Link
Module description
The link module can be count to the top 50 modules in Drupal installations and provides a standard custom content field for links. With this module links can be added easily to any content types and profiles and include advanced validating and different ways of storing internal or external links and URLs. It also supports additional link text title, site wide tokens for titles and title attributes, target attributes, css class attribution, static repeating values, input conversion, and many more.
Requirements / Dependencies
- Drupal 6: Custom content module (CCK)
- Drupal 7: Fields API is provided already by core [no dependencies].
INFO Since some missleading user reports we need to clarify here - Link module is NOT about to add links to any menus or the navigation nor primary/secondary menu. This can be done with default menu module (part of Drupal core). The Link module provides an additional custom field for storing and validating links to be added with any content type, which means another input block additional to your text-body, title, image and any other input you can make on new content creation.
Installation
Panels
An Overview of Panels
The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to create nodes that use this, landing pages that use this, and even override system pages such as taxonomy and the node page so that you can customize the layout of your site with very fine grained permissions.
Integration with CTools module
Panels 3 utilizes the CTools' system of "context" so that the content you place on the page can be aware of what is being displayed. For example, in the existing Drupal setup, a block has no real knowledge of what the primary page is displaying. There are all kinds of tricks and tools you can use to get information to the blocks, but this generally means writing PHP code to scan the URL and pull the data out, which is not a very good thing when that data should already exist.
Panels uses Contexts - What are they?
Views Slideshow
Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create.
Potential uses
- News item slideshow (such as the title, image and teaser of the last 5 news articles submitted)
- The Last X number of X submitted (images, videos, blog entries, forum posts, comments, testimonials, etc.).
- Rotate any image, based on any filters you can apply in views.
- Hottest new products for any ecommerce drupal site.
- Rotate contact links, share links, etc.
- Heck, you could rotate entire nodes, categories, image galleries, etc. I wouldn't suggest it, but you have that power.
- Its also a great space saver. Places where you had multiple images or multiple items such as RSS feeds or category listings can now be presented in a slideshow.
The possibilities are really endless, as the more ways you can think of to categorize and add to views, the more you can rotate.
Views Slideshow Installation and Configuration
Nice Menus
Nice Menus enables drop-down/right/left expandable menus. It uses only CSS for most browsers, with minimal Javascript for IE6. (Version 2 uses the Superfish jQuery plugin for all browsers, with an option to disable JS, and falls back to CSS-only for browsers that can handle it.)
Three styles/types of menus are currently possible: horizontal, menus drop down; vertical, menus fly to the left; vertical, menus fly to the right. There is a handbook page that provides a list of sites that use Nice menus.
Nice Menus creates blocks that may be associated with any existing site menu which can be placed wherever normal blocks can be placed in a theme. For themers, it is also possible to theme a menu as a Nice Menu directly by using the provided theme functions so a block is not necessary. A specific theme function for the Primary Links menu is available. The theme functions also allow a developer to pass in a custom menu tree of their making (i.e. not using a Drupal menu.) There is more information on how to use theme functions in the documentation.
Site map
This module provides a site map that gives visitors an overview of your site. It can also display the RSS feeds for all blogs and categories.
Printer, email and PDF versions
This module allows you to generate the following printer-friendly versions of any node:
- Printer-friendly version (webpage format) (at
www.example.com/print/nid) - PDF version (at
www.example.com/printpdf/nid) - Send by email (at
www.example.com/printmail/nid)
where nid is the node id of content to render.
Important: The current versions of the module require at least Drupal 5.17, 6.11 or 7.0. They will not work in older versions.
Embedded Media Field
Maintainers: aaron (Aaron Winborn) and Alex UA (Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg)
This extensible module will create fields for content types that can be used to display video, image, and audio files from various third party providers. When entering the content, the user will simply paste the URL or embed code from the third party, and the module will automatically determine which content provider is being used. When displaying the content, the proper embedding format will be used.
The module is only an engine, and requires a supported module to function. These include 'Embedded Image Field', 'Embedded Video Field' and 'Embedded Audio Field'. These modules are included in the contrib folder of the module, so they can be easily activated from the module administration page.
Please note: As of emfield 2.x, provider files for these modules are no longer included with the main emfield module, and must be downloaded separately- please see the list of projects providing provider files below.
Modules extending Embedded Media Field
The following modules work in conjunction with this project, largely to expose media providers (you'll need at least one of these to make the module useful):
Insert
Insert is a utility that makes inserting images and links to files into text areas or WYSIWYGs much easier. It adds a simple JavaScript-based button to FileField and ImageField widgets. When used with ImageField and ImageCache, images may be inserted into text areas with a specific ImageCache preset.
