Posted by Anonymous on November 19, 2011 at 8:30am
I'm trying to implement the Follow module http://drupal.org/project/follow in order to add some social networking sites to my webpage. I am however confused on how to add a patch. If I'm reading this right, in order to add Google + I must add a patch right? http://drupal.org/node/1209846 and if so, how do I go about doing this? Thank you!
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You're mostly correct. From the thread you provided, http://drupal.org/node/1209846, we see that someone suggested adding Google+ support to the module. They submitted their own version of the module at GitHub (http://drupal.org/node/1209846#comment-4725116) which was then followed up with a flurry of patches and separate icons. In the final comment (http://drupal.org/node/1209846#comment-5227706), however, we see that the module maintainer approved of the latest patch/changes and applied those changes to the module code. Those recent changes are present in the most recent "dev" (aka - "development") branch of the module. Those changes were made on November 10, as shown at http://drupal.org/node/448656/commits.
So, in this case, rather than patching the stable branch of the module yourself, one would typically just choose to use the "dev" version. I'd give that a try. Grab http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/follow-7.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz and use that rather than the 1.0-alpha1 release and you should have Google+ support.
In the future, being able to apply a patch may come in handy. See http://drupal.org/node/707484 for information on making and/or applying a patch using git (the current version control system used by Drupal).
Scott Rouse
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Makes sense
Thank you! Drupal can deft. be confusing at times.
please help me out
im new to drupal and i want facebook integration with drupal.i installed and enabled the 'follow' module for it.and in the 'my follow links' i gave the url of my own facebook profile page.then if i click on the facebook link under 'follow me on' block on my drupal site its opening a page with my facebook profile pic but its still asking me to login.only after i log in i can see my facebook profile.how can i accomplish this without logging again???