api

For the RPG module, I just published the API, which is "bleeding cutting edge" since it is the development copy I use before it even gets committed to the CVS repository. Go take a peek!

UPDATE: I've cross-posted this over at Drupal Dojo since there seems to be a few folks interested in collaborating and/or learning about this project.

In checking the status of the Upcoming.org module (http://drupal.org/project/upcomingorg), I noticed some familiar names from our Los Angeles group inquiring and/or offering assistance. Being that we've discussed this type of integration for some projects (ladrupal.org, local/media portal), maybe we can help KarenS resuscitate and expand the scope of this module (integrating additional event/ticketing portals)?

I've already talked to at least half a dozen people that want to "integrate Drupal with Facebook". In some ways, that is a meaningless statement, since integration will be very specific to your site or service that happens to be built with Drupal.

But, I think we can join forces and at least have a solid module that can be extended.

Right now, I'm thinking along the lines of the pathauto module: it has a series of *.inc files (e.g. pathauto_node.inc) that allow it to work

Here are some ideas:
* facebookapi_event.inc (for event and date) -- post an event in Drupal, have it post to Facebook as well
* facebookapi_node.inc -- post a node, have it post as a Note to Facebook

What about "social networking"? Can we show Facebook information embedded directly in / extended from a Drupal user profile?

Update: it has been pointed out to me that I wasn't clear on the value for "Facebook Applications". If you make FunkyService.com and build it with Drupal, you'll still have to do some custom work for your special FunkyService. But, ideally, utilizing this kind of an API module, it would be as simple as a hook_facebookapi or a facebookapi_funkyservice.inc in order to work with FB.

Let's make Drupal a great platform for making Facebook Apps with....

agentrickard proposed an aggregator API here:

http://drupal.org/node/130942

[Some questions/suggestions that are kinda late in the game, but coming from research I've been doing today....]

To what extent is this API intended to facilitate data exchanges between Drupal and other CMSs?

Have you seen the Portable Site Information PSI specification, http://psilib.sourceforge.net/? It sets out a generalized XML interchange format for CMS data (and provides some tools written in Python). Would it be useful to consider this as a basis for the Import/Export XML format?

A potentially useful reference is the Exorcist softare produced as an offshoot of the Midgard CMS, http://www.midgard-project.org/documentation/exorcist/. It provides a general toolset for data exchanges between CMSs (in Java).

ImageMagick integration for Drupal

from http://drupal.org/node/61133

• Become familiar with the following items: Imagemagick, File API, Image API , Form API
• Identify x image manipulation actions that could be automated.
• Identify what processes are required, and how to accomplish them using ImageMagick.
• Develop functions for each of the operations, clearly documenting their use and parameters.
• Develop a hook that allows a developer to define 'effects', by specifying a series of operations
  to be called on an image, and a set of parameters.

Hello,

(I cross-posted this message to http://www.wechange.org/node/97 . I will be updating the remote version with link, corrections, etc, so see there for updates if your read this long after I posted it).

I would like to introduce you to a php voting API that I wish to develop further and for which I'd like to create a Drupal module. It is a complementary alternative or even replacement to the Drupal voting API.

Please, don't consider having a heart attack just yet. Please, read further and decide later.

Allow me to start from the beginning...

A world of alternative voting systems

It is a sad fact that for most people, whenever they think about voting or election, they can only think about what is known as "plurality voting", the voting method whereby you can only select one choice among many. Unfortunately, this voting method is demonstrably very bad.