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Decoupling Your Backend Code from Drupal (and Improving Your Life) with Wrappers Delight

Wayne Eaker — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 19:48:07 +0000

Decoupling Your Backend Code from Drupal (and Improving Your Life) with Wrappers Delight

If you've ever written a lot of custom code for a Drupal site, then you know it can be a tedious and error-prone experience. Your IDE doesn't know how Drupal's data structures are organized, and it doesn't have a way to extract information about configured fields to do any autocomplete or check data types. This leads to some frustrations:

You spend a lot of time typing out by hand all the keys in every array of doom you come across. It's tedious, verbose, and tiring.
Your code can contains errors your IDE won't alert you to. Simple typos can go unnoticed since the IDE has no idea how the objects and arrays are structured.
Your code is tightly coupled to specific field names, configured in the database. You must remember these, because your IDE can't autocomplete them.
Your code is tightly coupled to specific field types. (If you start off with a text field and then decide to switch to an email field, for example, you will find the value is now stored in a different key of the data array. You need to update all your custom code related to that field.)
It can be easy to create cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in your code. You need to keep in mind all the field data that needs to be sanitized for output. It only takes one forgotten spot to open your site to attacks.

Wrappers Delight (https://www.drupal.org/project/wrappers_delight) is a development tool I've created to help address these issues, and make my life easier. Here's what it does:

Provides wrapper classes for common entity types, with getters and setters for the entities' base properties. (These classes are wrappers/decorators around EntityMetadataWrapper.)
Adds a Drush command that generates wrapper classes for the specific entity bundles on your site, taking care of the boilerplate getter and setter code for all the fields you have configured on the bundles.
Returns sanitized values by default for the generated getters for text fields. (raw values can be returned with an optional parameter)
Allows the wrapper classes to be customized, so that you can decouple your custom code from specific Drupal field implementation.

With Wrappers Delight, your custom code can be written to interface with wrapper classes you control instead of with Drupal objects directly. So, in the example of changing a text type field to an email type field, only the corresponding wrapper class needs to be updated. All your other code could work as it was written.

But wait, there's more!

Wrappers Delight also provides bundle-specific wrapper classes for EntityFieldQuery, which allow you to build queries (with field-level autocomplete) in your IDE, again decoupled from specific internal Drupal field names and formats. Whatever your decoupled CRUD needs may be, Wrappers Delight has you covered!

Getting Started with Wrappers Delight

To generate wrapper classes for all the content types on your site:

Install and enable the Wrapper Delight module.
Install Drush, if you don't already have it.
At the command line, in your Drupal directory, run drush wrap node.
This will generate a new module called "wrappers_custom" that contains wrapper classes for all your content types.
Enable the wrappers_custom module, and you can start writing code with these wrapper classes.
This process works for other entity types, as well: Users, Commerce Products, OG Memberships, Messages, etc. Just follow the Drush command pattern: drush wrap ENTITY_TYPE. For contributed entity types, you may need to enable a submodule like Wrappers Delight: Commerce to get all the base entity properties.

Using the Wrapper Classes

The wrapper classes generated by Wrappers Delight have getters and setters for the fields you define on each bundle, and they inherit getters and settings for the entity's base properties. The class names follow the pattern BundlenameEntitytypeWrapper. So, to use the wrapper class for the standard article node type, you would do something like this:

$article = new ArticleNodeWrapper($node);
$body_value = $article->getBody();
$image = $article->getImage();

Wrapper classes also support passing an ID to the constructor instead of an entity object:

$article = new ArticleNodeWrapper($nid);

In addition to getters that return standard data arrays, Wrappers Delight creates custom utility getters for certain field types. For example, for image fields, these will all work out of the box:

$article = new ArticleNodeWrapper($node);
$image_array = $article->getImage();
$image_url = $article->getImageUrl();
$image_style_url = $article->getImageUrl('medium');
$absolute_url = $article->getImageUrl('medium', TRUE);

// Get a full  tag (it's calling theme_image_style
// under the hood)
$image_html = $article->getImageHtml('medium');

