By jbratton on

I moved my fraternity chapter's website from joomla to drupal 4.7 a few months ago, and as of about 3 weeks ago it is running drupal 5.0. I have created around 8-10 custom modules, the largest being a custom forum module. I also completely re-coded the flickr module from scratch using phpFlickr and jquery for some nice effects. If there is enough interest, I am not opposed to cleaning up the forum or flickr modules and releasing them. Let me know what you think.

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Codis commented

Frater! Alpha-Eta chapter here. This is exactly what I'm looking for. I recently took over web responsibilites for my chapter and need something like this. Can you e-mail me?

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michelle
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Running a live site on a pre-beta. You're brave. :) Have you run into any problems running such an early pre-release?

I'm interested in your custom modules. What did you do differently with your forum module?

Michelle

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jbratton commented

Since the site isn't exactly mission critical or anything I am not too worried about running code from CVS. There is a lot of cool new stuff in 5.0 (jquery is great) to play around with.

For the forum module, there was a lot of interest in being able to post using a username other than Anonymous without logging in. The nodes aren't really meant to handle this, so I created a custom forum module that has it's own tables for posts, topics, etc. so that I can set it up exactly how I want.

The flickr module uses phpFlickr to access photosets on flickr.com and jquery is used to do some fancy effects for the galleries.

Most of the other modules really just involve retrieving and/or manipulating the member data in our database.

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j0k3z commented

Im trying to get the 'views' shown on my forum index like you have done. How is this achived?

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jbratton commented

Everything in the forum is custom. It does not use any of drupal's views, nodes, comments, etc.

If you want to get something that looks similar, but uses drupal's forum, you just have to play around with the CSS.

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j0k3z commented

Is there a phpsnippet to show the 'views' column (on the main forum page) that each forum thread has?

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potential commented

Can you describe in a little more detail how to integrate phpFlickr with Druapl?

Once integrated, is it just a matter of getting the proper RSS feed for each album?

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jbratton commented

phpFlickr is just a class to act as a wrapper for flickr's web service API. I used that in my flickr drupal module to get all of the photosets/photos, build the proper image urls, and put them all in some nice tables. There is already a flickr module here for drupal 4.7. I started out using that module, but then ended up completely rewriting my own, using phpFlickr.

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potential commented

I very much like the way you implemented the photo galleries from Flickr. Any chance you can share your new module with the community?

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jbratton commented

Sure, I have no problem releasing it. I just need to clean up the module a bit and I will look into releasing it.