The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 12 - 19, 2012.

Drupal M&Ms

Drupal News

Drupal 7.16 released

SA-CORE-2012-003 - Drupal core - Arbitrary PHP code execution and Information disclosure

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Unify anonymous and authenticated users by separating accounts from users

Drupal core announcements: WYSIWYG in core and consequent filter system changes

Great Posts and Tutorials

Module Monday: Views Data Export

Angie Byron on Drupal core and Spark (Podcast)

Creating Specialized Layouts with Panelizer

Field API - Creating your own field formatters

How to Pass Multiple Values through an Exposed Filter in Drupal Views

What was that query?

Fast, Parallel MySQL Backups and Imports with Mydumper

Interesting New Modules

Standard Search Result Display - Overrides the core styles and templates for search so they closely match the UI of Google, Bing and Yahoo.

CkEditor Plugin: Google Doc embedded iframe

User Pic Kit - Allow users to choose a picture from multiple providers. Includes integration with Gravatar, Robohash, and Drupal core picture uploads.

Geckoboard Push - For developers who want to show custom statistics on a Geckoboard dashboard using the Geckoboard Push API.

Wayne Eaker
October 19, 2012