Cape Town Drupal Meetup: Wednesday 30 June 2010

Cool, I'm in! Good job, Jonathan, on organizing a venue with a projector :) What's on the 3rd floor on Mill street, anyway? I'll think through some ideas for what I can present on and will send them to you.

I've been doing a lot of research into the following areas recently, and could present on them. They fall into the "advanced" and "so advanced it'll hurt my head" categories:

1. Single Sign On (SSO) options for multiple drupal websites.
2. Hacking drupal: why Drupal 6's password storage scheme may as well be cleartext, and why that's changed for Drupal 7.

SSO assumes that people are deploying multiple drupal websites and want a single username/password login into all of them. I'll talk about how SSO was achieved with groups.drupal.org and drupal.org and also look at the various options available: the bakery module, sharing the user table, multisite installations, LDAP, CAS/Shibboleth, OpenID, OAuth, account_sync...and see if anyone has other suggestions.

Password storage in Drupal 6 is, well, so 1975. I'll explain why...and take a look at the better implementation in D7.

I'd like to hear something about install profiles, if anyone is up for that?

I for one would love to hear about others' experiences with SSO & LDAP integration. +1 for Roger's suggestion.

@dubois: cool - have you done much LDAP integration before?

Hey, everyone coming to our meetups should read How to get your drupal questions answered - it'll help us grow in quality ;)

I would really like to see a talk on drush. Not having much like with it at all and from what I have heard and seen it seems as if its a super time saver.

@bukem drush will change your life! If you have a laptop bring it along and we'll get you up and running. To download a module from drupal.org all you need to do is type:

drush dl views

And drush downloads the latest views module for you :)

You can also download more at once:

drush dl views cck imagecache imagefield filefield

and then enable them from the command line:

drush en views cck imagecache imagefield filefield

I'm loving the sound of DRUSH but I'm still noob.

I will think about a topic or will come with some questions.

Hi all,

Im happy tp do a short intro to coding JS Drupal.Behaviors, and / or an overview of Drush and how to code drush plugins.

I think I know enough about these two to do introductory stuff, and anything I leave out can be covered in a Q&A afterwards.

Also - for any new people out there - IRC is a good place to hang out and get answers to stuff (like Jonathan said!). #drupal-za is the local channel. Server is irc.freenode.net. #drupal and #drupal-support are also very useful. Ive just put a Druplicon clone bot up that will pop RSS feed items into the channel and generally lurke around. If anyone has Drupal related rss feeds they'd like to aggregate into the channel let me know.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Bryan

Hey all,

If someone who is coming through has a mini-dvi to vga converter for a macBook they can bring with, that would be awesome?

CYA'll later :)
B

Thanks for organising this meetup, Jonathan - the venue is great! It was a lot of fun and very cool energy in the room...the beer and cookies helped too ;)

Here's some links to the modules/sites I mentioned last night:

• How drupal.org and groups.drupal.org do Single Sign On: the bakery module: http://drupal.org/project/bakery
• How to set up multi-sites: http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site
• Clean urls on sites set up on subfolders, like http://www.example.com/fred/ - http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/sites--default--default.settings.php/6
• The Domain Access module: http://drupal.org/project/domain and http://drupal.org/node/432266 Very useful if you're setting up radio sites for old men. http://www.skirt.com/ is the site Lilly mentioned to look at - about 25 sites running off that.
• The LDAP Provisioning module allows drupal to authenticate against an LDAP directory: http://drupal.org/project/ldap_provisioning
• The CAS module lets drupal authenticate against CAS: http://drupal.org/project/cas
• CAS is an authentication system developed by Yale University. It runs on the tomcat server. http://www.jasig.org/cas
• Shibboleth is a web single sign-on package which works across or within organizational boundaries. It also allows attribute exchange between "federated identities" (so if you're into Identity Management within many organizations, Shibboleth is for you).
• The drupal shibboleth module is here: http://drupal.org/project/shib_auth
• OpenID - http://openid.net/ - which drupal supports, but its usability sucks: http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin/CombineGoogYahoo
• OAuth - doesn't do single sign-on - it allows external apps access to particular parts of your system (i.e. allowing your users to post twitter updates directly from your site). Or, as their website puts it, "OAuth is a simple way to publish and interact with protected data." http://oauth.net/
• OpenIDConnect - the one ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them, but is still in concept phase: http://openidconnect.com/

Good idea from Michael at the end - sure, why not create a Facebook group? We're the drupal Cape Town community, so whatever happens is driven by...us! Trying new things is great - some will work, some might not, and the only way to find out is to do it :)

Please post the link here once you've created it, Michael, so that perceptum can feel smugly secure that he's not on Facebook (hehe).

Hey all,

Thanks again for the meet-up last night. It was an awesome venue. Theamoeba++ for organising! :)

The drush presentation is up @ http://www.drupaler.co.za/

The drush project page is @ http://drupal.org/project/drush

Heh, I am a bit smug about facebook - thanks Roger! ;) ROFL!! My vote is to get a Facebook page up that points to an Atrium / Standard drupal install that we can build to help facilitate the community. I'd be happy to do the initial setup and host it on our hetzner server. I know Jonathan has setup some mailing lists that we can use as well - which sounds awesome too.

What is the general feeling around doing something like that?

hey guys, thanks for the awesome presentations.

i created a facebook group a while ago here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=260948196407&ref=ts

i have also setup 2 mailing lists for the the group.

Meeting info: http://lists.amoebasys.com/mailman/listinfo/drupal-meetings
General help/chat: http://lists.amoebasys.com/mailman/listinfo/drupal-talk

and dont forget #drupal-za on irc.freenode.net