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Integrating IMCE Drupal module with CiviCRM CKEditor

CiviCRM comes with CKEditor as a default wysiwyg editor. One of the missing feature has been ability to upload /browse existing files on the server using CKEditor. So after some…

Kurund Jalmi December 21, 2010

Open Source Technology

Easiest way to sort a select element using Jquery

If you are using jquery sorting a select element is quite easy. Check the below code. $("#select-id").html( $("#select-id option").sort(function (a, b) { return a.text == b.text ? 0 : a.text…

Kurund Jalmi September 9, 2010

Open Source Technology

CiviCRM iphone app ( pre alpha release )

I have developed very basic iphone app for CiviCRM using Titanium framework. Features Allows users to "Search Contacts" from their remote CiviCRM database. Add Individuals. App uses CiviCRM REST interface…

Kurund Jalmi August 18, 2010

Open Source Technology

How to remove default title set by drupal

You can implement a module and call below function function modulename_preprocess_page(&$variables) { unset($variables['title']); } This will unset default title, but there are 2 problems: 1. This hook is not called…

Kurund Jalmi July 14, 2010

Open Source Technology

My notes: Upgrading CiviCRM v2.1 to CiviCRM v3.1 ( Drupal / Joomla )

Recently we successfully upgraded one of our client CiviCRM install from v2.1 to v3.1.2. Over all I was pretty happy with the CiviCRM upgrade process considering client's db was in…

Kurund Jalmi February 19, 2010

Open Source Technology

iGoogle style dashboard implementation using jQuery

Today I have finally finished my secret project for CiviCRM v3.1. It was to implement iGoogle style dashboard with few features specific to our project. Main base for this feature…

Kurund Jalmi December 15, 2009

Open Source Technology

Few reasons why CiviCRM v3.0 will rock!

It was very challenging to work on 3.0 feature set and my team worked really hard to ensure release was as per schedule. Now that CiviCRM v3.0 alpha1 is out,…

Kurund Jalmi August 6, 2009

Open Source Technology

CiviCRM – Joomla on Shared Hosting

Usually on Shared Hosting there are lots of restrictions, which makes it impossible to install CiviCRM. Few tricks that i learned over the time that might help others. (Especially if…

Kurund Jalmi December 12, 2008

Open Source Technology

Configuring multiple CiviCRM on single Drupal

Update: Note that these instructions won't work for Drupal 7 (due to some changes in core), hence this post is obsolete. Hence I would recommend single code base and separate…

Kurund Jalmi November 2, 2008

Open Source Technology

Open Source Cola…

Being a Open Source developer, i know a bit about Open Source code. This is the first time i heard Open Source concept used besides software. OpenCola is the first…

Kurund Jalmi February 19, 2007