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The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Menus Mobile Theming Token module Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

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

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Update Election 2013

New Case studies section on Drupal.org

Drupal core announcements: Feedback needed on how themes should declare their layouts

Great Posts and Tutorials

Symfony and Drupal 8: The lowdown from Symfony Live London

Drupal Commerce - Different prices for different customer groups

Module Monday: Clientside Validation

Drush Tip: Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Taming FacetAPI paths

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 1

Interesting New Modules

Composite Views Filter - Allows you to create one filter condition that enables several filter conditions.

Leafbean - Leaflet + Bean for a simple map block - Using an addressfield, the user can enter an address that will be geocoded into a rendered leaflet map.

Open Badge-It - This module allows you to create badges, award them to users and allow users to issue their badges to an obi compliant backpack like Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure.

Image or Video field formatter - Adds a field formatter for a media field that can either be an image or a video.

Worbench Moderation OG - This module allows integration between workbench moderation and organic groups. Organic group roles can be defined to be responsible to perform different transitions that will move content from the different stages.

Workbench Email - Provides a way for administrators to define email transitions and configurable email subject / messages between those transitions.

Feeds Readability Parser - A Feeds parser plugin that extracts the title and content of a webpage using a PHP port of Readability.

Raptorize - This module will enable frontend, inline editting using the HTML5 Raptor editor. Raptor is a HTML5, JQuery UI enabled editor with a GPL licens. See https://www.raptor-editor.com for details

Shiny (Administration theme) - The admin theme used in Commerce Kickstart v2.

Druplippy - This appears to be a very serious port of MS Clippy to Drupal.

Slides - Allows the easy creation of slides to create HTML presentations for display using reveal.js.

views_timelinr - Integrate jQuery Timelinr-Plugin as a Views Plugin.

Menu Listchildren - Allows the creation of parent menu items which simply point to a page listing the child items.

Responsify - Allows you to set up devices which have FROM and TO pixel breakpoints. You can use these devices in drupal_add_js calls to load in different JavaScript depending on whether the user is in the device bounds you specified.

Wayne EakerSeptember 21, 2012

Analtyics Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Maps Menus Solr Symfony Theming Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:36:34 +0000

The Week in Drupal: May 4, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: April 27 - May 4, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 7.14 and Drupal 6.26 released - A security release for D7, bugfixes only for D6. The security issues are described here: SA-CORE-2012-002.

Dries Buytaert: Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8

Update on DrupalCon São Paulo 2012

Drupal core announcements: Save the Date: Midwest Drupal Developer Summit in Madison, WI, July 26-27, 2012

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Views now supports queries of Google Analytics report data

How to bootstrap Drupal in custom scripts

Selenium: testing Javascript with Simpletest on Drupal 7

Mobile Drupal optimization results

Achievements 7.x-1.5 released

Liberate your Drupal data for a service-oriented architecture (using Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB)

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Card on File

Interesting New Modules

Menu Select - For responsive design websites, allows menus to be rendered as select boxes.

Save Form State - Auto save forms using the jQuery Sisyphus plugin, which is a lightweight jQuery plugin.

VoIP Poll - Facilitates the creation of polls that are accessible via web, phone and SMS.

Registration Commerce 2 - Integration between Entity Registrations and Drupal Commerce enabling paid registrations.

Article Templater - Allows content authors to create content templates and reuse them within any content type you have on your Drupal site.

Obnoxious Overlay - Best module description ever. Go read it.

addressfield_tokens - Extends the addressfield module by adding full token support. Lets you use pieces of the address separately.

Views Sexy Throbber - A modal HUD-style loading graphic for Views. It looks like this screenshot. (SFW)

Commerce Actions - A bunch of actions to use with Rules module on your Drupal Commerce store.

Views Sprites - A sprite generator for Views. What?!

Yelp Reviews Plus - Provides a block which displays Yelp reviews about a specific business with the option of displaying review excerpts.

Conditional Variables - Allows for changing Drupal variables depending on configurable conditions. It currently utilizes Rules, but may support additional methods down the road, such as Context.

Role Delay - enables the configuration of one or more user roles that all new users are automatically granted after a specified period of time from registration.

Password Flow - In core, when a user clicks on the password reset link they end up on a page with a login button, which is potentially confusing. Password flow allows you to remove this additional step and send the user directly to their user edit page to reset their password.

Wayne EakerMay 4, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon São Paulo E-Commerce Menus Mobile Node.js Responsive Design Testing UX Views module VoIP

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:57:28 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 27, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 20 - 27, 2012.

Drupal News

Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 - Drupal gets 13 projects!!

