South Africa

We are looking for Someone with
experience of Drupal AND middleware integration (TalenD, MetaMatrix or any other automated middleware for Data integration)
in South Africa only.

This, for a sizeable project involving the redevelopment of a large classifieds ads system.

As decided at our last meetup, we're going to be alternating between a planning and technical meetup, and then doing a bigger, high quality drupal event the next month, possibly on a weekend.

This coming meetup will be of the first type, which will have a planning and a drupal related session, and while everyone can come to both sessions, you're also welcome to just come to one of the 2.

Details:

Planning Group 18:30 -> 19:30

Covering: Drupal group stuff (next meeting, assigning tasks on the portfolios, getting feedback on previous tasks, etc)

Our company is looking for a talented and very capable drupal developer to join our ranks.

Do you work hard & play hard?
Are you passionate about your skills and what you do?
Does your dog bite?

If so... We are rolling out with a large amount of sites over the next 8 months and need you for the job!

Please send us your CV, contact details and a short description of yourself and why you think you're the right person for the job to:

mit [at] fsp dot co dot za

Drupal module development skillz are a huge plus!

We are looking for outsourcing partner(s) that can fulfill the following:

1 - Drupal Development and PHP
2 - Integration of Databases MySQL / PostgreSQL
3 - Good project management.
4 - Minimum of 5-6 expert developers standby.
5 - Good knowledge of OpenSource.
6 - Proactive.
7 - E-commerce experience and payment tools integration.
8 - 24/7 assistance.
9 - Assist with training our internal developers

Specific software development knowledge:

1 - Drupal
2 - SugarCRM
3 - TalenD, MetaMatrix or any other automated middleware for Data integration.
4 - Tomcat/Java

I've recently started delving into Drupal and have a paying project for a client that I'd like to use it for. My Drupal experience is in its infancy so I'd like to use this opportunity to engage an experienced developer to assist me in theming and building the site, and at the same time 'tutoring' me in the Drupal system. This would ideally be someone in my geographic location as face to face meetings would probably be necessary.

Hi All

Cool our ZA drupal campaign is kickin' it with a South Africa twitter account
Follow us now @ https://twitter.com/DrupalZA

Also remember to subscribe to the newsletter on http://www.drupal.co.za to stay informed on our latest news

I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in having a Drupal redesign code sprint. We were talking about doing code sprints at the last cape town meetup so perhaps we can do something like this.

This was the second Drupal meeting in Cape Town. There were 5 of us and it was quite fun. It was nice to have Willem van Straaten (http://groups.drupal.org/user/155) with us from Johannesburg to see what were about down here and to try and co-ordinate the meeting content between JHB and CPT. Basically there was no agenda for this meeting so we chatted about all sorts of interesting things and it was not very structured.

We had a great meetup last night, and although it may have felt a bit like a "trustee meeting" to quote Willem, it's a necessary evil to spend time on figuring this stuff out. After the discussion we had 2 cool showcases from George and Greg - thanks for the effort you guys put into it. What follows is a listing of the group goals, portfolios we identified and who's going to be coordinating/running each portfolio, as well as some specific tasks.

Don't forget about the next meetup that's going to be held on Wednesday 10 June ( http://groups.drupal.org/node/22681) where we'll be discussing how to grow the group, and recruiting some volunteers to help with group leadership.

On the more fun side, we're got 2 showcases:

Greg will be showing us ArtClub.co.za which was created within less than a week and a half using CCK, Views, QuickTabs, Organic Groups, & Panels in Drupal6. The site caters for the artistically inclined South African featuring Art Schools, Artists, and in time Art Galleries.

It is time for another meetup :). I have set it up at Wembly Square (same place as last time). Last time was quite a cool success and the venue was great so come along and have fun.

It will be on the 13 June at 14:00.
Here is a map to Wembky Square - http://www.wembleysquare.co.za/contact.php

In order to grow this group and to make sure the events are beneficial to everyone, we need more involvement on a leadership/planning level. During this meetup we'd like to get some volunteers who'd be able to assist moving the group forward - growing the group, having more regular meetings, and getting good event content.

