Feeds module

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:59:38 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 28, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 21 - 28, 2012.

Drupal News

Voting Open - Community Elections 2013

Dries Buytaert: Views in Drupal 8 and Views in D8 Core Update from Earl

Feedback needed: Should .info files support arbitrary PHP constants?

DrupalPicchu 2014

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal-Salesforce Integration: A State of the Union, pt. 1

Module Monday: RSS Field Formatters

Properly Getting Field Data on Entities (Nodes)

Next Steps for Drupal Commerce

& Modules">Leveling Up Your Themer (lvl0): Contributed Themes & Modules

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part II

Understanding Drupal 8’s plugin system

Interesting New Modules

Better Views Tables - Provides a style plugin for Views which extends the default tables integration and adds some new features: Improved markup for HTML5 sites Responsive table options.

Webform Feeds - adds the ability to use Webform submissions as a source for a Feeds importer.

Mobile Menu Toggle - Creates a block with a “Menu” link that, when clicked, initializes a jQuery slideToggle effect to hide or show the Menu Zone of the Omega Theme.

PDF Construction Kit - The purpose of this module is to create PDFs out of different nodes from the site. It allows you to select different nodes and render them as a single PDF out of those elements.

Render As - Adds the ability for elements to be rendered as a specific user and/or role(s), which can be used for the purposes of testing how content will be seen by another user or a user or a particular role without having to change users.

Mozilla Persona - This module adds Mozilla Persona functionality to your site. Users will be able to login and create an account using this system.

Views URL args - Use URL-provided arguments in views filter criteria, which is currently more flexible than Contextual Filters.

Two-Pass Tokens - “There are some contexts which are built up in the admin interface (Rules comes to mind), in which we want to pull in user-supplied content (in my case, the body of an email). A great feature would be to allow the user-generated content to support tokens in the same context in which it is used.”

Context Reaction: Main Menu - Allows the Context module to change the main menu of the site.

Wayne EakerSeptember 28, 2012

Analtyics Context module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Menus Mobile Theming Token module Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:11 +0000

The Week in Drupal: September 21, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 14 - 21.

Drupal News

Drupal Association News: Update Election 2013

New Case studies section on Drupal.org

Drupal core announcements: Feedback needed on how themes should declare their layouts

Great Posts and Tutorials

Symfony and Drupal 8: The lowdown from Symfony Live London

Drupal Commerce - Different prices for different customer groups

Module Monday: Clientside Validation

Drush Tip: Quickly Sync Files Between Your Environments With Rsync

Taming FacetAPI paths

Create the ultimate Google Analytics Dashboard for Drupal – Part 1

Interesting New Modules

Composite Views Filter - Allows you to create one filter condition that enables several filter conditions.

Leafbean - Leaflet + Bean for a simple map block - Using an addressfield, the user can enter an address that will be geocoded into a rendered leaflet map.

Open Badge-It - This module allows you to create badges, award them to users and allow users to issue their badges to an obi compliant backpack like Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure.

Image or Video field formatter - Adds a field formatter for a media field that can either be an image or a video.

Worbench Moderation OG - This module allows integration between workbench moderation and organic groups. Organic group roles can be defined to be responsible to perform different transitions that will move content from the different stages.

Workbench Email - Provides a way for administrators to define email transitions and configurable email subject / messages between those transitions.

Feeds Readability Parser - A Feeds parser plugin that extracts the title and content of a webpage using a PHP port of Readability.

Raptorize - This module will enable frontend, inline editting using the HTML5 Raptor editor. Raptor is a HTML5, JQuery UI enabled editor with a GPL licens. See https://www.raptor-editor.com for details

Shiny (Administration theme) - The admin theme used in Commerce Kickstart v2.

Druplippy - This appears to be a very serious port of MS Clippy to Drupal.

Slides - Allows the easy creation of slides to create HTML presentations for display using reveal.js.

views_timelinr - Integrate jQuery Timelinr-Plugin as a Views Plugin.

Menu Listchildren - Allows the creation of parent menu items which simply point to a page listing the child items.

Responsify - Allows you to set up devices which have FROM and TO pixel breakpoints. You can use these devices in drupal_add_js calls to load in different JavaScript depending on whether the user is in the device bounds you specified.

