Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group! Our goal is to help each other, make new friends, pass along referrals, and learn new and interesting things about Drupal that will ensure our web sites are what we want them to be. Be sure to introduce yourself and join our new Slack group.
Need a +1 or twelve for a simple issue: Add an "Associations" field to our d.o profiles
Apologies in advance for this crossposting to 11 groups. I recently started an issue to help us get to know each other better: Add field for "Memberships in Associations, Societies, and Other Professional Organizations" to User Profile. The initial response was, "Don't see why not, but let's hear more support before we do." So this is an appeal to read the issue and consider giving it your support.
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Normalized database or better user experience-- which takes preference in a simple app?
I have a Drupal site which lists businesses and client recommendations. 1 business may have 0 or more client recommendations. Clearly the foreign key is on the "parent" business record. In Drupal talk, the nodereference is on the business node.
Read moreglobal variable scope with php include scripts external to Drupal
A Drupal site I'm working on requires that I php-include an external db app for listing records. Outside of the Drupal document root, I can run it just fine, but as soon as I make the php include either from within Drupal or just if it is run within the Drupal folder, none of the global variables are referenced from file to file-- I suspect some apache config somewhere but can't find it.
The application is built up of about a zillion library files with constants, functions, etc. The constants are referenced like you would expect:
function getRecordsCommon() {
Austin Drupal Dojo #15, Thursday, August 5
Another installment of the weekly Drupal hackathon.
Bring your questions!
Bring your laptops!
Austin Drupal Dojo #15
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
City/Town: Austin, TX
optional RSVP at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108574925863879
DrupalCamp Dallas Schedule is Up & Giveaways !
Howdy all Texas (and beyond) Drupalers. Thought we'd send along a few updates on our upcoming DrupalCamp Dallas.
Thirty Sessions of General Awesomeness
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #14, Thursday, July 22
Another installment of the weekly Drupal hackathon.
Bring your questions!
Bring your laptops!
Austin Drupal Dojo #14
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
City/Town: Austin, TX
optional RSVP at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140532622631035
Austin Drupal Users July Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/The-Austin-Drupal-Meetup-Group/calendar/13859632/?...
Update: Who is going to speak at next month's meetup? Do you have a topic you'd like to present on, or know someone who you'd like to hear speak? Is there something Drupal-related you would like to learn more about? LET US KNOW.
At our last meetup, Cliff Tyllick's discussed Color Pairings and Contrasts, and provided us with demos to help meet accessibility best practice guidelines.
Read moreThe Drupal Theming Study Group begins August 2
The Drupal Theming Study Group begins August 2 at Cospace.
Details are at GeekAustin:
http://geekaustin.org/event/2010/07/11/geekaustin-drupal-theming-study-g...
-Lynn Bender
http://geekaustin.org
http://twitter.com/linearb
Austin Drupal Dojo #13, Thursday, July 8
Is 13 an unlikely number?
Find out at tonight's installment of the weekly Drupal hackathon.
Bring your questions!
Bring your laptops!
Austin Drupal Dojo #13
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
City/Town: Austin, TX
optional RSVP at Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131219463584310
Upcoming Drupal Related Events You Should Probably Attend
Upcoming Drupal Related Events You Should Probably Attend is a quick post on the Guidelight Business Solutions blog. Here is our list of upcoming interesting Drupal Events (both in and out of Austin). If we missed your event, let me know and I'll update our list.
http://www.guidelightsolutions.com/blog/save-dates-upcoming-drupal-relat...
Enjoy!
Elizabeth
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Troubles with Custom Theme using 960Grids Base Theme
I am trying to build a custom theme for my much discussed photo workshop site using the 960 Grid base theme. I get it running all right, except one small problem. None of my blocks are displaying. In their place I get "1" or "0". The regions seem to work right, properly sized, etc., but the blocks aren't showing.
Here is my theme.info file:
name = Vandivier
description = 960 Grid Subtheme
version = VERSION
core = 6.x
base theme = ninesixty
engine = phptemplate
stylesheets[all][] = reset.css
stylesheets[all][] = 960.css
stylesheets[all][] = styles.css
Executing a View with a Rule
In short: I need to execute a view, or series of views, with a rule or rule set (or trigger).
Read moreSeeking ideas for lptexas.org
We are looking for suggestions for improvements of our Drupal/CiviCRM site http://lptexas.org . There is money for making it more appealing and useful, so suggestions or perhaps a little volunteer work could lead to contract work. No promises, but perhaps worth your attention. Some of the obvious ones include:
- Better online donation form that meets federal and state reporting requirements.
- Subsites for every county that can be managed by the county chair or someone local to post things like calendars of events.
- Subsites for candidates that they can manage.
Loyalty program
Has anybody implemented a customer loyalty program with Ubercart? Something along the lines of:
After 5 orders, 10% discount
Between 6 - 10 orders, 15% discount
11 + orders, 20% discount
panels? books? Looks good and helps the site editor/admin not mess up the website
Always on a quest for the best way to make a good Drupal site structured.. I am one to impose limitations on the user (site editor) in order to preserve good site structure, but I have come across something that has thus far eluded me.
I am using a separate Panel per site subsection with several Panel Variants therein all based on path in order to produce a consistent site subsection navigation experience: common left menu, 2- or 3-columns within based on current page, and similar side components per page.
Read moreHelp with OG and PHP Field
Alright... so I've got a view which identifies users with a sign-up for a workshop and executes a custom php snippet to subscribe them to a group which serves as the on-line classroom. I am using og_subscribe_user for this and it works great.
Now, when the workshop ends, I am going to remove them from the group and purge their contributions from the group. Browsing the CVS I find the og_unsubscribe_user function which looks like it work just like the og_subscribe_user function. Great! Except, the function doesn't exist in the latest stable release of OG.
Read moreAustin Drupal Users June Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/The-Austin-Drupal-Meetup-Group/calendar/13638792/?...
At our last meetup, Erik Summerfield of http://www.phase2tech... gave a presentation on Section Fronts and Views. Originally scheduled to be a a brief technical presentation to complement the scheduled Color Pairings and Contrasts, this was expanded into a full-length presentation that also included some panels discussion and demos.
Read moreYour favorite mailing list and how it integrates with your Drupal sites
I would like to hear what mailing list solutions you use and how you integrate them with your Drupal site for subscription management (subscribe, unsubscribe) and distribution (content creation? list management?).
Read moreCMS Turf Wars go Mainstream: Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, TypePad or Entrepreneur Magazine compares Content Management Systems
Entrepreneur magazine recently took a look at the current CMS Turf War. Most small business owners know that the days for a simple landing page or brochure are over. Entrepreneur compared the following platforms: Posterous.com, WordPress, TypePad, Drupal, Joomla, and Vignette.
You can read my article takeaways here: http://tinyurl.com/27oqwdg
Let me know what you think,
Elizabeth
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