Statistics Advanced Settings

Provides a few advanced options to the core Statistics module. Once enabled, these options can be found under "Administer >> Reports >> Access log settings."

Only track 'unique' views of content
If you keep viewing a node over and over again, the "x reads" counter won't increase each time. This is applied on a per-user basis as well as a per session id for anonymous users. This replaces the Accurate Read Count module. This is a workaround for #90468: Only record unique hits in node counter stats.
Discard content views by user role

DrupalCon Chicago Registration and Call for Speakers is Open!

We are happy to announce that registration is now open for DrupalCon Chicago, which will be held March 7-10, 2011 at the Drupal Tower in downtown Chicago! You can sign up and purchase your ticket today at http://chicago2011.drupal.org/

DrupalCon Chicago will feature dozens of curated sessions and panels from some of the most influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and beyond, as well as countless opportunities for networking, code sprints, conversations, and more.

DrupalCon Copenhagen: The program and pre- and post-conference activities

It's time for another update from DrupalCon Copenhagen! This time around we have updated information on the core developer summit, the unconference, and the code sprint.
Official Program

First of all, we are happy to announce that the final version of the program is now available on the site. The few remaining slots in the schedule will be used for sponsor sessions and lightning talks. We'll try to keep schedule changes to a minimum, but if we do have to shuffle a few sessions around, this is the page to watch. Also, we'll make the entire program available as a PDF if you would rather keep it on your laptop or print a copy to keep in your pocket during the conference.

Now that the program has been finished, you can start planning your DrupalCon Copenhagen. Go to the session schedule and add all your favorite sessions to your personal schedule. You can see a list of your chosen sessions by going to your user profile and clicking the "My schedule" link.

Cargoh.com- Drupal Ubercart powered Marketplace

In 2009 Appnovation Technologies was asked to design and develop a Drupal based community and e-commerce website called Cargoh. The driving idea behind the site is to create a “social marketplace” for independent artists from all over the world to be able to showcase and sell their products and services. It features community tools such as forums, an internal messaging system and events section.

Cargoh.com was founded by Paul and Cariann Burger when they noticed the lack of avenues for independent artists, designers and musicians to get their work to the world. They realized that some of the most talented people in the world were making them coffee in the morning at the local coffee shop. They set out to change that by creating a super accessible, highly affordable and unbelievably feature rich venue for artists, designers and musicians to sell the things they create. Above that, they wanted to create the world's best online shopping mall for all the uniquely independent products in the world. So from those two missions, Cargoh.com was born. The world's most exciting social marketplace for independent creatives!

Case Study: StyleWorks Premium Photoshop Styles

This past March, I decided it was time to put my skills as a Drupal developer to use and launch a new online business. I knew early on that I wanted this business to be product-based, and after several weeks of playing with different ideas, I settled on selling premium Photoshop layer styles. It was the perfect opportunity to combine my love of photography and Photoshop with my passion for web development and Drupal.

Several months of product development later, StyleWorks was born. The site runs on Drupal 6, and integrates with FastSpring for e-commerce capabilities.
Designing the site: To Zen or not to Zen?

After iterating through several hundred designs in Photoshop, I finally had the look I wanted to go with, and it was time to make it come alive in Drupal. But first, a key decision had to be made: Start from scratch, or go with Zen?

Traditionally, I've always built my designs from scratch. I'm somewhat of a optimization junkie, and I love writing really lean code (I used to be a little more extreme about this than I am today. Back when I wrote DrupalModules.com, I avoided using things like CCK, favoring instead to write my own custom modules). So when I first looked at the Zen theme several years ago, my initial impression was "ugh, look at all this extra code! Why are there so many style sheets?" *Uninstall*

Since then, Zen has grown wildly popular, becoming the #1 theme on Drupal.org. I had always attributed this popularity to Drupal's growing audience of non-developers, but after hearing some positive reviews at a recent Drupal developer meet-up, I decided to give Zen another try.

Our new Drupal Code of Conduct

As our community grows, it is imperative that we preserve the things that got us here; namely, keeping Drupal a fun, welcoming, challenging, and fair place to play. The new Drupal Code of Conduct (DCOC) states our shared ideals with respect to conduct. Think of this as coding standards for people. It is an expression of our ideals, not a rulebook. It is a way to communicate our existing values to the entire community.

Our friends at Ubuntu have blazed a brilliant trail in this area. They use Drupal as their CMS, and in turn we have embraced their Code of Conduct. This code of conduct is essentially identical to that used by Ubuntu, except that the name of the project has been changed, and the conflict resolution process has been removed since we don't have one.

