Although there is the great "browse by category-tab", nonexperienced users of Drupal are often asking: "Which module should I use? CCK or flexinode? Should I use images through "upload and a-hrefing" or image.module or whatever else?
And sometimes I'm confused by the categorisation, too. E.g. there are 3 taxonomy related categories: Category, Taxonomy and Term.
So, I most often browse modules by date, which is only working, if you have stored the most modules in brain.
If you want to help sorting, qualifying and categorising modules, than this is a well choosen group for you.
Package names for contributed modules (Drupal 7)
Modules are grouped on the module administration page (admin/modules in Drupal 7) by package, which is defined, optionally, in our module's .info file. Package, then, is the most visible way in which modules are categorized. This wiki page documents package names chosen by module maintainers, please edit it!
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Accordion Blocks module released for Drupal
Folks, we're happy to roll out yet another module for Drupal. It's called “Accordion Blocks”. As the name says, this module provides an accordion effect to all your blocks. You can also apply jQuery UI themes through the configuration settings of the module.
This block is for those of you who deploy apps with a lot of blocks on either side bars, and are looking for newer usability enhancements with regards to visibility of the blocks. It not only minimizes all blocks on a Drupal page, but provides a cool accordion effect to help your user to concentrate on a single block at a time.
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Project repository? What's that? Don't we have it already?
I'm thinking about a database which is storing:
- Project name
- Download file
- Module name
- Date
- MD5 and SHA1
- Module description
- Drupal Version
- README.TXT or INSTALL.TXT
and programming an interface (module) to check these against your own installation.
What I need is to download all "[PROJECT].tar.gz" files and import these into a database. This was the easy job (simple devel example).
Currently this is done with a CCK designed table, but I will switch to an own node-type cause of some CCK restrictions (e.g. search).
the next two steps are writing:
Read moreCollecting data
Is there anywhere a way to get data:
- Hown often are modules be downloaded?
- Which modules are installed?
Like from:
- http://drupal.org/node/46109
- http://drupal.org/node/25704
- admin/settings/drupal (Send system information)
Started by a discussion
at http://drupal.org/node/72735, I would like to have a staging like:
- core (the framework)
- contribute (which is the new one)
- user contribute
- cvs
- sandbox
The contributed-modules should be well reviewed and choosen. Collecting installation-information through the drupal.module would be helpfull, but cause it "also enables users to log in using a Drupal ID" it's often disabled. By default it's disabled, so the data is not representive.
Are there other users feeling like me? Any developers want to help?
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