Posts tagged with "modules"
Creating Slick Slideshows for Drupal Webites
SlideShowPro Integration Module Makes Creating Slideshows Easy
It's been lying in our drawers for months, and I've finally had the chance to dust off and upload the SlideShowPro Integration module that Stefano Malozzi (stefano73) wrote and I wrote a filter for. SlideShowPro is one of the prettier and more flexible Flash slideshows out there. Alas it's not free, but the $29 cost doesn't tear holes into your pockets either.
The really cool thing about SlideShowPro is that it can be fed by an XML description of albums and images, which paves the way to easy integration with Drupal. The SlideShowPro module allows you to build an XML description of a slideshow with views. You can then embed this slideshow with a simple tag like [ssp|path=path/to/slideshow].
Watch this screencast to see how it works:
The current version of the module can turn images and albums of the image module into SlideShowPro slideshows. It should be possible to turn other image resources - like CCK nodes with imagefield pictures - into slideshows too by overriding the theme_slideshowpro_feed() function.
Great work on the module Stefano!
One of the biggest battles in this year’s midterm elections isn’t between Democrats and Republicans – it’s over women’s reproductive rights. Next week South Dakotans will vote on whether to keep the state’s blanket ban on abortions. There’s no question that this vote will play a major role in many other states’ policies on abortion. So you want to know the results, right? It just got easier for you to get them without being chained to your television or computer next Tuesday.
Bèr Kessels recently opened his cooool drupal module /tagadelic/, so that it is easier for other modules to build their own tag clouds.
Simplenews is a Drupal module that lets you send a newsletter to registered users and non-users alike from your Drupal-powered website. It’s really quite easy to use and blends well with the rest of Drupal. The basics of Simplenews let you create multiple newsletter categories, from which you can send out regular or irregularly planned newsletters to a list of subscribers. Keep reading to learn how we plan to improve Simplenews...
Text message powered campaigns are getting even more practical. At the Drupal Meet-up in DC last Thursday we ran up a nice $280 bar tab running our first field test of an SMS gateway API and a couple last-minute modules we put together to have a website (Drupal powered) talk to cell phones.
We're investing some research and development into TinyMCE and are collecting all the complaints from our clients and anyone else who uses it, as well as comparing to the reported issues on Drupal. We're talking about usability issues, not failure for it to load or run in the first place. Please reply in a comment or send us an email with any complaints or issues you have with TinyMCE that are not on the list below. We'll let you know if we're able to improve anything and post what we find.
Documented TinyMCE issues:
-paragraph / line break inconsistencies
(if you have this issue, please explain it in more detail)
-bolding of the entire content when bolding single element
I installed a pre-forms API upgrade version of TinyMCE on Drupal 4.6/4.7 running on the TinyMCE 2.0RC. Until you really use it, it's hard to know what will make it better. Then, once you use it, you use it or get used to it in a way slightly different from another person. What if it just worked right for everyone?
Eric and Ian have been looking for a better “email this page to a friend" module for a while. Drupal currently has two modules with this kind of functionality, but for various reason neither really did what we wanted. A few months back Ian swapped out the emailthispage module for the forward module, and so what I’ve done is take the forward module a little bit further.
We want our sites to send emails with a crisp and clean look and
really were not happy with the plain text emails which the forward module currently produces. We had the plain text vs. html discussion internally and decided that for what we needed html emails were the way to go. Using html really lets us really produce a clean and organized looking email, and one that can include an image or two as well.
I think what the new contributed Drupal subscriptions module does, if I understand it right, is brilliant: essentially whatever you subscribe to on the site, from your user page you can merge your individual subscriptions as one subscription. Therefore, you can merge subscriptions of similar content and then if you could choose to receive your subscriptions once a week you essentially create your own newsletter.
Right now, when you install the subscription module a global comment subscription is available which lets users subscribe to all comments posted on the site. Though not quite there yet, administrators could also bundle different subscribable content and make these channels available as global channels to which any user can subscribe. If you take this a step further, users could be allowed to make their own subscription bundles which would be public or private and can allow other users to subscribe to their bundles.
When I first approached help edit there was just one real change I had in mind, however the more I worked on it the more I saw I wanted to do. Before I had even begun working on the module Ian had already made a change to it which made path aliases work correctly. A small change, but as the content the modules provides is entirely context based having it actually show up is very important.
What I had been asked to do was implement a mechanism which would allow different groups of uses to see different messages – role control. To do so I created a new table in the database to hold the information about which groups of users get to see which message, and I had to make changes to the pages where you create and edit help messages so that an admin can select which roles see a help edit message. Beyond that I only made a small change to the database query which finds the help edit message for a given page, but as I said, I also ended up addressing a few other things…
Relations can take place between many different items in Drupal. Items can be content, users, categories, or other. The fruits of relations could be represented in many different ways including embedded links on story pages showing related stories, a block in the sidebar showing related terms to the current article you are reading, a user's buddylist showing related users, or in other words, the user's buddies, a graphical map representing FOAF or sixth degree relations between users on a site, a list of nodes that refer to a given file in the Drupal files directory, a list of users who are attendees to an event...