FreeAfter.com goes live with Drupal

By ericwagner on 11 Oct 2006 at 23:40 UTC

I recently helped launch FreeAfter.com, a deals resource, on Drupal. The site uses the views, flexinode, karma, userpoints, taxonomy, and janode modules (to name only a few that we used.) The site makes extensive use of customized taxonomy displays within flexinodes as well as an integration between the flexinode and janode modules, and an integration between the user points and karma module. I also used a nodequeue to create a "Featured Deals" block, and repurposed the archive module for a "Deal Expiration Calendar."

Much of the site is highly customized so contributing back full modules is somewhat difficult, however, I did add some of what I figured out into the drupal.org discussions: Creating multiple menus, listing taxonomy terms within text (and here), and fixing issues with the karma module. In addition, time permitting, I am working working on contributing back the combo Bluemarine/SpreadFirefox theme I created (it looks sort of like the SpreadFirefox theme but it's not as buggy.)

Comments

Hey, neat site!!! I like the

pcoskat commented 14 October 2006 at 03:13

Hey, neat site!!!

I like the 'categories' you have here: http://www.freeafter.com/browse - I haven't seen that on other sites before.

Is that something you custom coded, or does that come with the core? (Sorry if that's a dumb question - I'm new to Drupal)

Taxonomy DHTML

ericwagner commented 14 October 2006 at 21:48

Thanks!

http://www.freeafter.com/browse is created by the Taxonomy DHTML module with one small change. I altered the module slightly so that only terms with nodes in them would be displayed. Here is the patch:

--- taxonomy_dhtml.module.orig  2006-10-14 14:46:32.000000000 -0700
+++ taxonomy_dhtml.module       2006-10-14 14:46:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -183,9 +183,6 @@ function theme_taxonomy_dhtml_render_out
     else if ($term->link){
       $link = $term->link;
       $output .= "<li>$link</li>\n";
-    } else {
-      $link = l(t($term->name), "taxonomy/term/$term->tid/9", array("title" => t($term->description)));
-      $output .= "<li>$link</li>\n";
     }
   }
   $output .= str_repeat("</ul>\n", 1+$term->depth);