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VirtueMart Opensource eCommerce

2009-05-24T23:52:00.001-07:00

VirtueMart is an open source eCommerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System called Joomla and Mambo. VirtueMart is free shopping cart software for Joomla & Mambo. Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/Mysql environment.

Virtueinfo Can provide you VirtueMart Opensource E-commerce Development Application

To get a complete quote for your VirtueMart open-source ecommerce, VirtueMart requirements, Hire VirtueMart developers contact us at info@virtueinfo.com.

Get ready to experience excellence with us!

Magento Open Source eCommerce

2009-05-24T23:34:00.000-07:00

Magento is the latest open-source eCommerce solution offers extraordinary flexibility and control. While using Magento one can never feel trapped in eCommerce Solution again. Magento is a open-source so it is available for free to download.

Virtueinfo Can provide you Magento Opensource E-commerce Development Application

To get a complete quote for your Magento open-source ecommerce, Magento requirements, Hire magento developers contact us at info@virtueinfo.com.

Get ready to experience excellence with us!

Suomenporssimeklarit - Drupal Development

2009-04-26T22:03:00.000-07:00

The activity in the Helsinki Stock Exchange increased in the 1980's. Finnish Stock Broker Association was founded in October 9th 1984, because the professionals in the market wanted to develop the operations and procedures of financial markets in Finland.

URL: http://www.suomenporssimeklarit.fi

Tools: Photoshop - CS3, Dreamweaver

Laakeri - Drupal Development

2009-04-08T03:37:00.001-07:00

Bearing the starting point is to produce unique web concepts to work independently as services or as part of the big portals. Asiakkaitamme ovat suuret mediatalot ja yhdistykset, jotka panostavat vahvasti Internetiin mediana Our clients are large media and unions, who invest in a strong Internet mediana

URL: http://laakeri.fi/

Technology: Drupal

Fiare - Drupal Development

2009-04-08T03:30:00.000-07:00

Fiare has strong expertise in designing and executing demanding web services.It has delivered several successful web services in the past 8 years. One of them is Nettiauto which has become the market leader in used vehicle sales.

URL: http://www.fiare.fi/

Technology: Drupal

KVP-Group - Drupal Development - Website Design

2009-04-05T22:49:00.000-07:00

How can you quickly find suitable lodgings for your employees assigned to Finland? Do you want to avoid the rootless and restless hotel accommodation? Do you want to give your staff the best possible setting for efficient operations?

Here in Finland your questions are answered by Kymen Vuokraus ja Puhdistus Oy. Our nation-wide network of lodgings offers your company a variety of options to choose from.

URL: http://www.kvp-group.fi/

Technology: Drupal

Suomenporssimeklarit - Drupal Development

2009-03-16T23:28:00.000-07:00

Suomenporssimeklarit

Technology Used : PHP, Drupal

Url : http://www.suomenporssimeklarit.fi/

Laakeri - Drupal Development

2009-03-16T02:48:00.000-07:00

Laakeri

Technology Used : PHP, Drupal

Url : http://laakeri.fi/

KVP-Group - Drupal Development - Website Design

2009-03-10T02:05:00.000-07:00

Technology Used : PHP, Drupal

Url : http://www.kvp-group.fi/

Insert user friendly "click here to add your.." links when user profile fields are left blank

2009-02-05T02:02:00.000-08:00

PLEASE NOTE! These snippets are user submitted. It is impossible to check them all, so please use at your own risk! For users who have setup drupal using an alternate database to the default (MYSQL), please note that the snippets may contain some database queries specific to MYSQL.

Description

This php snippet displays a user friendly "click here to add your [profile field]" link when they are looking at their own profile page and have forgotten or not yet filled out some details.

The default settings with Drupal is to hide empty fields, so Users sometimes don't know they can add a field unless they look at the various EDIT MY ACCOUNT options.

The snippet checks to see if the person looking at the profile page is the same person or someone with ADMINISTER USERS permissions. It then checks to see if a field is not yet filled in and displays the "click here to add.." link if that's the case.

