Drupal Dojo

Drupal Dojo resource board

gusaus — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:42:58 +0000

This wiki is a centralized repository for the various plans, ideas, and conversations pertaining to the current goals, vision, and action plans of the Drupal Dojo learning and mentoring group.

Dojo Goals and Vision

Project Goals and Desired Outcomes - goals and desired outcomes for the the Dojo itself
The Dojo Code - an attempt to define some 'Dojo' values and principals (still very much a work in progress)

Curriculum: Lesson/project ideas and related discussions

Drupal learning, mentoring, and education - goals/objectives/resources from the various learning groups; ideally we can identify some common goals and ways we can interface.
Process for open collaborative development - first stab in terms of establishing guidelines and a workflow for open drupal development
Guidelines and ideas for lessons, presentations, workshops, and projects - This working document is an attempt to identify and compile potential topics for lessons, sessions, tasks, projects and collaborative workshops.

Support and sustainability

Organizational and Leadership Structure - Even without a formal entity - an organization, leadership, decision making, and incentive structure will ensure that the Dojo has the resources to make it stable and sustainable.
Dojo support packages - Identify how and why individuals and companies may want to support Drupal learning, mentoring and related projects.
Establishing guidelines and parameters for sponsor acknowledgment
- Producer and presenter credits
- Sponsor credit on website

Open learning and collaboration platform

Josh, with the help of some volunteers, is heading up the effort to make the group and domain useful again to the community and much more importantly to get people motivated around creating content again. Here's a spec. (very rough draft) for the trimmed down site. The following are priority issues for both the trimmed down and next gen. site.

Live lesson subdomain - A better system for live lessons and collaboration is very much needed.
Repository for learning materials - Dojo should not house but should aggregate materials (video, audio, slideshows, documentation) from the cloud.

Phase II - Dojo 2.0. (aka Open learning and collaboration portal)

The feature spec finalized several months ago is being reassessed and evaluated (issue here).
All active feature requests active feature requests here
All active tasks can be found here

Production guidelines and documentation

Determine the best setup for live lessons and collaboration - Once we have a better setup, the Dojo will come back to life!
Create Dojo video "standard" - Production values for educational videos
Research video storage/delivery options - Ensure that Dojo materials reach the largest audience.

Drupal Dojo

New Adobe.com article: Building Drupal Zen sub-themes with Dreamweaver CS4

Chris Charlton — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:11:53 +0000

The third article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Zen Sub-Themes, including Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal themes.

"When asked why I would recommend the Zen theme versus a core theme such as Garland, I answer, Zen was built to be a seed for your tree—you plant the seed, water it, and watch it grow! Garland looks nice, but is not documented well and has custom page template code that should not appear elsewhere. In short, Garland is just not right as the basis for a theme; the Zen theme is."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_zen_subthemes.ht...

Previous articles in the series:
Building a Drupal site in 10 steps, is at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_site_in_10_steps...

Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4, is at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs...

Workflow

Can I translate and post Dojo information at my new Group page?

fuji@drupal.org — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:36:57 +0000

Dear Drupal Dojo members and maintainers,

Hello. My name is Scott, I'm a Drupal newbie eager to send out Drupal information towards a Japanese audience and seeking content to translate through a group I am attempting to administer. Currently we have
only one active Group in Japan (Drupal Japan Group) which is growing, and the situation currently is Japanese markets hardly know Drupal unfortunately. And we just got our second Drupal book in Japanese. During
these several months, things are steadily getting primed and the Japan group are starting to enter Linux World events and Open Source Conferences, but we still severely lack Drupal development information in Japanese.

And as a research project, I was wondering if I could somehow secure permission to actively translate information from Dojo pages and post them as resources at a group I just started, the Kansai Group (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nara region). It is currently my goal to start foundations for more Drupal Groups in Japan, and I wish the Kansai group to welcome Japanese users and to be able to offer much information that is not present in the Japanese markets.

Your support would be much appreciated in these areas, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Scott

Drupal Dojo

Installing Drush on Ubuntu

manuel garcia@drupal.org — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:50:29 +0000

So, you probably have heard of drush, and maybe you have not tried it yet. I tried it quite a while ago, and found it to be somewhat of a hassle. But I yesterday I decided to give it another go, and see all the buzz everyone's talking about.

I use ubuntu at home, and using the console to manage drupal sites seems like ideal, yet I didn't think drush was ready yet... seems like I wasn't paying enough attention!

So now to the meat of it. You will have to change username for the name of your user of course.

Download drush, and uncompress it to your home directory. In my case, this leaves the files inside /home/manuel/drush
Make sure the permisions to the drush file are set so that you can execute the file. See the screenshot below:
If only you will be using the script, make a symbolic link to this file in your /home/username/bin (create the folder if you haven't already):
ln -s /home/username/drush/drush /home/username/bin/drush
After which, you should have a drush file in your bin directory like on the screenshot:
UPDATE: To install Drush system wide, simply move the entire Drush directory to /usr/local/lib, and place your symbolic link in /usr/local/bin (thanks cjdavis)

And that is it my friends. You can now go to the root of your drupal installation, and let your jaw drop by executing drush sql dump, and then drush update, and look at it update all the modules on your site in 1 minute, while you go grab a beer.

A command you will want to use is drush help to find out what commands you have available. Enjoy, and long live drush!

Drupal Dojo

What days do you plan to attend Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009? (August 8-9th)

Chris Charlton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:59:08 +0000

Southern California

Typical compensation for Knight News and similar funded projects

gusaus — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:10:04 +0000

This poll revolving around the Knight News Challenge (http://www.newschallenge.org/) provides a good indicator of what developers usually get paid for a funded project - looks like the range of $50-100/hr is the norm (http://twtpoll.com/z0e5kz). I'm curious to 1) is this typical for other Drupal projects (possibly people could take the poll; 2) how much non-developers (pm, marketing, documentation, etc.) are being compensated; 3) how this compares to a client job (non-profit or other).

I've been trying to figure out a good compensation structure for a project based learning program that would award stipends (similar to the Google programs) for apprentices and mentors. Any additional thoughts and feedback would be much appreciated.

Knight Drupal Initiative

Drupaltherapy Boston: July 25, 2009

seaneffel — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:33:38 +0000

Announcing our next Boston area Drupal training on Saturday, July 25, 2009, from 8:30AM to 6:00PM, in sunny Davis Square. If you've enjoyed the Drupaltherapy screencasts, then this is your chance to spend a day with the same level of high quality instruction in a supportive learning environment.

Check out the workshop annoucement for information on availability and registration.

