This is a group for all users, developers and designers interested in the Drupal Open Source CMS, who are based in South Africa. The goal of this group is to foster the local community, provide local support and to allow the local Drupal industry to grow.
Our user group meet-ups:
- Johannesburg
monthly, please check meetup.com for dates. - Cape Town
on the third Wednesday of every month, 18:00 for 18:30 - 21:30. - Pretoria / Arcadia (NGO & Governement)
Currently dormant. - Pretoria / Centurion
Currently dormant. - Bryanston / Parkhurst
Currently dormant. - Durban
quarterly, please check meetup.com for dates.
Recent posts
How do you handle VAT in Ubercart
I was wondering how others have setup VAT integration with their installations. The default seems to add the VAT to the total (or sell price.) Personally I just get the client to add their prices excl.vat and have drupal add it on. But then the store is advertinsing everything excl.vat, which is fine for wholesaling, but what about selling to the public?
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Drupal Support and Development contract for +/- 3 months
Hi,
I am looking for someone who can take over development and support of a Drupal e-commerce (Ubercart) website for a french client of mine while I am off on maternity leave (from about the end of next week until the end of the year). In general it would entail:
- The odd skype conversation when she needs assistance with something
- Any development / tweaks she needs while I'm not available (there is a specific bit of custom development that would be required in the next few weeks involving integration with a 3rd party website)
Drupal Users Cape Town Meetup 29 September 2010
Please note that there will be a Drupal Users Cape Town meeting on the 29th.
- Date: Wednesday 29, September 2010
- Time: 18:00 - 21:30
- Place: 16 Mill Street Cape Town
- Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=-33.934041,18.416857&spn...
Organic Groups Privacy Levels - need help!
Hi all
I'm at my wit's end trying to work the privacy settings for OG to make it function in the way that my client requires.
If anyone has any experience with this, I would really appreciate your help, as I've already spent hours trawling the Drupal site and testing various modules.
What my client wants is:
Read morePayPal South African Merchant questions/ issues
I'm so frustrated with trying to get information from PayPal and FNB. Can anyone please answer a few questions for me regarding PayPal as a payment means on a South African eCommerce site, geared toward servicing a South African market?
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Drupal Joburg meetup - Wed, 8 September
The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday the 8th of September 2010 at The Campus (In the Ferrari room, Le Mans Building, 57 Sloane Street Bryanston). The event will start promptly at 18h30.
Topics include:
- the recent DrupalCon event in Copenhagen
- a brief introduction to the Features module
- a site showcase or two (if you've worked on an interesting project in the last month, let me know and I'll give you a slot)
For more details and to sign up, see:
http://drupal.co.za/content/joburg-drupal-meetup-8-september-2010
Great hosts in South Africa
Hey guys mind posting the name of hosting companies you have used in the past and that you have found to be compatible with drupal.
I recently tried gridhost but they do not support clean urls so i will have to move my site to another host. Lets make this a general discussion about great SA hosting companies for drupal sites.
Read moreDrupal Users Cape Town Meetup 25 August
Please note that there will be a Drupal User Cape Town meeting on the 25th.
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Drupal Users Cape Town Meetup 28 July
Please note that there will be a Drupal User Cape Town meeting on the 28th.
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Contact Attach
Hi guys
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with the contact_attach module?
http://drupal.org/project/contact_attach
I'm using it for a site where people can attach their CV to the contact form when applying for a job.
It works great on the standard/users contact forms, but not on a cck generated "Email Contact Form"
I've posted on the Drupal site (http://drupal.org/node/845180) but haven't had a reply yet, so was hoping I could see if anyone in the local community could help out.
Thanks in advance
Inky
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How to get your drupal questions answered
Hi SA drupallers!
Would you like your drupal questions answered by community experts? Then read this post - it'll tell you the best way to get answers.
Read moreCape Town Drupal Meetup: Wednesday 30 June 2010
* Venue: 3rd Floor, 16 Mill Street, Gardens, Cape Town. (It's above FNB on the opposite side)
* Date: Wednesday 30th June 2010
* Time: 18:30 (for 19:00) - 21:00
There is space for two 30 minutes presentations during the meeting. If you would like to do a presentation please email me about it with a sample of the content. (You can do slides etc).
My email address jonathanw@amoebasys.com or phone/sms me on 0729280513.
If you need to contact me please use the above details.
Read moreAfrihost Server Configuration Change
A client's website was having problems with all user uploaded images being broken. It turns out a configuration change on his server with Afrihost was conflicting with the .htaccess directive Drupal automatically adds in the /sites/default/files folder.
If you're hosting a Drupal site with Afrihost you may want to check that files in this folder are still accessible.
If you are having the same problem, look at the solution posted in this thread: http://drupal.org/node/431310#comment-2952776 (although I'm still checking if there is a security risk associated with this solution).
Read moreDrupal Jozi meetup - Wed, 2 June
The next Drupal Johannesburg meetup will be held on Wednesday the 2nd of June 2010 (our usual first Wednesday of every month slot), at The Campus (In the Ferrari room, Le Mans Building, 57 Sloane Street Bryanston. The event will start promptly at 18h30.
For more details and to sign up, see:
http://drupal.co.za/content/drupal-johannesburg-meetup-2-june-2010-1830-...
Tools we use
In response to several posts in this group.
Telamenta is a South African based Drupal Company. We are 2 1/2 years old. I have many years experience in coding and project management. We have worked very hard over the last 2 years to optimize our quoting for clients. I play the role of scrum master and lead developer in the company. We use the following methodologies and tools.
Scrum
For agile development we use Scrum as a methodology.
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Taxonomy Arguments & Embedded Media
Hi guys
I've got two burning issues I could use some help on:
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I'm only just starting to use views arguments properly just recently, and having a battle with it.
What my client wants:
A page that presents a house type with tabs for Specifications | Floor Plans | Gallery images | Realtime model, perhaps another.
example: http://www.zenspaces.co.za/design/kiku2
I'm using Slider to package the various pages together.
Specifications is a node type with cck fields.
Drupal Users Cape Town Meetup 26 May
If you are a Drupal developer in Cape Town, come and have a chat with us.
The venue this month is the Mugg & Bean at the V&A (Shop 612A).
- Date: Wednesday 26 May, 2010
- Time: 19:00 - 21:00
- Venue: Mugg & Bean V&A Waterfront (Shop 612A) - http://www.themugg.com
Drupalcon, Copenhagen, August 23rd to 27th, 2010.
DrupalCamp Jozi 2010
In an effort to expand on and give back to the local Drupal community, the Jozi Drupal crew are inviting you to their Introduction to Drupal workshop on the 8th of May at IS in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The user group for the open source content management system wants to help introduce the framework to new users, while also providing technical and philosophical advice.
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