Creating New Entities and Using the Setter Methods

If you want to create a new entity, wrapper classes include a static create() method, which can be used like this:

$values = array(
  'title' => 'My Article',
  'status' => 1,
  'promote' => 1,
);
$article = ArticleNodeWrapper::create($values);
$article->save();

You can also chain the setters together like this:

$article = ArticleNodeWrapper::create();
$article->setTitle('My Article')
  ->setPublished(TRUE)
  ->setPromoted(TRUE)
  ->save();

Customizing Wrapper Classes

Once you generate a wrapper class for an entity bundle, you are encouraged to customize it to your specific needs. Add your own methods, edit the getters and setters to have more parameters or different return types. The Drush command can be run multiple times as new fields are added to your bundles, and your customizations to the existing methods will not be overwritten. Take note that Wrappers Delight never deletes any methods, so if you delete a field, you should clean up the corresponding methods (or rewrite them to get the data from other fields) manually.

Drush Command Options

The Drush command supports the following options:

--bundles: specify the bundles to export (defaults to all bundles for a given entity type)
--module: specify the module name to create (defaults to wrappers_custom)
--destination: specify the destination directory of the module (defaults to sites/all/modules/contrib or sites/all/modules)

Packaging Wrapper Classes with Feature Modules or Other Bundle-Supplying Modules

With the options listed above, you can export individual wrapper classes to existing modules by running a command like the following:

drush wrap node --bundles=blog --module=blog_feature

That will put the one single wrapper class for blog in the blog_feature module. Wrappers Delight will be smart enough to find this class automatically on subsequent runs if you have enabled the blog_feature module. This means that once you do some individual exports, you could later run something like this:

drush wrap node

and existing classes will be updated in place and any new classes would end up in the wrappers_custom module.

Did You Say Something About Queries?

Yes! Wrappers Delight includes a submodule called Wrapper Delight Query that provides bundle-specific wrapper classes around EntityFieldQuery. Once you generate the query wrapper classes (by running drush wrap ENTITY_TYPE), you can use the find() method of the new classes to execute queries:

$results = ArticleNodeWrapperQuery::find()
  ->byAuthor($uid)
  ->bySomeCustomField($value1)
  ->byAnotherCustomField($value2)
  ->orderByCreatedTime('DESC')
  ->range(0, 10)
  ->execute();

The results array will contain objects of the corresponding wrapper type, which in this example is ArticleNodeWrapper. That means you can immediately access all the field methods, with autocomplete, in your IDE:

foreach ($results as $article) {
  $output .= $article->getTitle();
  $output .= $article->getImageHtml('medium');
}

You can also run queries across all bundles of a given entity type by using the base wrapper query class:

$results = WdNodeWrapperQuery::find()
  ->byAuthor($uid)
  ->byTitle('%Awesome%', 'LIKE')
  ->execute();

Note that results from a query like this will be of type WdNodeWrapper, so you'll need to check the actual bundle type and re-wrap the object with the corresponding bundle wrapper in order to use the bundle-level field getters and setters.

Wrapping Up

So, that's Wrappers Delight. I hope you'll give it a try and see if it makes your Drupal coding experience more pleasant. Personally, I've used on four new projects since creating it this summer, and it's been amazing. I'm kicking myself for not doing this earlier. My code is easier to read, WAY easier to type, and more adaptable to changes in the underlying architecture of the project.

If you want to help me expand the project, here are some things I could use help with:

Additional base entity classes for common core and contrib entities like comments, taxonomy terms, and Workflow states.
Additional custom getter/setter templates for certain field types where utility functions would be useful, such as Date fields.
Feedback from different use cases. Try it out and let me know what could make it work better for your projects.

Post in the issue queue (https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/wrappers_delight) if you have questions or want to lend a hand.

Wayne EakerDecember 3, 2014

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:19:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 4, 2013

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 29 - January 4.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: January 15th deadline set for configuration metadata discussions

Great Posts and Tutorials

Whats Wrong with the Project Application Queue?

