Similar Module Review

Historically, one of the major problems on drupal.org is comparing multiple modules that all do similar things. See results of a survey of drupal.org users.

This group was created with multiple purposes around finding duplicate modules, analyzing their similarities/differences, and seeing if there is room for collaboration between them. Some times there are good reasons to fork a module, or similar looking projects can be very different when you actually use them, sometimes modules get released simply because people couldn't find what they wanted, or because they didn't realize they could file a patch instead.

Please use Wiki pages to post comparisons of projects which seem to be duplicates so they can be updated and expanded by other group members.

This group won't be dealing with module metrics and rankings - because that group already exists: http://groups.drupal.org/module-metrics-and-ranking it's about dealing with the 4000+ projects we have already, and hopefully leading to new and fruitful relationships between contrib developers.

Tabs and Slideshow Modules (Views based and Otherwise)

Posted by greggles on March 20, 2009 at 10:32pm
Last updated by gausarts on Sun, 2015-07-26 09:49

Also available is a Comparison of Rotator / Slider modules.

http://drupal.org/project/ajax_slideshow (Drupal 6)
http://drupal.org/project/carousel (abandoned)
http://drupal.org/project/cck_multimage (Drupal 6)
http://drupal.org/project/cck_slideshow (abandoned) only in CVS
http://drupal.org/project/content_slider (Featured content slider, Drupal 6)
http://drupal.org/project/couloir_slideshow (Drupal 6)
http://drupal.org/project/ddblock (dynamic display block)
http://drupal.org/project/diaporama (Drupal 6)

Third Party Video Integration

Posted by aaron on March 20, 2009 at 8:09pm
Last updated by aaron on Fri, 2009-03-20 20:31

The following modules integrate third party video with Drupal, such as YouTube or Blip.TV. Modules included may automatically parse URLs and/or embed code to determine the provider to store and display, and may or may not display thumbnails, autoplay, and other features (outlined below). Please help to make this list more accurate!

Feature	Asset	Drigg	Embedded Media Field	Media	Video	Video Filter

abuse modules

Posted by sirkitree on March 20, 2009 at 6:54pm
Last updated by sirkitree on Fri, 2009-03-20 18:54

Modules that allow users to moderate abusive content.

Abuse
* originally for 5.x
* 6.x in dev
* flag nodes, comments (not sure about users)

Flag content
* originally for 5.x
* 6.x in dev
* flag nodes, comments and users

Flag Abuse (new module)
* originally for 6.x
* no 5.x
* flag nodes, comments and users
* relies on Flag and Views

Mouseover Javascript Text Bubbles

Posted by greggles on March 19, 2009 at 12:52am
Last updated by Thomas_Zahreddin on Sun, 2009-07-26 12:07

Actively developed:
(sorted by usage, descending)
http://drupal.org/project/hovertip
http://drupal.org/project/beautytips
http://drupal.org/project/cluetip

Seemingly inactive:
http://drupal.org/project/tooltips

http://drupal.org/project/jtooltips

File Uploading and Managing

Posted by greggles on March 19, 2009 at 12:14am
Last updated by marco.b on Mon, 2022-01-17 07:22

Modules for uploading and managing files, and associating them with content.

These modules actually have relatively little overlap, so you should consider this a guide in choosing the right module(s) for your needs, rather than a complaint about duplication. Just sayin'.

Module	4.7.x?	5.x?	6.x?	7.x?	8.x?	Notes	Module Updated	Info as of

Send e-mail modules

Posted by jcnventura on March 12, 2009 at 2:22pm
Last updated by Thomas_Zahreddin on Mon, 2011-10-31 15:35

The following modules all add a link to send an e-mail to someone with a link to/content of the current node (or just the site):

Module	Usage (2009-02-22)	D7	D6	D5	D4	simple IF	Most emailed block
Printer, e-mail and PDF versions	41,207	dev	X	X	no	+	Yes
Forward	6,297		X	X		+	Yes
Send	833		alpha6	X	X
tellafriend	abandoned		X	X
Spread	451		X	X
Tell A Friend Node	286		X
Add This	17,354		X	X		+
invite	15,659		X	X		+

Stats updated: 2011-10-31

The stats for the print module are inflated by the fact that it also provides PDF and printer-friendly generation (and the fact that it is bundled with Acquia Drupal). The most advanced module in terms of sending an e-mail is probably the forward module.

Migration from Internet Explorer

Posted by robloach on February 27, 2009 at 9:49pm
Last updated by skyredwang on Mon, 2015-01-26 09:47

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jReject (D6, D7)

Browser Bouncer (D7)

Seven Up (Abandoned)

IE6 No More(Abandoned)

Bring Down IE6 (D6)

IE 6 Update (Abandoned)

No IE6 (D6, D7)

User Geographic Location - And Converting IP Address to that

Posted by greggles on February 18, 2009 at 3:57am
Last updated by twooten on Mon, 2010-03-29 10:32

IP Address to Country - (and external service used where noted).