Drupal Dojo

Software Engineer [PHP Drupal] | Helios Solution

helios01 — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:39:15 +0000

(Minimum Exp required 1 + years)

Coding for high-availability Drupal sites, preferably on MySQL

Should have good knowledge of core PHP & Drupal

Pune India

Drupal Open Learning Initiative

gusaus — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:31:46 +0000

There are many great Drupal learning resources, groups, and tools but they can be somewhat disconnected and spread out. Our goal is to unify and bring these efforts together to provide a complimentary program and platform that serves all Drupal learning initiatives needs and efforts.

Drupal Kata
The Drupal Kata is a new project learning program that provides hands on training in a wide range of areas ranging from site planning, drafting proposals, project management, information architecture, development, design, infrastructure, to business and community. It does this by pairing apprentices with a mentor or mentors, thus gaining exposure to real-world scenarios and connections with the local and global community. The knowledge transfer allows apprentices to become proficient, contribute back to the community, and retain the skills for gainful employment in the field of their choice.

Drupal Dojo
The evolutionary stages of the program seeks to follow through with the Drupal Dojo 2.0 vision by building off complimentary sites and collaborating with existing teams. A collaboration with the Open Media Project will provide a unique opportunity to craft a custom program to provide development help, training, and documentation and marketing on a regional level.

Program Goals

Sustainable project learning and training program for Drupal
Our primary goal is to create a sustainable project learning and training program for Drupal. We will provide hands on training in areas ranging from site planning, drafting proposals, project management, information architecture, development, design, infrastructure, to Drupal workflows and community.

A Drupal based learning and collaboration platform
An effective platform to provide free online training, mentoring, and a showcase for Drupal (drupaldojo.com), and ultimately a customizable installation profile freely available on drupal.org.

Complete set of training materials and documentation
Create a curriculum and complete set of training materials derived from the process of building a website.

Program Benefits

How does this compliment related Drupal learning initiatives?

Open and agile - The program is open to anyone with a desire to learn and contribute.
Continuous and sustainable - It will do this by allowing multiple stakeholders to support development projects they care about. Allocating funds to administrators and mentors will ensure stability and a high level of training. open to anyone who wants to receive hands on training (i.e. it is not an internship just for students).
Local - The program strives to match apprentices with mentors in the same geographic area. This will enable interaction with each other, local Drupal groups, and companies who would like to provide on-site mentoring.

How will this benefit the Drupal project and economy?
First and foremost, the program will address the increasing talent shortage on multiple levels. The emphasis on local outreach will strive to identify and attract students, hobbyists, professionals in other fields, and those looking for new career skills. The continuous nature of the program will allow for increased collaboration and relationships between developers working on similar projects. With all code, documentation, and training materials freely available, there will be increased collaboration between users and stakeholders with similar goals. The Drupal Dojo will provide an effective platform to for real-time collaboration, mentoring, and a showcase for Drupal learning and marketing materials.

How will this benefit individuals and users?
Providing open source code, training, and documentation allows open access to powerful tools for digital publication but also the knowledge how to use them.

A capstone project

Our initial goal is to create a curriculum and complete set of training materials derived from the process of building a website.

Milestones

The initial phase of the project will be considered complete when the program is sustainable and the capstone project is complete. We expect this to happen in phases over a three month period.

Phase 1 - DrupalKata.com
Phase 1 will create a site to facilitate collaboration and documentation of our project and curriculum. It will also serve as conduit to collect funds and credit sponsors. This phase can be completed in a sprint by building off the site developed for the CMS Showdown, and potentially collaborating with their project team.

Phase 2 - DrupalDojo.com
Upon completion of Phase I (drupalkata.com) we will set up a project to facilitate collaboration and documentation of Phase 2. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we will again be building off a complimentary project, but also interfacing with their team to provide development help, training, and documentation and marketing on a regional level. In collaborating with the Open Media Project, we'll be building off a product that's already received a great deal of financial and time investment.

Project Implementation and Distribution

The Drupal Kata site will be hosted externally (www.drupalkata.com)
The Drupal Dojo site will be hosted externally (www.drupaldojo.com)
Install profile and configuration patterns will be available on drupal.org
The collaboration portal will be available as a hosted solution (TBD)
Any new modules, themes, site recipes, and documentation developed will be available on drupal.org
All learning materials, curriculum, courseworks derived from the development will be in the drupal handbooks, drupaldojo.com, and distributed around the web.

Budget estimate

The goal is to raise enough funds to accomplish what's needed to make the overall program sustainable. We estimate is a total of 60 man hours/wk over a 3 month period would be required.

$24k/monthly / $72k for a 3 month period
* Marketing and communications: 80 man hours at 100/hr: 8,000
* Program development: 80 man hours at 100/hr: 8,000
* Production and documentation: 80 man hours at 100/hr: 8,000

Support and Funding

The program will be supported by volunteers, mentors, apprentices, and by the generous support of individual donors, sponsors, and other stakeholders.

Projects Needing Volunteer Developers

LA Drupal videos galore (DrupalCampLA + Meetings)

Chris Charlton — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:54:26 +0000

For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://drupal-la.blip.tv

Subscribe to our video podcast... http://drupal-la.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)

We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.

Our video feed (podcast; http://drupal-la.blip.tv/rss) has been updated, and you can subscribe in iTunes, Miro, or in other video podcast apps. We run our videos mainly from http://drupal-la.blip.tv so you can watch them there directly too.

Workflow

Public Access and related media initiatives on a regional level

gusaus — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:54:03 +0000

I wanted to reset this discussion on how Public Access and related media initiatives would benefit from collaboration in a wide range of areas from development, documentation, training, funding/fundraising, marketing, promotion, business, hosting, sales, and services.

Using LA as an example, I'm wondering if there's some sort of 'regional template' we can create for setting up shop on a regional level. What would it take (people, skills, funds, etc.) to replicate the Open Media model and leverage the legwork already done? What kind of support could/should be provided from the mothership in Denver and what areas do you need help?

Starting tonight with what looks to be a massive meetup, I'll be looking to round up interested individuals and companies in LA. Based on the size, diversity, and nature of 'the industry', I think a successful implementation in LA could provide a great framework to move forward.

PEGspace

Fine tuning views

jlane1 — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:57:26 +0000

Okay so I have the views setup and everything looks perfect except the last row of images. It stacks them vertically. I would like it to stake the images horizontally within that row. I have it setup on the Fields Row Style and have inline checked for the image field. What seperator should be used to display these items one after another in this row? Any ideas would be great.

Examples of what Im talking about...

Currently:

Title:

Teaser:

Images:

Image 1
Image 2
Image 3

What I would like:

Title:

Teaser:

Images:

Image 1, Image 2, Image 3

Thanks,

I look forward to contributing to this community.

