Posted by Ruairi O'Reilly on September 18, 2012 at 3:13pm
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2012-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 UTC Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
The next Cork Meetup is Wednesday week in the Western Gateway building in UCC from 7pm to 9pm, September 26th. Room WGB_G14(different room to last time as students are back) on the ground floor.
If there's a Drupal topic you would like to discuss, post some details so we can have a think about it & any similar prob we had, come along on the night and have a chat about it.
- Ruairi
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Topic: Field Collections
I'll do a short demo. on Field Collections.
This module provides site builders with a very convenient way to group fields together into entities.
Benefits of drush!!!
I'm playing around with Drush to create a 5 page website with automated install of all modules so the end user has "What you see is what you get" WYSIWYG functionality and SEO functionality!
Organic Groups - time to start
Some info re Organic Groups (OG groups and content) - short presentation
Automatic node title - example of use
Tricks and how to use autocomplete taxonomy field in a title of node/content.
Entities
This is the article I mentioned yesterday evening. It's a good introduction to the concept of entities in Drupal.
http://www.istos.it/blog/drupal/drupal-entities-part-1-moving-beyond-nodes
Add-To-Cart tweaking & membership based modules & other notes
Hi lads,
Below is the article I based my changes to the add-to-cart button on, its pretty handy:
http://agileadam.com/add-to-cart-tweaks
Also, Bart - two modules I came across for membership based subscriptions that could be used:
http://drupal.org/project/role_expire
http://drupal.org/project/commerce_subscription
Other aspects that came up, the handy module Bart was using for listing the modules - http://drupal.org/project/module_filter
& his caching module suggestions:
boost
memcache
apc
varnish
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html
Chat to you later,
Ruairi