Looking at Drupal 8’s JavaScript Changes

How to: Use Mandrill to Get Drupal’s Messages Through

Interesting New Modules

Views Responsive Grid - Provides a views plugin for displaying content in a responsive(mobile friendly) grid layout.

Opengraph Filter - An input filter that adds an summary of a webpage, from the urls found in the text. Like Facebook does when you post a link.

File Entity Preview - Provides a widget for file fields which displays a preview of the uploaded file as configured with the File Entity module.

GlewTiles - A port of DropTiles code to Drupal 7 as a theme with active Modern UI tiles similar to Windows 8.

MD WordCloud - Creates a block and page for each taxonomy vocabulary and shows it as wordcloud.

Wayne EakerJanuary 4, 2013

Configuration Management Drupal Drupal Community Email Facebook File Entity module Javascript Taxonomy module Theming Views module

Introducing Our New Drupal Training Program: DrupalTutor.com

Wayne Eaker — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:26:32 +0000

Introducing Our New Drupal Training Program: DrupalTutor.com

After months of hard work, I’m happy to announce the launch of our new Drupal training program: DrupalTutor.com. DrupalTutor.com combines the best of aspects of in-person and online training to make comprehensive Drupal training classes conviently accessible to more people at an affordable cost.

What’s wrong with existing Drupal training options?

Drupal training is currently offered in two basic formats:

Self-Teaching

This consists mainly of books and online videos, supplemented by a lot of Google searches and (hopefully) some visits to local Drupal user groups. This approach is common because it’s inexpensive and easy to get to started. However, it has a lot of drawbacks. Drupal is pretty complex, and it takes a long time to learn. It’s easy to get lost when following along with books or videos or to run into errors that you don’t know how to fix. Books and videos can get out-of-date fairly quickly, and don’t address all the possible ways to combine modules to accomplish various tasks. Students who follow this approach often tell me they know how to do a lot of individual tasks, but they can’t put it all together to get their site up and running.

Formal In-Person Classes

One of the best ways to get a comprehensive understanding of Drupal is with an in-person training class. These classes are offered by many development firms, ours included. With a formal class, you get the benefit of being able to ask questions and get help when you get stuck. However, we have found that they can be difficult for students to manage. First off, they’re expensive. A typical “site builder” level course costs $800 - $1200. Second, the classes are taught in a particular place at a particular time. Students wanting to take the classes often have to travel to neighboring cities, which is inconvienient. Finally, Drupal classes are often multi-day intensive programs, which can be too much, too fast. A typical site builder’s course is 12 − 15 hours, over two days. In my experience, that’s too much for a normal person to absorb.

Experimenting with Online Training Classes

Last fall, we ran a trial of an online, live course. I taught the same material as our normal in-person site builder’s course, but I delivered the training in evening sessions over GotoWebinar. (There were six 3-hour sessions.) This format far exceeded our expectations, and from the feedback we received, those of the students, as well. (see the reviews) The evening classes, accessible from home, were convenient, and the ability to ask questions and have me troubleshoot error messages was seamless. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and several of the students asked for more advanced classes to continue their progress.

The Next Iteration: DrupalTutor.com

Taking what we learned from last fall’s trial, we’ve designed a new approach to online Drupal training, DrupalTutor.com. Classes at DrupalTutor.com will be delivered as a hybrid of pre-recorded video, online assignments, and live lab sessions. For example, for the Building Websites with Drupal 7 course will consist of six weekly video lessons (2 to 2.5 hours each), a weekly online assignment, and six 1-hour live lab session. While the bulk of the instruction will be covered in the weekly videos, students will be able to use the live sessions to ask questions, get advice, and have the trainer troubleshoot errors they may have run into. Some students may also choose to work on the assignment during the lab session, so they can ask questions if they get stuck.

With this new approach, we expect to be able to deliver more classes than ever before, available more conveniently than ever before, at more afforable price than we’ve ever offered. Our first class will be Building Websites with Drupal 7, will start January 25 and costs $295. In late February, we plan to add PHP Bootcamp, followed by Drupal 7 Module Development. Drupal 7 Theme Development should be available in the Q2 of 2013.

