Drupal

Drupal is my first love, I owe so much to it. Back in 2007 when I was thinking of doing something in life I started creating a website in core php and quickly realised how difficult it would be to maintain all that code. I tried following MVC but still it was pain. My intention was to create a community website for IP University Delhi from where I graduated. In September 2007 I gave Drupal a quick try and fell in love with it. I was aware of other CMS as well but Drupal was somewhere in between a CMS and custom coding. I spent 2 months working on Drupal and recreated www.ggsipu.info in Drupal. That site later went on to become the most popular site for many many years for students who were seeking admission on IP University. So far in my life there have been few things that gave me immense satisfaction and working on that site and help students was one of them. I also earned some money from it through Google Ads but the motivation was to help students. From 2007 till 2010 I learned a lot about Drupal and that gave me the confidence to start my own company in March 2010. We started with Drupal Consultation and focused on that for a long time until I gained lot of experience in Jira and realised that for business providing Atlassian consultancy will bring much more money.

Things have changed a lot in these years but it was all because of Drupal. I always enjoyed working on it and I remember all those moments of hard work, meeting clients all across Delhi, traveling to far locations just in hope to get some work, money was never a problem but to establish something you need regular business and I did work hard a lot and used my knowledge of Drupal to sustain my company. When I started providing Jira consultation Spaxsys was already quite stable in terms of business. It was a bit frustration sometime to work on Drupal but I love it a lot.

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Drupal Trainer in Delhi

If you are a company based in NCR and looking for professional consultancy in Drupal then call me at 9811787069. We at Sparxsys Solutions work on Drupal and have build some really cool websites.

Drupal website developer

Sparxsys is a professional Drupal consultancy company, specializing in custom development of high quality websites. Our rapid development process allows us to build feature-rich web solutions for our clients quickly and affordably.

Completed the www.sparxsys.com website revamping

I am blogging after so many days, but there is a good reason for it. We revamped our company website completely and we tried to gave it a complete different look.

Check this out.

Blank page while installing drupal from cvs

I downloaded the latest drupal from the cvs using the command below.

Table view with rows/columns switched

These days I am working on my other site www.ggsipu.info to build the database of all the colleges affiliated to GGSIPU. I created a Custom Content Type to have various fields like college address, phone, fax, email, rating, etc. During the counselling time the students wants to compare various colleges based on various parameters like infrastructure, campus and other things. Now I wanted to create a view where a table is shown with the names of the colleges in the header and these parameters on rows.

This views snippet allows you to render a tableview with columns and rows switched. Suppose you have the following output:
Title | Price 1 | Price 2
----------------------------
Node #1 | $10 | $20
Node #2 | $15 | $25
but what you really want is the node titles displayed in the header, and the prices as the rows:
| Node #1 | Node #2
----------------------------
Price 1 | $10 | $15
Price 2 | $20 | $25

I created a view table, but obviously it showed the college names in the rows as it is the dynamic part. I searched around a lot on drupal and google and found this amazing piece of code that transpose the rows/columns.

You just need to replace YOURTHEME with the name of the theme and VIEWNAME with the view name and that's it!

How drupal got its name?

Drupal is an English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”).

Delhi Drupal Meetup

Drupal Delhi meetup is a gathering of drupal enthusiasts in Delhi. This meetup is focused at getting together and coding for drupal. The event will focus on module development and theme development for drupal. There will be two talks, one focused on drupal module development and another one focused at drupal theme development. Following the talks we will have hacking session for coding a module and a theme.

Blank admin page in Drupal 6

I installed Drupal 6 today on my windows machine in office. After creating the first user I tried to access the Administration Page, but a blank page was returned. I searched google to fix this problem and got this link.

Running all day

What a day it was!! Hectic!!

Project Management in Drupal

I was looking for a good Project Management Open Source tool for managing my Project and Tasks. I tried many tools like SugarCRM, dotProject and couple of other. I tried them but did not like them, I mean these tools could be very good for someone but not me.