Drupal Dojo

Screencast: Setting up Views to build custom pages and access control

mattmm — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:05:50 +0000

http://matthewm.org/screencast/drupal-views-build-custom-pages-access-control

As I await my induction into the Drupal Planet feed - here is my latest screencast.

I demonstrate building custom content pages that are accessible to different roles. I use views and it's built in access control function to accomplish this. The example consists of three custom content types and three different roles. I will build the content pages, use devel mod to fill in test data, build the view and grant access to specific roles. If you want me to create a screencast to tackle your specific need, contact me on twitter! http://twitter.com/mattmedeiros

Western Massachusetts

How to disable false communication when working on DEV?

shaal — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:55:57 +0000

we have a LIVE website, with active (recurring) paid subscribers...
every month - they get charged on their credit card through paypal.

(so far - all good)

now - while creating the next version, updates, etc -
on DEV - we migrated all live user info and started working with it
(ouch)
and then - all our paid subscribers - got a false message - that their credit card cannot be charged!

my question is -
moving forward, as we are going to have automatic notification on content added, newsletters, recurring payment, etc.

is there any safe method / workflow -
to work on DEV, with latest info - without anything being sent (or charged) from there like it happens on LIVE?
so we can debug only, and work with sandbox, instead of real users?

btw - when we finish a version on DEV -
we run a script - to create STAGE server -
it copies all functionality changes, views, panels, etc from DEV
it copy all users, and content from LIVE

and then we QA on STAGE - to make sure it ready to switch,
to become the new LIVE.

(also with that workflow, i'd like to prevent any false information being sent out, until STAGE is ready, and becoming LIVE)

hope it make sense...
thanks for your help!

Los Angeles

Adobe.com article: Building a Drupal site in 10 steps

Chris Charlton — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:18:47 +0000

I just saw my latest Drupal article is now published on Adobe.com, and this is the first in a series I have produced.

"Read on to see how you can set up a Drupal site in just 10 steps. Learn about adding content, altering menus, modules, and themes, and how to get your site ready for search engines and users."

Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_site_in_10_steps...

Southern California

Drupal Themer | FeedTheBull, LLC

FeedTheBull — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:24:09 +0000

We are in the need of a Drupal Themer Ninja that can help us knock out a few pages in a relatively short timeframe. If you have the chops to make a killer looking site and have time to do it quickly, contact us at ron (at) feedthebull (dot) com and we will go over the details.

Requirements:
Drupal 5
standards-compliant
render properly in all major browsers (IE 6+, FF 2+, Safari 1+, Opera 5+)
comfortable with php, but mostly css/html
Theming ninja

Drupal Dojo

Having an extremely weird problem accessing Drupal.org, looking for input

GripMediaDOTNet — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:11:03 +0000

Howdy:

I have an very intermittent and strange problem. From my static IP at my office, intermittently without warning, I cannot access drupal.org or any related sites, while anybody else can as long as it's not my IP. From my same office, if I log onto a free WIFI, I can access the site on the same computer.

I call Comcast and they are about as helpful as my Cat. (FWIW, my cat is old skool, she's a fortran developer and too lazy to learn the web ways).

What I suspect is happening is that the Drupal server for some reason see's my IP as bad, or attacking and locks me out for a period of time. I have had other servers not like my IP. Why I dunno. I can assure you I am not running any scams, bot-nets, etc. :)

Anybody know whom I can contact at Drupal.org to see about whitelisting my IP?

It's really hard to deal with because it is so intermittent, though it seems to happen if I stay on the Drupal site for more then a few minutes.

Gotta get this worked out, being a Drupal developer and all.

I am on Mac OS X 10.5.6, G5

Portland (Oregon)

Drupal Project Manager | Kforce Technology Staffing

clane2 — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:01:33 +0000

Here is the description:

Designs, plans, and coordinates work teams. Follows standard project management industry practices such as the PMI's framework. Understands business and technical objectives of a project and works closely with project sponsor. Creates project charter and work plan and tracks budget and schedule progress via appropriate metrics. Establishes project organization and methodologies and defines roles and responsibilities. Documents risks and develops mitigation plans. Manages scope.

Creates and implements a communication plan. Builds an effective team, assigns tasks to team members, and evaluates outcomes. Negotiates resources. Communicates to stakeholders and project sponsor. Identifies, tracks, and ensures resolution of issues and removal of barriers. Provides technical support to project team members. Handles complex application features and technical designs. Designs and implements the components required for complex application features. Generally manages a group of applications systems analysts. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Professional certification is highly desirable. Project Manager capabilities with 11 or more years of experience. Capable of managing a project with up to ten (10) or more staff and/or a project with multiple subprojects.

Administration - Project Management
Project Management * 5+ Yrs.

Administration - Technical Writing
Experience in Technical Writing and Documentation * 5 (Expert) of 5 (Expert) and 5+ Yrs.

Design: Web Technical Design
Design of Drupal-based community environments 4 (Very Strong) of 5 (Expert) and 3+ Yrs.

General Competencies
Excellent oral and written communication skills * 5 (Expert) of 5 (Expert) and 5+ Yrs.

Information Technology - Architecture
Software Development Life Cycle * 5 (Expert) of 5 (Expert) and 5+ Yrs.

Information Technology - Design
Familiarity and knowledge with best practices in information architecture 4 (Very Strong) of 5 (Expert) and 3+ Yrs.
Knowledge of ADA (Section 508) compliance issues * Yes

Information Technology - Internet Tools
Experience with online collaboration/ community resources * 3+ Yrs.

Information Technology - Languages/Tools
HTML / XML / XSLT / JSP / CSS * 3 (Moderately Strong) of 5 (Expert) and 3+ Yrs.

Information Technology - Requirements
Demonstrated knowledge of content management systems analysis 5 (Expert) of 5 (Expert) and 5+ Yrs.
Familiarity and working knowledge of Drupal software development process and Drupal-based project scope 4 (Very Strong) of 5 (Expert) and 3+ Yrs.
Review Business Requirements and Technical Design Documentation to Ensure Established Requirements h * 5+ Yrs.

Regards,

Chris Lane
Technical Recruiter
Kforce
608.242.2052

South Dakota

Hotel price calculator (without coding, or almost without coding)

nahuel — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:28:11 +0000

Greetings from Perú:

I can't get out of my mind the idea of making a "hotel booking system" based on views. No coding, just configuration.
I think that i could work on it in a couple of weeks, so, for now i just looking for ideas, comments and suggestions.