This module was previously known as FileField Insert.
Features
- Support for all major WYSIWYG editors, including tinyMCE, CKeditor, the WYSIWYG project (the recommended approach), and plain text areas.
- Insert images using ImageCache presets
- Maximum width setting for inserted images (for combined use with the Image Resize Filter module)
- Per-field insert configuration
See this module in action in the excellent FileField Insert / Image Resize Filter screencast by MustardSeed Media.
Requirements
- CCK (2.5 or higher! D6 only.)
Recommended projects
GMap Module
The GMap module provides an interface to the Google Maps API within Drupal. It integrates with the Location module to provide users a clickable map for entering latitude and longitude, as well as to display maps of Drupal nodes and users. GMap can be used to create interactive maps with various map markers and content in map bubbles, taking advantage of Drupal's other content management features. The module also provides a Views display plugin which allows users to display the results of a view on a Google map.
Google MAPS API v3 update progress #1459606: [Needs tests] Backport from D7 to use Google maps API V3 for D6 6.x-2.x-dev
NOTE: 7.x-2.x(and 6.x-2.x) targeting Google Maps API V3 is now under development. Keep an eye on the issue queue for progress. #1459606: [Needs tests] Backport from D7 to use Google maps API V3 for D6 6.x-2.x-dev
Beta/Alpha release for Google Maps API V3 for Drupal 7 gmap 7.x-2.x-xxxxX
Beta/Alpha releases for Google Maps API V3 for Drupal 6 gmap 6.x-2.x-xxxxX
Supported by Druler
Quick Tabs
#D7CX: I pledge that Quick Tabs will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released.
The Quick Tabs module allows you to create blocks of tabbed content, specifically views, blocks, nodes* and other quicktabs*. You can create a block on your site containing multiple tabs with corresponding content. Clicking on the tabs makes the corresponding content display instantly, using jQuery. With the 6.x-2.x branch, this can be done in either ajax or non-ajax mode:
Diff
This module adds a tab for sufficiently permissioned users. The tab shows all revisions like standard Drupal but it also allows pretty viewing of all added/changed/deleted words between revisions.
Active maintainer/s
- Brian Gilbert (realityloop)
- Alan Davison (Alan D.)
Inactive maintainer/s
Previous maintainers
- Moshe Weitzman (moshe)
Refer to the readme.txt for configuration options.
External Links
External Links is a small module used to differentiate between internal and external links. Using jQuery, it will find all external links on a page and add an external icon 
indicating it will take you offsite or a mail icon 
for mailto: links.
Configuration options:
- Apply icons to either mailto: or external links or both.
- Configure external links to open in a new window.
- A confirmation message when leaving the site.
- Regular expression inclusion and exclusion of links considered external.
You may also take a look at External Link Extras, which can expand the functionality of External Links.
This module Built by Robots:
Nodequeue
The Nodequeue module allows users to collect nodes in an arbitrarily ordered list. The order in the list can be used for a any purpose, such as:
- A block listing teasers for the five top news stories on a site
- A user’s favorite music albums
- A group of favorite from which one is randomly displayed
Nodequeue provides a simple drag-and-drop interface to manually order any queue. Additionally, it allows nodes to be added and removed from queues without needing edit permissions to the node. Nodes can be added to queues either from a queue management tab or by links on the node teaser.
Smartqueue API
Nodequeue provides a robust API that allows other modules to define smartqueues, which are associated with external data. For example, the included taxonomy smartqueue creates subqueues for a given queue for every term in the chosen vocabulary. Nodes are then only eligible for subqueues whose term matches the nodes terms. This makes it very easy to have queues for each category without cluttering the management page.
Modules that Extend Nodequeue:
- Smartqueue per-user: Makes a personal queue available to users of one or more roles.
Custom Breadcrumbs
Custom Breadcrumbs 2 (6.x-2.x and 7.x-2.x)
Many new features have been added including support for Views, Panels, Taxonomy vocabularies and terms, paths, and a simple API that allows contributed modules to enable custom breadcrumbs for module pages and theme templates. These are implemented using optional, independent submodules that depend on the main Custom Breadcrumbs module.
In addition to breadcrumb visibility, this version provides an option permitting PHP code snippets to be used in forming the breadcrumb titles and paths. Multiple languages are also supported.
Any changes must go in the 7.x version first.