Login: "Remember Me" - Option

Posted by rokr on February 18, 2009 at 12:00am

What are your experiences?

cheers, Ronald

Adding fields to nodes modules

Posted by greggles on February 15, 2009 at 6:22pm

note: this comparison is provided for perspective on more recent duplicate modules. cck is clearly the better choice.

Flexinode
vs.
CCK

What a pity that CCK forked the community and duplicated the functionality from flexinode that was so awesome. Everyone who works on CCK wasted their time and damaged our community. We should prevent projects like CCK from happening in the future.

Wysiwyg API vs various textarea enhancers

Posted by Garrett Albright on February 10, 2009 at 1:03am

The Wysiwyg API is supposed to be a supermodule to replace the various WYSIWYG and non-WYSIWYG individual textarea enhancement modules such as FCKeditor, TinyMCE (whose module development has been halted in favor of Wysiwyg API), markItUp! (of which I am now the unworthy primary contributor), etc.

Comparison of meta tag modules

Posted by Anonymous on February 8, 2009 at 3:31pm
Last updated by dakku on Tue, 2018-10-23 14:34

There are a lot of Drupal modules that help site builders to configure site-wide meta tags, to create contextual meta tags, to create custom meta tags, and to control these tags through various kinds of user interfaces.

Nodewords

Add meta tags to Drupal pages, both manually and automatically, based on various settings. D7 users should use Metatag.
Drupal core:
Development status: No further development

Metatag

Flash embedding/replacement

Posted by sun on February 7, 2009 at 12:17am
Last updated by robloach on Mon, 2009-05-25 18:50

SWF Tools
SWFObject API
SWF Object
SWF Object Filter - Support request

Way too many image/multimedia galleries!

Posted by Rosamunda on February 5, 2009 at 4:08pm

All started when I thought "hmm, let´s add a new feature to my site when I upgrade it to Drupal 6.x... image galleries for me and my users aswell".
Meet hell.

Acidfree Albums
Album Photos
Brilliant Gallery
CCK Gallery
Diaporama
Fast Gallery

GMap Module vs Google Maps Tools

Posted by SeanBannister on January 25, 2009 at 9:28am

GMap Module with Location Module
vs
Google Maps Tools

GMap Module and Location Module (AKA Mapadelic) have been around since 2005 but the new kid on the block is Google Maps Tools, created November 19, 2008. On the Google Maps Tools project page it even says "You can use this project for the same purposes as Mapadelic"

My other concern is similar project urls :
http://drupal.org/project/gmap
http://drupal.org/project/gmaps
very likely to confuse users.

Submit Again type modules

Posted by dnewkerk on January 25, 2009 at 8:01am

All of these modules have the purpose of allowing a user to be immediately cycled back (or have the option presented at least) to another node creation page of the same type, after they submit a node.

Submit Again
Submit More
Add Another

Activity, Heartbeat, Activity Stream, Activity Log

Posted by mr.andrey on January 24, 2009 at 7:03pm
Last updated by icecreamyou on Thu, 2012-02-02 23:53

We're launching a social networking portal, and planning on setting up a facebook-like feature with user statuses and activity updates. For user relations we're planning on using FriendList module. (From what I understand User Relationships has a bulky API, and Flag Friend has bugs, like inability to remove friends, that aren't fixed yet).

So far here's my understanding of the options:

Activity

User Delete and User Cancellation

Posted by dnewkerk on January 23, 2009 at 9:36pm

These modules will no longer be needed as of Drupal 7 thanks to sun's amazing efforts: http://drupal.org/node/8

However for Drupal 5 and 6, the following two modules are duplicated:
http://drupal.org/project/user_delete
http://drupal.org/project/user_cancellation

Profile search modules

Posted by dnewkerk on January 21, 2009 at 9:11am
Last updated by pukku on Wed, 2009-12-02 15:47

As of Drupal-6.x, the core user search only searches usernames, not profile fields. This is a list for user profile searching modules.

Module	4.7.x?	5.x?	6.x?	Notes	Module Updated	Info as of
Profile Plus	Yes_(dev)	Yes	Yes		2009.02.05	2009.05.05
Profile Search	-	Yes	Yes_(dev)		2009.04.20	2009.05.05

Terms of Use/Service Confirmation (Agreement)

Posted by greggles on January 14, 2009 at 5:21am
Last updated by timwood on Fri, 2011-02-11 19:47

Allow you to make users agree to something before using the site.

Module	6.x	7.x	Usage	Info as of	Confirmation When?	Advantages	Disadvantages

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