Dependencies: profile.module

Usage

For use in your user profile page override
Using a text editor like NOTEPAD.EXE or an equivalent, copy and paste the code into your user_profile.tpl.php file
Change the $profilecat value in the first line to match the profile category name you are using. In the example snippet we are using "Business Info."
Change the $profilefieldname value in the second line to match the profile field name you are using. In the example snippet we are using "profile_work_telephone"
Change the $linktext value in the second line to match the profile field name you are using. In the example snippet we are using "click to add your work phone number"
If you are using this snippet more than once in the same user_profile.tpl.php file add a number to the end of the $profilecat, $profilefieldname and $linktext titles each time you copy and use the snippet. e.g. $profilefieldname1, $linktext1, $profilefieldname2, $linktext2, $profilefieldname3, $linktext3 etc.
Tested and works with Drupal 4.5 and 4.6
Change the div class names or the link prefix text to suit.

= "Business Info."; ?>
= "profile_work_telephone"; ?>
= "click to add your phone number"; ?>

Work Telephone Number:
if ((user_access('administer users') || $GLOBALS['user']->uid == $user->uid) && (($user->$profilefieldname) == "")): ?>
print $user->uid ?>/edit/print $profilecat ?>">
print $linktext ?>

endif; ?>
print $user->$profilefieldname ?>

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Works Good, but also displays the "private" fields to all users

Sam308 - February 28, 2007 - 03:33

Using Drupal 4.7.6

(Issue 1) The script woks well but it displays the private fields if the private fields are included in the script.

I am currently using 33 profile fields in two different categories.

I placed all 33 profile fields into the script and noticed that "any" logged in user can see all the 33 fileds that are included in the script, including the private fields.

How can this script be modified to not display the private fields to "ALL" logged in users?

(Issue 2) Before I implemented this script, I was using the drupal core profile "Page title" feature (Administer » Settings » profiles) that turns a profile field item into a link so that users can view other user profiles which have the same profile field value in common. This feature is removed if you use the script.

Is it possible to restore this feature?

Add Link to Empty Profile Fields Utility Program
Since I had to expand the above script (12 lines of code) to accommodate 33 profile fields (396 lines of code), I created a Microsoft Excel utility that will automate the process of writing the PHP script. I am making this Utility available to others to make it easier to generate the script for multiple fields.

You can download it here: http://xlecom.com/downloads/Drupal_Add_Link_to_Empty_Profile_Fields.zip

Enjoy,

Sam Raheb (Sam308)

Add/delete to/from buddylist snippet

2009-02-02T04:08:00.001-08:00

Description

This php snippet inserts the ADD TO BUDDYLIST link

Dependencies: buddylist.module must be installed and enabled. The snippet checks to see if the user viewing the profile page has the access permission to maintain buddy list before displaying the link

Usage

For use in your user profile page override
Using a text editor like NOTEPAD.EXE or an equivalent, copy and paste the code into your user_profile.tpl.php file
Change the div class name or the link text to suit.

  global $user;
  if ($user->uid != $account->uid) {
    if (@in_array($account->uid, array_keys(buddylist_get_buddies($user->uid))) && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
      print l(t('Remove !username from your buddylist',array('!username' => $account->name)), 'buddy/delete/'. $account->uid);
    }
    else {
      if ($account->uid != $user->uid && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
        print l(t('Add !username to your buddylist',array('!username' => $account->name)), 'buddy/add/'. $account->uid);
      }
    }
  }
?>

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Several people I know are

pribeh - February 22, 2008 - 01:50

Several people I know are reporting that this doesn't work past 5.3. And I don't know why.

Would be nice to know how to get this to work in a block as well. Someone posted this as a starting point but I don't know php.

$uid = arg(1); // second part of the path user/1 on user profile page
Loading a user:
$account = user_load(array('uid' => $uid));
Get the name:
$name = $account->name;
?>

Any help would be uber appreciated. I currently don't have a way other than the template fix for my users to add buddies.

