CVS edit link for Thirtysixway
I've been working along with my school district on moving our web sites over to Drupal. Along the way, we've needed some custom modules.So far we have two custom modules (one may not be acceptable at this point as it's not written in jQuery.)
-One is called Windchill, which uses the weather module to calculate the windchill outside since the weather module alone does not do this. ____I am not submitting this please do not base my application for CVS on this module, just giving some background!____ I may contact the maintainer of the Weather module to add windchill functionality, but as of now this is in use on our sites.
-Another is called Document Icons which I _will_ release to the public on drupal.org. It loops through the page with jQuery, and find all the links. Then using some code, finds the file extension of the link. If it's a link to something like a pdf, doc, pls, mp3, xls, or other file it will insert the appropriate application icon next to the link. This module will be heavily used on our high school and district web sites as the icons are very helpful to users.
Here's a demo link:
http://d5dev.noobbox.com/node/1
I also have a theme that I want to include on drupal.org called Beautiful Day.
http://noobbox.com/downloads/drupal-themes/beautiful-day-arcsinse
(the demo link doesn't work but the screenshot is on that page.) This is a port of a non-drupal theme I did, and it is released under GPL v2 and I also have the original author's permission to port and give out the themes as long as I leave his copyright at the bottom (which I have.)
I've worked with Drupal for about a year now, and I've worked with quite a few people and moved their web sites over to drupal systems. I'm committed to using Drupal, and I do plan on keeping my modules and themes up-to-date and compatible with all supported Drupal versions 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x when it is released.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #2 | docicon.tar_.gz | 4.53 KB | jgknight |
| #1 | docicon.tar_.gz | 4.53 KB | jgknight |
Comments
Comment #1
jgknight commentedMy first intended project, called Document Icons
Comment #2
jgknight commentedMy first intended project, called Document Icons
Comment #3
avpadernoComment #4
avpadernoThere are already modules that has the same purpose:
Comment #5
jgknight commentedWhile I agree that the contextlinks module has somewhat the same idea, it's different. That module requires custom bbcode style entry in order to display the icon. My module is completely on the idea that the end-user shouldn't have to worry about anything more than creating normal hyperlinks in fckeditor.
That module also does not include icons specific to applications like adobe pdf or itunes icons. so I'd have to say that they're not similar. Their goals and intentions are pretty different.
Also, that first link is not the same. My module doesn't deal with external or mail links, only links to documents.
Comment #6
avpadernoComment #7
avpadernoThe module simply loads a javaScript, and a CSS file. There is no need to create a module, in that case; you can accomplish the same task by creating a custom block.