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There has been much discussion through the years about the automatic GPL status of Themes and Modules, and I will weigh in on that topic itself in another post (see the bottom of this post). But for now suffice it to say that I see an argument in favor of requiring GPL for Modules but I see a very different and very compelling argument in favor of excluding Themes from the GPL mandate. This post is to address a pre-cursor to that argument ...

OMG! Do I love the panels module.

I haven't delved deeply into panels and mini-panels just yet but...

I was driving myself crazy coding my front page so I had a two panel gateway into two separate sites. Actually they are all on the same install and really just one site. I wanted two distinct pictures (jpegs) that represented each the site/side they were hyper-linked to and to have the text above centered. No matter how I Div'ed the node in the editor I couldn't get even and centered text nor the hyper-linking pictures satisfactorily positioned.

If you have never seen Bob and his podcasts from Mustardseed, now is your chance to and to bookmark his lessons. Granted some 'casts do not go deep down the rabbit holes but he does give great tutes to get one started.

I had been struggling to understand all the switches and what the cause and effect is with aspects of some Drupal modules. The two referenced podcasts help sort some of this out. Hope they help you as well.

This podcast is regarding Node References:

http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode37

This podcast is regarding Nodequeue:

Hej!

Jag sitter och funderar på ett litet community-projekt som jag tänkte göra i drupal. Det ska finnas de vanliga kontaktvägarna, lite med profil, flöden etc. Och här finns det massor med moduler som kan hjälpa mig.

Men däremot vet inte riktigt hur man ska göra om man vill kunna se människors geografiska position.

Mitt mål är att kunna se människor "Nära sig" - genom t ex postnummret (det blir lagom oexakt), samt att kunna få någon form av överblick i kartform. Är detta något som ni ser som möjligt?

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After the discussion on KWALL's standard module set, I decided I wanted an easier way to get them in place. I mean, it's not really that hard to type drush dl module1 module2 module3 ad_nauseum..., but where am I going to keep a text file of a list of modules to paste into that command? I decided I'd (finally) build a Drush Make file to take care of all of it. I thought I'd share what I came up with.

For the record, let me affirm what many here already know, Drupal
truly allows the freedom to produce a scalable, stable and secure
production environment incorporating mission critical legacy
infrastructure. As part of our portal redesign project the basic
requirements included the seemingly insane task of seamlessly
integrating no less than two database formats, two server side coding
languages all within at least 3 major themes all via Drupal. Over a
four week period we worked out all the technical obstacles -- and did
so without any Drupal core module changes of any kind. I wonder if
other developers out there have similar stories of successfully
integrating legacy components into their fully Drupalized web site? I
hope to inspire someone out there with this post!

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Apart from the most widely used modules like Views, CCK , Ctools etc... What are the modules which are specific to social-networking sites that enhance the sites' usability as well as feel....??

I have just (fairly) successfully installed a Drupal multisite on my host (A2Hosting). The three sites access the core code base and their individual databases brilliantly. One HUGE problem. After I uploaded my standard set of contrib modules and themes to the sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes (respectively), none of the sites recognize them. The admin/modules only shows the core modules on all three of the sites.

When an install profile is packaged, it contains specific versions of its modules. This total package gets a version number.

e.g. Cool Profile v1.32 = module1 v1.19 + module2 v.3.48 + module3 v0.80

I heard that to maintain the integrity of the install profiles versioning system, its individual modules don't auto-update themselves like a module you've installed yourself would. If this is true, I understand the reasoning behind this, but can someone confirm if it's indeed true?