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
Shared variables on sub-domain
Hi Everyone!
Fabulous, so now have sub-domain working, but what I need is that the user's realname (realname.module and content_profile) show on the sub-domain as currently only the username shows.
I've tried the following in the sub-domain settings, but to no avail ..
$db_prefix = array(
'default' => 'social_',
'users' => 'main_',
'sessions' => 'main_',
'role' => 'main_',
'authmap' => 'main_',
'realname' => 'main_',
'permissions' => 'main_',
'content_type_profile' => 'main_',
'content_node_field' => 'main_',
'content_node_field_instance' => 'main_',
);
Drupal Users Cape Town (DUCT) April Meetup
There will be a Drupal meeing on the 14th. I apologise for not organising a meeting last month.
Date: Wednesday, 14 April, 2010
Time: 18:00 - 21:30 (You dont have to stay for the full time)
Place: Sinns Restaurant - Map: http://www.sinns.co.za/directions.htm
Come along for a chat with other local Drupal developers residing in Cape Town. If you have any issues we are always happy to help out.
-- I will get around to writing something clever here one day :) --
Read moreMultisite on Drupal
Hi Everyone!
Gee, am I struggling to setup a sub-domain that has a separate database but shared users ..
I've done the following:
created a sub-domain at my host that points to mysite.com/sites/subdomain
created a folder sites/subdomain and it has modules, files and themes folder
copied the settings.php file from my default folder (as a test to make it work)
When I go to subdomain.mysite.com all I get is the folders that have been uploaded (modules, files, themes and settings.php)
Multi-site manager is not getting me anywhere :)
Read moreFNB and PayPal Bring Global eCommerce to South Africa
First National Bank (FNB) and PayPal today announced that customers in South Africa can now sell to PayPal's global customer base of more than 81 million active accounts in 190 markets around the world and move the proceeds to their FNB accounts. This new service allows customers to top up and withdraw funds to their qualifying FNB accounts from their PayPal accounts.
https://www.fnb.co.za/news/archive/2010/20100325paypal.html
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Afrikaans translation
I propose here at drupal za that we all get involved in creating an afrikaans translation for drupal 6x and 7x.
This is the current project page http://drupal.org/project/af. The last commit on the page was 3 years ago, I think the project has lost interest completely. I reckon it is up to us as South African drupalers to get this off the ground. The current translation is for drupal 4.7x.
If you are keen check out the [[http://drupal.org/translators]translation process]
Read moreNeed a little help with user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid
Hi Everyone!
In a custom template I have the following code that 'if the user is a certain membership, in this case Platinum' cck fields appear of that specific member.
<?php
$account = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
if (in_array('Platinum Member', $account->roles)) :
?>content (cck fields)
<?php
endif;
?>which works fabulously :)
I would like to add another role (Premium Member) to this code as follows:
<?php
$account = user_load(array('uid' => $node->uid));
if (in_array('Platinum Member', 'Premium Member', $account->roles)) :
?>
Joburg Drupal Meetup - 3 March, 2010
March meetup time.
As we're going with the first Wed of the month, this March is the 3rd, this is what's in store:
- Guy Taylor will be demo-ing Balsamiq's mock-up software for UX and wireframing. (I'm just waiting to hear back from Balsamiq.com) I will also have a license from Balsamiq.com to give away
- Andre Venter:- Running flash in Drupal
I'd also like to open the floor to requests on topics and speakers for up coming events
@ The Campus (Le Mans Building 57 Sloane Street Bryanston as usual the event will start promptly at 18h30 on Wednesday the 3rd March
Read moreCape Town Drupal Meeting, Wednesday, 24 February, 2010
There will be a Cape Town Drupal User Group meeting on Wednesday, 24 February, 2010.
Come along to have a chat and a beer with a couple of Drupal developers.
*Place: Sinns Restaurant, Wembly Square - Directions (ie: Map)
*Time: 18:30 - 21:00
*Date: Wednesday, 24 February, 2010
(I apologise for the last minute organisation)
Read moreJoburg Drupal Meetup - January 27, 2010
Announcing the first Joburg Drupal meetup of the new decade:
- Anton de Wet of Telamenta will be talking about hosting Drupal in a multisite environment.
- Guy Taylor will tentatively be demo-ing Balsamiq's mock-up software for UX and wireframing.
@ The Campus (Le Mans Building 57 Sloane Street Bryanston; as usual the event will start promptly at 18h30 on Wednesday the 27th January.
