Posted by bonobo on January 11, 2008 at 8:36am
Earlier today, Drupal core was upgraded to version 5.6. This is a security release, and all users should upgrade.
For users with existing DrupalEd installs, you only need to upgrade core Drupal -- you do not need to use this specific package.
For new users to DrupalEd, this is the package for you.
Download it here to get started!
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Drupal 5.5
I have upgraded my DrupalEd to 5.5. Is that sufficient or is 5.6 necessary?
nevermind
I saw that I needed to update, so I did. Thanks
Looking for advice on using DrupalEd
I'm a beginner of Drupal. I have some PHP experience. I'm exploring the possibility to use DrupalEd for a community school, where online learning/collaboration is NOT essential.
I see DrupalEd 5.5 has some good features I can use. I am facing some decisions, and I'd like get some expert inputs. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Our school keeps family accounts. A student always belongs to a family. Once a family account is created, the family account can in turn add new student accounts to the family. An individual student account without a family is NOT allowed. Can I do this with OG / DrupalEd?
I need to customize almost all page views (screen layout). For example, I need a page to list all courses, sorted and grouped by course starting hour. A student can select multiple courses to subscribe (register), and selecting courses within the same hour is prohibited, therefore, courses with overlapping hours should be presented as radio choices. I also need to calculate the tuition (and some other stuff) based on the course registration.
Is Drupal view what I should look into to achieve this? Should I use custom modules?
I'd love to base my work on DrupalEd. If I can keep my app compatible with DrupalEd, then I can benefit from any future DrupalEd upgrade.However, given that I need to customize almost all screen views, and customize many flows, I wonder if that's even possible or advisable? Do I have to build my app directly with much of the same modules from the DrupalEd distro?
(This is a general DrupalEd question): Has DrupalEd modified any of the selected 3rd party modules in the distro?
Some quick responses
Hello,
I wanted to give you some quick feedback on these questions --
RE 1: As things currently work, what you describe is not possible -- you could probably get close with the invite module and Organic Groups, but there would probably be some custom code required, or a shift in your current workflow.
RE 2: Views will handle the listings, the signup module could come close to the registration piece (and there are other registration modules out there, but the exact names escape me off the top of my head) -- but preventing time conflicts and the exact UI you describe will require custom code.
RE 3: Yes and no -- if the features are strictly code related, improvements in the DrupalEd codebase will seamlessly enter your app. For example, Organic Groups now has a feature that allows for a private group home page -- you can have that functionality by upgrading to the latest version of OG. However, if you design a menu, or if we redesign an improved student dashboard (something in the works, btw :) ) you will need to add that by configuring views and menus, etc.
RE 4: No. On extremely rare occasions, we will ship with a patched version of a module, but only when we have communicated with the module maintainer, contributed the patch back on d.o, and the patch addresses a showstopping bug. To the best of my recollection, we have done this on one occasion, and the patch we shipped with was rolled into the module.
DrupalEd will only use code that is hosted on drupal.org, and will never modify core code, or contributed modules. DrupalEd provides a starting point, and modifying core or contrib limits the usefulness of the profile.
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
FunnyMonkey
Thank you very much for your quick response!
I appreciate very much your quick answer. I will experiment more with DrupalEd and Drupal modules in general. I think I may have to implement some custom module to get what I want.
Download broken link
Hello.
I'm very interested in the DrupalED module, but it seems that all the links to download it result in Error 404.
Can anybody post a correct link?
I couldn't even spot the download in the Modules section of drupal.org.
Thank you!
Link fixed, and sorry for
Link fixed, and sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
FunnyMonkey
drupalEd license related questions
Hello,
I am evaluating DrupalEd. I want to clarify a couple of questions:
1) I suppose I can use DrupalEd for commercial purpose. Could you let me know if otherwise?
On the default theme, I see these on the screen bottom:
Site design by FunnyMonkey
Theme based on Zen, with some very nice modifications by Trevor Twining
2) I assume I can chose a different theme (such as Garland) without affecting the functionalities of DrupalEd. Could you let me know if otherwise?
3) Am I required to keep the message "Site degin by FunnyMonkey. Theme based on Zen...." on my site?
Thanks for your help.
quick answers
DrupalEd is gpl -- there is no proprietary code within Drupaled -- some of the components included (tinymce, and the getid3 libs, IIRC) are lgpl -- you can do whatever you need to do within the terms allowed by these licenses.
Yes, you can change the theme.
No -- edit away!
Cheers,
Bill
FunnyMonkey
Tools for Teachers
FunnyMonkey
Wow, this is like real time
Wow, this is like real time response. I barely finished posting. Thanks a lot.
Newbee
I am newbee here, I am from Russia. And you see my nick - before this time i've been used JOOMLA for students site for my University needs.
Now i need to build social network in South Federal University (biggest on the south of Russia).
I nave searched net a lot, bumbung commercial scripts like FaceBook Clone,
Mysapce Clone
AlstraSoft Efriends v4.96 ,
PhpFOX konsort v1.6 latest + all free and paid plugins
Dolphin-v.6.0
Dzoic Handshakes Professional v3.3.4
but all of them are buggy, non flexible, no features adding (no exact API) , and if ony have feture i need - it hasnot another feature... and etc...
I need network for this puproses: wide communication between students, teachers, administration. It will be a platform for online learning too.
So i want to ask here: is DrupalED have this features:
1)Customisable layout with templates,
2) Templates different to different parts of portal
3) Full support of adding cusom fields (type i need) to users profile (!!!)
4) Video, chat, blogs private and public etc
5) Custom membership types, including students, teachers and others, with different possibilities and different access to the features
6) Teachers can create learning compaings to the groups (classes of students), personally to each student, and retrive statistics. Its test, courses, video, flash...
7) Admin can manage all users, create subadmins, create subnetworks, create subgroups.
please answer, is it possible now?
or maybe with mods? if yes what mods?
please upload to rapidshare, or depositfiles !! all links broken!! and in google i searched too..
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Yes, but
Yes, Drupal can do all that and more. BUT, while I don't have much experience with Joomla, my understanding is that Drupal requires more technical expertise to get the site set up and looking polished than if you were using Joomla. The trade off is that you can do much more with the Drupal platform.
Erik Britt-Webb
drupal@ebrittwebb.com