With the help of a few

pribeh - February 26, 2008 - 03:01

With the help of a few others the following code seems to do the trick:


if (@in_array($account->uid, array_keys(buddylist_get_buddies($user->uid))) && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
  print ".$account->uid."\">Remove " .$account->name. " from your buddylist";
  }
else {
  if ($user->uid != $account->uid && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
  print ".$account->uid."\">Add " .$account->name. " to your buddylist";
  }
}
?>

Make sure to specify this at the beginning of your user_profile.tpl.php:

global $user;
?>

and also make sure to specify your code in template.php to focus on $account (the profile being viewed) as opposed to $user (logged-in user viewing profile):

/**
* Catch the theme_user_profile function, and redirect through the template api
*/
function phptemplate_user_profile($account, $fields = array()) {
  // Pass to phptemplate, including translating the parameters to an associative array. The element names are the names that the variables
  // will be assigned within your template.
  /* potential need for other code to extract field info */
return _phptemplate_callback('user_profile', array('account' => $account, 'fields' => $fields));
  }
  }

The above code was taken from Muslim Guy's posts and modified by Nevets.

Inserting image as link to Add or Delete from your buddylist

merto@drupal.org - July 21, 2008 - 13:59

These will override theme_user_profile and will insert image as link to Remove or Add to my buddylist below user_picture without calling _phptemplate_callback. It will also give me the flexibility to style all category name.

function phptemplate_user_profile($account, $fields) {
  $output = '';
  $output .= '';
  $output .= theme('user_picture', $account);
      global $user;
        if (in_array($account->uid, array_keys(buddylist_get_buddies($user->uid))) && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
          $output .= l(theme('image', drupal_get_path('module', 'buddylist') .'/images/user_delete.png', t('Remove')), 'buddy/delete/' . $account->uid, array('title'=>t('remove from my buddylist')),drupal_get_destination(), NULL, NULL, TRUE, TRUE);
          }
        else {
          if ($user->uid != $account->uid && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
          $output .= l(theme('image', drupal_get_path('module', 'buddylist') .'/images/user_add.png', t('Add')),'buddy/add/' . $account->uid, array('title'=>t('add to my buddylist')),drupal_get_destination(), NULL, NULL, TRUE, TRUE);
  }
}

  $output .= '
';
  $output .= '';

  foreach ($fields as $category => $items) {
      $category = str_replace(" ", "-", $category);
    if (strlen($category) > 0) {
                $output .= '. check_plain($category ). '">';    
      $output .= ''. check_plain($category) .'';
    }
   
    foreach ($items as $item) {
      if (isset($item['title'])) {
        $output .= '. $item['class'] .'">'. $item['title'].' :' .'';
      }
      $output .= '. $item['class'] .'">'. $item['value'] .'';
    }
    $output .= '';
  }
  $output .= '
';
  $output .= '
';

  return $output;
}
?>

Buddylist 2

tucspl - May 28, 2008 - 18:39

In order to get this to work for buddylist 2, try this snippet (this goes in your user_profile.tpl.php):

 if ($GLOBALS['user']->uid != $user->uid): ?>
      //load all buddies from active user
$userbuddies = buddy_api_get_buddies($user->uid);
//buddylist links
if ($GLOBALS['user']->uid != $user->uid && user_access('maintain buddy list')) {
  in_array($user->uid, array_keys($userbuddies)) ? print l(t('Remove @username from your contact list',array('@username'=>$user->name)), 'buddy/delete/'.$user->uid, array(), drupal_get_destination(), NULL, FALSE, FALSE) : print l(t('Add @username to your contact list',array('@username'=>$user->name)), 'buddy/add/'.$user->uid, array(), drupal_get_destination(), NULL, FALSE, FALSE);
}
?>
endif; ?>

Note: If used the snippet on this page (the comment above this comment) to replace $user with $account in your template.php, replace that snippet with this (this goes in template.php):

/**
* Catch the theme_user_profile function, and redirect through the template api
*/
function phptemplate_user_profile($user, $fields = array()) {
  // Pass to phptemplate, including translating the parameters to an associative array. The element names are the names that the variables
  // will be assigned within your template.
  /* potential need for other code to extract field info */
return _phptemplate_callback('user_profile', array('user' => $user, 'fields' => $fields));
  }
?>

