Some Drupal add-ons

Here are some modules, themes, and other tools I've developed in the course of supporting Drupal on several sites.

These are generally not polished (and in particular, not documented) to official Drupal contrib standards. Though I tried to avoid it, it's possible that some also depend on patches not (yet?) in the core.

All are provided as-is, and absolutely no (unpaid) support whatsoever will be provided.

Modules

• copyright

  Adds a copyright notice (automatically using the current year) at the bottom of each page.

• extralinks

  Optionally adds (a) an "edit" link to teaser displays (like Drupal 4.4), and (b) "next", "previous", and "latest" links to node pages, based on the front page display order.

• ii404

  Perform a search when a page is not found. Derived from i404.module by goekker.

• insertions

  Provides XML-style tags to insert information (e.g. title, teaser, body, link list, etc.) about nodes and comments. Similar in spirit to the Attached node contrib module.

• linebreak

  An extension to the line break filter. Converts line breaks into HTML, but only if the user has not supplied explicit <p>, <div>, or <br> tags.

• minoredit

  Allows editors to mark node edits as 'minor', so that the content does not appear to be 'new' in the tracker.

• nlist

  An adjunct to insertions.module, this lists the nodes in a taxonomy in <n> form, so that the editor can copy them to easily build custom article lists.

• noteaser

  Allows the admin to suppress teasers for particular node types. See http://drupal.org/node/12667.

• replace

  A filter that provides two functions: (a) Turn '@' characters into images, to discourage email address harvesting; (b) turn the site's name into a link.

• results

  Suppress the author field in search results, for 'editorially' unsigned collaborative sites.

• shuffler

  Present a "random" selection of articles in a sidebar block. Nodes are selected and weighted by taxonomy. Reasonably efficient, since the list of links is generated by a cron hook rather than on every page load.

• teaserless

  Handle old database nodes with no/empty teaser field.

• tracking

  Similar to the core tracker.module, but primarily focussed on providing registered users with personalized lists of unread content.

PHP pages

• fc

  Flushes the Drupal cache when loaded. Useful while working on code that uses the cache.

• node

  Redirect old node URLs. Better than the standard Apache redirect because it handles links to comments.

• updatecommentcount

  Repairs the node_comment_statistics table after an upgrade to 4.5.0. Probably won't be necessary for 4.5.1; see http://drupal.org/node/11366

Theme Preprocessor

This allows one to write themes in a 'template' style, but runs at theme-install time for maximum efficiency (that is, it produces a pure PHP theme, and is not itself present as part of a Drupal installation). It provides inclusions, conditionals, macros, etc.; its main design goal was to allow one to easily share code/design between themes.

It requires a command-line-accessible PHP; it is written in PHP because that language will be familiar to people working on Drupal.