East London Drupal Workshop
Robert Castelo - May 7, 2006 - 18:59
Time: 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Wednesday 10th May, 2006
Location:
The Boxing Club, Limeouse Town Hall,
646 Commercial Road London, E14 7HA
A bring and share workshop, designed to be a feeform place to bring your (wireless) laptop and share Drupal challenges and experience.
Good session last month, lets make this even better!
I went to the session last month and it was great, I'd highly recommend it.
I hope to come along this week though no promises. I don't mind demonstrating again, and would also appreciate it if people can help test my online yearbook service which I'm very proud of after years of work have finally paid of. I also help share some tips and tricks which have made that side possible.
Jake
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School and university yearbooks and Drupal web services, London
drat!
this would have been perfect, but i'm working late and have to head west that night. and its down the road from my house! next time....
toby
WoW, this seems nice :)
I live in camden which is bit away and i am in the middle of exams, but can i drop in just to see what its like etc?
Sure
You're welcome to pop in.
Cortext Communications
Drupal Themes & Modules
Really good meet - what went down
This turned out to be a really good meet. We started by running Zack Rosen's video showing how to use various hot Drupal contributed modules to import data from a spreadsheet and show it on a Google map:
http://www.zacker.org/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine
... well worth a watch. Unfortunately though, the audio was really low so after trying it on a few laptops we had and fining it far to quiet, I had to put on my Zack shoes and do a voice over for him.
There was a complete mix of users at the event as before - from complete newbies who didn't know what apache was, up to folk like myself (nice menus) and Robert Castelo (of pushbutton fame). I had a copy of my install-drupal-in-3-mins video with me so I passed that around on my memory stick along with Zack's great video, and a few people watched it there.
I took the controls of one guy's mac (damn I hate macs) and got MAMP installed for him, despite various hiccups. Having installed MAMP, installing Drupal was a breeze, and he had multiple installs ready for playing on for when he went home.
Two budding IT type people were eager to get flexinode working as apparently it was a prerequisite for another module they wanted to use. Something wasn't working so we installed devel.module to make debugging easier. They also wanted to know more about themes, so we duplicated the bluemarine theme and started hacking away, as I showed them how EVERYTHING can be themed, so you never have to hack away at core - specifically, we took the links at bottom of nodes and transformed them into an HTML unordered list using the relevant hook in template.php.
From there - and to continue proving that one doesn't have to hack at core - I showed them how to get rid of the preview button on node edit forms, the basics of FAPI, the various operations you can hook in at using nodeapi and more. I demonstrated how I hooked into these various places and more on my own site. So hopefully we've got a couple more potential Drupal coders now :)
Everyone else seemed very busy and enjoying themselves. There were about 10 of us in all.
Meetings are generally scheduled as thus:
- social meet at Be The Reds internet cafe off Tottenham Court Road, last Friday every month
- workshops at The Boxing Club in Limehouse, second Wednesday of every month.
If you couldn't make it yesterday, be sure to make the next meet!
Jake
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School and university yearbooks and Drupal web services, London
preview buttons
Question: How do you get rid of the annoying preview buttons on node edit forms?
I've been wondering that for a while :) I asked before in the forum, but didn't get any response...also tried searching but couldn't find any methods that worked.
Thanks!
In your own module, add
In your own module, add this:
function [module_name]_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {unset ($form['preview']);
}
You can remove it only for particular forms by doing an if() check on the $form_id.
Jake
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School and university yearbooks and Drupal web services, London
thanks!
Awesome, thanks Jake :)
I've been looking for that for a while now!
Looking for the same thing,
Looking for the same thing, but do I have to create a module to do this? Wasn't sure I followed that. If not, which module do we add this snippet to? Thanks for any help.
June / July?
Anything scheduled for June / July?
Hello Robert, Give me a
Hello Robert, Give me a shout if this happens again.
hi mate, The london drupal
hi mate,
The london drupal meetup take place at the beginning and end of each month....the one on fridays is usually for people new to drupal who want to know what its about and the wednesday ones are developer orientated whereby you bring down your laptop, code and throw ideas around and get help where possible.
for more information make
for more information make sure to check out http://drupal.org.uk/