Custom Breadcrumbs 1 (6.x-1.x and 7.x-1.x)
Allows administrators to set up parametrized breadcrumb trails for any node type. This allows CCK-style node types to have "Home > User Blog > 2005 > January" style breadcrumbs on the node view page itself, synchronizing cleanly with custom views or pathauto aliases. Breadcrumb visibility can be customized via a php snippet.
There are no maintainers doing any work on these branches, so please switch to version 2! :) If, for some reason, you'd like these branches maintained, please offer to become a co-maintainer to work on them.
Similar Modules
Menu Breadcrumb
By default, Drupal 6 will use the Navigation menu for the breadcrumb. This module allows you to use the menu the current page belongs to for the breadcrumb.
As an added bonus, it also allows you to :
- Append the page title to the breadcrumb (either as a clickable url or not)
- Hide the breadcrumb if it only contains the link to the front page.
Content Templates (Contemplate)
NOTE: This module *may* be deprecated in Drupal 7 !
Here's your reason, basically the theming changes in D7 mean the field theming gets bound a lot lot later in the process, so it's not possible to generate the output into a Textarea for you to edit - that said, it is possible that we can come at this from another angle and use tokens instead BUT it means what you see in contemplate admin page will be nothing at all similar to the output.
You can view more on taking this module forwards here http://drupal.org/node/1285558
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The Content Template (a.k.a. ConTemplate) module allows modification of Drupal's teaser and body fields using administrator defined templates. These templates use PHP code and all of the node object variables are available for use in the template. An example node object is displayed and it is as simple as clicking on its properties to add them to the current template.
Service links
Service Links allow the users to share a web page in various social networks like bookmarking services, social blogs and similiar, providing an easy way to extend their number. Built on Drupal for Drupal doesn't include commercial advertising codes and don't require third part libraries.
The services included are various: del.icio.us, Digg/Digg button, Facebook/Facebook Share/Facebook Like, Furl, Google Bookmark/Google Plus One, IceRocket, LinkedIn/Linkedin button counter, MySpace, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter/Twitter widget, Yahoo Bookmark, and many more, they are split for language in different packages: basque, dutch, farsi, german, hungarian, italian, russian, spanish, swedish.
Other services are availables as an extra module fully customizable with some click.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Frequently Asked Questions (faq) module allows users, with appropriate permissions, to create question and answer pairs which they want displayed on the 'faq' page. The 'faq' page is automatically generated from the FAQ nodes configured. Basic Views layouts are also provided and can be customised via the Views UI (rather than via the module settings page).
Gallery formatter
Gallery formatter provides a CCK formatter for image fields, which will turn any image field into a jQuery Gallery.
(Drupal 6) Watch the screencast for a demo of how to set it up, or visit the demo page for seeing it in action.
Features:
- Two imagecache presets which will work out of the box beautifully.
- The thumbnails run under an infinite carousel.
- Degrades gracefully without JS enabled, the gallery still works.
- Integrated out of the box with thickbox, colorbox (recommended as the thickbox upgrade path), shadowbox and lightbox2 for the view full links.
- Works with the swfupload, image_fupload, and imagefield_crop widgets.
- A hook for modules to provide styles for the galleries.
- Two options for styles, no style and a green arrows style. No style should be used for developing your own styles.
SWF Tools
SWF Tools development is back on
Good news! SWF Tools development is going to get started again! Sorry it's been a while since any issues got fixed, and that there's not a SWF Tools 7 (yet!). I can't promise any dates yet, but it will happen. Read a bit more here.
Overview
SWF Tools allows you to easily embed flash content and media players on your pages. The whole concept of SWF Tools is to let you focus on displaying media on your site, but without having to write code to enable it.
Formats
You can use any of the following formats to add your media:
- CCK display formatters (see documentation for details)
-
Inline embedding (
[swf file="mymovie.swf"]) -
PHP code:
<?php
print swf('mymovie.swf');
?>
Embedding
You can choose either direct embedding markup, or JavaScript embedding using SWF Object 2
Media players
You can enable support for a number of common media players, including:
- Flowplayer
- 1 Pixel Out
- JW Image Rotator
- JW Media Player
- Simple Viewer
Playlists
EVA: Entity Views Attachment
D8CX: I pledge that EVA will have a full Drupal 8 release on the day that Drupal 8 is released
"Eva" is short for "Entity Views Attachment;" it provides a Views display plugin that allows the output of a View to be attached to the content of any Drupal entity. The body of a node or comment, the profile of a user account, or the listing page for a Taxonomy term are all examples of entity content.
The placement of the view in the entity's content can be reordered on the "Field Display" administration page for that entity, like other fields added using the Field UI module.