This is my main working concept:

A form, with the fowling fields:
a) Date in
b) Date out
c) Number of pax
d) City (optional)
A view, that:
a) Get that data as arguments (ideally as POST)
b) List all available accommodations in that city
c) Calculate the price for number of pax and nights
d) Link that data to the hotel detail page
In the hotel detail page
a) calculate the cost
b) link that data to reservation form

I was think in:

I. using calculated field, but I'm doubting of its capacities, now i think that i can do it with a small php snippet to calculated the final cost.
II. Use some module to group and conditional fields in CCK, because are a lots of fields (season start, season end, price single, price double, additional per kids, etc)
III. Any way to export the view and the CCK definition, to share the implementation with you.

Need help specially with the II item. http://drupal.org/project/conditional_fields look immature and is't recommended for production sites.

Travel Industry

Does Saturday or Sunday work better for you to attend an LA Drupal daytime event?

Chris Charlton — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:52:30 +0000

Southern California

fbconnect and twitter screencast

mattmm — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:48:47 +0000

http://matthewm.org/blog/drupal-screencast-fbconnect-module-and-twitter-...

So I made my first attempt at a screencast. It's pretty simple and straight forward - I hope someone finds it useful. It just goes through activating fbconnect and twitter modules. I also go over some of the basic feature/function to get you up and running asap. Enjoy!

Western Massachusetts

What level sessions would you attend at DrupalCamp LA 2009?

Chris Charlton — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:37:46 +0000

Southern California

Drupal and Jmeter

joshk — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:52:55 +0000

In my never-ending quest to run larger and more complex drupal stacks for more and more users, I'm starting to hit the wall in what I'm able to accomplish with good old Siege, which has been my command-line tool of choice for benchmarking and performance testing for the past couple years. In particular, it breaks down too often in high-load simulations, and doesn't allow for any complex multi-threaded testing, making it very difficult to model near-reality user scenarios like "10 logged in users + 100 anons".

Lately, I've been getting into Jmeter, which has a lot more bells and whistles -- including a GUI! -- and which I think can offer a lot to Drupal developers. However, their basic web test plan barely scratches the surface of what's possible. With the right configuration, jmeter can effectively simulate complete user-behavior patterns like logging in, posting comments, etc.

I'm just getting started, but am curious if people "out there" are already way ahead of me, or if not if folks are interested in seeing the results of my testing work?

Assuming this isn't all already done, here would be my goals:

Develop some great "starter" test plans for drupal sites.
Develop good template workflow components like "login" and so forth.
Develop a Drupal module to dynamically generate site-specifc XML. (holy grail!)

Interest? Feedback? Ideas? I'm all ears.

High performance

Design and Usability Dojo

gusaus — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:38:08 +0000

[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Overview: focus on the site builders, themers and those interested in delivering a killer user experience both for Drupal itself and for their own sites.

Goals

Attract more designers to Drupal
Improve Drupal’s visual design

Lesson and session ideas

Graphic design: “Drupal for Designers” - These sessions covers topics that relate more towards creating the visual design of a Drupal site.

Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…)
Introduction to Drupal for designers (including the most important contrib modules)
Drupal-friendly CSS tricks (form elements, menus, etc)
Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements

Theming: “Theming the Drop” - These proposed sessions cover topics about implementing themes.

Theming for Drupal after starting with Wordpress, Joomla, or static HTML
Theming Panels
Theming Views
Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes (preferably with case studies)
Creating themes for Drupal 6 (maybe focus on changes from D5?)
How to make your module a themer’s dream
Security for themers (XSS, XSRF, input sanitation, …)
Using Color.module to create recolorable themes
[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Usability/Interaction design: “User friendly Drupal”

Usability bling in Drupal 6
User Experience Testing
Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6
Building intuitive forms (layout, multistep, custom widgets, …)
Brainstorming: An interface for media handling
Learning jQuery

Site Planning and Information Architecture: “Building Drupal to Specification”

A WYSIWYG in Drupal 7: How do we get there?
Rethinking blocks – Merge with Panels?
Obstacles on localized and internationalized sites
Improving the Drupal user experience with the best contributed modules
Site statistics, how to obtain and what we can learn from them
Identifying and overcoming Drupalisms (odd workflows, …)

Projects, Tasks and Initiatives

[Please add to the list!]

Usability/UserInterface: UI design or user experience research
Theming and design
Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
Study problem X and define five tasks that could be done to fix problem X."
Compare and contrast various approaches
Interactive site recipes
Build a complete solution from start to finish.
- Cover all aspects from planning, development, and marketing.
- Create and maintain an install profile and/or drupal distribution.

Resources

Drupal Dojo

Code Development Dojo

gusaus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:32 +0000

[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Overview: Learn the latest techniques in site development. / simpletests, coding practices, scalability, deployment and so on.
Audience: hobbyist, consultant, web developer

Goals

Create a foundation for development and deployment of Drupal sites
Rapidly create a site with a Drupal specific workflow
Build sites without coding
Use Drupal as a platform

Projects, Tasks and Initiatives

[Please add to the list!]

Development: patching existing code or writing new code
Testing: testing software or writing tests for an existing code base

Resources

Drupal Dojo

Howto: Q&A Session integration with views

coronaronin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:27:42 +0000

Hey Guys,

Newcomer to the group but I've used the Drupal Dojo a few times to pimp out some of my site, and thanks for being around! I am trying to wrap my head around how to allow admins to be able to simply ask site members a question and be able to pimp out results in views. Lets say a site admin runs a cooking site, and wants to ask members if they liked last week's featured recipe, with a yes/no answer, and possibly the ability to comment beneath that. "Yes" - "I liked the recipe, but it could use more basil." (comment). The first guess would be, of course, use a poll, right? A poll 'can' work persay, but it's flexibility is severely limited, and I don't think it allows comments. I can't go into views and show a block of every user who voted "yes," with their picture, and any comment they made if I use a poll or the advanced poll module.

So while the poll type thinking is definitely in line with what I'd like to do, I don't know of anything that would allow for the following to be created:
* Content type with a question as a title, and an ability for users to answer either yes or no, and the ability to comment to elaborate on their choice.
*Integration with views.

Does anyone have any ideas for any module that might exist that does this?

The potential for groups integration could also be pretty fantastic.

Thanks!

Drupal Dojo

Media Sprint Update: March Madness

aaron — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:51:18 +0000

The Media module is progressing along nicely! We have a FAQ and a Roadmap in place, and an Alpha launch planned for the Sprint at the Open Media Camp in Denver.

This session will give a brief demo and overview of current progress. We'll also spend some time talking about how YOU can participate!

