Reaching out to the targeted audience, is one of the goal for any business. here is a list of modules which will allow your website to interact with your audience

• SMS Framework : Provides a extensible API that facilitates communication between Drupal and various SMS gateways.
  
  • SMS Actions : Provides an action for sending outgoing messages and the ability to define custom triggers for incoming messages.
  • SMS Blast : Allows bulk text messages to be sent to registered users.
• SMS List : Manages Subscriptions, and send text messages when needed

SMS Gateways

Other then the module mentioned above you will need an active subscription to a SMS Gateway to send or recieve SMS and a module which can integrate these gateways, Drupal modules for the following SMS Gateways are available

• Clickatell (International Support over 200 Networks) (Included in Core)
• MySMSMantra (Only for Indian Numbers)

To Test the service you can even use Email Gateways or Log Only Mode availaable in SMS Framework. A complete list of Supported Gateways is available here.

In most of the systems GRUB is now upgraded to 2.0 and with this update the old restore process have also changed now there is no grub command :) available.

If you have lost the Bootloader after a routine reinstall or due to any other reason try the following to restore

Boot Using a Live CD and try the following as root

grub-setup -d /media/XXXXX/boot/grub -m /media/YYYYY/boot/grub/device.map /dev/sda

Where XXXXX represents the root partition and YYYYY represents the partition holding the /boot in case you dont have a seperate partition for /boot then XXXX and YYYY would be be the same. /dev/sda may change depending on the system you are using.

Please note this would erase the current bootloader and install a new one for you if you are unsure of what you are doing do not try this

Once done reboot and you will get the GRUB Menu in case you have lost your other OS from the Menu run a

grub-update

for more information visit the Documention here.

UPDATE : Webrupee Module for Drupal is also available

RsThe Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010.

This symbol was selected from among five shortlisted symbols and is designed by an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) postgraduate D. Udaya Kumar and since this date the quest of displaying this symbol started. Font incorporating the new symbol was launched same day by Foradian Technologies and is available for free Download.

The next bigger question was How to Display the New Symbol Rs. Online, recently my friend Aman Jain & Meher Ranjan have come up with Web Rupee an API which can do this trick for you here is an howto for the same

How to Use WebRupee API ?

1) Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://webrupee.com/font">

2) Add the following code enclosing your "Rs."

<span class="WebRupee">Rs.</span> 200

OR

1) Just include the following javascript and it will update all the " Rs " / " Rs. " for you

<script src="http://webrupee.com/js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The above API works very well and have been tested by many, As of now this is THE solution to display the Symbol.

The idea behind Web Rupee is great, i would request Aman to allow us make copies of js and ttf on our own servers which would make things faster.

But the final solution would be UTF Character, Indian Government is proposing an Unicode Character U+0971 to be assigned to Rupee Symbol. However, getting the Unicode to be a standard Character set is sure to take some time (if at all it does). If that is done, you will be able to type Rupee symbol character as easily as a $ (US Dollar) symbol.

Related Readings

• Infosys Blog : Unicode roadmap for the Indian rupee symbol
• Trak.in: New Rupee Symbol announced among Controversy!
• Digital Inspiration: Proposed Unicode Character for the Indian Rupee

Its been a long time since i added something new here, so this post comes with a New Drupal Module i recently did.

My SMS Mantra SMS Gateway is a small addon Module to SMS Framework which will allow you to add My SMS Mantra as a SMS Gateway to your drupal website. The module would be released  very soon.

Current Status:

Tested for Integrity with sms_bulk, sms_user, actions and the same is currently functional on Kashipur.in

Currently SMS could be delivered only on Indian Numbers, this limitation is forced from the Gateway and not from the module itself, the module however can be extended to other countries if needed.

The Release is coming soon...

UPDATE : SMS_MYMSMANTRA Released

Its been more than a year since i am using Dreamhost, The basic package is not too great but is cheap and the support is responsive.

Drush or the Drupal Shell is one of the most powerful tools to use when you are working with Drupal. DreamHost provides php5 but uses php4 as the default for the php command line and in that case drush wont work, so here is a 3 step guide to setup drush on your dreamhost account.

1. Download & Extract Drush some where on your home folder
2. Add the following lines to .bash_profile using your favorite editor.
   
export PATH=/usr/local/php5/bin/:$PATH
alias drush='/home/username/drush/drush'

   replace the path of drush as per your preferences :)
3. Their is no Step 3, Login again and use Drush

Notes

For Using Drush Command Line tool you will need to enable SSH on your DreamHost Account.

Connecting via SSH

$ ssh username@domain.com

Editing .bash_profile

$ vi .bash_profile

path to ,bash_profile would be /home/username/.bash_profile

Happy Drush :)