Wayne EakerSeptember 21, 2012

Analtyics Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community E-Commerce Feeds module FormAPI Maps Menus Solr Symfony Theming Views module Workbench module WYSIWYG module

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:17:35 +0000

The Week in Drupal: July 6, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 29 - July 6, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich Session Schedule Announced!

DrupalCon São Paolo Updates and Call for Session Proposals

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Where to find updates on D8 Development Progress

Drupal core announcements: New Routing system in progress; needs feedback

Great Posts and Tutorials

RedHen CRM: Keeping all your eggs in one Drupal basket: Part 1, Part 2

Engagement Scoring - A Case for Native Drupal CRM

The Hybrid Designer

Page Cache vs. Landing Page Performance

Creating Page Layouts with Omega Theme

A Simple Async JavaScript Loader

De-Drupalizing The Login Form

Jeff Hanbury and the LiveThemer Project - Modules Unraveled Podcast

nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir on Mac OS X with optional Drush 5 (works on Mountain Lion!)

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Express Checkout - The Express Checkout button redirects to the Checkout page directly, without going to the Cart first, It also removes the Review page and adds the Payment checkout pane to the Checkout page, so the whole checkout process is done on one page.

MergeDocx - This module allows user to create Microsoft Word ( in .docx format file) by creating a Microsoft Word template file with Mail merge fields serve as data placeholders and Drupal node as data source.

Biblio Autocomplete - This module provides functionality for auto-completion of fields in the Biblio node type using third party services (currently two plugin modules are included: IPNI and ZooBank).

Commerce Invoices - Commerce Invoices allows you to enter an Invoice number, Company name and Amount and it will generate an Invoice that the client can pay on your site using any payment method supported by Drupal commerce.

Admin Menu Flusher - Extends the admin menu so that you can allow people to flush the cache, without giving them permission to administer the entire site.

HeadBar - A HelloBar clone

request_queue - Uses the queue system to fire off HTTP requests asynchronously. The intention is to avoid delays in loading pages due to waiting on HTTP requests.

Privatemsg Taxonomy - Allows to send message to all members with taxonomy term.

Feeds PHP Fetcher - Allows power users and developers to write custom PHP code that will be used to fetch data from remote sources.

Comments as Block - Removes the display of comments from nodes and exposes as a block.

Wayne EakerJuly 6, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon São Paulo Drush Feeds module High Performance Javascript nginx PrivateMsg RedHen CRM Theming

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:22:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: June 29, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: June 22 - 29, 2012.

Drupal News

Drupal core announcements: Drupal 7 core release postponed; help still needed resolving release blockers

Transitions at the Drupal Association

Dries Buytaert: Drupal governance sprint

Dries Buytaert: Spark update: responsive layouts in Drupal

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Base Theme Review

Drupal cron failing? Not sure why? here’s a handy drush command.

Module Monday: Custom Permissions

Scaling GRAMMY.com at the High Performance Drupal Meetup

Automatically increment Features version numbers using Drush

Bob Christenson and Making a living in Drupal - Modules Unraveled Podcast

Inheriting your Drupal profile from an existing distribution

E-Learning Institute at PSU: ELMS Beta released and beyond!

Interesting New Modules

Image Annotator - Allows you to annotate images. See this screenshot for what that means.

Panels edition - This module helps manage different “editions” of the front page of your website.

Flag Lists Popup - Provides a popup menu for Flag Lists module.

AJAXBlock - Provides a set of options for turning any normal blocks into AJAX blocks, which do not need a complete page reload when the content changes. Currently works with Webform.

Google Cloud Messaging - Implementation of Google Cloud Messaging for use with Drupal and Rules module.

Simple Views Field - Provides the ability to generate a views lists by choosing from a few simple choices.

Entityreference Bulk - This module offers an entityreference field widget that allows to create referenced entities while creating the referencing (“parent”) entity.

Feeds: Facebook events - Import event data via graph api from facebook.

Login Ticket - Allows for the generation of login-tickets. (a special link that logs in a user when he/she clicks on it) Each link can have 3 parameters: How long is the ticket valid? How often can this link be used? Where is the user redirected after the login?

