Drupal Camp Sthml 09

Good Old Case

What’s this? Will present some of the modules and part of the workflow for two sites that we at Good Old has built

Esloved.se

Malmotown.com

Modules: Shared

Standard modules ✦ CCK ✦ Imagefield, Link, Node Reference ✦ Imagecache ✦ Views ✦ Pathauto

Views ✦ You can build anything with it ✦ Can take a loooong time to learn well ✦ But it’s a rewarding experience ✦ It’s amazing!

Assisting modules ✦ Cobalt ✦ Coder ✦ Devel

Cobalt ✦ Easy navigation tool for Drupal ✦ Mirrors on a Drupal level the functionality eg. Quicksilver. delivers on a OS level ✦ Navigates menu, nodes, users and taxonomy ✦ Made for geeky users

Special modules ✦ Radioactivity ✦ Plus1 (enhanced)

Radioactivity ✦ Makes a value decrease over time ✦ Ships with support for the VotingAPI, nodes and Views ✦ Can be used to calculate a Digg-style ”hotness” score on nodes based on votes and other paramaters ✦ Used to create lists of most hot nodes

Plus1 ✦ A simple Digg-style voting module ✦ Based on the VotingAPI ✦ Completely rethemed and modded on our sites ✦ New releases has patches from our sites

Modules: Esloved.se

Third party ✦ Multiping (enhanced) ✦ Pingback ✦ LoginToBoggan ✦ Mollom

Own modules ✦ ”Close block” ✦ Node form columns ✦ Esloved’s own module

”Close block” ✦ Enables an end user to permanently hide a block ✦ Works for anonymous users

Node form columns ✦ Makes the node creation forms more user friendly ✦ Separates form items into two columns ✦ Disconnects the view order from the form order

Modules: Malmotown.com

Third party ✦ Date ✦ Flickr ✦ Flag ✦ Menu Trails ✦ Meta Tags

Flags ✦ Used to enable users to flag and unflag content as spam ✦ Uses action to react to flaggings ✦ May eg. mail admin after five users has flagged a comment

Own modules ✦ Datapoint & Yahoo Weather ✦ Flickr Context Tags ✦ Custom Path Themes ✦ Simple Geo ✦ File Archive ✦ Malmotown’s own module

Yahoo Weather ✦ DataPoint parser collecting data from Yahoo ✦ Creates DataPoints with the weather information ✦ Implements View and creates the weather block with View fields, filters and sort

Flickr Context Tags ✦ Connects content with Flickr images ✦ Uses Flickr’s machine tags ✦ Extends the Flickr module

Simple Geo ✦ Possible to save a geo position and area for nodes and users ✦ Can embed geo position as a microformat ✦ Has a map widget that shows all positions on a page

Workﬂow: A Git approach to

Technical Get a Mac - even though it’s workable on the Redmond stuff - why torture yourself? All *nix-platforms are okay - but it’s most beautiful to work with git on a Mac, thanks to GitX.

Simple setup Get git through eg. MacPorts or download it git init git add . git commit You’re done!

Our setup Unfuddle GitHub Live Local Development

The result Snapshot from GitX showing our public Drupal package on GitHub: http://github.com/hugowetterberg/goodold_drupal/

Summary, our ✦ Everything is Mac ✦ Git goes through MacPorts ✦ GitX is a great visualizer ✦ Terminal does stuff ✦ Scripts automates stuff

✦ Thanks! Pelle Wessman ✦ pelle@goodold.se ✦ phone: 0705-15 88 21 ✦ @voxpelli on GitHub, Twitter etc ✦ www.goodold.se

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Drupal Camp Sthml 09

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