Spokane Drupal Group - April 12

What we talked about today:

• DrupalCon is happening now: DrupalCon Nashville - April 9-13 https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018 -- YouTube videos of sessions are in a playlist at https://www.youtube.com/user/Trivialization
• Upcoming Events:
  - Drupal Europe - Darmstadt Germany - Sept 10-14 - https://www.drupaleurope.org/
  - BADCamp - Berkeley CA - Oct 24-27 https://2018.badcamp.net/
• Shawn published his first module on drupal.org:
  
  Administration Toolbar Color Changer
  Changes the color of the top toolbar so you can easily distinguish between your development and live sites. Currently only for Drupal 7. We got a demo! It even includes some wild backgrounds. Very cool!

  We need a Druplicon background...

• Shawn's new module is not currently covered by the Security Advisory Policy. To get this:
  

  Full projects (not sandbox projects), whose maintainers have applied to have the "vetted" role ..., and where the maintainer has edited the project to opt in to security advisory coverage.

  He would also need to make a release.

• Composer - Software for managing PHP dependencies...
  General Drupal/Composer information: https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/using-composer/using-composer-to-man...

  Drupal 7 module for Composer: https://www.drupal.org/project/composer_manager
  Read the README file for this module!

  Strategy for Drupal 7:
  - Install the Composer software on your development machine
  - Install the Drupal 7 Composer Manager module in your dev Drupal site
  - Use Composer to download all the dependencies to your dev site (see README)
  - Commit the following to your source code repository and migrate to live site:
  -- autoload.php file (not sure where it will be)
  -- vendor directory (not sure where it will be)
  -- composer.json and composer.lock files (not sure where they will be)

  You can also use this strategy in Drupal 8, but you won't need the Composer Manager module (that is part of Core in Drupal 8).

• Mollom (spam fighting) is end of life.
  - Suggestion is to use both Honeypot and reCAPTCHA to replace it.
  https://www.drupal.org/project/honeypot
  https://www.drupal.org/project/recaptcha -- which requires:
  https://www.drupal.org/project/captcha
  - Honeypot: Requires at least a few seconds to fill out the form (bots are fast), and also adds an invisible field to forms that bots will fill out but people won't. Lisa says: Set the time limit to a few seconds (say, 5), and also change the element name (bots have figured out the default from the module).
  - reCAPTCHA: Install the module and configure the "secret keys", which you get from your Google account. Then go to the main CAPTCHA module settings, and set the challenge type for your forms to use reCAPTCHA.
• Mass email
  - Lisa wants to send out email to her registered users. Fairly simple messages, with an unsubscribe.
  - Jon and Shawn suggest using Mailchimp https://mailchimp.com -- Free plan should be sufficient for now at least. If your email list is clean, maybe do about 100 people at a time to start. Has templates, etc.
  - There is a Mailchimp module for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp -- integrates the lists
• European privacy rules... Technically, if a European citizen requests that you remove their information from your web site, the process is fairly complicated...
• Project: Get a bunch of JavaScript onto the Node edit page for one particular content type on a site, so that when the page is saved, the JavaScript-updated data is saved.
  - Make sure you have an image field on your content type (to save the data)
  - Override the theme template for the node edit page for that content type (in the theme), or use a form alter in a module.

  Some information on how to do this:
  https://www.drupal.org/node/1092122
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6988884/how-to-modify-the-node-edit-...

  You'll also probably want Multifield or Field Collection, to make a grouping of fields:
  https://www.drupal.org/project/multifield
  https://www.drupal.org/project/field_collection

  Also check out the Javascript Image Crop module
  https://www.drupal.org/project/imagecrop

  You might also need Ajax:
  https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/api/javascript-api/ajax-forms-in-drupal-7

• https://onelook.com/ - Great site for finding words, kind of a reverse dictionary lookup. Example: Type in "sports animal" and the first hit is "mascot".
• https://www.tuxedojunctionbigband.com/ -- A big band of interest to people in our group. Both Gonzaga and Whitworth have big bands as well.

We talked about spam prevention at our last meeting. Someone in the Drupal community just wrote a blog post, with mostly the same solutions we talked about (see notes above), but there's one additional possibility:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/post-mollom-what-are-best-options...