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The foremost and possibly the most critical decision to be taken at the beginning of any web development project is making the perfect and right choice of a suitable web development framework. We are sure all the team members of the development team would be nodding their heads in agreement and there is a strong and solid reason for this. During its early years, Drupal was questioned for its ability to qualify as a full-fledged development framework. However, within a short span of time, Drupal did prove its capability as a web development framework and established itself as a leader. Today, Drupal is being used by web developers across the world.

Information Architecture or IA, can be defined as the science of labelling websites, organizing online communities and intranets that promotes findability and usability. Information Architecture strives to bring the principles of architecture and design onto the digital background and can be described as the basic design of shared information environments.

To submit a Drupal form, suppose a registration form to Hubspot we need the following.

Internet users rely on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to find websites containing specific information. Almost all websites depend on search engines to drive traffic. So having your website on the top page of Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) is of prime importance.

Drupal Modules has been described time and again as the Swiss army knife of Drupal and aptly so. A Drupal module is a collection of PHP files for Drupal which provides additional functionality to the Core.

While using the D3 implementation in one of my project for collapsible tree, I used the following piece of codes to add dragging and zooming feature in the tree. At first I have downloaded the D3 JS and loaded to the page callback as specified in the D3 implementation notes.

Simple news module is used to integrate newsletter subscriptions to a drupal website. Simplenews publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers

The Commerce Card on File module provides an API with a user interface for storing and reusing credit card data on subsequent orders. This module didn't hold full card numbers locally. Instead of this it stores the remote ID of the full card data from the payment gateway that is used to validate and process your credit card transactions.

Drupal has been used and adapted by millions of websites across the world and not without reason. This top open source CMS is extremely flexible and robust and has found favour amongst the developer community due to the various qualities it possesses. Across the world, many renowned websites such as virgin.com, weather.com, theeconomist.com and london.gov.uk have applauded its versatility and flexibility, and used the Drupal development framework to their benefit.

drupal_add_js() function is mainly used to add JavaScript to the page, either as reference to an existing file or as in-line code (by writing the code directly in the page). But it also add settings to Drupal's global storage of JavaScript settings. These settings can access using Drupal.settings variable in JavaScript file.

We can create custom rules programmatically using the function hook_rules_action_info(). hook_rules_action_info() is a useful hook provided by rules API to create custom rules programmatically. We can use our custom functions to perform the actions that we require. Following is a sample of the hook_rules_action_info implementation:

The Paragraphs module is a new way of content creation. Instead of putting all contents through WYSIWYG body field, including videos and images, end-users can now choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another.