SWF Tools

Overview

SWF Tools allows you to easily embed flash content on your pages. You can use CCK filefields, use an input filter with [swf file="mymovie.swf"], or use PHP and call print swf('mymovie.swf');. The module consists of a number of components that you can choose to install. For example, you can choose a variety of embedding methods, such as direct embedding markup, or SWF Object 2 JavaScript. You can also enable support for a number of common media players, such as Wijering Player or FlowPlayer. When you enable those you can easily add video and audio content to your site simply by writing [swf file="myAudio.mp3"] or [swf file="myVideo.flv"]. SWF Tools will take care of everything to create your player.

SWF Tools also supports playlists. You can do this via CCK (upload a number of files and they will be assembled to a playlist), or you can us the input filter and [swf files="first.mp3&&second.mp3&&third.mp3"] will create a playlist in the media player you have chosen to use. SWF Tools now also supports rtmp streaming, so you can let users skip through the content. To use that you just write a line like [swf file="stream.flv" stream="rtmp://server/application"].

Taxonomy Manager

This module provides a powerful interface for managing taxonomies. A vocabulary gets displayed in a dynamic tree view, where parent terms can be expanded to list their nested child terms or can be collapsed.

The Taxonomy Manager has following operations and key features:

* dynamic treeview
* mass deleting
* mass adding of new terms
* moving of terms in hierarchies
* merging of terms

Messaging

This is a Messaging Framework to allow message sending in a channel independent way. It will provide a common API for message composition and sending while allowing plug-ins for multiple messaging methods.

When using this framework, you won't send e-mails to users anymore. You will send them 'messages' and they will decide how they want to get them delivered, that may be by mail, IM, SMS, depending on user's preferences...
New in 6.x-4.x version (beta)
# Advanced queueing, fine tuning, drush processing.. Notifications Tools (Utility modules for sites with high load of Messages and Notifications)

Advanced Forum

Originally created for my Coulee Region forums, Advanced Forum builds on and enhances Drupal's core forum module. When used in combination with other Drupal contributed modules, many of which are automatically used by Advanced Forum, you can achieve much of what stand alone software provides. Because it uses the core forum module, it uses the node and comment system built into Drupal and is completely integrated, not a bridge.

Flag

Flag is a flexible flagging system that is completely customizable by the administrator. Using this module, the site administrator can provide any number of flags for nodes, comments, or users. Some possibilities include bookmarks, marking important, friends, or flag as offensive. With extensive views integration, you can create custom lists of popular content or keep tabs on important content.

Flags may be per-user, meaning that each user can mark an item individually, or global, meaning that the item is either marked or it is not marked, and any user who changes that changes it for everyone.

PitBulls.org - Dogs for Smart People

PitBulls.org is a community and information site centered around the American Pit Bull Terrier, usually referred to as Pit Bulls.

Pit Bulls get a lot of coverage in the media, usually negative, because there is rampant fear of the breed. They are also often the target of Breed Specific Legislation (BSL). PitBulls.org aims to share another perspective, those of passionate Pit Bull owners. The main mission of the site is to convey that Pit Bulls make great family pets, to get the word out that a dog is only a reflection how it is treated and raised, and to provide a central hub where owners can connect and share their pictures and stories.

The site was conceived and developed by PropDrop Web Development and Marketing. PropDrop not only does client work, but also performs web niche analysis and develops in-house web properties based on that research in order to gain market share in a wide variety of areas. PitBulls.org is one of these properties. It also doesn't hurt that we are dog lovers and own a Pit Bull/Lab mix named Bauer, so we are our own audience in some sense.

Date

I pledge to have a Date Field released on the day that Drupal 7 is released. Views integration, including calendar module, will be ready released on the day that Views releases.

This package contains both the Date module and a Date API module. The Date API is available to be used by other modules and is not dependent on having CCK installed.

The date module is a flexible date/time field type for the cck content module which requires the CCK content.module and the Date API module.

FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor

WYSIWYG editor

This module allows Drupal to replace textarea fields with the FCKeditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG editing functions of known desktop editors like Word to the web. It's relatively lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.

CKEditor module: we received lots of user requests asking for the CKEditor module. CKEditor is the next version of FCKeditor. Just wanted to let you know that the first stable release of the CKEditor module is now available, it is very similar to the 6.x-2.x version of the FCKeditor module.

IMCE

#D7CX pledge: There will be an IMCE 7.x release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.