To read more detailed information about our classes, see our course descriptions page on DrupalTutor.com.

Wayne EakerJanuary 2, 2013

Drupal Drupal 7 Training

The Week in Drupal: December 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 15:51:37 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 21 - 29, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Overview of the Drupal Fivestar Module

Adding a class to nodes based on their view mode

Setup Markdown Filter with Syntax Highlighting in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Batch add terms - A simple module for batch/mass adding taxonomy terms.

Registration Restriction - Allows site admins to restrict user registration by email domain.

OG Node Access Per OG Role - Provide a view permission for group content per OG role.

Views OG cache - Add Views time based cache per group.

Bootstrap menu - Represent Drupal’s multi-level menus in Twitter bootstrap markup.

Google Content Experiments - Enable the usage of Googles Content Experiments.

Backstretch Formatter - Provides a field formatter for jQuery Backstretch - A simple jQuery plugin that allows you to add a dynamically-resized, slideshow-capable background image to any page or element.

The following two modules are entries for the current challenge at ModuleOff.com.

Date link - Gives you a link on the display of most entities (nodes, users, taxonomy terms, and field collections) which lets you update the value of associated date fields to the current time.

Mark Complete - Enables you to click a link on a node display page that will update a date field to the current date. This is done via AJAX so there is no page refresh needed.

Wayne EakerDecember 29, 2012

Date module Drupal Fivestar module Organic Groups module Security Taxonomy module Theming Views module

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:11:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: December 14 - 21, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.18 and 6.27 released - Security update: SA-CORE-2012-004 - Drupal core - Multiple vulnerabilities

DrupalCon Portland 2013: Call for Papers is now Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Implementing a donation system with Drupal Commerce

Skipping a Commerce Checkout page in the checkout workflow

Module Monday: Backup and Migrate

Screencast: Drupal 7 Automated Logout

Add custom Contextual Links to Drupal node teaser pages

Introducing Field formatter conditions for Drupal

Mistakes Agencies Make: A Story in Three Acts

Interesting New Modules

Node Field Privacy - Allows you to have an optional “private” status attached to fields. When the private box is checked, only the node author and site admins can see the value of the field.

Views fieldset style plugin - Adds the ability to show views rows as fieldset.

Content Create Access - Allows you to specify for each user which node types they may create. (without using roles)

Apachesolr Link - Enables the indexing of the target of a Link field along with the entity it is attached to in the Apache Solr search index.

Bibliography ISBN - A Bibliography dependent module that will create Biblio nodes based on ISBNs.

Advanced Poll Field Image - Sub-module for Advanced Poll to add Image in Choices.

Crossdomain - Creates a crossdomain.xml file for Flash files. Allows you to use a configuration screen to add additional domains.

Domain Language - Adds a new detection/selection method on the language selection and it allow to set the default language for a specific domain.

Event Confirm - Make the user confirm their action before executing it, with a popup. For example, “This will delete everything, OK?”

Pathauto for RDF - Creates readable paths for RDF versions of nodes.

GAPI - General Purpose Web Services Connector API

Wayne EakerDecember 21, 2012

Business Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Javascript Search Security Solr Views module

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:50:08 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 26 - November 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 8 announcements: Proposal for RESTful entity API

Drupal 8 announcements: Don’t reimplement support for arbitrary tail paths

Great Posts and Tutorials

Talking to Drupal with Node.js

Creating a Drupal Slideshow with Views Slideshow

Moving Forward with Open Atrium 2.0

Making Drupal more User Friendly

Announcing PixGather - A mobile app to upload pictures to a Drupal site.

Corralling permissions into a grid

Memory usage revisited: when the Open Buffet is not to blame, rather Views

Message-subscribe — A New Subscription System

Interesting New Modules

Transclude - Defines an input filter that uses special tags to insert the contents of an external web page into text. For example, this can be useful is as a way of inserting the text of Wikipedia articles into nodes and having that text automatically updated whenever the Wikipedia article changes.

