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This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.

DrupalCon Dublin is right around the corner, and the preparations are going full steam ahead. DrupalCon is like a Carnival that has come to town for the Drupal developers especially those in Europe. The excitement is rocketing sky high with a thousand and one things to get done before the 26th of September. The conference is to be held at The Convention Centre Dublin, Ireland from 26th September to the 30th September.

In one of my Drupal 8 work I needed to configure SMTP using swiftmailer Module. The module extends the basic mail sending functionality which is provided by Drupal by delegating all mail handling to Swift Mailer library. This library provides features, such as :

When websites are created, we expect it to be up and running all the time, which need not be so. If websites are not accessible for any reason it can affect the brand name, loss of revenue, and can even affect the website’s ranking in SERP. There are a lot of free tools available online to monitor your site’s uptime. Based on their popularity and present Alexa ranking these are the top eight free tools to check the uptime of your website.

This article covers, how to send email programmatically in your Drupal 8 site. There are two main steps to send an email using Drupal 8. First we need to implement hook_mail() to define email templates and the second step is to use the mail manager to send emails using these templates. Let's see an example for sending an email from the custom module, also the following name spaces.

Digital transformation is the evolution of business enterprises to fully engage and optimize their operations and functioning to incorporate and fully make use of the potential of digital technology and their influence on society. Digital transformation is industry independent to a large extent and helps implement the business goals, resolve challenges, and increase customer traffic. Digital transformation includes

Reading or writing CSV file in Selenium Java can be done using a simple csv parser library called opencsv. Opencsv is free and is available under a commercial-friendly Apache 2.0 license. Opencsv contains classes to read and write csv files. For reading or writing csv files using Selenium, we need to import opencsv.jar to the java project.

Coder is a Drupal module to check coding standard issues in custom modules and themes. It can check any files on coding standard issues according to Drupal specifications. This method uses latest composer and drush to install latest coder. Feel free to skip corresponding parts as you need.

A successful online store is the dream of every online business owner. When you are open 24/7, 365 days of the year, the logical thinking is that the business should increase proportionately. But sales might not be happening as you anticipated. Effective marketing, Site optimization, Content generation, Site’s responsiveness are all integral to a successful e-commerce site. Among the challenges faced by e-commerce site owners, the five major ones are:

In Drupal 7 we can upgrade a module in many ways but we fail on upgrade feeds excel module. The reason being the newer version of the module is entirely different from the old version folder structure and file naming. We can overcome this situation by uninstalling the older version and installing the new version. Sometimes we cannot uninstall the module due to the module dependency and data lock. We can achieve this manually using the following steps.

Zyxware Technologies is looking for a Design Engineer to join our expanding technical team. The Design Engineer is responsible for the overall technical design and build of the custom elements of the solution. He/she should be able to make and validate design decisions. Design Engineers will get the opportunity to mentor and lead teams of some of the best talents in web development. The Design Engineer is also responsible for contributing to the development of the organization by upholding our values and being focused on our vision and mission.

People can design, innovate, share software and knowledge efficiently and effectively with Free and Open Source Software tools. Free and Open Source software programs allow users to freely run the program for any purpose, modify the program as they want, and also freely distribute copies of either the original version or their own modified version. FOSS plays an integral part in development as its very nature makes it a natural component of development efforts.

Drupal has established itself as a solid platform for Educational websites. The fact that all Ivy League colleges have Drupal websites is proof enough of Drupal’s popularity as a great Content Management Framework to build educational websites. Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University are the eight old and distinguished colleges in the north east of US are the highly sought after Ivy League colleges.