Drupal Notes- "this is so cool" list
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2006-03-26 07:07.
Advanced User Table of Contents
Code snippets
Creating simple modules
database calls within drupal pages
Make web pages within Drupal that call on the database to do cool things...
http://drupal.org/node/31534
** I might be able to re-write the SpaceShare sign-in page this way!
Interesting Modules
Here are some interesting modules:
http://drupal.org/project/Modules
Subscription
replaces subscriptions and notify
It looks powerful and confusing. David, want to figure it out?
*WARNING: prefixes are broken in the module, this effects /community, I created some non-prefixed tables.
* ARGHH... this module has some suckiness too. Switching back to subscriptions until David tells me which is better
Rating Nodes:
- http://drupal.org/project/nodevote
- and related to that: Extended Tracker
- Voting
Volunteering and Signing up:
Sign-Up, perhaps good for volunteers at an event or people signing up for a task:
volunteer
SecureSite
combine htaccess and login
Superteaser
Improves the teasers, which sure sounds like a good idea.
These help edit themes within the browser:
Theme Editor
ThemeDev
For ToDo Pages:
Workspace
Organizing by node type:
Article
Database CRM:
CiviCRM
Money:
donations
e-commerce
some paypal options
Developer Modules:
Devel -- looks cool, helps you understand how things relate to database.
Tried modules & themes
Heres a list so far of what modules and themes have been tested on the test site:
I tried out the mailhandler and listhandler modules combined to integrate the forum and e-mail.
Had little success - Got the forum and e-mail to integrate but threading only works if people dont change the subject.
Now this is broken (an IMAP error) even though no settings were changed - perhaps these modules are strict about PHP versions. (particularly IMAP functions).
dashboard & front page - these modules were reccomended in a drupal thread about diplaying extra information in the headings of the pages.
This only works on the front pages though!
Tasklist & task module - i installed these modules on the test site -
the task module didn't work (it only works with drupal 4.7 or later) and the tasklist module didn't allow users to specify an end date for the tasks!
Maybe the task module would be worth re-investigating if the site becomes upgraded at some point to use drupal 4.7.
Aggregator - this is a pretty cool module, sucking news articles from wherever you specify. I tried getting news on green fuels from CNN,
though for months there has been no news in this area so I think I need to find some new news sources that are more related to environmental news.
themes:
tried out the friends electric theme to help improve the appearance of forums....It wasn't really an improvement.
Tried Marvin, Chameleon, Blue Marine, Push Button
Push Button seems to have the best layout for forums...from what I have seen on the drupal themes section, no themes are really geared towards forums.
Push Button separates each message into alternating colour rows to make it easier to keep track of where you are reading on a page.
On the themes page the theme named civicspace is designed to be heavily customisable...perhaps we could customize the forum display using this theme?