Imagefield module

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

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

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The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:22:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 22 - 29, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 7 core release postponed; help still needed resolving release blockers

Transitions at the Drupal Association

Dries Buytaert: Drupal governance sprint

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: responsive layouts in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Base Theme Review

Drupal cron failing? Not sure why? here’s a handy drush command.

Module Monday: Custom Permissions

Scaling GRAMMY.com at the High Performance Drupal Meetup

Automatically increment Features version numbers using Drush

Bob Christenson and Making a living in Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Inheriting your Drupal profile from an existing distribution

E-Learning Institute at PSU: ELMS Beta released and beyond!

Interesting New Modules

Image Annotator - Allows you to annotate images. See this screenshot for what that means.

Panels edition - This module helps manage different “editions” of the front page of your website.

Flag Lists Popup - Provides a popup menu for Flag Lists module.

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: June 10, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:26:43 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 10, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of June 3 - 10, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

The Features Module - An Overview

Developing With Installation Profiles

Why Spaces is So Powerful - This was really clear. Need to try Spaces on my next project.

Cron Queues: Proceesing Large Amounts of Data in Cron

Notable Changes to Theming in Drupal 7

The Drupal Mood Cycle

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Imagefield Marker - Add markers to your Imagefield uploads.

Schema.org - Enable the collection of schemas available at schema.org on your Drupal 7 site.

Views Optimized - Allows you tweak Views for maximum performance.

LaTeX Filter - Allows you insert LaTeX formulas in your Drupal site.

Send to Kindle - Add a "Send to Kindle" button to your nodes.

Wayne EakerJune 10, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: April 22, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 22, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 15 - 22, 2011.

Drupal News

Design for Drupal 8

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Simplify Your Code with Drupal 7's Database API

Drupal 7 Tutorial: Creating Custom Formatters with the Field API

Filtering a View by a List of Nodes with Checkboxes

Using Image Fields in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules and Themes

CiviCRM 3.4 and 4.0 Released - Read the release notes for what's new.

Webform Hints - Integrates the Form Hints jQuery plugin with Webform. Replaces labels with hints inside the text boxes.

jQuery Waypoints - Allows you to execute javascript when a user scrolls to a specific element.

Sticky Errors - Move form error messages next to the form elements they are about.

CiviCRM Contact Form Integration - Have your contact form requests automatically added to CiviCRM

Google Analytics Reports - Get Google Analytics as a dashboard widget for admins on your Drupal site.

Individual Rotate - Rotate individual Imagefield images on the node form.

320 and up - A theme that automatically adapts to different screen sizes for mobile devices and desktops.

Wayne EakerApril 22, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:07:42 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 4, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 28 - February 4, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Chicago Session Schedule Annouced

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Using XSS (Cross site scripting) to steal access

Beautiful, Easy Maps with in Drupal with Views and Mapstraction

Integrating Webform with Paypal

Creating new field formatters in Drupal 7

Drupal Coding Speed Tips, using an IDE

Using Render Arrays in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

Hashtags - Allows Twitter-style #hashtag tagging in your node content. Makes the hashtags links, and integrates with the standard taxonomy system.

Fancy Insert - Provides a nicer interface for inserting Imagefield images into node content with the Insert module.

Taxonomy Additions - Extra taxonomy features and improved Views integration for vocabularies and terms.

Atrium Leads - Add a "Business Lead" content type to Open Atrium to make it function like a sales CRM.

Media Pool - Allow a randomized default for Imagefields when an image hasn't been uploaded.

Dummy Image - Creates dummy placeholder images in nodes for missing Imagecache images. This is helpful if you are working on a development copy of a site and don't have all the uploaded images from the production server.

Wayne EakerFebruary 4, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: January 21, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 21, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 14 - 21, 2011.

Drupal News

Happy Tenth Birthday Drupal!

So long, Drupal 5.x (End of Life Announcement)

New Drupal Print Magazine to Debut at DrupalCon Chicago

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Email Logging in Drupal

Tracking Drupal's Fivestar with Google Analytics

The Great Drupal Git Migration: Improving Code & Community

The Economist: Testing Drupal with Selenium

Interesting New Modules

Views Javascript Random - Awesome! This thing will randomize your views sorting using javascript so that you can provide random results even if you have page caching turned on.

Context Condition Theme - Add conditions to the Context module depending on which theme is being used. Great idea for detecting a mobile theme.

UC Event Registration - Use the Webform module to build event registration forms that are connected to Ubercart. We built something just like this last year. It was a pain. Glad someone released a version of this.

GeoIP Redirect - Redirect users to different sites depending on their IP location. Has options to allow users to override the redirection.

Imagefield Multiformat - Allows you to display multiple-value Imagefields using different presets. So, for example, big first image, smaller for the rest.

Commerce Feeds - Use the Feeds module to import products into the new Drupal Commerce system.

Wayne EakerJanuary 21, 2011

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How to Import Files into Drupal CCK Fields

Wayne Eaker — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:28:12 +0000

How to Import Files into Drupal CCK Fields

At last night's Ann Arbor Drupal Meetup, a question was raised about how to write an import script to create Drupal nodes that include a Filefield CCK field. Filefields and Imagefields present a particular problem for import because the file must be stored into the Drupal files table before you can save them to the node. In the discussion that followed, it seemed that several of us at the meeting had developed our own ways to do this in the past for various reasons. So, I thought I would post a couple solutions for others who need to do this.

Option 1: Read the Manual

There is a manual page that explains how to programmatically import files to Filefield. However, like many Drupal manual pages, if you read through the comments, there are about 20 different versions of the code, and the discussion is often difficult for novice users to follow. The code on this page does work, but there is something simpler that we ended up with at the meeting.

Option 2: Use a Helper Function

The Filefield module has a helper function called field_file_save_file() that does a lot of the work for you. To use the function, you just need to give the original file path and a destination path if you want the file copied into a new location. Here's a simple example of a script that creates a story node and imports an image file into the "field_image" CCK field. (The file importing lines are highlighted.)

 
type = 'story';
$node->body = 'Testing.';
$node->title = 'Testing';

$file = field_file_save_file('import-images/buzz2.jpg', array(), 'sites/default/files/images');
$node->field_image = array($file);

$node->uid = 1;
$node->status = 1;
node_save($node);

This script can't be run on the command line without some other include lines to bootstrap the Drupal system. However, if you use Drush (and you should be using Drush), you don't need to do anything extra. Just run "drush scr import.php". That's it. Adding those two lines to your import script is all need to do to import files to Filefield CCK fields. Easy to do now that you know.

If you have any questions or problems using the method above, leave a comment below, and I'll see if I can help you out.

Wayne EakerNovember 30, 2010

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