Wayne EakerJune 29, 2012

Business Drupal Drush Features module Feeds module Flag module High Performance Imagecache module Imagefield module Panels module Responsive Design Security Theming Webform module

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:22:27 +0000

The Week in Drupal: April 20, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last weeks: April 13 - 20, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Munich: Submit a session for Munich until May 11!

Improved Session Selection Process for DrupalCon Munich

Great Posts and Tutorials

Creating a Custom Apache Solr Facet

Build advanced content listings – with Apache Solr, Search API, Facet API

Squeeze! Save disk space with MySQL compression - Not totally Drupal, but useful for Drupal devs.

Interesting New Modules

Image Delta Formatter - P provides a custom formatter for imagefields, that allows the user to specify which values (deltas) should be displayed.

Hierarchical Term Formatter - Provides hierarchical term formatters to display a taxonomy term reference on, say, a node as Parent > Child, rather than just Child.

Feeds hierarchical taxonomy - Import nodes with taxonomies such as Clothes > Children > Blue and automatically create terms as a hierarchical taxonomy tree.

Bendy - A feature module that creates a content rotating banner using the Views Slideshow module, Client-side Adaptive Image module and some CSS sorcery.

UUID Link - Allows use to link to entities using UUIDs, rather than ids. This prevents links breaking as content moves from one environment to another.

Entity Sync - Allows Rules driven synchronization of entities between Drupal installations.

Post Bookmarklet - Allows you to create bookmarklets to quickly create new nodes based on an external URL.

Wayne EakerApril 20, 2012

Drupal DrupalCon Munich Entity API Feeds module Imagecache module Search Solr Taxonomy module Views module

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:03 +0000

The Week in Drupal: March 30, 2012

Being out in Denver last week, I didn't have time to post one of these, so here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the past two weeks: March 16 - 30, 2012.

Drupal News

DrupalCon Denver Wrapup, Including Session Videos

Dries Buytaert: Streamlining Drupal core decision-making

Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google

Announcing DrupalCon 2013 in Portland!

The Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012!

DrupalCon Munich is around the corner: call for papers and registration open

Phase2 and Treehouse are Coming Together

Great Posts and Tutorials

Why Minify JavaScript?

How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

Extended path aliases (path to success!)

Render a block programmatically

Ubercart CRM for the iPad: My DrupalCon 2012 Twilio Developer Contest Entry

KatteKrab: The Drupal Association

Interesting New Modules

Views Field If-Else - This is a D7 views field, that compares rendered text in an if-statement, and renders a defined text for each clause.

Views Simple Pager - This module provides a simple, configurable Previous / Next pager and the elements can be reversed from "normal" display order (e.g. << Older ... Newer >> instead of << Newer .. Older >>).

Mailchecker - Implements mailcheck.js (https://github.com/Kicksend/mailcheck) with Drupals forms, primarily the register form.

Views Date - Allows you to do non-traditional date sorts, such as by hour of the day.

Entityreference Browser - A widget that allows you to easily find content from a entityrefrence field.

Introducting the Speedy Module

Pathologic Repair - Repair links that get broken in content from staging to production with this extension to the Pathologic module.

Panels Create node - Create nodes and add them as panes, all from within the Panels interface.

Feeds Review - Provides an intermediary Feeds Processor class that allows you to store imported items in a queue for reviewing them before import.

Image lazy - Loads images that user scrolls to view only, skip loading bunch of images which user doesn't event skim.

impress - Adds Impress.js to your drupal site Use the content type slide to create a new slide Select your options. By default it will generate a new slide right to the previous. You can select under/left/above also. Use Node queue to sort your slides

Ubercart Stock Locations - Define one or more locations and to set the stock level for each product at each of the locations independently.

Flag Signup - Enables users to signup to content via the flag module.

Distributed Blocks - Simple client/server module to share rendered blocks across different Drupal sites. Must be enabled on both sides.

Mobile App Generator - Create a mobile app quickly from a menu of pages. I saw the DrupalCon session on this. Somewhat limited, but very easy to use.

Entity Collection (Super Node) - Node collection is a module that will allow you to add parent child relationships on different content types and will help you to create content rich small micro sites inside your Drupal 7 installation .