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 3:30 PM (EST)

Drupal Dojo

Piggybacking on AHAH

aaron — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:52:03 +0000

For the Media module, I'm trying to attach a new behavior to an AHAH form submit button. I need to open a previously hidden form element, BEFORE the ajax has loaded. This is ultimately for a throbber/progress indicator, and to allow the user to enter meta-data without having to wait for the 120MB video to finish uploading.

However, it appears that the jQuery bind('click') behavior doesn't allow piggybacking. How can I do this? After the first failed attempt, I tried successfully binding to the 'mouseover' event, so I know my selector is working properly. I've since also tried adding a wrapper to the button, but that's also not working.

Here's what I have thus far:

Drupal.behaviors.mediaAhahHideBrowser = function (context) {
  $('.media-browser-submit:not(.mediaAhahHideBrowser-processed)', context).addClass('mediaAhahHideBrowser-processed').bind('click', function () {
    alert('Click successful.');
  });
};

And with a wrapper instead:

Drupal.behaviors.mediaAhahHideBrowser = function (context) {
  $('.media-browser-submit-wrapper:not(.mediaAhahHideBrowser-processed)', context).addClass('mediaAhahHideBrowser-processed').bind('click', function() {
    alert('Click successful.');
  });
}

Note: the wrapper behavior works when clicking to the side of the button, but not on the button itself.

Thanks,
Aaron

Media

Progress of Media Sprint

aaron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:58:39 +0000

This will be a progress report for the ongoing Media Sprint, for the Media Module, including How You Can Get Involved™!

Note this immediately follows 8Tracks & Emfield.

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM (EST)

Video

8Tracks & Emfield

aaron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:55:18 +0000

We'll have a short session integrating 8Tracks into Embedded Media Field. Following this will be a Media Sprint Progress Report.

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM (EST)

Media

Third Party Video Integration

aaron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:09:43 +0000

The following modules integrate third party video with Drupal, such as YouTube or Blip.TV. Modules included may automatically parse URLs and/or embed code to determine the provider to store and display, and may or may not display thumbnails, autoplay, and other features (outlined below). Please help to make this list more accurate!

| Feature | Asset | Drigg | Embedded Media Field | Media | Video | Video Filter |
| ------- | ----- | ----- | --------------------- | ----- | ----- | ------------ |
| Automatic Parsing | Yes | Yes | Yes¹ | Yes² | Yes | Yes |
| Attach as Field | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Inline | No | Yes³ | Yes⁴ | No⁵ | No | Yes |
| Attach (other) | Yes⁶ | No³ | No | Yes⁷ | Yes⁸ | No |
| Reusable Assets | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Integrates w/ Views | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Display thumbnails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes² | No | No |
| Custom thumbnail overrides | No | No | Yes | Yes² | No | No |
| "File browser" | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| LightBox2/Thickbox | Lightbox2 | No | LightBox2 and Thickbox | No | No | No |
| Autoplay | ? | ? | Configurable | No² | ? | ? |

Notes:
¹ Parser works with embed code in addition to URLs.
² These will not be supported directly, but through contributed modules supporing the API, such as Media: Brightcove, Media: YouTube, and Media: Hulu.
³ Inline only works with the provided 'Scoop' content type.
⁴ In Drupal 5 version; port do d6 in progress.
⁵ Inline file attachment, complete with WYSIWYG support is planned for a later version.
⁶ Creates new 'Asset' node type for media asset storage.
⁷ Will work both with FileField and the core Upload module to store third party video as an attachment.
⁸ Creates new 'Video' node type for video storage.

Module	Versions	Description	Supported Third Party Providers	Last commit	info updated
Asset	5.x-1.0, 6.x-1.x-dev	The asset module provides an intuitive method of managing any type of media or even generic files. An asset is any type of file that has been uploaded in the asset wizard: images, audio, youtube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,...	DailyMotion, YouTube.	2008-Nov-21	2009-Mar-20
Drigg	5.x-1.36, 6.x-1.x-dev	Drigg is a powerful Drupal module that allows you to create Digg and Pligg-like web sites. Videos are inserted inline to the included 'Scoop' content type.	Google, MetaCafe, Revver, Sapo Videos, Spike, Veoh, Yahoo Video, YouTube.	2008-Nov-28	2009-Mar-20
Embedded Media Field	4.7.x-1.x-dev, 5.x-1.3, 6.x-1.0-beta1	This extensible module will create fields for node content types that can be used to display video, image, and audio files from various third party providers. When entering the content, the user will simply paste the URL or embed code from the third party, and the module will automatically determine which content provider is being used. When displaying the content, the proper embedding format will be used.	Archive.org, Blip.TV, Brightcove3* (with Media: Brightcove), DailyMotion, Google, Guba, Hulu* (with Media: Hulu), IMEEM, JumpCut, LastFM, [LiveVideo] (http://livevideo.com), MetaCafe, MySpace, Revver, SevenLoad, Spike, Todou, UStream, UStream Live, Veoh, Vimeo, Yahoo Music, YouTube. Other URLs to direct video streams can also be embedded on a limited, experimental basis. An API exists for including other providers as needed.	2009-Mar-13	2009-Mar-20
Media	6.x-1.x-dev, 7.x (HEAD)	WARNING: The Media Module is still in early development, and is not yet meant for production. *Please see the Media group* for more information about this module, including a roadmap of planned milestones for development and deployment.** The Media module offers a drop-in replacement to the basic Upload form element provided by Drupal. It provides an API for modules to hook into, so that the element can become a Rich Media GUI, offering tabs and drawers of Local files, Remote files (from S3, a cdn, YouTube, Flickr, etc), in addition to the standard 'Add file' upload button. It includes modules to override the core Drupal Upload and User Picture forms, and is supported by several multimedia handling modules, such as FileField, ImageField, Embedded Media Field, and more.	None currently. Will begin by supporting the same as Embedded Media Field.	2009-Mar-19	2009-Mar-20
Video	4.7.x-1.0, 5.x-1.x-dev	This module allows users to submit videos to a drupal site. It creates a Video content type which can upload local video, or tie in third party videos.	Google, YouTube. With the included Video URL module, users can also directly embed other third-party video content, although without "magic URL parsing".	2008-Nov-28	2009-Mar-20
Video Filter	5.x-2.4, 6.x-2.4	This is a highly flexible and easy extendable filter module to embed any type of video in your site using a simple tag. Other modules can add video sites/formats (called codecs) using an easy plug-in architecture.	DailyMotion, EyeSpot, GodTube, Google, JumpCut, Revver, Vimeo, YouTube	2009-Mar-17	2009-Mar-20

Video

File Uploading and Managing

greggles — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:14:17 +0000

Modules for uploading and managing files, and associating them with content.

