Modules

Jul 25 2008

Inviting Modules to Drupal 6

Here at pingVision we've largely switched over to making all of our clients' websites with Drupal 6 - there's a number of advantages in doing that, but sometimes there's one major disadvantage: The website they want would be great with module X, but module X doesn't have a Drupal 6 version yet.

In those cases, we convert 'em ourselves, and post a patch appropriately. I wrapped up updating the wonderful Invite module to Drupal 6, and that made me think back on the various updates we at pingVision have done so far:

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Jul 25 2008

by Laura

pingVision presenters at DrupalCamp Colorado 2008

While pingVision as a company is one of the many sponsors of DrupalCamp Colorado 2008, several pingVision people are doing presentations and panels.

Here's a quick run-down:

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Jul 7 2008

by Laura

pingVision website redesign is live

Whew! This was a long time coming, and just a tad more than a CSS reboot. We rearchitected the pingVision website from the ground up. Since the initial site had started with Drupal 4.5, there was a lot of legacy cruft in the database, left behind by modules no longer in use and, I have to admit, experiments I tried that didn't quite work out. The old site was launched in January 2005, back when Drupal was still pretty new to me. I've learned some things since then.

So we started over, and simply imported the published content, existing users and taxonomy structures. It was a lot easier than tracking down tables, variables and indexes left behind by modules of yore.

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Apr 29 2008

by Ben

Drupal contributed modules 6.x status

One of the challenges in providing the architecture for a Drupal 6 site is leveraging existing contributed modules. A client might say they want to be able to forward content to a friend. Oh, well there are a couple contrib modules you can use but how do you find out if a module will be updated to Drupal 6 and where it might be in that process if at all?

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Oct 5 2007

by Rad

Drupal Modules for Beginners

Being a visual person, the first thing I learned in Drupal was theming. But, a site that worries about looks without addressing content isn't far from Paris Hilton putting out an album - there's just a difference in funding. So let's look at how to use modules for Drupal 5.x and make the site do what we want it to do!

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Sep 7 2007

by Greg

Interview in SpryDev Podcast about SEO and Pathauto

A little while ago I got interviewed by Ben Finklea who produces the SpryDev SEO Podcast.

One of the Drupal modules that I maintain is the Pathauto Module which automatically creates user-and-search-engine-friendly aliases for your Drupal paths.

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Path Image

This module allows site administrators to add a "block" to their site the contains of which is a predefined image (uploaded separately) dependent upon the current path.

Path Image project page

5.x Download Path_image 5.x-1.1

Scheduler

This module allows nodes to be published and unpublished on specified dates.

Scheduler project page

6.x Download Scheduler 6.x-1.2

5.x Download

Janode

This is a node type that allows you to create a library of http:// links to other resources on the Internet. Each node has a title, the matching url and a description.

Janode project page

5.x Download Janode 5.x-1.3