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Manually Disable a Drupal Module

A situation can arise where you've enabled a module through Administer > Modules (Drupal 4.7 and below) or Administer > Site building > Modules (Drupal 5.x and above), but then because of a fatal error of some kind cannot get back to the modules administration screen to disable it (sometimes you cannot access any pages of your site at all) -- only the error is displayed and nothing else.

This can be resolved by executing the following query in the database (replace module_name with the name of the module you are trying to disable):

New Search Engines - Can Anyone Beat Google?

by Titus Hoskins

Can any new search engine beat Google, probably not, mainly because Google isn't going anywhere but up. It is the dominant search engine with around 72 percent of U.S. online searches and its percentages are much higher in other parts of the world. (Source: Hitwise) However, there are some serious new competitors that may just take a bite out of Google's rosy search numbers. Never know, one or several of them, may just give Google a run for those all important search engine dollars.

BBC Style News Ticker with Prototype or Mootools

We needed to create a BBC style news ticker for a client recently and couldn't find a decent one anywhere, so we decided to create our own:

Usage

Place the following code in the HEAD of your document:

<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="path_to/ticker.js"></script>
</head>

You will need to use one of the ticker.js listing below, plus download either prototype.js or mootools.js

New Website Launch - Fife Chamber of Commerce

Fife Chamber of Commerce represents the interests of its members - businesses, large and small, across the Kingdom of Fife. Their Board of Directors comprise senior executives from key businesses and organisations across Fife. Their principle activity is to engage with the business community, to identify and debate issues that are important and to take forward collective views of members.

New Website Launch - Easistore

Easistore are small self storage company based in Crawley, Edenbridge & Tunbridge Wells.

The website was a re-design and a re-development of their existing site including full eCommerce to allow the purchase of their storage space and products online. The site is fully PCI compliant as part of the customers' requirements included the ability to take payments through the site without using a 3rd party gateway.

Web Link: http://www.easistore.co.uk

SQL Primary Key - INT vs UniqueIdentifier

An identify value is an automatically incrementing integer that starts counting from a base seed value (such as 1, or 100, or 1000, whatever integer you choose), and increments by a value you specify, which is called an increment (such as 1, -1, 10, whatever integer you choose). The default seed is 1, and the default increment is 1. Because the values are never the same (they increment), an identify value often makes for a good column on which to base a primary key.

New Website Launch - Faculty of English

Oxford University's Faculty of English is the largest in Britain, and one of the most illustrious Schools of English in the world. At any one time, there are roughly a thousand students studying within the Faculty at undergraduate level, and another three hundred at graduate level.

The website is a Joomla based website to provide information about the Faculty to various different user groups including prospective undergraduates, prospective graduates and personal pages for over 100 Faculty members which can be amended by the member themselves.

Top SEO Made Easy

Follow these handy tips for top search engine optimisation:

Write effective title tags. Your title tags are amongst the most important variables and a lot of weight is attributed to them by search engines. Research the most searched for keywords and use them in your title tags. You can do this using tools such as: