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- Learning Drupal 6 Module Development
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Top Drupal Things
In December 2009, the Surrey Drupal Group met to discuss the top Drupal modules, tools and other resources that make our life easier. This PDF file is a copy of the results.
Drupal development platform
I am interested in implementing a more robust development platform for implementing Drupal sites. I would like to be able to develop the site locally, and transfer it to the production site (and have successfully done so with an XAMPP server under Windows Vista.
I currently have the following O/S and installed platforms:
- Windows Vista
- XAMPP
- VMWare Server
- Ubuntu 8.04 desktop
- XAMPP
- Subversion
For Windows Vista and Ubuntu users, what is your development platform, and how to you develop Drupal sites?
- How do you maintain a local source when the site is live (and new content is being added)?
- What do you do for version control?
- What do you do for photo and illustration editing?
- What tools do you use to develop, test, transfer your site and database?
- What do you use for template sites?
- Do you have any other recommendations?
Drupal Camp Vancouver
Here's some slides from Drupal Camp Vancouver '08:
- http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/presenters_notes
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/11443
- http://heyrocker.com/drupal/content/drupalcamp-vancouver-staging-deployment-slides
Unfortunately, we don't have any slides from the CCK/Views presentation from Jennifer of Poplarware.
Jennifer's CCK Lab for Drupal
This lab was created by Jennifer Hodgdon of www.poplarware.com and is published at http://poplarware.com/drupaltalk.html.
The goal is to use CCK and Views to create pages to support a school.
Types of information:
Instructor: instructor name, bio, photo
Course: course name, course description, course level
Scheduled class: course name, start date, end date, start time, end time, cost, instructor name
Views:
- List of upcoming classes (Scheduled Class)
- List of courses filtered by subject | level (Course)
- List of instructors (Instructor)
- Instructor detail (list of courses this person is teaching - Scheduled Class)
- Course detail (show when the course is scheduled - Course)
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I'm not sure if Jennifer planned any Views that required information from 2 different article types at the same time; a mini database as it were. For example, is it possible to have a view that includes Instructor names, photos and Scheduled Class information using the above structure?
Drupal things to do
Things I should be experimenting with Drupal are:
- xampp transfers
- Themes/graphics
- Template site (complete)
- Integrate SMF Forum (www.simplemachines.org)
- Drupal as the root
- Drupal camp
- Get CSS templates
- Learn CSS templates
- Learn drush
- Learn Image Assist
- Learn Install Profiles
- Learn some PHP
- Learn Subversion
- Set filtered as default and understand it better
- Test upgrades of modules & Drupal
- Web template updating
- Drupal SEO Series
Drupal Sites
Groups
Sites
Themes
Articles
Developers
- www.bryght.com
- ImageX Media
- Appnovation Technologies
- NowPublic
- Strutta
- Civic Actions
- Workhabit
- Raised Eyebrow
- Workspace
- VentureWeb Design Ltd.
- Agentic
- Raincity Studios
- Affinity Bridge
- Social Signal
- Active State
Tools
Hosting
- www.siteground.com
- www.drupalcafe.com (free hosting)