OUTDATED: Display user submitted images in their profile page

2009-01-28T01:50:00.000-08:00

description

This snippet will display the thumbnail images of the most N most recently submitted images by the user. You can also optionally limit the images selected based on taxonomy term id's (see snippet for details)

instructions

In a text editor paste the following snippet into your user_profile.tpl.php file
(For instructions on how to get started with your own custom user profile layout click through to the Customising the user profile layout handbook page.)
Upload your edited user_profile.tpl.php to your active theme folder

// Display N most recent thumbnails of images submitted by the user
//  Each thumbnail is linked back to it's image node
// Can optional limit the photos shown by specififying one or taxonomy term id's

// The number of thumbnail images to show
$nlimit = 3;
$taxo_id = array();
// Add one line for each taxonomy term id you want to limit the thumbnails to
// As an example, the following two lines would select images associated with taxonomy terms 36 OR 37
// $taxo_id[] = 36;
// $taxo_id[] = 37;
// Note, if not taxonomy term ids are specified, the selection is from all the user submitted images

$userid=$user->uid;

if ( count($taxo_id) > 0 ) {
    // Limit images based on taxonomy term id's
    $taxo_str = implode(',', $taxo_id);
    $sql = "SELECT n.created, n.title, n.nid, n.changed FROM node n INNER JOIN term_node ON n.nid = term_node.nid AND term_node.tid IN ($taxo_str) WHERE n.type = 'image' AND n.uid = $userid AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.changed DESC";
}
else {
    $sql = "SELECT n.created, n.title, n.nid, n.changed FROM node n WHERE n.type = 'image' AND n.uid = $userid AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.changed DESC";
}

$result = db_query_range($sql, 0, $nlimit);
$output = '';
while ( $info = db_fetch_object($result) ) {
  $node = node_load(array('nid' => $info->nid));
  $img_tag = image_display($node, 'thumbnail');
  $link = 'node/' . $node->nid;
  $output .= l($img_tag, $link, array(), NULL, NULL, FALSE, TRUE);
}
print $output;
?> 

Display recent nodes (titles & teasers) snippet

2009-01-27T01:43:00.000-08:00

Description

This php snippet displays the 10 most recent nodes submitted by the user, restricting certain node types. In this example, pages, stories, and forum posts are excluded from the list.

Usage

• For use in a user profile page override
• Using a text editor like NOTEPAD.EXE or an equivalent, copy and paste the code into your user_profile.tpl.php file
• To increase/decrease the number of posts listed change the $nlimit value to suit. The default setting is 10.
• Tested and works with Drupal 4.6
• Change the div class names or the prefix text to suit.

= 10; ?>
=$user->uid; ?>
= pager_query(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid, n.created FROM {node} n WHERE n.status = 1 AND n.uid = $userid AND n.type != 'page' AND n.type != 'poll' AND n.type != 'forum' AND n.type != 'story' ORDER BY n.created DESC"), variable_get('default_nodes_main', $nlimit)); ?>
while ($node = db_fetch_object($result1)) {$output2 .= node_view(node_load(array('nid' => $node->nid)), 1);}; ?>
print $output2; ?> 

Customising the user profile layout

2009-01-23T23:40:00.000-08:00

(Thanks to Dublin Drupaller for starting this section of the handbook)

The PHP Snippets below are intended for use within a customised USER PROFILE page that simply enables you to “pull” specific content from your drupal database specific to a particular user and display it in the way you want.

They are intended for use with a phptemplate based theme and for Drupal site developers who do not have php programming knowledge but want to push out the boundaries of user profile pages and control precisely how they look.

See also Advanced Profile Kit for an alternate method of sprucing up your user profile pages.

Simple step-by-step instructions are provided.
The concept

Drupal is an extremely powerful tool for building online communities, in particular, allowing users to submit their own content to a community hub. A good illustration of this working well online might be the World famous myspace.com site, where bands/artists are able to submit content into their own page.

Drupal has all the tools available to create your own myspace.com style community hub.

These snippets are intended as a mini-repository and as an aid for site designers without php programming skills to create sophisticated User Profile Pages for members of their community.