These modules actually have relatively little overlap, so you should consider this a guide in choosing the right module(s) for your needs, rather than a complaint about duplication. Just sayin'.

Module	4.7.x?	5.x?	6.x?	Notes	Module Updated	Info as of
Asset	-	Yes	Yes_(dev)		2008.11.20	2009.03.19
DataBase File manager	-	Yes	-	hierarchical, drag-and-drop file admin interface, per-file permissions, file search, stores files in database. see also DBFM Search	2009.01.23	2009.03.19
FileField	-	Yes	Yes	cck file upload field, per-field or per-user directories, per-field/per-node size limits, revision/translation control, views support, ajax uploads	2009.04.25	2009.04.25 \|
File Framework	-	-	Yes _(alpha4)	distributed content addressable storage, metadata extraction, file conversion (including plaintext for search indexing), virus scanning, views support, webdav upload support	2009.03.18	2009.03.19
Filemanager	Yes	Yes	-	API for attachment.module. simultaneous public+private files, subdirectories, duplicate filenames (moved to different directories rather than renaming file), per-module file limits	2007.09.09	2009.03.19
Media	-	-	Yes_(dev)	backport of Drupal 7's PHP Stream Wrappers, integrated file browser, early development	2009.03.19	2009.03.19
Media Field	-	Yes	-	audiofield and videofield CCK modules	2008.06.26	2009.03.20
Upload Element	-	-	Yes	provides two new Form API types for uploading files.	2009.01.31	2009.03.19
WebFM	Yes	Yes	Yes_(rc4)	hierarchical, drag-and-drop file admin interface, per-file permissions, file search, views support	2009.02.08	2009.03.19
Storage API		Yes_(dev)	Yes _(dev)	alternate storage api, demo'd at dcdc file api session	2009.03.17	2009.03.19

Automatic Filesystem Structuring

Module	4.7.x?	5.x?	6.x?	Notes	Module Updated	Info as of
Upload Path	-	Yes	Yes	Moves files to specified location after upload, for only core upload.module. Lots of untouched requests. Uses token.module.	2008.11.08	2009.05.05
FileField Paths	-	Yes	Yes	Moves files to specified location after upload, for both core upload.module and filefield.module. Some batch restructuring. Requires token.module.	2009.05.01	2009.05.05
Uploaded Files Mover	-	-	Yes_(dev)	Moves files to specified location after upload, for both core upload.module and filefield.module. Also does empty-directory cleanup, batch restructuring. Doesn't support token.module yet.	2009.03.27	2009.05.05
Media Mover	-	Yes_(rc5)	Yes_(beta2)	File processing framework, which happens to support moving (looks kinda like a more generic take on imagecache.module?). Big.	2009.05.04	2009.05.05

Do any automatic-filesystem-structuring modules currently support comment_upload.module? There are several open feature requests for this.
- As of 2009.05.26, FileField Paths now supports comment_upload.module.

Media

Need "Spinner" and "Complete" icons

aaron — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:06:30 +0000

I have a request for a UI element if someone wants to make or find a GPL compliant icon set for the Media module. Here's the issue.

We need to have a spinner "progress" indicator (which should just be something that spins, as it's not true percentage complete, just a spinner telling us the upload is in progress). Then a checkbox or something to display when the upload is complete. Something similar to how YouTube does it. (I can attach screenshots of that if someone needs.)

Thanks,
Aaron

Video

SOAP implementation

deck_penguin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:50:56 +0000

I am hoping that some one here can help...

I need to implement a SOAP service and i cant seem to find any "how to". i see that there is a services module, and a soap server, and i understand the "normal" application of the simple object access protocol via php, java etc (building a custom site, no problems )... but how to go about implementing it in drupal 6 ?

please, please i need a hand, as there is NO documentation on this subject.

cheers,
deck_penguin

Willamette Valley / Western Oregon

about data import/export

ashiwebi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:20:48 +0000

I have couple of records in oracle now I want to put those records in drupal mysql.

How I can achieve this task as I get confused with the modules available for import and export.

Is drupal provides any solutions for this or we have to run the queries in mysql for this.

Drupal Dojo

Creating Provider Files for Embedded Media Field

aaron — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:04:55 +0000

In this installment of Media Ninja class, we will learn how to create a provider file for Embedded Media Field. We'll use Hulu.com as our example provider.

Learning Goals

Overview of Embedded Media Field
Creating a custom Module for Drupal
Drupal's system of module hooks
Creating basic regex patterns

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM (EST)

Video

HOWTO: Use DimDim To Host and Attend a Dojo Session

joshk — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:25:16 +0000

The Drupal Dojo has 100-seat screen-sharing account with the DimDim service that is available for the wider Drupal community to use any time anyone wants. We encourage Dojo people and any Drupal folk to make use of this resource.

If you're curious about how this works, the best thing is just to try it out. Here's how:

Log in to DimDim as the drupaldojo user, which is the account manager. Login information is available here.
On the left hand side, click "Host Meeting". You may want to pick a descriptive meeting name and add invitees on the "General" tab, and possibly also set a lengthy meeting time on the "Features" tab.
Click "Start" and let DimDim check your system settings. It's a flash-dependent application that works most of the time. Contact their tech support to help them expand compatibility if you have issues.
DimDim will ask what you want to do with your meeting. Tell it you're interested in "Sharing your Computer Screen." At this time it may also need to install a plugin, with the same caveats about compatibility as above.
You should now be set to have others view your screen. To get others in the room, you need to give them the url, which can be found by clicking on the (easily missed) "room name" link in the blue bar, just to the left of the dial-in information.
Paste the url into #drupal-dojo, email, IM, twitter, blog posts, etc.
When you're ready to begin, click the "record" button in the DimDim interface. Even if you are also capturing the lesson locally for higher-quality results, it never hurts to have a server-side backup.
When you are done, stop recording. Note that dimdim is limited in that you can only start/stop once per lesson, so no pausing for a break. ;)
After you complete your lesson, DimDim will process it into an embed-friendly FLV file. It will take some time, but check back in an hour or two and click on the "Search Meetings" link on the left hand side of the main dashboard to find your lesson and get access to the server-side recording.

Tips For Winners

Note: DimDim still does not support screencasting (i.e. sharing your desktop) from Linux :(

TODO: add best-practice doc links here for client-side screencapture tools, presentation preparation, editing, planning, etc

Drupal Dojo

Help needed: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect.

BastouBach — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:34:03 +0000

Hello,
I am still new-ish to Drupal.

I recently moved my site from local machine to a test online site. When I try to create content, I get this:

warning: is_dir() [function.is-dir]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/Applications/MAMP/tmp/php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/ermep.com/subdomains/test/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/ermep.com/subdomains/test/httpdocs/includes/file.inc on line 102.