A tentative agenda is:

1) Doing a 10 min presentation on what other Drupal groups do and how they're organised.
2) Deciding what we'd like to achieve as a Drupal group/community

Hi Guys,

When are we having our next Drupal Cape Town meetup? can i suggest the first saturday in june (06/06/2009). We mentioned having a braai?

Hiya
I really want to start using and learning Drupal. Is there anyone in CT who is willing to meet me for an hour or so to help me get started?
I think it would be cool since I am on mac and dont have a server to use MAMP, not sure?
Thanks
Tyrone
tyrone@velocityfilms.com

Hi

We have resently moved our client over to Drupal. He now has a new requirement that he wants us to do on the site.

He wants users to be able to calculate online quote indications. The user would navigate to the site, select quote and then enter 2 fields. The calculation would need to compare 2 fields in band to get the base rate and then apply various calculations to one of the fields. Once complete it must show a rand amount on the screen as well as email this amount to their email.

i am wondering how many drupal developers there are in the south of cape town. i am based in capri and i see that some of you are in muizenberg and places like that. perhaps we could start a drupal group just for the deep south :) and have meetups and stuff because most of the meetups seem to happen in town or johannesburg and i find it annoying to have to go to town. why not do it right here?

Cape Town drupallers, unite! We've been talking for a while about meeting up...so let's do it. Adrian will be demoing Ægir and we'll show off some cool stuff you can do with drupal. Please add your name to the list if you're coming :)

Although the original location was Mugg n Bean, we've moved it to Wembley Square (map) as it's quieter and more conducive to drupalling.

Hi

I was wondering, has anybody gottent it right to install MAMP (Mac) on a USB and then install Drupal.

I am getting tired of working on the same website from 2 machines, desktop and laptop. Always have to export database and copy files and re-import when i move between machines.

Would be nice to work off a USB and when i go home i take out USB an plug it in at home and carry on working.

I have searched the net and not found any real solution when working on a mac. Both machines are mac.

Thanks

robin

For me, it was great to see everyone again, although I was disappointed that there weren't more than 3 new faces among the 15 or so that turned up. We do need to do something to attract more new members. I particularly enjoyed hearing about what new modules people have discovered, and enjoyed the less formal discussions afterwards. The discussion about the direction and future of the group was also very interesting and I think the issues spoken about need to be addressed, perhaps using drupal.co.za to better effect. On these lines, this post on tips and best practices for local Drupal groups is highly relevant. In particular, I think the group leadership needs to be shared between 3-4 people in order to grow and improve the group. For a more detailed summary see my Drupal Johannesburg 11 March meetup notes.

I've struggled with this for days now, about to freak out. Please can somebody help??
Using drupal 6.9, zen 6.x 1.0

Starting over, this is the current state:
1. Created a content type called 'medprac' (machine readable name).

1. Created a zen subtheme called 'zentagit'

2. Altered template.php in zentagit theme folder like this':
   Copied the 'theme_node_form' function from the core node directory file node.pages.inc and pasted it in the zentagit theme's template.php file.
   Renamed the function to read 'zentagit_node_form'

Reminder of the Joburg meetup, this Wednesday evening the 11th March 2009, 18:30 at Obsidian Systems.

For details, see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/19685

Come along to hang out with your local Drupal community :-)

The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup is scheduled to take place at 18:30 on Wednesday 11 March 2009, at Obsidian Systems, Randpark Ridge, Johannesburg (http://www.obsidian.co.za/contact).

Please bring anything you'd like to drink/eat (or eat beforehand).

Hi All

Watched the following video, http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode11.

Is this the best and most common way to creating custom home pages?

It seems to be focused on creating custom blocks and making them display only on the front page and then styling them.

Thanks

Robin

I want to organise a Drupal Meetup in Cape Town, I would like to know if anyone is interested and where will be the most convinient place to meet, perhaps a Mugg & Bean as they have Wifi and are practically everywhere. So where would be the most convinient place? perhaps the V&A Waterfront M&B? please suggest some places :)

Now all we need is a date, we could meet sometime in march, perhaps an evening in the first week - maybe a friday - i dont know.

I'm wanting to start organising the next Drupal Johannesburg meetup, to be held in March/April 2009.