Customised User Profile Pages maybe applied to many applications. myspace.com is primarily a site for artists & bands, but, similar techniques could be used for other applications such as a rzye.com (Drupal powered community hub) style professional networking hub or terminus1525 (Drupal powered community hub) for studios.
Getting Started - (Drupal 4.x and Drupal 5.x)

Step 1 - is to override the default User Profile page layout by uploading the special template.php file to your active theme folder.

$account, ‘fields’ => $fields));
}
?>

If you already have a template.php file in your active theme folder, simply add the above to the existing template.php file and upload it.

Step 2 - (Drupal 4.x and 5.x) is to create your customised user_profile.tpl.php file and upload that to your active theme folder.

If you’re starting from scratch, simply open notepad.exe or a similar text editor and paste in the snippets linked below to build your custom user profile page. Save it with the user_profile.tpl.php filename and upload it to your theme folder along with the template.php file.

Once you have got started with your first user_profile.tpl.php file, you can experiment with adding in more snippets or including HTML layout controls to get a feel for the flexibility this allows.
Getting Started - (Drupal 6.x)

Step 1 - is to override the default User Profile page layout by uploading a custom user-profile.tpl.php* file to your active theme folder.

Drupal will automatically detect the presence of your custom user-profile.tpl.php and override the default user profile layout. To make this happen, you need to rebuild the theme registry, which you can do by clearing the caches (for example using the button on the admin/settings/performance page), or simply by visiting the admin/build/modules page.

* note that in Drupal 6.x, your custom user profile layout file name uses a hyphen, instead of an underscore.

Step 2 - is to customise your user-profile.tpl.php layout file.

By default, all user profile data is printed out with the $user_profile variable. If there is a need to break it up you can use $profile instead.

As an example, the following snippet inserted in your custom user-profile.tpl.php will display the default user profile layout.

Available variables:

* $user_profile: All user profile data. Ready for print.
* $profile: Keyed array of profile categories and their items or other data provided by modules.

To check for all available data within $profile, insert the following snippet at the bottom of your custom user-profile.tpl.php.

Available variables

The following is a list of variables that is available to your custom user-profile.tpl.php.

'. check_plain(print_r($profile, 1)) .'

‘; ?>

How to use these snippets

Simply copy and paste these snippets into your custom user profile layout file and upload it to your active theme folder. Check to make sure that the snippet you are using is compatible for the version of Drupal you are using.

It’s recommended that you test your customised user_profile.tpl.php(Drupal 4.x or Drupal 5.x) or user-profile.tpl.php file (Drupal 6.x) on a test installation before adding to a live site.
Adding new snippets

Simply click on the ADD NEW CHILD PAGE link below and create a new handbook page. Include any dependencies, such as which version of Drupal you have tested the snippet with or extra modules that need to be enabled for the snippet to work.

PLEASE NOTE! The following snippets are user submitted. Use at your own risk! For users who have setup drupal using an alternate database to the default (MYSQL), please note that the snippets may contain some database queries specific to MYSQL.

* A basic User Profile Page to help get you started
* Customising the user profile pages (a “before” and “after” example with screenshots)
* User Profile avatar/picture Snippet
* Handling single-line profile fields
* Handling multi-line profile fields
* Handling checkbox profile fields
* Handling freeform profile fields
* Handling URL profile fields
* Recent weblog entries (titles) snippet
* Recent weblog entries (titles & teasers) snippet
* Add/delete to/from buddylist snippet
* Display a list of buddies snippet
* Display list of (x) recent posts (titles) snippet
* User “history” or “member for: (time)” snippet
* Adding layout and content to the default user profile theme
* allow users to choose whether certain profile fields are visible or hidden
* Allowing users to customize their profile
* Custom User Blocks and User Tables PHP Snippets
* Customising the user profile layout per role
* Display link to user’s embedded gallery (or not if it does not exist)
* Display a customisable “this user is [online/offline]” status message in the User Profile page
* Display a user friendly text message when profile fields are left blank
* Display a user’s points value from the userpoints.module
* Display recent nodes (titles & teasers) snippet
* Displaying counts from the Invite module
* Drupal V5.x warning: Cannot add header information
* Handling date profile fields
* Howto: Make the user profile layout compact (with css only)
* Insert Subscribed Organic Groups List
* Messages for unpublished profiles
* My Comments Block for Profiles
* Outputting full civiCRM profile to custom profile
* Outputting individual CiviCRM profile fields into custom Drupal profile
* User Profile Page
* User referral module
* Weight sorting for input fields (when the user fill the form) doesn’t apply - fix
* Insert user friendly “click here to add your..” links when user profile fields are left blank
* Display a date related notice or countdown snippet
* Send private message snippet
* Display a Skype “Call me” or “leave a voicemail” button depending on Users’ online/offline status
* Display users age based on a date-of-birth field
* insert a “view your order history” and “view [username]s store” link
* Show/hide certain profile fields depending on user role or user permissions