Word Link - Allows you to replace certain words with links.

Responsive Preview - View the site in different sizes easily with this module. A toolbar is displayed at the top with the configured resolutions. Click one and an iframe appears with the correct size applied. Great for developing responsive designs.

Apache Solr Document Links - Adds indexing of external links the Apache Solr Search Integration module.

Taxonomy Tree Block - Generates blocks of formatted taxonomy menu blocks (in a tree format) on a vocabulary basis.

Bulk User Delete - Allows you to bulk delete users through the admin interface. You provide a list of email addresses, one per line, and the users are deleted using the batch processing API.

Drifter - Allows any field to be floated left or right by providing a simple field formatter setting. A common use-case is floating images off to the side of a node.

Taxonomy Node Type - Automatically adds a taxonomy term to a node based on the node type.

Drupal Commerce MailChimp - This module integrates Drupal Commerce with the Mailchimp API’s ECommerce 360 feature for tracking store statistics for email campaigns sent via MailChimp.

Context Resolution - Extends the Context module with two additional conditions that enable developers to adapt to the users current screen resolution or browser width/height by using context reactions.

Date Facets - Provides date range facets similar to major search engines. (“Past hour”, “Past 24 hours”, “Past week”, etc.)

OG Invite People - Adds a missing invite functionality for OG 7.x-2.x.

Media OG Access - Allows limiting media browser list to media in current group or group subscriptions that the current user is a member of.

Wayne EakerNovember 2, 2012

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:03:14 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 26, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 19 - 26, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Draft for Drupal Community Working Group charter

Registration is open for DrupalCamp Ohio 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Explaining the Drupal < 7.16 Installer vulnerability

So You Want to Build a Drupal Product…

Profile Builder: The Features module of Distribution development

An Introduction to the Imagefield Crop Module

Drupal not saving admin pages with large number of input fields

Testing Drupal distributions using Behat, Mink, Drupal Extension, and Travis CI

Rules won’t work properly when run during cron, if you use node access restrictions

Simple contact form per content item with Entityform

Remote entities in Drupal 7

Building Drupal Style Tiles using Foundation and SCSS

Interesting New Modules

ACL File Access - Adds the access control per user over individual file.

Commerce Coupon by Terms - Allows coupons to apply to products tagged with specific taxonomy terms.

apachesolr_csv - Takes the search results from an ApacheSolr search and uses them to generate a CSV file

Site issue tracker - Aimed at making development of a site simpler by listing page-specific issues of a webpage on the page (above the content)

Nodewords Twitter - Support module for nodewords that allows creation of meta tags used by Twitter as detailed here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards

Bootstrap optimizer - Speeds up Drupal bootstrap process. See the module page forma description of how.

Entity Translation Tabs - Gives site editors an edit tab for each language that your site supports.

Message-subscribe - Provide a subscription system built on Flag 2.x and Message-notify 2.x.

RGraph Thermometer - Fundraiser thermometer.

Panels, Why so slow? - Shows you how many milliseconds each pane takes to render.

User Search to People Administration - Moves user search into the user admin area.

APC Flush - An APC opcode cache flush automator for high performance Drupal-setups.

Wayne EakerOctober 26, 2012

Behavior Driven Development Drupal Drupal 7 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community Entity API FieldAPI High Performance Imagefield module Install Profiles Panels module Rules module Search Security Solr Testing Theming

The Week in Drupal: October 19, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:08:10 +0000

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 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 EakerOctober 19, 2012

Drupal Drupal 7 Drupal 8 Drupal Community FieldAPI MySQL Panels module Search Security Theming Views module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:15:53 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 12, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: October 5 - 12, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Election Results

Drupal core announcements: Backbone or other JS MVC framework in core

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Do core security releases on different dates than bugfix releases

First mobile usability test of D8

Great Posts and Tutorials

Let’s Talk About PCI Compliance for Ubercart and Drupal Commerce

Views Quality Checklist

& Contrib Responsibly">Hacking Core & Contrib Responsibly

Content Syndication Using Services and Feeds

“Drupal distros sound great, but….”