The last meetup was a great success, with more than 25 people in attendance.

I'd like to get some feedback from people about what they'd like to see/do at the next meetup.

My personal vision for this meetup would be a series of lightning talks to kick off with, and then free time for deeper discussions and just being social. Details:

Hi everyone has anyone here worked with nodeapi before?

I'm busy writing a module that will add a download link to a VCS (vCalendar file) for each node that has a event enabled.

I started by looking at the documentation at:
hook_nodeapi
hook_form_alter

I then looked at the following example:
nodeapi_example

Hi,

Someone approached me requesting a system development in Adobe Air or Google Gears.

I thought maybe someone here knows the stuff and wants the job.

Let me know if you are interested.

Cheers,

Sigal

For those of you who may not know drupal.co.za is up and running, this is a community site so it needs your input.

Why not start by adding your site to the showcase and show you work to the world. If you have a company, add it to the list of Service Providers. Got a suggestion, comment or just have something to say? Post it in the forum.

Also if you are looking for a job or need and extra set of hands check out the jobs section regularly.

The site is still work in progress so if you have any suggestions or ideas now is the best time to make yourself heard.

I'm new to the Drupal World and have been trying to create a rich database directory website for a nonprofit I'm planning to start and have spent an enormous amount of time trying to learn the Form API programming language to make a fairly basic directory input form that is attached to the MYSQL database. I've come to the point where I need to ask for help and would like to know if anyone is interested in tutoring me through the basic setup of this part of my site. Of course I would pay you for your time. I live in the Randburg area.

Hi SA

Anybody familiar with NodeQueue + Actions/Workflow/Workflow_NG that can help with this one?

The original is posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/17053

The Scenario:
a. Queue containing current list of target workers (UserNode + NodeQueue ?)

b. On submission of a new Target Node, assign the next worker from the queue (Action / workflow_ng ?)
The worker goes back into the queue (round-robin)
*** This bit seems to require a custom-action using PHP (workflwo_ng?) - this is where I'm stuck ***

I have a suggestion for meet ups in 2009
Why don't we just set dates and places in each city that's interested in having a meet.
My suggestion for instance is that we meet every 1st Saturday of every 3rd month at 1PM.
We put those dates on the event calendar and send out reminders. Even if just two people meet up on that day, it is better than nothing.
Then we don't have to run around figuring out who can come or not and when.

And:

Since Paypal is a no-go here in SA, what is the best alternative receive international payments for freelance and contract work?
Something that is acceptable to my client as well.

I'm about to put myself out there....

Hi,

A big part of my Drupal 5.x eCommerce was the Pay-per-Node module ...

http://drupal.org/project/paypernode

but have now decided to go with Ubercart in Drupal 6.x

Have contacted Jose, the developer of pay-per-node and he emailed back with the following:

I'm afraid I don't have too much time available, so I think your best option is to find some other developer for this task. I'd hand him cvs commit access or the whole module maintenance..

Hello,

I want to display a slideshow of thumbnails with different widths on the bottom of my page.

I want the thumbnails to scroll automatically and have prev and next buttons.

When the user clicks on the thumbnail, it should open a bigger image with lightbox.

I played around with jcarousel_block and with viewscarousel but had lots of problems styling the slide because of the different widths of the thumbnails.

Some problems I have:

• The next arrow disappears when I change the slideshow width.
• I don't know how to set the thumbnails width dynamically.

Hi all
Please help!

User uploaded images (using TinyMCE/IMCE) keeps disappearing from the files/u.. folder as created by Drupal. The photo gallery appears to be fine, even though the photos are no longer present in the users folder, presumably the page is displayed from cache (mode normal).

Once another update is made to the site, as I did today, the photo gallery is totally broken, all images gone, presumably cache gets cleared due to the updating that was done.

I need help with the logic to:

1. Detect whether page.tpl.php is displaying a full node (one only, not listed)
2. Detect if the author has uploaded a userpic, and if yes, display the userpic. If no, display the default userpic

Hello,

Now I have a new brain teaser.

I have a page view that should call a block view.

The block view should get the node id from the page view as an argument.

