Date module

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

The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:54:39 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 2, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 24 - March 2, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal 6.25 released

Submit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!

Great Posts and Tutorials

In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users

What's New in Date and Calendar for Drupal 7

PHP Stream Filters: Compress, transform, and transcode on the fly.

Module Monday: Guest Pass

Control your Drupal Page Layout with Context and Delta

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 2)

Keeping Drupal Secure - How the world's largest open source CMS combines openness and security. SPOILER ALERT - It's robots!

Migrating Drupal 6 Multigroups to Drupal 7 Field Collections

Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field

Add HTTP Headers Using #attached in Drupal 7

Interesting New Modules

VoIP Views - Damn! This was my idea for the Twilio DrupalCon contest. Awesome!

Flag files - Uses the Flag module to add an additional flag type to allow you to flag media files.

Image Matrix - Views style plugin and content field formatter for displaying any number of images in magazine-like layout

Diaspora Pod - Allow your drupal site to connect to the Diaspora federation just like any other diaspora pod.

PDF Watermark - a basic module for adding a textual watermark to PDFs using Ubercart's file download.

View Mode Modal - The View Mode Modal module let's you use entity view modes inside Ctools modal.

Day Tripper - Day Tripper is for displaying a number of events on an agenda along with a routing map. The drag-n-drop events are simultaneously rendered as locations on a Google Map with corresponding directions.

User Progress API - An API for fine grain event tracking of a user through your site.

Morris - Drupal implementation of Morris.js (graphing library). Provides an API, example module and views style plugin.

Watchdog Debug - Collects additional debug information for each watchdog() call and displays it on log event details page.

Boilerplates - Allows you to build a document from several remplated pieces, and have a user's information filled into placeholders.

Reverse geocoding - Determine address from coordinates in a Geofield.

Wayne EakerMarch 2, 2012

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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

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The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:33:29 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 17, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 10 - 17, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Drupal 8 code freeze: December 1st, 2012

Vote for the Next DrupalCon Europe 2013 Host City

DrupalCon Denver early-bird pricing ends in less than one week!

Great Posts and Tutorials

Dries Buytaert: The future is a RESTful Drupal

Integrating Drupal Webforms with Salesforce

Custom Sort Drupal Content with the Draggable Views Module

Your DrupalCon Social Life Needs Attention Too

EntityFieldQuery: Let Drupal Do The Heavy Lifting (Pt 1)

Make a link use ajax in Drupal 7 (it's easy)

Envisioning an Open Source Product Marketplace: Could it Work?

Looking at the new FullCalendar module for Drupal

The Marketing of Drupal (Podcast)

Interesting New Modules

Views Slideshow Fullscreen - Allow users to expand your Views Slideshow to fullscreen.

Facebook Photo Sync - Enables the ability to have Image(Field) fields automatically uploaded to a dynamically generated album.

Friendly Register - Checks for the availability of username and email on the registration page, before submit is pressed.

Views filter view - Filter a view by the results of another view.

Backbone - Provides a foundation for the development of Backbone.js apps with Drupal. Contains classes for working with Drupal nodes, node listings and views in Backbone Apps.

Output Alter - Provides hook_alter_output() to modify completely rendered pages

Cute Date - Format dates with expressions like "last thursday" or "two hours ago".

PDF - Use HTML5 to display PDF files instead of ask for installing plugins to your browser.

Entity Graph - Drush command to generate a GraphViz graph of your Entity types.

Apple tools - Integrate your site with Apple push notifications and in-app purchases.

Push Notifications - Another push notifications module. This one supports both iOS and Android.

drush_tasks - A simple way to build your own drush commands.

Wayne EakerFebruary 17, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: February 10, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:08:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 10, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 3 - 10, 2012.

Great Posts and Tutorials

More Drupal Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Commerce Module Tuesday: Commerce Customizable Products (Screencast)

Building custom social widgets

A Primer: DrupalCon Presentation Training

Designing a responsive conference schedule for DrupalCon Denver

Creating nodes with images using phonegap and services

Interesting New Modules

Views Dependent Filters - Allows the visibility of exposed filters on a view to be controlled by values in another exposed filter.