Interesting New Modules

jQuery webks Responsive Tables - An adapter module to integrate jQuery Plugin webks: Responsive Tables into Drupal and make it fit the Drupal specific requirements (like table headers, form tables and others).

Field formatter conditions - Adds conditions to field formatters.

Apache Solr Parallel Indexing - Uses multiple threads to Index content 4 to 6 times faster than normal.

Google Civic - Uses the Google Civic API to provide a polling place locator block and polling place display page.

Webform Submission UUID - Provides a UUID integration for Webform Submissions allowing them to be integrated with external Services, such as with the Webform Service module.

LinkIt UUID - Allows LinkIt module targets to be stored by their UUID, which allows them to survive a migration or syndication to another site.

Node Display Field - Allows a node’s default display mode to be overridden by a field.

Field Collection Tab formatter - Provides a field formatter that allows you to output a multi value field collection field as a tabset, with one tab per field collection item.

ImageField EPS - enables Drupal to provide “pseudo-native” handling of the EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) vector format by providing a custom field to serve this purpose. EUploaded EPS files are converted to PNG for display and can be processed by Imagecache just as files uploaded using the regular image field.

Features AGHAH - Fixes the AJAX checkbox performance issues on Features for Drupal 6.

Wayne EakerOctober 12, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Community Features module Imagefield module Javascript Mobile Responsive Design Security Solr Theming Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: October 5, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:23:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: October 5, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 28 - October 5, 2012.

Drupal News

Community Elections 2013 - Voting open through October 7th.

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system needs DX feedback and follow-ups

Drupal Special Edition of Linux Journal Out This Week

Drupal.org marketplace upgrade

Great Posts and Tutorials

A Drupal Developer in Symfony Land

Drupal Watchdog: Behat and Mink

Line breaks instead of Paragraphs in TinyMCE (by default)

Building a New Feature for CRM Core

Responsive Design: Mobile Menu Options

Creating a Linkit Plugin

Disable Broken Drupal Themes and Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 3

Executing arbitrary JavaScript from a Forms API #ajax callback

Interesting New Modules

WEM - This module allows you to create user segments, based on user actions, and then control site content per segment. Basically, you can give a different site experience to different users depending on the actions they have taken on your site.

MC Hammer - MC Hammer is a mail composing tool based on panels.

Admin Toggle - Admin Toggle allows site admins to toggle the display of admin items on a page with the press of a single key. This allows admins to easily preview what their site looks like to non-admins

Linkchecker Highlight - Highlight links determined to be broken by the Linkchecker module.

Retina Images - Adds an option to all image effects included with core to allow them to output high resolution images for high DPI or retina displays.

SMS Registration - Extends the SMS Framework module, and allows users register, login to site and reset passwords by using their phone number.

Login one time mail to all - Send one time login mail to all registered users except admin.

OG Clone - Makes it possible to clone an entire group and all its content, or, potentially, all its members.

OG Color - Integrates the color module with organic groups so if the group has a colorable theme the color scheme can be controlled on a per-group basis.

Cache Lifetime Options - increases the available options for core page cache up to a year

Delayed ownership - This module allows anonymous users to create content and to keep their authorship when logging in.

Architecture - The Architecture module provides reports documenting how your Drupal site is architected.

Passwordless - This module replaces the regular Drupal login form with a modification of the password-request form, to give the possibility to log in without using a password. Every time a user needs to log in, only the e-mail address is required.

Suggested Modules - Suggested Modules allows module maintainers to enter a ‘suggests’ property to their module info file, with a link to a relevant module project page. This is different than ‘required’ modules as this does not inhibit using a module, merely suggests to the user that there are compatible/complimenting modules they may be interested in grabbing.

Wayne EakerOctober 5, 2012

Analtyics Behavior Driven Development Caching Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Community Javascript Menus Mobile Organic Groups module Security Symfony Theming WYSIWYG module