Entity Reference Connect - This module expands Entity Reference using Subform to allow the user to create a new entity to be referenced to without having to leave the current page.

Auto Product Display - provide user an option to automatically create product display on every new product creation.

Cookie Control - Cookie Control does just that, presenting users with clear information on whether cookies are present, linking to your privacy policy (where you should have specific information about what cookies are in use), and advising users on how to adjust browser settings and what cookies mean for them.

dRealty Sandbox - dRealty is a Real Estate Module to import Listings into drupal via the RETS protocol. It aims to become a full fledged IDX solution for Drupal.

Node Archive - This module replaces this default behaviour with an archiving system.

Flag Cool Note - provides the Drupal administrator to attach a webform to a flag so that when users flag or unflag any piece of content, they can add additional information using the webform.

Wayne EakerMarch 30, 2012

Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver DrupalCon Munich DrupalCon Portland Entity API Feeds module Flag module FormAPI Mobile Panels module Theming Ubercart UX Views module

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:17:41 +0000

The Week in Drupal: February 24, 2012

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of February 17 - 24, 2012.

Drupal News

Create a Personalized Schedule for DrupalCon

Drupal in Education Unconference - The Monday before DrupalCon in Denver

Drupal 8 Initiatives: Report from the Budapest sprint on Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative issues

Drupal core announcements: Proposal: Loosen rules regarding patches that may be backported during a stable release (7.x+)

Larry Garfield: Refocusing WSCCI

Great Posts and Tutorials

Using the Drupal Batch API - Also demostrates how to write your own Drush commands.

Case study: Big performance gains from small changes

Introducing the Backbone Module for Drupal

Quick Enhancements to Make Drupal Content Admin Dirt Simple

How to send HTML mail using SMTP authentication on Drupal

Understanding the Entity API Module

Programmatically Insert Local Files to Managed Files

Jennifer Hodgdon on Documentation for Drupal (Podcast)

How to split Drupal Commerce orders at checkout

A location based service example using IP Geolocation: map of buyer locations

Interesting New Modules

SimpleAds: A new advertisement module for Drupal 7

Nested Image Style - This module enables creating image styles which inherit image effects from other image styles.

Webform Chart - Displays webform results in a graphically using a charting library.

Path Redirect by Date - Allows you to specify start and end dates for redirects.

PDFThumb - Provides automatic creation of PDF thumbnails in filefields.

Ubercart Combine Shipping - Combine shipping costs for products that need to be shipped by different carriers into a single shipping cost.

Date Popup Restrictions - Restrict the selectable days on a date popup widget. Can be done with form settings or even by using the result of a view!

Report Builder - Report builder allows you to create a table or chart with each data point as the result of a view. Each view has its own set of exposed filters. This allows users to easily create graphs or tables that summarize drupal data, which they can reconfigure and play around with.

jQuery UI Multiselect - This module integrates the jQuery UI Multiselect plugin with existing list widgets. The jQuery plugin is demonstrated at https://www.quasipartikel.at/multiselect.

FileField Role Limit - An extension of FileField module that adds the ability to limit the max upload file size for each different role.

Weform Stepbar - Provides a "step bar" at the top of multiple page Webforms.

Feeds d.o Issue Parser - Feeds parser for drupal.org issue queue threads.

REST Auth - Allows users to login using an external REST service.

Urban Airship - Allows site administrators to use a Drupal site to send push notifications to the Urban Airship service.

Mirror Alert - Helps you determine if other websites are mirroring your site with DNS or using your static assets.

Wayne EakerFebruary 24, 2012

Advertising Date module Drupal Drupal 8 Drupal Commerce DrupalCon Denver Drush E-Commerce Email Entity API Feeds module Filefield module GeoIP High Performance Imagecache module Ubercart Views module Webform module

The Week in Drupal: January 27, 2012

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:44:45 +0000

The Week in Drupal: January 27, 2012

A little behind on these. So, here's a look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of December 16, 2011 - January 27, 2012.

Drupal News

Dries Buytaert: Core Conversations at DrupalCon Denver

Drupal core announcements: Hiearchical permission system

Drupalcon: DrupalCon Denver final sessions are posted!

Drupal Association 2012 elections are on!