In my page view, I have this code:

$block = module_invoke('views', 'block', 'view', 'availtext-block_1');
print $block['content'];

How can I send the node id from the page view to the block view?

I see I can put php code in the arguments section of the block view, but I couldn't find any help on what php code I should put there.

Can anyone point me to a help file or a web page where I can get help for this?

There is an existing Drupal 5 website namely www.Namibia4u.com that needs a bit of a facelift and theme template needs to be tweaked here and there, there is a possiblity for some functionality to be changed but nothing too heavy duty, if anyone is interested you will be payed bu the hour, so please send a rough quote/pricing through to andremasteredge@gmail.com... if you would like to chat find me on Skype, search for Andre van Schalkwyk

Hello,

I'm trying for 2 days now to customize a view to look like I want it to look with no success.

I have a view of node type that has 3 fields:

Title
Image
Link

I want the view to look like a table, where each field is in a column, and each field type is in a row.

For example, the table should look like this:

Title A Title B Title C

Image A Image B Image C

Link A Link B Link C

I would like to find out how many people would be interested in hosting a Drupalcon 2009 in Cape Town. I think that it would be cool to have one here because there are a lot of Drupal developers in South Africa and Wordpress just had their Wordcamp in Cape Town as well.

So what do you think? I am very interested to hear what you have to say.

J

Hello, hello,

Ts' me again.

What I'm trying to do (Using D6):

In my site I have cck type called: ketubah. Each ketubah should have a select list where each selection opens a pdf file in a new window.

Each ketubah can have a different list, but some of them share the same list.

e.g.

Ketubah: Golden City

Selection list should look like this:

View available text (When clicking on this the selection list should open):
Conservative with English
Reform with English
Interfaith with English
Blank for custom text

What I did:

Hello,

I am using fckEditor and creating a page with Full Html with this code:

but when I save the page and go back into edit mode, the line is changed to this:

<

ul>

Any ideas why?

Thanks,

Sigal

Hello,

First time I'm trying to do an update, and now the site is broken.

I tried to undo and redo the update about 10 times.

I can't restore the database because when I try to import the backup that I made with WAMP I get the error:

No data was received to import. Either no file name was submitted, or the file size exceeded the maximum size permitted by your PHP configuration. See FAQ 1.16.

Lucky for me, I have a working version on my laptop, but again, when I try to export the database from the laptop and import it to my pc, with WAMP, I get this error:

hey everyone !

I need to add a field to a node type that is a two step process. So for example, User selects "vehicle type" from a dropdown list of "BMW, MERC, AUDI". If user selects "BMW" a second list is populated with "740i","320d","640i" which they can then select.

Does anyone know a way to do this with CCK ?

Any pointers in the right direction would be rad as well ?

Hello all,

Since I'm new to the freelancing field and to web designing, I need help with learning how to present quotes to clients, especially to clients that don't know yet what they want on their web sites...

I had a meeting with someone, who needs 4 websites, but doesn't know yet what he wants on the sites.

He has a general idea, that one of them will be a static site of home, about us, our services and contact us, but the other sites, he'll might want, forums, blogs, and who knows what.

Hello, I'm trying to do an upgrade for the first time.

I followed the steps in the upgrade file, but now when I go to the site I get this error:

Call to undefined function module_load_include() in C:\wamp\www\westplex\sites\all\modules\cck\content.module on line 49

Any idea what went wrong?

Thank you,

Sigal

Job Location
Accra/Telecommute

Motivation
We are working in several problem domains and you have an opportunity to make a high impact because our team is still small.
Our projects include working on hard problems in disparate domains to create and improve the technologies for

* manipulating African language text using open source technologies (spellchecking and grammar checking)
* publishing different genres of structured content on the Web
* syndicating e-commerce shops across many websites and platforms such as facebook and OpenSocial

Hello,

I need to design a site that has a frontpage with buttons that send the user to different "sites", for example:

1 button will go to Graphic Design and the other button will go to Judaic Art.

These button should open different pages that look as it these are two different sites.

I don't know how to create the different looks to all the pages.

I've created a frontpage cck, but how do I make it that each "site" has a different look?

For example, different picture in the header, different look to the menus etc.