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
Acquia Drupal
Hi All,
Just saw that Acquia has a bundled version of drupal (www.acquia.com).
Seems to have a lot of the modules bundled...
What do you all think of this?
Cheers
Rob
Preample: Cape Town meet-up.
Lets get another Cape Town meet-up going.
Reply here if you are interested.
Suggest a date and venue.
And also what topic you want discuss at the meet.
drupal cape town
hi, just wondering if there is a drupal user group in cape town?
Read moreDrowning not waving!
warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'page_node_form' was given in C:\drupal\apps\drupal5\htdocs\includes\form.inc on line 218.
Morning Drupalz,
So with a bit of patience and a nudge from Mr. Headroom i had all the ubercart goodies, catalog and more up and running on my vamp install.
And then horror oh horror went back to edit the two pages i had made before installing panels and customizing my blue marine theme,flushed with sucsess i opened my home page and the following occurred :
it's that dang importer module
Hey ubercartersza!
Well i have been going through the standard learning curve of drupal and ubercart....
you know tears of frustration, manic laughter and whooping at sucsess and occasional hair pulling.But an exciting adventure none the less on the path from n00b to baffled.
So now i am attempting to get the import mod working.
Urgent help with access control please
Hi all,
I need urgent help please, I don't know how, but I broke my access control.
When I am logged in as the admin, I can't do anything on the administration side. Every page that I open shows me only the description of the module but nothing else. For example, if I go to blocks, I don't see the actual blocks list. If I go to users, I don't see the users lists.
The login block is also gone, so when I logged out, I can't log back in again.
Read moreView styling - help
Hi all,
T's me again ;)
I need help with styling my custom home page.
I have a block-view that I display on the page, but I want to style one of it's fields, for example, I want it to have blue background.
When I look at the views/theming information, I see this line: $data = $row->{$field->field_alias} but I'm not sure what does it mean.
My view is based on taxonomy terms and I want the term_name to be White text on Blue background.
I created a views-view--homecats.tpl.php file and I think I need to change this code section:
<?php
print $rows;
?>Szeged DrupalCon Info
Hi Everyone
Anton and myself have just attended the DrupalCon in Szeged. I would urge everyone to start saving now for DrupalCon 2009, it is really worth it.
Most of the session were taped and together with the slides used are available here:
http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/program/sessions
Have a look. There were some amazing stuff.
Read moreDrupal Video Tutorials
Hi all
Just came across this (http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=620&ref=swf) Lynda.com has video tutorials on getting started with Drupal.
Seems like a good starting point. What do you think?
I prefer seeing things in video instead of reading it in books.
Cheers
Read moreXAMPP broke my laptop :(
Please help me... I just got my new shiny laptop, installed XAMPP and now I keep getting the error: Access violation at address 10009F40 in module 'LIBMYSQL.dll'. Read of address violation 00000000.
I can't do anything.
I googled it, and found that I need to remove the password and username from the my.ini file, but there are no username or password in the my.ini file.
I'm using Vista Home Basic, I tried to uninstall XAMPP and to reinstall and nothing helps.
Please, please, can someone help?
Do I need to format my laptop to get rid of this error?
Thanks,
Sigal
Read moreIt is now more than 6 months since Drupal 6 has been officially released. Which version are you using?
Dynamic Drop down lists
Hi,
Is there a way to create a CCK list field that it's values depend on a different drop down list?
For example:
Drop down list one has fruit or vegetables in it.
Drop down list two will have either fruit or vegetables in it, depending on what was selected in the first drop down.
Thanks,
Sigal
Read moreLooking for a good host
Looking for job
Hi,
I am looking for work as a junior Drupal developer.
My current skills include: CCK, Views, nicemenus, yuimenu, tellafriend, faq and webform.
I completed two courses in css/xhtml and a beginner course in php.
I am currently studying eCommerce in Drupal.
I am a fast learner and very eager to learn more.
If anyone knows of any opportunities, please let me know.
Thank you very much,
Sigal
Read moreeCommerce Site
Hello,
I got a request to create a site that sells one product.
I am just finishing the book "Selling online with Drupal e-commerce" so I'm not sure I'll be able to do the site by myself.
Is anybody interested in offering help for payment?
If so, please let me know.
Thank you,
Sigal
Read moreeCommerce Fundi
Hi,
I've been trying eCommerce and Ubercart for the past couple of months and still have the same problem. As I'm importing over 4000 users from my previous site http://www.filmmaker.co.za to my new site http://www.filmcontact.com, I need to be able to manually set the subscribed, expiry date and role for each user.
- at importing, all users automatically to be given authenticated role with an expiration date in 2011 (to show in their account 'order history') so that it is not empty .. or run a script to do that?
Selling the benefits of Drupal
Hi,
Me again :-)
We have done a website a long time ago for one of our clients in HTML only. Slowly the site is growing and to be honest it is becoming a pain for me to maintain, new content always requires me to go to code, create pages, upload them etc...
I want to get my client to upgrade the site to Drupal. However the problem is that the client doesn't see the benefit of moving, for him the current version is fine and doesn't see the need to spend money to upgrade.
Read moreDrupal Quote Calculations Module or capabilities
Hi All
I have 2 questions, but i will make the other one another discussion.
I would like to know if there is some sort of way to calculate quotes using drupal and if anybody has done something of this sort. My search has yielded no results and was wondering how one would do such a thing. Would one use a e-commerce plugin such as ubercart or would one need to do a custom development?
Any ideas?
Read moreIntroduction workshop to CCK module for Drupal (Drupal Meetup 17 July, Johannesburg)
Feedback wanted on the most recent Drupal Johannesburg meetup
Please could everyone who attended take a moment to share their opinions of the most recent Drupal Johannesburg meetup held on the 19th July 2008. The idea is to make each future event better than the last, but we can only do this if we know what you liked/disliked about any of the previous events. Use the comments of this post to share your feedback, and ideas. I created a short summary of the workshop here, for those that need a jogging of the mind.
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