Last night I received two copies of "Using Drupal", one for me in exchange for a review and one to use as bait for new members. The book is a module mashup recipe book that covers more than 30 contributed modules in 8 common site requirements. I have only looked through the table of contents but I am already impressed with this Lullabot effort. At the bottom of the table of contents page is an awesome list of Lullabot tested and recommended modules that are covered in the book.
So, at our next meeting let's do a module tour of all the modules covered in this book and all the modules you have used in your sites that you can't be without. Add the modules you love as comments below and you can present those to the group. I'm not looking to do an indepth discussion of any one module but describe as many modules as possible in the two hours. If you take up my challenge of posting your favorite modules this thread could become a really awesome resource for newbies and gurus. As added incentive, Who ever posts the best list (attendees will decide) gets a free copy of "Using Drupal".
*Administration menu 6.x-1.0 (http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu)
*FCKeditor module 6.x-1.3-rc1 (http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor)
*FCkeditor package 2.6.3 (http://fckeditor.net)
*IMCE 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/imce)
*Advanced help 6.x-1.0 (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_help)
*Content Construction Kit (CCK) 6.x-2.0-rc10 (http://drupal.org/project/cck)
*Filefield 6.x-3.0-alpha5 (http://drupal.org/project/filefield)
*Views 6.x-2.0-rc4 (http://drupal.org/project/views)
*Amazon 6.x-1.0-beta3 (http://drupal.org/project/amazon)
*CSS Injector 6.x-1.3 (http://drupal.org/project/css_injector)
*Fivestar 6.x-1.13 (http://drupal.org/project/fivestar)
*Search (core)
*Voting API 6.x-2.0-beta6 (http://drupal.org/project/votingapi)
*Diff 6.x-2.0 (http://drupal.org/project/diff)
*Freelinking 6.x-1.6 (http://drupal.org/project/freelinking)
*Markdown filter 6.x-1.0 (http://drupal.org/project/markdown)
*Pathauto 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/pathauto)
*Token 6.x-1.10 (http://drupal.org/project/token)
*Trigger (core)
*Views Bulk Operations 6.x-1.1 (http://drupal.org/project/views_bulk_operations)
*Workspace 6.x-1.3 (http://drupal.org/project/workspace)
*Workflow 6.x-1.0-rc1 (http://drupal.org/project/workflow)
*Custom Pagers 6.x-1.10-beta1 (http://drupal.org/project/custom_pagers)
*ImageCache 6.x-1.0-alpha2 (http://drupal.org/project/imagecache)
*ImageField 6.x-3.0-alpha1 (http://drupal.org/project/imagefield)
*Token 6.x-1.10 (http://drupal.org/project/token)
*Ubiquity 6.x-1.x-dev (2008-May-31) (http://drupal.org/project/ubiquity)
*Book (core)
*Content Translation (core)
*Forum (core)
*Internationalization 6.x-1.0-beta1 (http://drupal.org/project/i18n)
*Localization (core)
*Localization client 6.x-1.3 (http://drupal.org/project/l10n_client)
*Calendar 6.x-2.0-rc3 (http://drupal.org/project/calendar)
*Date 6.x-2.0-rc3 (http://drupal.org/project/date)
*Flag 6.x-1.0-beta5 (http://drupal.org/project/flag)
*Ubercart 6.x-2.x-dev (2008-Nov-3) (http://drupal.org/project/ubercart)
*Devel 6.x-1.9 (http://drupal.org/project/devel)
Comments
In addition to the modules
In addition to the modules list in the "Using Drupal" book. I love and regularly deploy the following modules:
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Modules: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
OK, I'm only a month into my Drupal experience so I have little, if any, right to comment on this subject. So please consider that this is a noob's perspective on modules. Lots of good ones posted already so I'm only going to post additions to that list with a few from the list that I think deserve a double-dip.
The Good - You can see most of these in action at http://stc09.tamatoledo.net.
The Bad
The Ugly - Probably something I did wrong but all of these caused problems.
Mark
Mark
To add
I regularly use:
I also recently started using:
I'm getting requests to make "micro sites" inside of a bigger site. This lets you create a taxonomy so that you can choose which theme to use on a per-page basis (or however you want to use taxonomy).
For example, see these two parts of the same site:
(Don't ask me why we have coffee cups on there)
Looks like development on that module may have stopped. Guess I'll have to put some effort into figuring out a solution to that before going to D6.
--
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
Another 3 books free - "Learning Drupal 6 Module Development".
http://groups.drupal.org/node/18864
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Formfilter
I've had Formfilter installed for all of 10 minutes and already I think it is worth posting here.
http://drupal.org/project/formfilter
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Iowa Drupal Users Group - Module Tour - 23Feb09 7pm
Just reminding everyone of our meeting this coming Monday night.
"Module Tour" - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18669
We meet 7-9pm the last Monday of the month at iMed Studios.
2604 Northridge Parkway
Ames, IA 50010
Park in the back and enter through the back door (knock if it is locked).
