Florida
Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have regular meetups in the following areas:
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm
- Brevard County (Melbourne): 2nd Thursday of each month, 7pm
- Palm Beaches (Jupiter-Boca Raton): 3rd Tuesday of each month, 7:30pm
- Tallahassee: 3rd Tuesday of each month, 6pm
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month
- Gainesville: 3rd Thursday of each month, 6pm
- Central Florida (Orlando): 3rd Saturday of each month, 1pm
- Miami: 4th Wednesday of each month, 6pm
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Brevard County Meetup - Downtown Melbourne
The sixth Brevard County Drupal meetup will take place on Thursday, September 9 at 7pm in downtown Melbourne.
Using a slideshow in a custom node?
Has anyone created a custom node and inserted a slideshow? Is there a hook that I can use to do this? I noticed that there was a Slideshow_Framework module but it requires that you install the Skip_Validation module in order to get it to work. I am leery of using it because of that.
So if I had a custom node (i.e. node-vehicle.tpl.php) and I wanted the images to display in a slideshow, what would be the best way to approach it? I could create a view to display the slideshow but is that the only way to do it?
Node not found but you can edit?
I was creating some subdomains for a few nodes this morning and I had a problem with a couple of nodes that "vanished" on me. When I tried to view the node - using the URL alias I created for it - I got a 403 Page not found error. I ended up just deleting the old nodes and recreating them. The strange thing was that I had to change the title of the nodes. If I named it the same I would get the error again.
I tried clearing the site cache to see if that would correct the problem but I was still getting the error. Has anyone else run into a similar problem?
Tampa Bay Meetup!
Tampa Bay-area Drupalists will be holding a meetup on Wednesday, September 1, at 7pm at the Panera Bread on South Howard Avenue in Tampa.
Iterating through Multi Dimensional Arrays
I am trying to get a list of certain values from within a multidimensional array:
[field_vehicle_models_ref] => Array(
[0] => Array(
[nid] => 175
[view] => Turtletop Limocoach ** This is the Value I am trying to get returned by the foreach loop
)
[1] => Array(
[nid] => 176
[view] => Turtletop Odyssey ** This is the Value I am trying to get returned by the foreach loop
)
)North Central Florida Meetup - Gainesville, FL
Come join the new North Florida Drupal group. We will be meeting on Monday 8/30 at 6:00 pm at Meeting Room A at the Headquarters Library 401 E Univeristy Avenue Fourth Floor, Gainesville, Fl.
This will be a meet and greet opportunity and a chance to plan the next steps for the organization of the group.
See http://groups.drupal.org/node/88409 for more information.
Content Profile module problem after update
The short version of problem:
After updating Content Profile, the Drupal core "add user" link (user/user/create) and the "edit member profile" (profile/profile/1) both give Page Not Found errors. When I disable Content Profile, "add user" functionality is returned.
No new modules were added; only module updates of modules that were all playing nicely together. The Content Profile nodes are unaffected -- they still display fine.
September Central Florida meetup (one week earlier then normal)
Join us on Saturday, September 11th, 2010 from 10am-6PM for a special extended meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
We will be working on finishing up the Coding for Cause projects we started back February. We will pair up experienced developers and themers with people new to Drupal so you they can learn as we finish these sites up. Lunch will be provided and we will go out afterward for food and libations. We hope to see you there.
Customizing Drupal Views Slideshow
I am working on customizing a Views Slideshow and I was wondering if there was a way to list the title and teaser in little div's off to the side of the main image by changing the CSS. I got slideshow working on www.msvehicles.com. What I am trying to do with the new site is have all of the text appear stacked to one side of the image in their little row containers. Right now, only the text from the currently loaded image shows up. In looking at the output through Firebug, I can see a bunch of inline CSS that hides the teasers from the user. I would like to override it if I can.
Miami Drupal Group August Meetup
The Miami Drupal Group will meet at The Miami Herald on Wednesday, August 25th at 6 p.m.
"Introduction to Building Community Websites with Drupal"
We'll provide a much requested, beginner-level introduction to Drupal and what it offers for you.
Snacks will be sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Please RSVP here or on our Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=313220397847&ref=ts
Location: 1 Herald Plaza, Miami FL 33132 / third floor conference room "A"
Map
August Central Florida meetup
Join us on Saturday, August 21, 2010 from 1-4PM for a 3-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
Drupalcamp Atlanta 2010 Registration is Open!
Drupalcamp Atlanta 2010 (www.drupalcampatlanta.com) is now open for registration, and will be held on Saturday, October 2nd from 8am – 5pm at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Our mission and purpose is twofold: (1.) we want to educate people about Drupal and (2.) further evangelize Drupal within our geographic region. The 2nd annual Drupalcamp Atlanta is an attendee driven, completely volunteer initiative modeled after the open, participatory nature of barcamps.
Broward Meetup (September)
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
Phone: 954-533-5698
The reservation is under my name (Hector)
Accessing variables inside multiple arrays in a custom node
I am creating a customer node.tpl.php file for a content type. I found a great video podcast on the basics of creating one at http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast. They have some outstanding tutorials that have really helped me.
I did run into one small problem that they didn't cover in the video. Using the print_r($node) function, I was able to get an output array of the variables that are used to create the content node. I get the part where if I want to display the path in my custom node, all I have to do is something like:
Brevard County August Meetup Wrapup
The August Brevard County meetup was held last night in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS - thanks to Gil and his employer for hosting.
Gil provided a walkthrough of Drupal Commons - we decided it was a great starting point for a groups-based sites with lots of features out-of-the box.
We also decided to plan out the topics and presenters for the next five meetups. They are:
Palm Beach Drupal meeting
Theming, Theming, Theming
Synopsis for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, August 11th 2010
We had a new remote participant (Jason Graham) that sent me a Skype request before the meetup (my Skype ID is my first name concatenated with my last name).
Remote :
Coral Springs - Jason Graham http://PolishYourImage.com/
In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County - half way between Miami and Boca Raton):
Jay Epstein http://www.usielectronics.com
Me
We started the meeting by using a Skype conference call, and we used the Skype Share option (suggested by Jason)to share our desktops with each other (i.e. we did not have to use Yugma or TeamViewer).
Background images not working in IE + Nice Menu not working in FF
Some days I really hate browsers. Today is one of those days. I have been working on a new theme for my main work website and things were going just peachy until yesterday. I have two rather strange issues that I am convinced are related to how I am employing my CSS.
Test Site URL: http://174.132.88.72/~mbitest/
Introduction + RESOLVED: Ubercart question
Greetings, fellow Central Floridians.
My name is Tyme ("greta_drupal"). I live in N. Titusville, so the Melbourne meetups are a bit of a haul. But, just want to introduce myself here, at least. Have been a web developer for 10 years: Started with HTML/CSS and ASP. Not a programmer by trade or education, but a fairly good hack. I keep asking Drupal to accept my lovely ASP code, but it refuses. So, until I cross over to PHP, I'm not a module developer. And, frankly, I have yet to have a need for which there wasn't already a module developed.
August Brevard County Meeting
The fifth Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, August 12th, 2010 at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at 1507 Aurora Road in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS.
The projector we were using has a burnt out bulb and is not available to us. If you can provide please let me know.It actually works fine now.
2 things we can discuss are Drupal Gardens (now fully open) and the release of Drupal Commons. I'm open to talking about anything the group is interested in. Leave some suggestions in the comments. See you all there.