RSVP at http://drupal.co.za/content/january-meetup and bring your drupal-hats. Feel free to propose other items you'd like to see on the agenda.
Read moreCape Town Drupal Meetup 27 January 2010
This will be the first Cape Town Drupal User Group meeting of the year.
The meeting will be at Sinns (http://www.sinns.co.za/directions.htm) from 18:30 on the Wednesday, 27 January 2010.
Come along and have beer (or mango juice) and lets chat about Drupal.
Time: 18:30 - 21:30
Date: Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Where: Sinns, Wembly Square (http://www.sinns.co.za/directions.htm)
Standard Bank Ideas website.
Just wanted to find out if the guys behind the standard bank ideas website are around here some where, wanted to see if we could chat.
Read moreWhich Notebook to buy for travel
Hi,
Sorry if this is off topic, but I've noticed many Drupalers at our meetings with notebooks. I'm looking to buy a notebook to travel with, basically just to check email, add content to the site, etc.
1 or 2 USB ports would be great as well.
Do you perhaps have any suggestions? There seems to be such a large choice available.
Look forward to any reply, and thanx!
Lilian
Cape Town Community Meeting, 25 Nov
I am organising another Cape Town meetup for the 25th of November.
- Date: - 25 November 2009
- Time: - 18:30 (for 19:00).
- Venue: - Sinns restaurant - http://www.sinns.co.za/directions.htm
PLEASE NOTE: THE VENUE IS SINNS RESTAURANT.
The reasoning for the change is that a restaurant environment is too noisy and does not allow easy presenting etc...
Below is the agenda, please comment if you would like to make ammendments to it.
Agenda:
1. Introduction (15 minutes):
* Who are you and who do you work for?
* Why are you here?
Drupal Joburg Meetup - 18th November, 18:30
As per the post at http://www.drupal.co.za/content/november-meet
It's that time of month again.
This month we're going to be scrumming the drupal.co.za site. So if you want features, changes or additions, RSVP now to make sure there is enough space.
@ The Campus (Le Mans Building 57 Sloane Street Bryanston as usual the event will start promptly at 18h30 on Wednesday the 18th November).
Bring your hacking hats.
Please sign up at drupal.co.za.
Read moreUbercart, 2Checkout and ZAR
Hi Everyone!
I'm finding that South Africa users are not comfortable paying in $US via Ubercart. My credit card system is setup with 2checkout.com ..
How would I create, even if it's another product (though it assigns a role), but in SA currency that would then charge the credit card in ZAR's.
The way I see it one product will be in $US's and the other production in ZAR's, but either assigns the role to the user once payment is complete.
Has anyone perhaps have a solution to this please .. this is a paying job :)
Thanx and look forward to any reply.
Lilian
Well priced training 6mnths-year
Hi South Africa,
I have a question, does anyone know of any companies that are offering a mixed bag of training options that would fit in well with someone going the php opensource direction of web design, something that will be well rounded, basic to advanced and not prohibitively expensive. well rounded being the operative word.
Read moreDrupal Joburg Meetup - Monday 26th October, 18:30
The Jozi Drupal Users Group will be meeting up on the 26 October @ The Campus (Le Mans Building 57 Sloane Street Bryanston).
This is an open event, and Scheepers de Bruin of Telamenta will be talking about Ajax and Autocomplete.
Please sign up via http://www.drupal.co.za and not here. Sorry for the late notification for those of you who aren't on the notification list on drupal.co.za.
Read moreDrupal Cape Town Meeting
At this meeting we must chat about http://drupal.co.za, as I would like to hear your thoughts on the site and I also have a few concerns that we can bandy around. Other than that the agenda will stay much the same as always, an "informal" gathering of Drupal-ers :).
Would anyone be interested in having a sort of "training" meeting every couple of months where we would organise a training facility like UCT? For sustainance we would organise beer and pizza and everyone would just pitch into the piggy bank.
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Looking for a Drupal developer for help with a view
Hello,
I am looking for a Drupal developer that can help me with a view I need to create.
As I explained in earlier posts, I have a content type called product.
When creating a product, the user can link it to a parent taxonomy term and to several sub taxonomy terms.
The view should display the nodes for a given parent taxonomy term and group them by the sub taxonomy terms.
The problem I have now is that if a product is linked to several sub taxonomy terms, they all appear as one header, which is not what the user want.
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