I created the directory /var/www/vhosts/ermep.com/subdomains/test/httpdocs:/tmp/php and understand that I need to replace the old /Applications/MAMP/tmp/php with this new one. I tried to do that in the file systems (admin/settings/file-system) but it tells me The directory /var/www/vhosts/ermep.com/subdomains/test/httpdocs:/tmp/php does not exist. I cleared the cache, I opened the file.inc file and went to line 102, but it does not seem to be there either...

Can anybody help?

Thanks,

Sebastien.

Drupal Dojo

HELP! with Views and relational data

chris.mccreery — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:14:04 +0000

Hi I am creating a site that has the following content types:

Organization (Usernode)
Program (define a program)
Attendance Tracking (track attendance for the program added above)

I would like to create an admin view that shows me all the details for either program or the attendance tracking with data from the usernode. For example

Program Name
Organization Name
Province
Country
Postal Code

I'm just wondering what is the best way to have the Program and Attendance tracking content types reference this data. Would I need to create fields that query the database separately to get them into the content type? I am currently using CCK. I would like for the user once logged in to not have to specify the node reference to each of the fields above. The references should be automatic since the usernode should contain the items I would like to build my admin view on.

Thanks, any help would be much appreciated.

Drupal Dojo

Presenter pool

kvantomme — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:53:00 +0000

There is an interesting write-up about remote presentations on the Open Media g.d.o. made by Kevin (kreynen@drupal.org). From their experiences it seems like it should be feasible to make a habit out of remote Drupal presentations.

Somebody told me that they have a list of presenters that they can draw from for Drupal events (e.g. DUG, Drupalcamp, etc). I would like to build a global resource where Drupal event organizers can draw from. Are there any other resources out there that maybe already do this?

I'm thinking in the direction of a Drupal presenters exchange, where you can indicate that you are willing to present about a certain topic, it could be integrated with the event functionality at g.d.o.

I blog and Tweet

Videocasters

Embedded Media Field Provider Tutorial

aaron — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:57:10 +0000

FYI, I'm planning to do a Dojo session (using DimDim) sometime hopefully early this week around Embedded Media Field, with the following goals:

Create a provider file for Hulu.com: This will cover the basic steps to create an include file for emfield, with a basic video provider who provides an API. As Hulu.com implements oEmbed, this will also give a brief introduction to that standard. As Hulu.com will not be included as part of the package of emfield, this will also show the expected way to provide a file outside of the base module.
Create a provider file for IMDB. This media provider does not offer an API, so it gives a basic introduction to the difficulties involved in accommodating such a provider. Even though IMDB uses Hulu for its videos, their TOS prohibits page scraping. So any techniques covered in this portion of the demonstration are for instructional purposes only.

This live session will be for intermediate developers. It assumes you know how to build a module, and that you understand Drupal's hook system. It will be recorded for later viewing.

Date/time and more info later.

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

Aaron Winborn
Drupal Multimedia (book, available now!)
AaronWinborn.com (blog)
Advomatic (work)

Video

Help shape a Content Types and Views book

dragonwize — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:18:43 +0000

I am currently in the very beginning stages of writing a book on Drupal Content Types that will focus on Core, CCK, and Views. I have a first draft of the outline that I am working on. I would love to get community feedback to help shape the book at this very early stage.

http://alanio.net/blog/2009/02/first-draft-drupal-book-outline-content-t...

Thank you,
Alan

Washington, DC Drupalers

update modules best practice

michaelbr@drupal.org — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:50:35 +0000

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this kind of questions, if not please let me know.

I've been doing module update the following way:
- download the new module from drupal.org
- go to Administer > Site building > Modules then deselect the old module, then click Save configuration
- click Uninstall and select the old module if available, then click uninstall
- remove the old module from sites/all/modules folder
- copy the new module to the sites/all/modules folder
- run update.php

Is this the right procedure to update a module? I've been having lot of db primary key error and I'm not sure if it's caused by my procedure. Should I leave the old module in the folder until I run the update.php, then remove it afterward?

Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestions
Michael

Drupal Dojo

Drupal Training in Reno

lauramba — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:15:42 +0000

Three Days of Drupal Training in Reno Nevada!

Chris Charlton and Laura Scroggins are working together to provide two sets of Drupal training sessions.

March 31, 2009 - April 1, 2009: Drupal Fundamentals A two day training program for new users of Drupal. Participants learn to install and configure the Drupal core program , community contributed modules, and contributed Drupal themes.

April 2, 2009: Drupal 4 Education This training is offered to help school and library staff learn how to use your Drupal system to create and edit web pages on school and library Web sites. Our training covers all the important aspects of adding content, configuring, customizing, and maintaining your Drupal Web site. Special emphasis will be placed on multisite installations.

Purchase tickets for all three days and save $150.

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San Diego

How to show quicktab to a specifi page?

michaelbr@drupal.org — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:48:16 +0000

I'm using a quicktab module to show some contents (RSS feed, recent forum posts, etc.), the trouble is quicktab is showing in every page of the site, not just one, anyone knows how to configure it to show only at certain page (homepage for instance)?

Thanks in advance for your comment/suggestion.
Michael

Drupal Dojo

Views – the basics and a bit more (screencast)

Itangalo — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:40:15 +0000

(My previous post mysteriously disappeared. Pardon if this becomes a double post.)

I've just ported my Swedish introduction to Views to English! It can be viewed at blip.tv or downloaded from tr.im/drupal.

The screencast is a step-by-step guide into Views (for Drupal 6, of course), covering the following:
* Download and installation
* Creating a simple list page + the basic settings
* Creating a table
* The point of grouping fields
* Creating and enabling a Views block
* Using URL arguments to filter Views
* Using URL arguments to filter Views in a more complex way

The screencast is based on a PDF with screenshots, which also can be downloaded at tr.im/drupal.

Since I usually post my guides and tutorials in the Swedish group I'm not sure where I should post the English stuff. Any hints and suggestion are welcome.

Cheers!
//Johan Falk, Sweden

Drupal Dojo

Media Mover Documentation

fr0st — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:32:46 +0000

I am trying to build a site in Drupal 6 which has two main content types:

• Music Album (with uploaded audio mp3s of every track, displayed in a single Flash player)
• Music Video (with uploaded video displayed in a Flash player)

I'd like to do this using Media Mover and related modules. So far, I've had no success whatsoever probably due to one simple reason: There's no documentation. Some of the contributed modules have some stubs, but nothing substantial. Other modules, like FLV Media Player, don't have any documentation at all.