Getting Involved in the Drupal Community: Survey Results

Great Posts and Tutorials

Drupal Mega Menus Made Simple - Introducing the Menu Views module!

Prevent Drupal 7 from Mistakenly Deleting Files with File Lock

Accessing user's Facebook Photos and Albums with Drupal

Drupal usability study at Google - To be streamed live February 1-3

Module Monday: Text Formatter

Module Monday: Bundle Copy

Look bigger with Features

Sign Up for Entities and Fields

Managing account registration for multiple user types

The Marketing of Drupal

Interesting New Modules

Release of Drupal 7 Content Analysis & Optimizer modules

Views AJAX History - Allow bookmarking of AJAX driven views

Configuration - An alternative to the Features module for Drupal 7

Feeds Evernote - Import notes from Evernote with Feeds

Geofield Images - Get Google Streetview images automatically for Geofields

Add to calendar - Add iCal/Outlook/Google Calendar add links to Date field node pages.

Eventbrite Attendees - Import Eventbrite attendees for event pages.

Menu Attach Block

Dropbox Client - Allow Drupal users to modify Dropbox files.

Simple Field Formatter - Prefix, suffix, strtoupper, etc.

iToggle - Make iPhone-like toggle switches in Views

Google Reader API

Boost Expire

FileField Sources Plupload

HTML5 Pageflip - Make a book with Views

Wayne EakerJanuary 27, 2012

Caching Configuration Management Drupal Drupal Community DrupalCon Denver Facebook Feeds module FieldAPI GeoIP HTML5 Menus Views module

The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:44:09 +0000

The Week in Drupal: August 26, 2011

A look back at interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of August 19 - 26, 2011.

Drupal News

DrupalCon London - Tom Standage Keynote

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Learn the Relation Module - A replacement for the References and Entity Reference modules.

Slick Data Sharding: Slides from DrupalCon London

The Drupal Crisis, and a Follow-up

Writing Robust Code that Uses Fields in Drupal 7

Boosted Varnish - High Performance Caching Made Easy

Rebuilding Drupal 6 Nodes

Interesting New Modules and Themes

Media Update - Update Media files without changing associated fields or breaking references.

Ubercart Checkout Login - Login as a checkout pane in Ubercart.

Feeds SQL - Import with Feeds using SQL statements.

Equi Join - Create relationships between entities in Views when they share a common field value, without an explicit reference between them.

PrivateMsg Drafts - Create drafts of messages with PrivateMsg.

ApacheSolr Numeric Facets

Wayne EakerAugust 26, 2011

Caching Drupal Drupal Community DrupalCon London Feeds module FieldAPI High Performance Media module Relation module Solr Ubercart Views module

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

Wayne Eaker — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:28:12 +0000

The Week in Drupal: December 10, 2010

A look at interesting new modules, articles and other Drupal news of this week.

Drupal News

Drupal 7 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) is Out!

DrupalCon Chicago Session Voting is Now Open

Great Posts and Tutorials This Week

Improve Javascript Loading with Head JS - Includes code for Drupal 6 and 7. (D6 code in comments)

7 Ways to Scale the Learning Brick Wall of Drupal - A good list of resources. We also do Drupal Training in Michigan, in addition to the trainers listed.

Interesting New Modules

Media: Facebook - Embed Facebook images into content.

Botcha Spam Prevention - Adds extra hidden fields to forms that trick spam bots into to filling them out, at which point they are blocked.

SlideDeck for Views - SlideDeck is a slick accordion-style slideshow jQuery plugin. This module integrates it with Views.

Feeds: Youtube - Import Youtube videos to your site with the Feeds module.

Production Check and Production Monitor - Like a pre-launch checklist. Checks SEO, error logging and other important settings to make sure they are ready to go live.

Field Injector - Display CCK fields inside other fields, like putting an Imagefield image after the first paragraph. (Drupal 7 only)

Ubercart Option Categories - Group your Ubercart dropdown attributes into categories.

Comment Registration - Register new users inline with adding their first comment.

Panels Regions - Remove certain regions in specific Panels variants.

Wayne EakerDecember 10, 2010

CCK module Comment module Drupal Drupal 7 DrupalCon Chicago Facebook Feeds module jQuery Panels module Spam Ubercart Views module