Listing current user uploaded brightcove videos in drupal

If you want to list current user uploaded video in drupal, use below code. Drupal brightcove module provides an option to store the Drupal username of the user who uploaded a video. You need to create this field(custom field) in brightcove before using this feature. Click here to understand how to create cutsom field in BC Studio. Goto drupal brightcove configuration page and add this field name in "Brightcove Drupal User Custom Field" field. Brightcove module automatically update drupal username in brightcove while uploading new video into video cloud. The below function will fetch all the videos which uploaded by the user. function video_list(){ global $user;   // Define our parameters   $params = array(); $user_field...

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How to use brightcove video Search in drupal

Brightcove video cloud, a cloud based video hosting and publishing solution. Drupal is one of the most commonly used open source CMS. To integrates brightcove video cloud into drupal, drupal community provides one module called Brightcove module. . Using this module you can add Brightcove video to your content and access the information from the Video Cloud in your site.  In brightcove module they are using Brightcove Media API and this APi provides various methods to retrieve properties from brightcove video cloud. But this module is mainly focusing on find method. So here I am trying to explain how to use search method in drupal. Search method is also a simple function to retrieve properties and information from Brightcove. To...

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How to create Virtual Hosts in Ubuntu

Virtual Hosting is a method for hosting multiple sites/domains in a single server. It helps to reduce the cost and can share the memory and processor cycle. In local host also we can create Virtual host and we can call original domain name(production/live domain) from our development environment(localhost). Here I am providing the steps for creating Virtual host in Linux/Ubuntu workstation. i.  Assume your code resides at /var/www/yoursite ii.  You can access your site using http://localhost/yoursite. iii.  Edit vhosts file in sites-enabled. sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/vhosts.conf. iv. Add below code in vhosts file <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName local.yoursite.com ServerAlias www.local.yoursite.com DocumentRoot...

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How to convert milliseconds to date format in PHP

Normally date field is stored in database as timestamps format, the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970. Some times the date represented as the number of milliseconds. There is no default function available in PHP to convert this milliseconds representation to human readable format. In PHP date function is used for converting timestamp format to local date/time format. This following PHP function will convert milliseconds format to local date format $milliseconds =  1340562600000; $timestamp = $milliseconds/1000; echo date("d-m-Y", $timestamp); output = 25-06-2012 ...

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Find factorial using PHP

Function to find the factorial of the given value function factorial($val){   if($val == 1){     return 1;   }   else {      return $val*factorial($val-1);    } } ...

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Redirect all users to access the site with 'www' prefix using htaccess file

We can redirect the site url to "www" prefix, whether the user is accessing the site without "www" prefix by adding rewrite url in .htaccess file in root folder. add following lines in .htaccess file to add www prefix.  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursitename\.com$ [NC]  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursitename.com/$1 [L,R=301] Similarly we can remove "www" prefix from the url and redirect to without "www" by adding following lines in .htaccess file  RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yoursitename\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursitename .com/$1 [L,R=301] ...

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Top 20 Wordpress plugins and their Drupal equivalent

Wordpress is a popular blogging platform like google blogger. It provides more flexibility than blogger. If you want setup a good looking blog site quickly without knowing more technical stuff, then Wordpress should be the most likely choice for you . It provides a lot of plugins that just enable to activate more user friendly functionalities. Wordpress is a Content Management System(CMS) build around PHP and MySQL. Like Wordpress, Drupal is also a CMS build around PHP and MySQL with almost all the strengths of Wordpress. But Drupal is more developer centric and customizable and robust when compared to Wordpress and it useful for developing Medium and large Websites, other than just a blog site.  Due to the huge fanbase and ease of...

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Regular expression for validating US phone number

US phone number format validation using regular expression. The common US phone number format is 3digits-3digits-4digits eg: 222-333-3333       111-222-1234 The regular expression for validating this format is function usphone($string) {    if(preg_match('/^[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}$/', $string)) {     return true;   }   else{     return false;   } } Validation using Javascript function isUSphone(phoneno) {    var filter = /^[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}$/;    if (filter.test(phoneno))         returntrue;     else         return false;  } In Jquery if($("#phone-num").val().match(/^[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}$/))...

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Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP in Linux-Ubuntu

Apache is the most commonly used web server. It is a free open source web server. PHP is an open source server scripting language. It has a lot of advantages. MySQL is also an open source database used for small and medium data storage. It can also used for large data storage also. We can install apache, PHP and MySQL in two ways. 1. Download source code from their site and install. 2 the easiest way install it from synaptic package manager. If you use this method apt-get automatically manage all dependencies. So I explain the second method here. 1. Open the Terminal from Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal 2. Install apache2 copy paste command to terminal sudo apt-get install apache2 3. Install PHP5 sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 4....

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Common PHP frameworks

Now a days most of the websites are developed by PHP. The main reason is that, it is open source and free software and most of the web servers support PHP. In PHP based web development companies, they are using frameworks for the site development. Because it provides better stability and security for the sites. Also it provide good coding standards and good templates for the sits. Here I providing a list of good, commonly used PHP based frameworks 1. Drupal (http://drupal.org) Drupal is the most commonly used PHP framework. It provides better security and stability for the sites. A good development teams for drupal. They are providing security updates and patches in regular interval and more than 3000 contributed modules and themes are...

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