In addition, the unique ID of the entity the view is attached to -- as well as any tokens generated from that entity -- can be passed in as arguments to the view. For example, you might make a View that displays posts with an 'Author ID' argument, then use Eva to attach the view to the User entity type. When a user profile is displayed, the User's ID will be passed in as the argument to the view magically.
That's right: magically.
Need some help?
Hierarchical Select
Description
This module defines the "hierarchical_select" form element, which is a greatly enhanced way for letting the user select items in a hierarchy.
Hierarchical Select has the ability to save the entire lineage of a selection or only the "deepest" selection. You can configure it to force the user to make a selection as deep as possible in the tree, or allow the user to select an item anywhere in the tree. Levels can be labeled, you can configure limit the number of items that can be selected, configure a title for the dropbox, choose a site-wide animation delay, and so on. You can even create new items and levels through Hierarchical Select!
For a good overview of what Hierarchical Select can do, look at this demo!
I'm focusing on maintaining only the Drupal 7 version of Hierarchical Select. That means I'll only commit RTBC patches for the D6 version relatively quickly. If a co-maintainer steps up to help maintain the Drupal 6, I'd be happy to accept him/her! :)
Drupal 7 version
The Drupal 7 version integrates with:
- Taxonomy (Drupal core)
- Menu (Drupal core)
Dynamic display block
Dynamic display block slideshows are mainly used to showcase featured content at a prominent place on the frontpage of the site in an attractive way. A featured content slideshow can contain e.g.: New articles, Most popular content, New products, Portfolios, Videos etc.
For more examples see: Demo site
For example commercial themes see: Themes site
For sites using ddblock see: Sites using ddblock
For installations, custom configurations and custom theme developments fill out the design requirements questionnaire to create an efficient workflow.
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Documentation
The dynamic display block slideshow module is supported by a complete set of documentation, like: Installation and configuration tutorials, Video tutorials, FAQ, How to's, Tips, etc.
Support
Support for the dynamic display block slideshow module is given on a daily basis.
- Please post support requests, feature request and bugs in the issue queue and not on the documentation pages.
- Give detailed descriptions of your issues, so I can help you better.
- Searching the issue queue (search on all issue) and the FAQ can give you direct answers.
Slideshow theme layouts
The dynamic display block slideshow module is supplemented with free and commercial slideshow theme layouts. Examples of free slideshow themes and the commercial slideshow themes can be found at themes.myalbums.biz. Free themes can be found at the download page.
How you can help?
Below are some examples how you can support the development of the module:
- Write a review on drupalmodules.com.
- Post bugs, patches in the issue queue.
- Review documentation and post issues in the issue queue.
- Review module code and post snippets of code in the forum to improve the module.
- Post your site as an Internet site using the dynamic display block module.
I need your time, efforts, feedback and support for the module.
The Maintainers
The module is developed and maintained by Philip Blaauw.
I like to thank developers like Aaron Couch (helped with adding Image cache support to the module) and Josh Waihi (helped with reorganizing PHP setting declarations) for their interest and help with the module. I also appreciate the help of others who found bugs, made suggestions for improvements, made issues to improve the documentation and who made reviews of the module.
Support and development of the module is made possible by selling new custom theme layouts and by paid services like installations and customizations of slideshow solutions.
Future of the dynamic display block module.
Drupal 6
The module will get a 1.0 release version of the current RC6 version which fixes bugs. A new 2.x dev version for drupal 6 will be created which will have new functionality like in the Drupal 7 version of the ddblock module and in the views_slideshow_ddblock module for drupal 6.
Drupal 7
Drupal 7 development version is released, please help with testing. The module now uses field mapping of views fields to slideshow theme fields instead of preprocess functions. An extra prev/next pager is available in all slideshow themes, an example theme with a scrollable pager is added. The module makes now use of themed views data instead of raw views data. No preprocess function anymore.
Drupal 7 - Advanced slideshow tutorial at http://ddblock.myalbums.biz
This is a quick step by step tutorial, which assumes you have basic drupal knowledge.
Paid services
For paid installation, configurations and customization of the module and slideshow themes, you can contact me via my contact form. I also do a wide range of drupal development, configurations and theming for Drupal sites.
Note:
There are several other Drupal slideshow / carousel / rotator / tab modules available. Have a look at this comparison to find out what suits you best.
Real Name
The RealName module allows the administrator to choose fields from the user profile that will be used to add a "real name" element (method) to a user object. Hook_user is used to automatically add this to any user object that is loaded. It will also optionally set all nodes and comments to show this name.