DrupalCon Munich Accepting Session Submissions

Drupal core announcements: Future of javascript in Drupal 8

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Configuration System Funding Proposal

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Drupal 8 Web Services Funding Proposal

Drupal Association News: Tell us what you think in the Membership Survey

Great Posts and Tutorials

Palantir: Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design

Module Development with NodeJS Integration

Easy Drupal CDN integration for fun and profit

An improved way to put content in panels - introducing the Node Pane module

LESS is More

Drupal will become more MongoDB friendly

An overview of changes in Display Suite 7.x-2.x

Case Study: Building an Auto Dealership Portal with Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Content Menu - This looks like a pretty amazing replacement for Drupal's menu management UI. There's a blog post and screencast for it here.

Core Override - This module allows you to override individual functions in core modules without patching core.

Views argument cache - Allows you clear cached Views for specific arguments.

Class Style Filter - This module provides an input filter that allows WYSIWYG embedded images to be restyled using Drupal's Image Styles functionality.

Commerce Webform - Like UC Webform, but for Drupal Commerce

Node Access Config - Allows the cooperation between various node access modules when they are installed in parallel.

Views Raw SQL - Allows arbitrary SQL expressions to be added to Views, currently as fields and sorts.

Context Active Menu Tree - Context plugin to expose the active menu as a context condition.

Text Format Access - Provides an ability to configure global or per-role access to text formats of particular field.

Field Collection Chart - Adds new field formatter to "field_collection" fields that allows users to display their fields as Google charts.

Node access book - Gives content access permissions on a book child page if users have access to the root of the book.

Wayne EakerApril 27, 2012

Context module Display Suite Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich E-Commerce Imagecache module Menus Node.js Panels module Responsive Design Views module

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

Advertising Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush E-Commerce Email Entity API Feeds module Filefield module GeoIP High Performance Imagecache module Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:10:33 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 12, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

DrupalCon is Coming to London in August 2011

Something is Broken on Examiner.com - Writers in Uproar - Examiner.com decided to upgrade their site last week to Drupal 7. Now it's broken all over the place and writers are angry. (They get paid per impression.) I can't imagine why a large site like that would upgrade before Drupal 7 has even one stable release.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Panels: I got it all wrong - Describes the differences between Panels and Page Manager. After reading this, I can see I misunderstood them, as well.

Uncaptchalous Drupal Module Demo - Get rid of the CAPTCHAs on your site and still stay spam free.

203 people tell "What I wish I knew when I started Drupal" - Results from an Acquia survey about roles in the Drupal community taken this summer.

Interesting New Modules

Smart Flush - Automatically rebuild your page cache after flushing it. Handy for high-volume sites.

Array Tokens - Exposes all the values of a multi-valued CCK field or Taxonomy selection with the Token module.

System Features - Exposes system elements to the Features module. Set module enabled/disabled status and enable themes.

Ubercart Early Bird Discount - Apply date-based discounts to products with Ubercart.

Shared Blocks - Syndicate blocks across multiple sites. This looks pretty cool.

Node Private File - Provides a checkbox on CCK FileFields that forces downloads through the node access system.

Facebook Authentication - Lightweight authentication for Facebook. Works when you want to use Facebook information, but don't want to create Drupal users. If you need more fully-featured Facebook integration, check out the Drupal for Facebook module.

Apache Solr Search By Type - The name says it all.

Wayne EakerNovember 11, 2010

Caching CAPTCHA Drupal DrupalCon London E-Commerce Facebook Panels module Solr Token module Ubercart

The Week in Drupal: November 5, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:04:14 +0000

The Week in Drupal: November 5, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Chicago Registration and Call for Speakers is Open!

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Deploying content on an already existing site - including the deployment module after the fact.

Advanced Voting with the Decisions Drupal Module - Building approval and ranked-choice style voting systems on Drupal.

Drupal: Exposed - Webchick shows some quick core hacks (gasp!) that can really help with debugging and theming.

Panels 3.8 and Panel Fields - Damn...now you can put panels inside your views?! Amazing.

Interesting New Modules

Browser class - Add body classes to your page depending on browser and platform.

Context UserAgent - Similar to Browser class but designed for the Context module.

Giga Menu - A Mega-menu style menu module. Put more content in your dropdown menus.

Authorize.Net and PayPal modules for the Payment API - This looks like it could be handy for simple e-commerce sites. Ones that don't need the overhead of Ubercart.

Feeds Hacks - Add-ons for the Feeds module.

VideoJS - An HTML5 video player. Make your Drupal site iPad friendly.

Sign Here - A jQuery-based CCK field for taking signatures on an iPad or similar device. Drupal POS, anyone?

Wayne EakerNovember 5, 2010

Decisions Drupal Module Deploy module Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon Chicago E-Commerce HTML5 Panels module Views module