I know Media Mover can be used for a wide variety of things, but there doesn't seem to be enough information available to piece together how to do some very specific things, like the examples I mentioned above.

I'd love to see a couple walkthrough tutorials/wikis on exactly how to set up Media Mover from the ground up, what modules to enable, what related files to download, where to get them, where to install them, what settings to enable in other modules, and how to attach files to a node, have those attached files get picked up as an XSPF playlist, and displayed in the node via an FLV player. And like many people, I'd love to see it demonstrated on a shared host (i.e. not 'localhost'), and using regular directory storage of the very few songs and videos I have (i.e. not using Amazon's S3 service).

I'd feel bad if I had to submit a bunch of issues/support requests to the project maintainers. I wouldn't have to if everything was just clearly documented somewhere. I've found the video of "DruTube", a Media Mover demonstration and even the crib notes from that very presentation, but not any detailed step-by-step written documentation on how to do this sort of thing... certainly not much on drupal.org.

If I had any idea how to perform the operations intended, I'd gladly write this sort of tutorial myself. Until then, I need some advice from someone with more experience. Would somebody with better luck than me like to take a stab at this?

Drupal Dojo

Page Lang

cay — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:55:44 +0000

Two years ago I created a module to increase the relevance of my webistes/pages for search engines, using SEO techniques.

This module doesn't increase the general relevance, but increases the relevance in a particular country without changing the relevance elsewhere. For example, if you have Spanish schools in Canada and your clients are Canadian you have to specify some code in the header of your page such as “en-ca”.
Normally this sets the language, but the search engines also take into account the country. This is good for multilingual businesses, such as language schools that have clients from all around the world, but for a school in Spain it's easier to teach Spanish to clients from Europe.
In the same way for a South American school it's easier to offer Spanish courses to North Americans. That's why you have to change these parameters.
In drupal you only could change the language with the variable $language. This module Page_lang changed this.
With the arrival of drupal 6 I was invited to update the module for the new version of drupal but it didnt make much sense as there already exists a way to obtain the same results with the modules cck and contemplate. Here I want to explain how by using these two modules you can acheive the same results.

First install the modules contemplate and cck. You can find them at:
http://drupal.org/project/contemplate
http://drupal.org/project/cck

respectively

Once these have been installed, activate the modules Content Templates, Content and Text of CCK go first to
Administer – Site Configuration – Content Template Settings

tick
Remove $nove – Content from variable list

and save the configuration. Then go to:
Administer – Content Type - mange fields of the page or story that you wish to control.

Add a new field:
Label: Page Lang
Field name: page_lang
Type of data to store: text
From element to edit the data: text field

Save and your are taken to the configuration page where we put
size of Text 7 and save again.

Go to Display Fields and in our Page Lang we select the two options which are “exclude”.
This will ensure that it will not appear on the article unless we write it expressly. We also can exclude RSS, if we want to.

Choose Create template for the type of content you wish to create, for example “page”.

Go to the menu in the template window and open the file page.tpl.php

In the first file of the file there is a line that begins:
language

Change this to:

if($node->field_page_lang[0]['view']){print $node->field_page_lang[0]['view'];}else{print $language->language;}

With this you specify a value for the article, with a fallback to the local system default.

You can find further information about this subject at:
http://www.sismo.info/iso/3166.asp
http://www.sismo.info/iso/639.asp

Wysiwyg

Gauging interest in a Recurring Billing and Subscription Management Module for Drupal

GripMediaDOTNet — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:18:39 +0000

Howdy:

We're gauging interest in the need for a module to manage recurring billing and paid subscriptions within Drupal.

The Problem:

Our experience is that a simple solution is sorely needed for Drupal. Particularly for paid roles.

Solutions for this exist with AMember, CiviCRM, UberCart and eCommerce (not for 6.0 for eCommerce). But there are problems inherent with each solution.

The Current Solutions:

aMember is good software, but it is a third party, and kludgy when it comes to different payment processors. AMember has to be installed separately, you have to buy the Drupal Plugin and then you have to hack one of the core modules.

UberCart: Make no mistake... Ubercart and the UberCart community are AWESOME. However Ubercart for just this function described above is overkill, and only recently added.

eCommerce: Subscription Management is no longer avail in 6, Version 5 comes with 35 modules.

CiviCRM: Can do it, but it's also a bit kludgy and designed really for the donar/non-profit space.

There is a 5.0 module in the developers repository that is ambitious and does much of what we are proposing, but looks quite a bit away from stable, and does not seem to be under active development. Also we can't get it to stop giving us fatal errors in Drupal 5.9.

Our Proposed Solution:

The way we see it, none of the above solutions are ideal for those who want to do one very simple, but much needed thing: and that is to charge for a portion of your site, a members only area based on role, and have that bill recurring. Allow for trials and coupons. And that is it. End of story. No other functions. No other frameworks, all lives in Drupal.

We are proposing a free basic module for the Drupal community, and offering a paid advanced module (fully realizing the GPL implications).

Looking for feedback, ideas, other solutions out there they may exist and we have not researched, etc. Lastly if this were to become available would you use it for yourself and clients?

We're very serious about doing this... so your input is highly valued. We have a great deal of experience in working with Authorize.net and other payment processors. Grip Media focuses on simplicity and ease of use over too many features and bloatware.

Thank you!

gripmedia.net

Portland (Oregon)

Media Sprint TODO?

aaron — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:30:51 +0000

The Media Sprint 2009 Wiki has a rough outline, based on an earlier document started by arthurf, but needs some serious fleshing out. I plan to begin working in earnest again on the sprint later next week and the following (am trying to slot 3-4 solid working days towards it).

There are also several volunteers who have offered to help over the coming weeks as well. We need to try to build some organization.

I'm up against a couple of roadblocks with both the Media module and its included Resource module, and need some advice to go forward with those.

Particularly, I'm not sure what's intended during media_ahah_formatter_load(), which is what, I imagine, needs to both save the gathered resource into the file system, and make sure it adds to the field or attachment in the form. Arthur's also mentioned some difficulties in conceptualizing how we'll know what metadata to collect between submission and uploading.

I've also run into problems with the Resource module in my starts for Media: YouTube. For instance, we have to instantiate some classes during hook_boot, but don't have access to drupal_get_path() at that phase of the boot process. I've created a hackish work-around, where we store the module's path during installation, and check in hook_exit if the path has changed so we can set the new variable. I'm convinced it's not the best method, but haven't figured another yet.

So I'm opening this thread for questions of this nature, hoping people can help out, or at least take a closer look at the modules to help flesh out a TODO list for myself and other interested developers. I personally will have a lot more questions as I go along.

Thanks,
Aaron

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

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