Remove unwanted tabs from pages

2009-01-21T23:13:00.000-08:00

Description

Some modules add tabs to pages that are not needed for general users, or not needed at all. You may wish to link to the page in a different way, as some users don't understand that they can click on the tab above a node.

There is currently no way to alter the hook_menu() generated tabs from code, so this function will find and strip out a tab based on its name.

Step 1 of 2

Locate your theme's template.php file. If one doesn't exist create an empty one. This is where you can place customisation PHP code.

Step 2 of 2

Custom functions placed in the themes template.php file should begin with the theme name. In the code snippet below replace "yourthemename" with the actual name of your theme, such as "bluemarine".

You may already have a '_phptemplate_variables' function defined depending on what theme you are using, if so do not include the function again from the snippet below.

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {

  if($hook == 'page') {
    yourthemename_removetab('address book', $vars);
    // add additional lines here to remove other tabs
  }

  return $vars;
}

function yourthemename_removetab($label, &$vars) {
  $tabs = explode("\n", $vars['tabs']);
  $vars['tabs'] = '';

  foreach($tabs as $tab) {
    if(strpos($tab, '>' . $label . '<') === FALSE) {
      $vars['tabs'] .= $tab . "\n";
    }
  }
}
?>

The tab removal work is done in the yourthemename_removetab() function, pass in a plain text tab label, along with the PHPTemplate variables, and the function will remove the tab.

In the above example snippet the 'address book' tab added by the eCommerce package is removed from the users profile page.

Notes

Call yourthemename_removetab('tab name', $vars); for each tab you wish to remove.
No other modules need to be installed to use this.

Blog to it - The social blog directory

2009-01-21T03:13:00.000-08:00

Blog to it is a social blog directory developed using 100% contrib modules. Well, there were a few tweaks to one module and a few more tweaks in the theme. This case study has been written to give an insight into how and why Blog to it was developed.

What is it?

"Do you have a blog that you would like to share with others? Do you enjoy reading blogs but don’t know where to effectively look for them? If you’re in this predicament, drop by Blog.to.it and take a look at what they have for you to enjoy.

Blog.to.it is a website that allows users to import all of their blog posts via RSS or start a new blog directly on their site. The site has eight different blog categories including technology, business, science, gaming, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and other. Whatever you want to write or read about is easy to find, just look through the categories that interest you most.

Once posts are in they can be voted on, commented on, and sorted by rating, category, or date. Blog.to.it hopes to be a great place to find new blogs to read. The site merges loads of features from current sites and brings them to a new audience, the personal blogger. There are many blogs world wide and it is often hard to get noticed between all the corporate blogs out there, this site is trying to help bloggers come together in a space that’s just for them."
From Killer Startups

Features

Hosted user blogs - Just like on Blogger or Wordpress a user can start blogging on Blog to it, this isn't a key feature but was more or less there, so why not use it.
RSS user blog import - This is the key driver of the site by allowing users to add their existing blog posts automatically to Blog to it.
Blog post commenting - It was never fully decided if this should be on the site or not, should comments be on Blog to it or on the original blog. Maybe one to work on?
Blog post rating / voting - This also another key feature. The main way to view posts is by number of votes. (Digg like)
Browse posts by rating
Browse posts by date
Browse posts by category
Browse posts by user / blog
Browse blogs by tag
Personal and site wide Twitter updates - This is a really great feature to have. It both helps the user integrate more with the site, and is a great marketing tool. A lot of the traffic is coming from Twitter and Twitter aggregation.

How was it done?