MO Auto-Add Terms - Automatically add new taxonomy terms to previously saved nodes that contain the new terms.

Renderer per node - Set the rendering style of a field on a per-node basis.

Registration Toboggan - Reduce registration form to just an email address.

Date part-of-day

Entityqueue - A rewrite of Nodequeue for D7 entities.

Views RSS: Google Products Elements - Create Google Product Feeds.

Feeds User Picture Mapper - Import user pictures by URL with Feeds.

SSN Storage

Resource Library Management System

Organic Groups Moderation

drush_apc - Get APC stats from drush

Node menu required - Allows menu links to be set required per content type.

Boilerplate - Theme with HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr and SASS.

Omega Bootstrap - Theme that integrates Twitter Bootstrap into Omega.

Wayne EakerFebruary 10, 2012

Caching Date module Drupal Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush Entity API FieldAPI High Performance HTML5 Menus Organic Groups module Responsive Design Social Media Taxonomy module

The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 3, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of January 27 - February 3, 2012.

Drupal News

SA-CORE-2012-001 - Drupal core multiple vulnerabilities - Drupal 6.23 and 7.11 fix these issues.

Drupal 7.12 and 6.24 released

Drupal Association 2012 elections board candidates announced

Vote NOW for Drupal Association at large directors

Drupal core announcements: Mobile Initiative: Minimal Viable Product

Build Something Awesome: DrupalCon Hackathon 2012

Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney's website uses Drupal

DrupalCons past - Call for photos

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Back-End Performance - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Caching with Varnish, Drupal 7 and Cache Actions

Search API: The New Face of Search in Drupal

Creating your own entities with Entity API

Drupal Media Initiative - Media Support Squad Formed

The State of Drupal 7 Contrib

Date Localization

Module Monday: Pagepeeker

Notes from the Drupal CxO meeting in Amsterdam

What to do with lazy maintainers?

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Abandoned Cart Notification - Send email notifications to users who abandon Drupal Commerce shopping carts.

Cache Warmer - A drush command for loading URLs to refresh the cache.

Media: Responsive - Adds an auto-resizing image style to the Media module upload window.

Entity Reference Live Preview - Live preview in the autocomplete widget for an Entity Reference.

Slide Presentation - Import Powerpoint files into HTML slides.

Drag'n'Drop Upload Widget - Upload images to Image Fields with drag and drop.

Entity Reference Drag & Drop

Node Reference Highlight - Create node references that link to specific body text by highlighting the text.

Simple Field - Simplified UI for adding fields to content types.

Revision Diff Field - Automatically calculate the difference in a number field from revision to revision, then store that in another field.

Context: Spaces Features - This project created a condition for Context based on active Features in a given space.

Semantic Blocks - Like Semantic Views, but for blocks.

Flush page cache - Flush individual node page caches.

Wayne EakerFebruary 3, 2012

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The Week in Drupal: April 15, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:10:58 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 15, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of April 8 - 15, 2011.

Drupal News

Announcing the Web Services and Context Core Initiative

The United Nations ReliefWeb Relaunches in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

How to Use Custom TileMill Maps in Drupal

Drupal Voices Podcast: Drupal at the White House

Focusing on All Drupal Competitors

SproutCore and Drupal Integration

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Ubercart CCK Checkout Pane - Define additional checkout panes in Ubercart with a content type's CCK configuration. Makes it easy for end users to update.

WebForm Anonym - Allows the anonymous submission of Webforms, even by authenticated users.

User Key - Provide each user with a unique key that can be reset on demand. We have used something like this to provide RSS feeds for an authenticated users only system. (the key being used as part of the authentication scheme)

CCK iCal - Adds iCal download link for CCK Date fields.

NPR Package - Import content from the NPR API into your site.

Wayne EakerApril 15, 2011

Calendar Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Maps TileMill Ubercart Web Services Webform module

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

Date module Deploy module Drupal Import Payment API Taxonomy module Theming Views module