Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have perodic meetups in the following areas:
- Brevard County (Cocoa Village)
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm - Meetup.com listing
- Orlando
- Gainesville
- Jacksonvill
- Miami Beach
- West Palm Beach (Jupiter-Boca Raton)
- Sarasota / SW Florida
- Tallahassee
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month - Meetup.com listing
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Funds are available for local Florida meetup groups!
Keep connected with the Florida Drupal Users' Group:
- NEW! Slack: #florida Get your invite
- IRC: #drupal-florida on freenode
- @fldrupalcamp for updates about Florida Drupal camps, meetups, and other events.
- Florida DrupalCamp on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on LinkedIn
- We're looking for someone to create and maintain a Google+ home for Florida Drupal...
Error message when logging on to one of my sites
I went to log on to one my my sites & got the following message. I actually get logged on and when I type in the url again, I am logged in and my admin menu is there. I don't want to do anything until I can fix the problem. Any suggestions?
I am using Drupal 6.
Thanks for any help.
Hewie
Migrate - Importing an Access Database into a content type
I saw ultimike demonstrate using Table Wizard and Backup and Migrate to import a .csv earthquake data into drupal, and then map it to a content type. He then went on to use mapstraction to map the earth-quake data. It was really awesome.
I am trying to import some Microsoft Access tables from a database and do a similar thing, minus the mapping.
I exported the tables as a .csv file, then managed to set a primary key. Table wizard imports all of the rows.
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Canceled - July Brevard County Meeting
Unfortunately I cannot host this month's meeting due to a family emergency. I could possibly host it next Thursday but we'll have to play it by ear. Sorry folks.
The fifth Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 7pm.
June Brevard Meetting Wrap up
Last Thursday we met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2 hour meetup. There were 6 people in attendance.
We reviewed the OpenPublish packaged distribution (http://openpublishapp.com/). We ran through the modules and features they had installed right of the box. The features can be downloaded here http://drupal.org/project/openpublish_features including their multimedia, article, blog, and event node types they have setup that you can use on your projects (without having to install the entire OpenPublish package). Ed had recently set up his site http://climatetimes.com/ using OpenPublish and ran through some of the features he implemented.
Gil went on to discuss some basic Facebook integration with Drupal sites, mainly the like button and comment box features. He used this tutorial to get him going http://hitech-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-like-button-xfbml-tutor... and used the XFBML method which tied itself to an application to monitor stats (unlike the simpler JS method).
We then had a round-table discussion on hosting services and what people have used/are using.
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Tallahassee Drupal Meetup Summary
This past Tuesday we had another success Tallahassee Drupal Meetup. 6 people were in attendance including one newcomer to the meeting and to the Drupal community. Starting off the meeting was a presentation by Marc Ray (aka me) on the use of Features to build "meta modules". The overall context of the presentation was how to create reusable Drupal code. Following the presentation was a question / answer session which ranged from complicated API level questions to new users needing module recommendations.
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Palm Beach Meetup (June)
Tomorrow Night (6/15/2010) @ 7:30pm
Sean Conner from HarmonyLogic will be demonstrating the use of GIT on Tuesday (6/15/10). Come out and learn more about the flexible and powerful distributed version control software known as GIT.
Read moreConfiguring Backup & Migrate Module on IIS
A recent update to backup_migrate module utilizes an .htaccess file to protect the server backups directory from access. Unfortunately, this functionality doesn't work in IIS and I found that when I tried to make a backup I got the following error:
- Security notice: Backup and Migrate will not save backup files to the server because the destination directory is publicly accessible. If you want to save files to the server, please secure the 'sites/default/files/backup_migrate/manual' directory
- Could not run backup because the file could not be saved to the destination.
Broward Meetup (July)
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
Phone: 954-533-5698
The reservation is under my name (Hector)
We are having monthly meetups on the second Wednesday of the month, so it you can't make this one, then come to the next one.
