In this article, I'll show how I built a travel map using Drupal and a few extra modules. For a starter, you can see a live preview by visiting my Travel Map. In this map, I have listed all places I have visited since October 2013 (When I started my blog). I have used a few filters to allow limiting results on the map, for example,  users can filter by Country, Region, and Theme (Category). To make it work better and more intuitive I have used a small but neat Drupal module - Views Selective…

Originally this post was planned to be a part of building a Drupal website from scratch series post, I did in late 2013. For some reason this post was left unpublished, so today I decided to review it one more time and make it public.  In this article, I'll show how to create simple, but powerful booking engine for fictional tourism company's webpage using Drupal. Part 1 - Modules Download References module Node Reference URL Widget Extract modules to sites/all/modules Enable modules…

After a long period of doubts should I start testing and developing with Drupal 8, which stable version is not yet released, yesterday I decided to give a try for a Drupal 8 beta release. I bought a new Linode VPS, quickly deployed there Ubuntu 14.04, and installed Nginx as a web server. I did it because my current server is PHP 5.2, and Drupal 8 is asking for at least PHP 5.3. So  - not to mess up with my existing server configuration, a new Linode seemed the best option.  All went pretty…

<p>Drupal module Hierarchical Select is a handy "must-have" module for sites that are heavily based on category terms and their childes. I have been using this module for some previous projects in combination with another, yet more simple module -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/shs">Simple hierarchical select</a>.</p><p>Though there are times second module suits more than first - I still prefer first over second.</p><…