What modules do you find invaluable that people don't know about?

Image.module = default image handling package.
Imagecache is a comprehensive image handling beast, that slides nicely into any site with uploadable images. Resize a cck image field on upload, or standardize every user's avatar at exactly 50x50 pixels, while still remaining proportional. I don't know how I used Drupal and images without it.

Automatic Nodetitles does just what it says, but with a great deal of easy-to-use power. Let's say the title of one node type should be the taxonomy term, the current date and the username - that's all done with three little tokens. But when you combine it with Token module, it gives you all kinds of power; choose cck fields and combine as you see fit to form the title. Very easy to use, and invaluable.

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I use Organic Groups (which I'm sure everyone knows about), but I wanted some groups to be able to use content types that others can't. So I created the Content Type Administration by Organic Group module which allows the site admin to specify which content types are available at the site-wide level (if any), which are available to groups by default as either ALLOWED or REQUIRED, and can even specify which are used on a per-group basis. Or, after setting the defaults, the admin can let each group manager decide which types to ACTIVATE in his/her group. Additionally, group managers can use any type that their group is ALLOWED to use, even if they don't ACTIVATE them for use by the group members. This seems to be one of my more popular modules.

The other popular one is the address field for cck. This puts all of the fields you need for an address into one cck field. There is support for other countries as add-on modules. It comes with a Canadian module and there are a couple of others in the issue queue. I'm encouraging the authors to get CVS access so they can post them, but I may end up rolling them into a separate 'countries package'. Also on the drawing board are the OG-ification of several outstanding modules that currently don't play well with OG.

Naturally, I like my other modules as well, though I won't go into detail here. I think they offer features nothing else does. The account types module helps sites with a ton of roles keep track of which users can be assigned which roles. And my new Membership types and registration modification module allows admins to setup different membership types which can collect different user profile data for each. The membership module uses the fabulous pageroute and nodeprofile modules by fago.

Other modules I like are diff (my modules are compatible), pdf view, and OG Forum; the last one has a new version nearing completion that allows integrated site-wide and group forums and rolls a bunch of existing patches into it. A couple of node access issues remain (possibly with OG itself) but should be worked out shortly.

I'm interested to hear what other gems you folks have found, so add your two cents, please.

obviously views is essential, but some maybe lesser known ones

login_destination - Force users to certain page(s) upon login - just wanted them to go to the home page after log-in, simple

logintoboggan - Improves Drupal's login system - fixed a whole bunch of issues including how to redirect new users to there nodeprofile editing page as soon as they respond to there confirmation email. Enables unconfirmed users to see more content, allows users to set there own password right there on the registration form

menu_per_role - fine grain control over menu items.

James

I really think the Biblio module is one of the most invaluable modules when citing information from other sites. I think a lot of sites reference other sites informally and really could benefit from the power of biblio and streamline their reference management process. http://drupal.org/project/biblio.

Of course their are many more modules that do equally cool things and make life easier. I really think this post touches on the need to create a module recommendation engine for known types of sites.

There are lots of modules I love - the newest one I'm liking is short form

Create short form's from any form, mostly to place in a block.

It does this mostly through jquery:

* removing the field title, and if the field has no value, and when the field does not have the focus, displays the field's title as it's value.
* removing fieldsets
* removing non-required textarea's

Suhweet!

Probably the best things about this module are 1) the function it provides 2) the fact that it is SO easy to integrate into a site. It provides facilities to use it that are easy to use for themers, coders, and point-click admins. What more could you ask for? Not much!

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There is no drupal site that leaves my hands without accents and porter stemmer. One piece of functionality that very few people talk about is similarity search: "bsuiness" will rank among a search where "business" is meant. Users will find this functionality needs to be extended to images, music and video too, but we're about 5 years away from that.

hello

has anyone already developped a module for creating nice scrolling menus ?

which soft do you recommand to integrate datas collected through administrative forms ?

thank you in advance

Olivier