Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules Presented by: Russ Bomhof & Geoff Hing Chicagoland Library Drupal Group December 7, 2009

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Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

CRL Then and Now VBScript ASP / MS Access DB Static HTML w/ Dreamweaver Templates Drupal 6!

Too often, web site owners allow their maintenance methods and their personnel skills to drive decisions about how the web site works. That's completely backwards. You should first figure out how you want your web site to work, then employ solutions/people/skills to make that happen. - Scott Crevier on the uwebd mailing list Things We Learned

As far as we know, there is no module that will force a team to communicate and collaborate. Things We Learned

There’s more than one way… Photo by Karamellzucker via Flickr Things We Learned

Obvious
Views
Content Construction Kit (CCK)
Panels
Node Import
Workflow
Drush
Google Analytics

Non-Obvious
Nodequeue
Module Grants
Menu Block Split
Views Accordion
Pathauto + Custom Token

So what news items did you want on the front page? We need to have the 3 most recent news and events, but not the one about the meeting. Oh, and that event is too old. Oh, make sure to add ... Ummmm. Right. Just send me that list in e-mail.

1. Nodequeue http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

By the way, I need you to build this huge new section of the site from a bunch of incoherently named Word documents, e-mails, and spreadsheets. Ok. When does this need to be done? If you could get this done by the end of the day, that would be great. Oh, and it will need to be approved before it gets published.

Rapid content development Review and collaboration vs .

2. Module Grants http://drupal.org/project/module_grants Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

Or, use Deploy From the amazing demo of the Deploy module, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PjwT0HWHxw

What module should I use for menus? Well, there’s Menu Block, or Nice Menus. Submenu Tree, … Category, Menu HTML, Menuwriter, … Menu Firstchild, Multiple Node Menu, ...

3. Menu Block Split http://drupal.org/project/menu_block_split Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

We need our Topic Guide links to open and close like the E-Collections, web specialist. No problem. What content would you like to use? It should open and close.

4. Views Accordion http://drupal.org/project/views_accordion Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

Where should that page go in the menu? Home » Archiving & Preservation » Current Projects & Initiatives » Shared Print Archive Proposal Uhh. Make sure you wipe those breadcrumbs off your chin.

Old and busted: http://www-old.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=3&l2=55

5. Pathauto + Custom Token http://drupal.org/project/pathauto Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

$replacement = ''; if ($node) { $values = array(); // Try to get the menu data. $mlid = db_result(db_query("SELECT mlid FROM {menu_links} WHERE link_path = '%s'", 'node/'. $node->nid)); // Now get the menu related information. if (!empty($mlid) || !empty($node->menu['mlid']) || !empty($node->menu['plid'])) { $menu_link = menu_link_load($mlid); $menus = menu_get_menus(); $menu = isset($menus[$menu_link['menu_name']]) ? $menus[$menu_link['menu_name']] : ''; $trail_raw = _menu_titles($menu_link, $node->nid); $trail = array(); foreach ($trail_raw as $title) { $trail[] = check_plain($title); } $values['menupath-raw'] = implode('/', $trail_raw); } else { $values['menupath-raw'] = ''; $values['menu-link-title'] = ''; $values['menu-link-title-raw'] = ''; } $replacement = $values['menupath-raw']; // Start with the default ['menupath-raw'] $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/Area Studies', 'Area Studies', $replacement); $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/GRN', 'GRN', $replacement); $replacement = str_replace('Collaborations/Collaborative Digitization', 'Collaborative Digitization', $replacement); } return $replacement;

/** * Implementation of hook_token_list() . */ function crl_helpers_token_list($type = 'all') { if ($type == 'global' || $type == 'all') { // We don't implement any global tokens yet. } if ($type == 'node' || $type == 'all') { // Node tokens here $tokens['node']['crl-menupath-raw'] = t('A customized version of the [menupath-raw] token for the CRL menus that puts certain items (e.g. GRN) at the top level.'); } return $tokens; } /** * Implementation of hook_token_values() . */ function crl_helpers_token_values($type, $object = NULL) { // Very similar to code in previous slide // … } Alternately, write a custom module

Thanks! Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules Russ Bomhof – [email_address] Geoff Hing – [email_address] www.crl.edu

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