IMCE is an image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota.
Features

* Basic file operations: upload, delete
* Image(jpg, png, gif) operations: resize, create thumbnails, preview
* Support for private file system
* Configurable limits for user roles: file size per upload, directory quota, file extensions, and image dimensions
* Personal or shared folders for users
* Permissions per directory
* Ftp-like directory navigation
* File sorting by name, size, dimensions, date
* Tabbed interface for file operations
* Keyboard shortcuts(up, down, insert(or enter), delete, home, end, ctrl+A, R(esize), T(humbnails), U(pload)).
* Built-in support for inline image/file insertion into textareas
* Multiple file selection(using ctrl or shift)
* Ajax file operations
* Themable layout using tpl files

How to integrate into WYSIWYG editors

WYSIWYG API (FCKeditor, TinyMCE, etc.): Install IMCE Wysiwyg API bridge and enable IMCE as a plugin in WYSIWYG administration.
FCKeditor and CKeditor(standalone modules): Admin->Settings->Fckeditor profile->File browser settings->IMCE integrationread more

ImageField

ImageField provides an image upload field for CCK. ImageField is a CCK-based alternative to the legacy Image project. It boasts features such as multiple images per node, resolution restrictions, default images, and extensive Views support.

ImageField does not provide a built-in thumbnail solution, but complements the incredibly powerful thumbnail generation module ImageCache.
ImageField related projects

* ImageCache - Dynamic thumbnail generation.
* ImageField Extended - Add additional data to images other than the default Description, Title and Alt.
* ImageField Crop - An AJAX crop on upload tool for ImageField.
* Image FUpload - Bulk image uploader

Dependencies

* ImageField 6.x depends on the CCK and FileField modules.
* ImageField 5.x depends on the CCK and ImageAPI modules.

Compatibility notes

* Image.module - Imagefield is not compatible with image.module content types. If you add an imagefield CCK field to the image type provided by image module, image module will delete all the imagefield images on every node update.
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Pathauto

Description: The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to get aliases like /category/my-node-title.html instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system which the administrator can control.

Pathauto depends on the token module. See screenshots of the bulk delete and the admin settings screen. View a screencast of Using Pathauto and Views to get Index Aliases.

* Stable 6.x version For most 6.x users, there are now official and dev releases of Pathauto 6.x-1.1 which is a direct port of the 5.x-2.x code. Be sure to read the 5.x to 6.x upgrade guide
* Unstable developer version for 6.x For the daring 6.x users who want to test out the latest features, the 6.x-2.x version is where we are trying out fun new features and UI improvements. (Note: it may eat your baby).
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Views

The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost anything in Views 2) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker lists are formatted.

This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an impressive amount of functionality from these modes.

Among other things, Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and display collections of images and other content.

You need Views if:

* You like the default front page view, but you find you want to sort it differently.
* You like the default taxonomy/term view, but you find you want to sort it differently; for example, alphabetically.
* You use /tracker, but you want to restrict it to posts of a certain type.
* You like the idea of the 'article' module, but it doesn't display articles the way you like.
* You want a way to display a block with the 5 most recent posts of some particular type.
* You want to provide 'unread forum posts'.
* You want a monthly archive similar to the typical Movable Type/Wordpress archives that displays a link to the in the form of "Month, YYYY (X)" where X is the number of posts that month, and displays them in a block. The links lead to a simple list of posts for that month.read more

Administration menu

Administration menu module provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. "navigation", "back-end") for Drupal. It's a helper for novice Drupal users coming from other CMS, a real time-saver for Drupal site administrators, and definitely a must for Drupal developers and site builders (keyword: Devel integration).

The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website. It contains not only regular menu items - local tasks are also included, giving you extremely fast access to any administrative resource and function your Drupal installation provides.

Drupal exposed! Administering, developing, and working with Drupal has never been that fast, easy and concise.Read more

Content Construction Kit (CCK)

Drupal 7 and Fields in Core

Most of CCK has moved to core in the Drupal 7 version. The D7 version of CCK contains nodereference and userreference (mostly working), fieldgroup (not working yet), data migration code (partially working), and some miscellaneous helpers to do things that core will not do, like maintain the php code snippets some fields may have been using to define allowed values (partially working). The future of Content Copy and Content Permissions has not been decided and nothing has been done with them. Everything else is in core.
CCK Resources

CCK is a very powerful system with many different contributed modules to extend its functionality. Install the Advanced Help module for additional help, and use the Views module to display CCK information in a variety of ways.

Here are a few other comprehensive documentation and tutorial resources to help get you started:

* Text: The CCK Handbook on Drupal.org
* Text: CCK Module basics tutorial
* Video: Adding Fields With CCK video
* Video: CCK & Views Tutorial (for Drupal 5)
* DVD: Learning CCK in-depth training by Lullabot
* Book: Using Drupal O'Reilly covers CCK with lots of examples
* Video: Karen Stevenson's CCK Presentation at the Do It With Drupal Seminar (paid access)Read more