Since XML is a very vast subject, while you study it and that’s the reason why this is one more post is needed to be written of its review. In this post you can find description of remaining features of XML, after we looked at ‘What is XML and how it is structured in previous post (An Overview of XML – Part 1)

While implementing XML you will always feel that it helps a lot of data sharing options. From a web developer’s point of view this is very positive aspect of XML because for the smooth function of a website you always need such type of data sharing among various web applications, which hold data in different structures. Due to XML this sharing can be made easy for the developers. Because every applicaton’s data structure can be mapped upon XML structure all the applications can share data in a common XML format.

An XML file can be read by human but still it’s not an interesting and easy task to do so. Being free of cost is a positive aspect of XML, it can be written with a simple text editor and tools like ‘XML Notepad’ are available fro free of cost. XML is supported by default by the web development application like Dreamweaver and Visual Studio .NET. If one want to parse it then Microsoft also provide a tool named with ‘MSXML’. XML is also usable with almost all of the leading CMS (Content Management Systems), XML documents are mostly used for storing the content which can be further transformed to provide the output on Web. The advantage of XML while transforming such data is that it make makes all changes to content to be contained at a central location and it is cascaded out in all formats required.

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When Wordpress is used as a CMS on a Web Hosting account, it provides many great features within its Dashbord. ‘Date Format’ and ‘Time Format’ are two of these options available to display the Date and Time on your website or blog, according to your need. There are some regularly found formats available in predefined form, but few webmasters like to use their own customized formats. The ‘Custom’ option button (radio button) is available under both ‘Date Format’ and ‘Time Format’ for such customization. This post is for the webmasters who are newbies and never handled these predefined formats in custom field.

Following are the characters to be entered in the ‘Text Box’ beside the custom button option under ‘Date Format’, to get the output shown on the actual Website or Blog.

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Wordpress is largely preferred CMS on web hosting accounts. After building a website or blog on a Wordpress platform, you need to configure various settings with it. For configuring these settings you have to log in as admin at ‘yourdomain.com/wp-admin’. Here you should go to ‘Dashboard’ and click on ‘Settings’. Here you are on the main Setting page where you can find the following options where you can enter the information about website or blog.

Blog Title – Enter the main ‘Title’ of your blog here.

Tagline – This is related to the main subject of your website or blog and can be filled with promotional keywords.

WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) – Both of these fields mostly contain the home page URL of your website or blog.

E-mail address – You should enter an email ID which will be used by the administrator of the Website or Blog.

Membership – This is a small ‘checkbox’ for Applying or relieving the restrictions over the registrations.

New User Default Role – When someone is allowed to register an account with the Website or Blog, these are the options found in the drop down list and allow you to set his role and user level as by default. There are generally five options that can be found in this list as following

‘Subscriber, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor’

Timezone – You can set your desired ‘Timezone’ from here.

Date Format – Following are the date formats available which you can use to display the dates with the material on your Website or Blog.

Month DD, YYYY

YYYY/MM/DD

MM/DD/YYYY

DD/MM/YYYY

Custom – (Refer to ‘Customization Options With Date Formats In Wordpress’)

Time Format – Similar to Date format, you can also set a format for the time so that it will appear in a specific format of your choice.

Week Starts On – It’s simply to set the starting day of week according to your preference.

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Drupal is one of the most popular CMS on web hosting accounts. When you are new to Drupal and  you try to modify the code of a module directly so that you can add some features, In such situations you should be able to create several nodes from a single form. While doing this most of the newbies forget that one should never try to modify a core or make any changes directly to modules. You can either implement changes using hook_ and theme_architecture and if these are not supported then the safest option is to copy the function in which you want to make changes, and override it. This way the changes will remain limited up to your code and won’t affect after you override a module or Drupal core.
There are two ways to create a new Drupal Node or to get a newer Node Identifier. You can select one of the two you depending on your choice.
hook_nodeapi ()
hook_nodeapi() - This hook is not reserved for any node modules, but still it allows changes in modules  which affect on nodes, despite that module defines the node. One can turn off a particular operation of a newly created node and run other function as per requirements. If you want to repeat it when the nodes are saved then you can also use the ‘update’ operation.
hook_form_alter ()
By using ‘hook_form_alter ()’ you can perform many alterations before rendering a form. Another well known user of this hook is for addition of form elements to the node form. When you are altering a node form, at that time the node object is retrieved from $form['#node']. Also remember that ‘hook_form_alter()’ works for all forms and if you want to alter a specific form then you need to use ‘hook_form_FORM_ID_alter()’ this hook.

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