Overriding Drupal's Simplenews Subscription Block

In this Drupal Video Tutorial , we look at the Simplenews module and rename the Simplenews save button and remove the radio buttons for subscribe and unsubscribe.

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Sending a Newsletter Issue with Simplenews

A Short video demonstrating How to send newsletters using Simplenews module.

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Administer Simple Mail Newsletters

A short video demonstrating how to administer your Simplenews (drupal module) newsletters

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Overriding Drupal's Simplenews Subscription Block

Video tutorial that shows how to create drupal custom module that change the look and feel of the simplenews module subscription block.

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How to create a custom page on your drupal site by using the Panels module

This video screencast shows you how to create a custom page on your drupal site by using the Panels module.

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How to configure and use the workflow module

How to configure and use the workflow module. Bob also shows how to use the Rules module with the workflow.

The workflow module allows the creation and assignment of arbitrary workflows to Drupal node types. Workflows are made up of workflow states. For example, a workflow with the states Draft, Review, and Published could be assigned to the Story node type.
http://drupal.org/project/workflow

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How to Build Beautiful Forms in Drupal 7

Great presentation of covering how to work with some aspects of the Form API, including dynamically showing and hiding elements, and modifying existing forms.

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How To Install Drupal 7 on Ubuntu Server 12.04

Drupal is a free and open-source content-management system (CMS) based on PHP and Mysql, Drupal allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package.

Drupal also possible to install it on a Ubuntu Server 12.04. Currently, the Latest version of Drupal (drupal 7) is available in Official Ubuntu Software repository. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to install drupal 7 on ubuntu server 12.04

Step-by-Step Install Drupal 7 on Ubuntu Server 12.04 via Ubuntu Software Repositories

Step 1. Make sure LAMP Lamp (Linux,Apache,Mysql,PHP) Has been installed on Ubuntu Server 12.4.

Step 2.  Install latest version of drupal (drupal7) from the repositories with following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install drupal7

Step 3. Registering Drupal to apache with following command:

sudo cp /etc/drupal/7/apache.conf /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/drupal.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Step 4. Create database with command below,in case we’ll create database with name “dbdrupal”

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE dbdrupal;

Step 5. Install drupal from your favorite browser by typing http://host/drupal7/install.php

Step-by-step Installing Drupal 7 Manually

Step 1. Download and extract all drupal files into /var/www/ directory:

sudo -i
cd /var/www
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.15.tar.gz
tar xvf drupal-7.15.tar.gz
mv drupal-7.15/ drupal

Step 2. Change an ownership of all Drupal installation files to www-data user.

chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/drupal/

Step 3. Create a MySQL database to be used by our new Drupal 7 installation, Let’s create and use following credentials:

• Database: dbdrupal
• User: drupaluser
• Password: drupalpass

mysql -u root -p create database dbdrupal; CREATE USER drupaluser;

Create password: “drupalpass” for user: “drupaluser”

SET PASSWORD FOR drupaluser = PASSWORD("drupalpass");

Grant user drupaluser all permissions on the database.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbdrupal.* TO userdrupal@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "drupalpass";

Logout from mysql server

quit

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