Tutorials

A simple site with only a few modules is a snap to upgrade. But if you have site with numerous modules, customizations and a custom theme, going from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 requires a lot of thought and planning.

CCK, or Content Construcion Kit is at the heart of many Drupal 6 sites. If you are migrating, you not only need to migrate the module, but you need to migrate the data as well.

This tutorial is part of our series on upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7. Click here to find other tutorials on upgrading. Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 74 of 75 bytes in variable_initialize() (line 749 of /srv/www//includes/bootstrap.inc).

Drupal 7 has a new core module called "Fields", which replaces the CCK module in Drupal 6. To show you how it works, we are going to create a custom content type for Employees, and add some extra fields to it so you can create…

Webform is the module for making forms and collecting information from users in Drupal. After a submission, you can send users a thank-you email as well as sending a notification to administrators. Results can be exported into Excel or other spreadsheet applications. Webform also provides…

You've seen Captcha used on many, many websites. Before you can submit a form, it provides a question and asks for a response from you. This prevents many spam comments, form submissions and email submissions.

There is nothing quite so important to a developer as backups. Backup and Migrate makes the task of backing up your Drupal database and migrating data from one Drupal install to another easier. It provides a function to backup the entire database to file or…

Are you a total Drupal beginner? Do you use a one-click installer like Fantastico or QuickInstall that came with your hosting account and need to reinstall into a directory that already has Drupal installed? Sometimes the /sites/ directory just won't allow itself to be deleted.