working on applications and technology

It is useful if we could place each user's image into their own directories, this handling is usually implmented with dynamic path using the drupal token module.

We could use some macro like [user-name] in the directory and it will be replaced at the time of execution by the real name of the login user.

In order to understand the token module, might be the best way is to use it and see for yourself.Read more

Recently I 'm consider building a travel website using drupal. unlike this website, travel site is supposed to be media-rich , It should have a lot of photos and pictures, video content is also under consideration in the future.

For this website I used to insert flickr image into the article body using the flickr tag [flic**], this kind of image handling might be good for ordinary content website but surely not good enough for a travel website, where we have to be able to assemble photo gallery easily and associate the photo with its original post without much effort.Read more

After successful configuration of the SMTP Authentication Support module according to the previous article here, It seems everythings is OK for a while until I register email account on Gmail and then I find out that It seems my drupal could not send email to any Gmail account!

It looks like my previous configuration does not solve everything, I have to think it through and find out why.Read more

Some hosting company has more strict access control for web hosting. one of the restriction is to prevent the 'nobody' user from sending email with no authentication. For drupal hosting at such company, the default email function of drupal will not work after the installation for such web hosting , We have to install the SMTP module to support drupal email functionality.

Steps to install and configure the SMTP Authentication Support moduleRead more

What is drupal fckeditor?

Drupal come with modules that could easily intergrate with some powerful online HTML editor , one of them is the popular FCKeditor. which bring desktop MS word like capability for drupal article writing.

And here 's a screen shot of the online Fckeditor:

Steps to install fckeditorRead more

What kind of applications could you build using Apex ?

The best way to find out what could you do with apex is to see the demo  apex application from Oracle. Oracle provide many demo Apex applicaiton at the website http://apex.oracle.com , It is really useful for beginners to download these apex demo applications and install it in your own development enviroment and play with it. This process is also called the import of Apex applications. Importing an existing Apex application is really easy. and require only a few steps.Read more