See you all then!
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Iowa Drupal Users Group - Module Tour - 23Feb09 7pm
Just reminding everyone of our meeting this coming Monday night.
"Module Tour" - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18669
We meet 7-9pm the last Monday of the month at iMed Studios.
2604 Northridge Parkway
Ames, IA 50010
Park in the back and enter through the back door (knock if it is locked).
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Module Footprints
Could not wait to check out some of the modules mentioned last night and got pretty much the effect I expected this morning... out of memory, again. Bumped my php.ini setting from 32M to my host's limit of 40M and still couldn't get it all in. Backed off a couple of additions and I'm back up and running again but that left me wondering just what kind of footprint some of these beasts were leaving. Found a patch on the web, made some quick modifications and generated the results shown below.
If anybody is interested in the code I've got patched 6.9 copies of index.php and includes/module.inc. Just write.
Start = 0.065588 MB
End = 21.537564 MB
Total = 21.471976 MB
fckeditor = 0.544184 MB
node = 0.466448 MB
user = 0.464536 MB
content = 0.399152 MB
comment = 0.366444 MB
system = 0.341696 MB
date_api = 0.321308 MB
workflow = 0.245932 MB
filter = 0.239252 MB
lightbox2 = 0.234824 MB
taxonomy = 0.231936 MB
book = 0.205364 MB
image = 0.20076 MB
search = 0.199164 MB
image_pub = 0.193544 MB
taxonomy_xml = 0.189652 MB
aggregator = 0.179328 MB
views = 0.176852 MB
contemplate = 0.172464 MB
iframe = 0.17 MB
fieldgroup = 0.167712 MB
taxonomy_manager = 0.159692 MB
nodereference = 0.156784 MB
panels = 0.149072 MB
link = 0.148136 MB
userreference = 0.14594 MB
color = 0.145088 MB
views_bulk_operations = 0.13878 MB
poll = 0.138292 MB
announcements = 0.136236 MB
date = 0.135648 MB
upload = 0.132788 MB
profile = 0.126932 MB
number = 0.126892 MB
print = 0.12418 MB
panels_views = 0.119888 MB
content_profile = 0.115568 MB
image_gallery = 0.1138 MB
content_copy = 0.112724 MB
block = 0.0989 MB
text = 0.093324 MB
tac_lite = 0.084112 MB
calendar = 0.084008 MB
print_mail = 0.083704 MB
panels_mini = 0.083508 MB
menu = 0.083488 MB
date_popup = 0.083464 MB
image_attach = 0.08136 MB
update = 0.079936 MB
email = 0.077964 MB
panels_page = 0.075348 MB
optionwidgets = 0.074928 MB
views_calc = 0.07108 MB
trigger = 0.06856 MB
computed_field = 0.061524 MB
date_repeat = 0.061392 MB
token = 0.056272 MB
panels_node = 0.052744 MB
blog = 0.049632 MB
auto_nodetitle = 0.049544 MB
date_timezone = 0.04928 MB
token_actions = 0.042436 MB
panels_node_content = 0.0397 MB
views_ui = 0.038808 MB
path = 0.037484 MB
imce = 0.035384 MB
workflow_access = 0.029132 MB
panels_simple_cache = 0.027952 MB
panels_export = 0.02388 MB
dblog = 0.023264 MB
jquery_update = 0.0218 MB
php = 0.02138 MB
clone = 0.017736 MB
jcalendar = 0.013584 MB
content_permissions = 0.00974 MB
views_slideshow = 0.008696 MB
help = 0.00828 MB
image_import = 0.007916 MB
calendar_ical = 0.00466 MB
throttle = 0 MB
Modules = 10.152896 MB
Bootstrap = 11.31908 MB
Mark
Mark
Great Meeting!
Thanks to all who helped set up the last meeting - it was great to meet everybody!
I've just started using the Schema module - my description won't do it justice but I'm certain I'll rely on it like Devel:
http://drupal.org/project/schema
@summit dweller, thanks for posting the footprint list.
How are you using Shema?
I read the description of the schema module but can you provide us a description of how you are using it?
** You are welcome for the meeting. But the real thank you comes when you keep returning. See you next time.
** Any ideas/agenda for the next meeting?
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Learning Tool
Good question - I'm pretty much in the middle of the Drupal learning curve and Schema is a great tool for quickly learning the data structures of Drupal and contrib modules.
newz2000 takes home a free book.
newz2000 takes home a copy of "Using Drupal". Thanks to O'Reilly for providing this incentive copy for new members. Welcome aboard newz2000!
You could have your own copy of this book at a discount or even free. Read more about how - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18315
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
There are more books available...
There are more books available at the next meeting - http://groups.drupal.org/node/19641#comment-70070
And there are still two books left from last meeting - http://groups.drupal.org/node/18864
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
iMed Studios
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind
Regards,
Michael Hofmockel
Open Source || Open Access || Open Mind