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The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:00:00 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 11, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from February 4 - 11, 2011.

Drupal News

Drupal Gets the GRAMMYs Again

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Importing CSV Files with Feeds - Screencast and Tutorial

Handling Non-Local Files (e.g. Amazon S3-hosted files) with Drupal 6

Upgrading Modules to Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

CSS Watch - This thing is a AWESOME! Automatically updates your CSS without a browser refresh. For use when you are creating a custom theme. This is going to save so much time. Watch the screencast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSDxm50_obI&hd=1

Ideation Feature for Open Atrium - Allow users to submit ideas and vote on them.

Simpleshare - Allow users to post a link to their Drupal content on Facebook or Twitter with a simple interface that appears saving a node.

UC Order Clone - Make duplicates of orders in Ubercart.

Privatemsg Bulkmail - Send messages to all your users with the Privatemsg module.

jQuery Pause - Easily add pauses to jQuery events, like the ones from Views Slideshow.

Book Chapters - Add automatically-numbered chapters to your content with the Book module.

Wayne EakerFebruary 11, 2011

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The Week in Drupal: January 28, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:10:16 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 28, 2011

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news from January 21 - 28, 2011.

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Collapsing Folders with Taxonomy and Views_tree

Using Open Atrium as an Innovation Platform at the Department of Education

Performing a data migration with the Migrate module

Quick and Easy Donations with the Payment API

Top 5 Reasons to Choose Drupal as your CMS

Drupal Tip: Using $form['#after_build']

Interesting New Modules

Live Themer - Wow! Awesome! Build a theme for your Drupal site, live on the site, without writing code. Check out the video demo to see how it works.

Vocabulary Permissions Per Role - Allow users to edit only specific taxonomy vocabularies.

Fast 404 - Render 404 pages for images, etc., without a full Drupal page load. Will help performance on busy sites.

Date Repeat Instance - Allows you edit a single instance of a repeating Date created with the Date module.

Flot Charts for Views

Incremental Deploy - Automatically schedule nodes and system settings for deployment (with the Deploy module) as they are changed.

CCK Match - Double text field that requires users to type the same thing twice. For phone numbers, emails, etc.

Wayne EakerJanuary 28, 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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