Modules

The whole site was developed using Drupal 6 and then moved to Acquia Drupal once live. It is heavily based around the core blog module because user blogs are created in the default Drupal way, and RSS imports are imported into the Blog content type.

By using the DrupalMU Helper module which is part of the Drupal MU install profile it helped turn the core blog module into a multi-user blogging system and gives vital functions that were used when creating views and the theme.

One of the other key modules was the FeedAPI module which is used to import an external blog into the blog content type via RSS feed. The Content Profile was used to add the RSS feed URL field to the user's profile. Simple feed was also looked into as a way of importing feeds, but it didn't seem to attach the imported nodes to the user who setup the import. This may of been a development error rather than a fault with the module, but FeedAPI was suggested a better module, and it worked.

Posts can be voted on using the VotingAPI and Plus1 modules. Voting API was an obvious choice when creating a site that requires voting, but which module to use with Voting API was a harder choice. Drigg seems the most advanced to allow +1 and -1 voting, but this was not available for Drupal 6 (it was tested once the first 6 release and seemed too specific), so after spending a few hours installing, testing and uninstalling Plus1 seemed to offer what was needed for the Blog to it use case.

This site is not very complex, but works well. The uptake has been good and by adding Twitter integration this helps with marketing. The Twitter module allows each user to import their Twitter posts, and announce their new posts on Twitter. It also allows the announcement of all new posts via Triggers and Actions on http://twitter.com/blogtoitnew.

Views also plays a big part in this site, much like it does in other sites. It allows many pages to be developed showing the posts in different ways. There is one main view for the site which creates three pages for each category.

Theming

The theme was based upon Raincity's Basic theme, this really helped speed up development. There was very little special development in the theme. The only exciting aspect is the use of the Drupal MU helper functions. The function returns the UID of the user whose blog or profile is being viewed. This allowed custom theming for user pages such as hiding the Blog to it logo and displaying the site name.

Infrastructure

The site was developed on a budget VPS from VPS Empire who has now merged with VA Serv. After launch and after a lot of hunting a hosting partnership was found with Castlegem, so far the site has been running very well, and Castlegem were great at getting the server setup, including custom nameservers, DNS and backup.

What next?

Blog to it has currently been released as an Alpha version so many of the bugs can be ironed out. Development will continue until the beta version is ready early 2009.

So far very few bugs have been found, the hardest aspect seems to be perfecting the usability. For example, should anonymous users be able to vote and comment? what should be displayed on each page? what is a "top post"?

Also because there are so many posts being imported cron needs to run every 2 mins. This means that on each cron run there is only 1-2 posts and twitter updates being imported, where as if cron was run every hour there many be 50+ posts and twitter updates being imported. This also helps the site stay very up to date, but puts a big strain on the server

There are many ideas of how to move the site and project forward, and by using an array of contrib and custom modules it is planned to add more social features to the site. Such as friends and / or followers, what posts your friends have added, other people who have voted on this post. It is also planned to launch a more feature rich profile page displaying a user's friends and what posts they have voted on.

Please head over to Blog to it, register, add your blog and vote up posts you like.

Multiforms: Multi-Page Collection of Data from Users

2009-01-18T23:15:00.000-08:00

The Multiforms module is designed for the collection of data from users. It can be used to easily author multi-page forms which are published as nodes. The data collected by the forms can then be exported in tab-delimited format.

Its features include:

Multi-page form support
Ability to save/load form "snippets" (groups of fields)
Duplicate submission prevention (based on specification of which fields should collectively be unique)
Ability to purge submitted data
Closing date and message
Integrated email referrals
Completion threshold
Creation of draw entries upon successful completion
Creation of extra draw entries for each email referral

Installation

Visit http://drupal.org/project/multiforms and download and decompress the appropriate archive.
Place the resulting "multiforms" folder in your Drupal installation's "modules" directory.
Enable the three component modules via the admin/modules administration page.

Configuration

Defaults can be set at the multiforms settings page (admin/settings/multiforms).

Administration and content access can be set on the access control administration page (admin/user/access).

