Drupal

Rules based notifications for Organic Groups

21 Jun 2010
Back-end development

Last week I wrote about Organic Groups in Drupal and how to customize the way it controls access to content. This article describes how you can use the Rules module to create a custom, lightweight solution for sending email notifications to members of a group whenever new content is added.

Organic Groups – with your definition of Public

10 Jun 2010
Back-end development

The Organic Groups module in Drupal provides groups of users with a way of discussing common interests in a separate space of their own. It does a great job at controlling who has access to what, depending on how open you want your groups to be. Yet, we've found in a couple of projects that it didn't quite fulfill our needs. Naturally, you wouldn't be reading this if we hadn't found a solution.

Exportable configuration for your Drupal module with Ctools

21 Apr 2010
Back-end development

I've worked a lot on making the configuration in FFmpeg Converter exportable during the last couple of days. I found it to be very rewarding, although the whole thing grew larger than I had expected, as always. In this post I'll give an overview of the steps required to create a fully featured exportable configuration interface in Drupal.

Missing DrupalCon? Five ways to survive the misery

19 Apr 2010

There is a huge number of people in Europe who have had to face reality and finally accept that they will miss DrupalCon San Francisco – and we are among those people. It would be all too easy to just spend the next few days in bed with a pillow over our heads, but as this post shows, this may actually be an opportunity to make some really good things happen.

Copenhagen hosts DrupalCon 2010!

4 Dec 2009

Yesterday the Drupal Association announced that the next DrupalCon Europe will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark! We're very pleased to hear the news that our dear neighbors have finally pulled this off, after months of hard work on their proposal.

DrupalCamp Sthlm Workshop II: Features

11 Nov 2009
Back-end development
Concepts & ideas

Today I'm giving two workshops at DrupalCamp Stockholm. One is about the Context module and the other about the Features module. This article serves as documentation for the second workshop on the hot topic of Features.

DrupalCamp Sthlm Workshop I: Context

11 Nov 2009
Back-end development
Concepts & ideas

Today I'm giving two workshops at DrupalCamp Stockholm. One is about the Context module and the other about the Features module. This article serves as documentation for the workshop on Context, a real cornerstone kind of module in Drupal.

Drupal takes over the White House

27 Oct 2009

Drupal has no shortage of high profile use cases. Famous artists, large news organizations, and worldwide organizations all provide proof that Drupal is a mature, secure and powerful content management platform. This weekend came news of what is probably the most prestigious Drupal project yet: www.whitehouse.gov.

Groundbreaking news in Drupal 7

2 Sep 2009

Drupal 7 is starting to take on its final shape. Drupalcon today offered two events that help you foresee how this upcoming release will turn out: one was Dries Buytaert's keynote speech, the other was Angela Byron's session on all the new features that so far have made it into the development version. This article outlines some of the highlights.

Drupal explained: a fish tank

27 Aug 2009

We've been discussing Drupal and other CMSs lately, and how they differ in the way they organize content. Many competing systems use a central tree structure which you shoehorn all the content into. Drupal on the other hand puts all of its content into one big bucket, pool, or… fish tank. But how do you find the content you're looking for? Ask the fish!

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