Read moreBroward Drupal Meetup Synopsis - Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Synopsis for Broward Drupal Meetup held on June 9th 2010:
At the beginning of the meetup, we shared all .mp3 files and slides of the past meetup. After initial introductions, two people gave presentations.
Below is a summary of the presentations:
Chris Parsons (@chillin411) presented (slides and demo) of theming with Zen. It was a detailed presentation with a lot of insight into themeing.
June Central Florida Meetup
Join us on Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 1-3PM for a 2-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
We'll cover views attachments, views rss and the Feed Path Publisher module. Since the year is now half over we'll talk about what topics we want to cover for the remainder of the year! If you can't make the meeting please add comments of what you would like to hear about in our future meetings.
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How should the DrupalCamp Miami website be set up?
Which of the two following domain names is better for the DrupalCamp Miami site?
Fatal error: Class 'views_plugin_argument_default' not found ?
I was working on creating a view to list vehicles in a block based on the URL. What I am trying to do is get a list of vehicles to show up based on what category of vehicle the user is currently on.
For instance, if they are looking at a Bloodmobile, I only want Bloodmobiles to show up in the block. The URL looks like category/bloodmobile (with bloodmobile being the argument that is passed). I think the error that I am getting is showing up because that argument is not being passed correctly. I am using taxonomy:term as my argument.
Here is the error message that I am getting:
Read moreJune Brevard County Meeting
The fourth Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at 1507 Aurora Road in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS.
I'm open to talking about anything the group is interested in. Leave some suggestions in the comments. See you all there.
Read moreFormatting links in nodes
I am trying to format the [username]'s blog, Add new comment and AddThis buttons that I have at the bottom of my blog nodes. I took a look at the structure of the page using firebug and I see that it is called like this:
<ul class="links inline">
<li class="blog_usernames_blog first">
<a title"Really long title" href="/blog/1">user's blog</a></li>and so on...
So I tried to apply some CSS to ul.links but was not able to affect anything. What am I missing?
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Send-off party tonight at Spatz on Fairbanks, 5pm onwards
There's a bit of a send-off party for me at Spatz from 5pm onwards, if anyone would like to pop in for a while :) The address is 1025 West Fairbanks Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789. Hopefully see some of you then :)
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May Brevard Meetup Wrap-Up
Last night Brevard Drupalists met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2.5-hour meetup.
There were 7 people in attendance including two new faces. During the meetup Gil did a nice overview of the Features module followed by my presentation of a potpourri a Drupal modules including Radioactivity, Zenophile, Views Unpublished, and Override Node Options.
Gil and Mike also sent some time sharing their knowledge about Drush and Drush Make, including showing how to get it up and running quickly.
Read moreTallahassee Drupal Meetup - Followup
We had another successful Tallahassee Drupal Meetup this past Tuesday. 9 people were in attendance with varying Drupal experience from beginners launching their first sites to seasoned Drupal developers. We owe a thanks to Lobbytools for again donating their conference room for the meet-up. Also a big thanks to Susan Cambpell for providing the food for this meet-up.
Read moreBroward Meetup (June)
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - Small Conference Room (this site has two conference rooms - our conference room is on the left as you come in)
9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island)
Davie, FL 33324 USA
Phone: 954-533-5698
The reservation is under my name (Hector)
We are having monthly meetups on the second Wednesday of the month, so it you can't make this one, then come to the next one.
Read moreBroward Drupal Meetup Synopsis - Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Synopsis for Broward Drupal Meetup held on May 12th 2010:
After initial introductions, two people gave presentations (location has flat screen TV with VGA connection).
Below is a summary of the presentations:
I gave a slide presentation on the Sessions/BoFs I attended at DrupalCon San Francisco
Chris Parsons presented (slides and demo) of Rotating Banners
After the two presentations, we discussed DrupalCamp Miami, the so-called Drupal security issue and CivicCRM.
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