Creating a Multiform

These are the steps for creating a multiform:

Visit the create content page (node/add) and click "Multiform".
After adding the multiform, click the Setup tab and fill in the appropriate fields, as explained below:
- The Title and Description fields are normal node title and body fields.
- Footer Text is content that will be shown below the form.
- Completion Text is shown after the user completes the entire form.
- The Closing Date section allows an optional closing date to be specified.
- The Completion Criteria section allows completion to be restricted.
- The Draw Entries section determines whether or not draw entries will be created (for use in contests).
Once these fields are complete, click the Update button.

Defining Submission Form Fields

The submission form is the first form shown to the user. This form is meant for submission "meta data", contact information for example, and questions answered on this form don't count towards meeting completion criteria, if specified.

To edit the submission form click the Forms tab then click the Edit Submission Form link.

Clicking Add New Field will allow you to add a field.

Each field has a name and type and, optionally, a description and validation type.

The Forms Tab

Sections are form forms shown after the submission form. They are used to create groups of related questions. Sections are created and listed on the Forms page which can be accessed by clicking the Forms tab.

Once on the forms page, click Add New Section to begin creation of a new section. You'll then be shown a form that will allow you to describe the section. After filling in these fields, click Add to complete creation. You will then see that your section has been added and you may click Edit to edit it in the same way that you edited the submission form.

Managing Submissions

Multiform submissions can be managed via the Submissions tab. A list of submissions in reverse chronological order will be shown. Submissions can be viewed, purged, exported, and randomly drawn.

Submission Emailing

Multiform submissions can be emailed if the Actions module is installed.

The 5.x-1.x version of the Actions module is required. The 5.x-2.x does not currently work.

If the Actions module is installed, at the bottom of the setup tab there will be a section of the form labeled "Actions". In this section select the email action under "Multiforms". This action will email each submission to the email address of the creator of the multiform.

Using Ajax in Drupal 6

2009-01-16T03:02:00.000-08:00

John K. VanDyk confirmed that Pro Drupal Development 2^nd edition will be published early this summer. I don’t know about you but in Montreal it sure does not look like summer. We’re still in the dead of winter, and it’s one snowstorm after another.

Anywho, I got busy last night and, on a Drupal 6 install, I worked through chapter sweet seventeen of the Pro Drupal Development 1^st edition book. The title of the chapter is "Using jQuery".

(Hey, here is an idea for a thread: name the one computer book you’ve actually read from cover to cover in your life. My answer: Pro Drupal Development, and probably just a few other books.)

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Drupal Module - iGallery

2009-01-13T01:29:00.000-08:00

iGallery

* Compatibility : DRUPAL 6
* Version : 6.6 - Beta version.
* Liecense Information : No liecense

Copy the module directory in your modules folder and enable it.You can create public and private igallery content using this module.

For adminster igallery go to "Igallery Settings" in administer menu and follow the form and help description.

For creating new igallery go to create content and create a igallery content type. The new igallery content type will act as igallery.

Click radio button to select ur igallery type.

If u select Image it will work as image igallery. If u select Video it will work as video igallery.

You can upload wmv, mov, mpeg and some other contents type to video gallery. It will be converted to flv formate using ffmpeg commands.

Once u create i gallery you will not able to change it type.

You can select plugin to show image type igallery.... available plugins options are....

1) Greybox
2) Lightbox

Flowplayes is used to show videostreaming in video type i gallery.

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2009-01-13T01:24:00.000-08:00

* Compatibility : DRUPAL 6
* Version : 6.6 - Beta version.
* Liecense Information : No liecense

Copy the module directory in your modules folder and enable it.You can create public and private group content using this module.

For adminster groups go to group settings in administer menu and follow help description.

For creating new group go to create content and create a group content type. The new group content type will act as group.

For content adding and content management to group please download group_content module.

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Works Good, but also displays the "private" fields to all users

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Add/delete to/from buddylist snippet

Description

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Several people I know are

With the help of a few

Inserting image as link to Add or Delete from your buddylist

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OUTDATED: Display user submitted images in their profile page

description

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Display recent nodes (titles & teasers) snippet

Description

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Customising the user profile layout

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Step 2 of 2

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Blog to it - The social blog directory

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Installation

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The Forms Tab

Managing Submissions

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