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Views
Drupal 7 note
When installing Views on Drupal 7, you absolutely must have CTools of at least alpha4 and you may need to flush cache as much as twice. There are currently issues with core's cache flushing that means one cache flush isn't necessarily enough. Also, if your CTools' version is older than CTools 7.x-1.0-alpha4 things will crash a lot..
What is Views
The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost anything in Views 2) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker lists are formatted.
This tool is essentially a smart query builder that, given enough information, can build the proper query, execute it, and display the results. It has four modes, plus a special mode, and provides an impressive amount of functionality from these modes.
Among other things, Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and display collections of images and other content.
Token
Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and expose their own token values.
Pathauto
The Pathauto module automatically generates URL/path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, taxonomy terms, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to have URL aliases like /category/my-node-title instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a "pattern" system that uses tokens which the administrator can change.
Requirements
Content Construction Kit (CCK)
The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser.
Chaos tool suite (ctools)
This suite is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience. It also contains a module called the Page Manager whose job is to manage pages. In particular it manages panel pages, but as it grows it will be able to manage far more than just Panels.
For the moment, it includes the following tools:
- Plugins -- tools to make it easy for modules to let other modules implement plugins from .inc files.
- Exportables -- tools to make it easier for modules to have objects that live in database or live in code, such as 'default views'.
- AJAX responder -- tools to make it easier for the server to handle AJAX requests and tell the client what to do with them.
- Form tools -- tools to make it easier for forms to deal with AJAX.
- Object caching -- tool to make it easier to edit an object across multiple page requests and cache the editing work.
- Contexts -- the notion of wrapping objects in a unified wrapper and providing an API to create and accept these contexts as input.
- Modal dialog -- tool to make it simple to put a form in a modal dialog.
- Dependent -- a simple form widget to make form items appear and disappear based upon the selections in another item.
- Content -- pluggable content types used as panes in Panels and other modules like Dashboard.
Wysiwyg
Allows to use client-side editors to edit content. It simplifies the installation and integration of the editor of your choice. This module replaces all other editor integration modules. No other Drupal module is required.
Wysiwyg module is capable to support any kind of client-side editor. It can be a HTML-editor (a.k.a. WYSIWYG), a pseudo-editor
(buttons to insert markup into a textarea), or even Flash-based applications. The editor library needs to be downloaded separately. Various editors are supported (see below).
Wysiwyg module also provides an abstraction layer for other Drupal modules to integrate with any editor. This means that other Drupal modules can expose content-editing functionality, regardless of which editor you have installed.
Discussions happen in the Wysiwyg group, but also in IRC #drupal-wysiwyg.
ImageAPI
This API is meant to be used in place of the API provided by image.inc. You probably do not need to install this module unless another module are you using requires it. It provides no new features to your Drupal site. It only provides an API other modules can leverage. Currently GD2 and ImageMagick support are distributed with ImageAPI.
Note: Requires PHP5!
FileField
FileField provides a universal file upload field for CCK. It is a robust alternative to core's Upload module and an absolute must for users uploading a large number of files. Great for managing video and audio files for podcasts on your own site.
Features
- Configurable upload paths allow you to save files into per-field or per-user directories
- Per-field and per-node file size limits
- Extensive API for extending field widgets and managing files
- Full revision/translation file management
- Views support
- Ajax Uploads (and progress bar support with the PECL uploadprogress extension)
- Pretty Icons
- All the goodness of CCK (multiple output formats, shared fields, multiple values, and much more)
ImageCache
#D7CX: ImageCache has been moved into core in Drupal 7: #371374: Add ImageCache UI Core.
ImageCache allows you to setup presets for image processing. If an ImageCache derivative doesn't exist the web server's rewrite rules will pass the request to Drupal which in turn hands it off to ImageCache to dynamically generate the file.
Administration menu
Provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. navigation
, back-end
). It's a helper for novice users coming from other CMS, a time-saver for site administrators, and useful for developers and site builders.
Administrative links are displayed in a CSS/JS-based menu at the top on all pages of your site. It not only contains regular menu items — tasks and actions are also included, enabling fast access to any administrative resource your Drupal site provides.
Google Analytics
Adds the Google Analytics web statistics tracking system to your website.
The module allows you to add the following statistics features to your site:
- Single/multi/cross domain tracking
- Selectively track/exclude certain users, roles and pages
- Monitor what type of links are tracked (downloads, outgoing and mailto)
- Monitor what files are downloaded from your pages
- Custom variables support with tokens
- Custom code snippets
- Site Search support
- AdSense support
- Tracking of Goals
- Anonymize visitors IP address
- Cache the Google Analytics code on your local server for improved page loading times
- Access denied (403) and Page not found (404) tracking
- DoNotTrack support (non-cached content only)
Webform
Webform is the module for making surveys in Drupal. After a submission, users may be sent an e-mail "receipt" as well as sending a notification to administrators. Results can be exported into Excel or other spreadsheet applications. Webform also provides some basic statistical review and has and extensive API for expanding its features.
ImageField
ImageField provides an image upload field for CCK. ImageField is a CCK-based alternative to the legacy Image project. It boasts features such as multiple images per node, resolution restrictions, default images, and extensive Views support.
ImageField does not provide a built-in thumbnail solution, but complements the incredibly powerful thumbnail generation module ImageCache.
ImageField related projects
- ImageCache - Dynamic thumbnail generation.
- ImageField Extended - Add additional data to images other than the default Description, Title and Alt.
- ImageField Focus - Define custom focus and crop areas to be combined with ImageCache.
- ImageField Crop - Crop images permanently after upload.
- Image FUpload - Bulk image uploader.
Date
This package contains both a flexible date/time field type Date field and a Date API that other modules can use.
The D5 and D6 versions of the Date field require the Content Construction Kit (CCK) module. The D7 version works with the core Field functionality.
Advanced help
The advanced help module allows module developers to store their help outside the module system, in pure .html files. The files can be easily translated simply by copying them into the right translations directory. The entire system can appear in a popup or not as the module prefers (and by taking away access to view the popups, a site can force the popups to not exist).
The system ties into Drupal's search system and is fully indexed, so the entire contents can be searched for keywords. the help files can be placed in a hierarchy as well, allowing for top down navigation of the help.
By itself, this module doesn't do much; it requires another module to support it, but it does come with a nice little sample of text from Wikipedia to demonstrate the system.
Accessing Advanced_help
When this module is installed, users with the view advanced help index permission can access the advanced help index by going to Administer -> Advanced Help (http://www.example.com/admin/advanced_help). Additional view advanced help popup and view advanced help topic permissions enable them to access the actual help pages and popups.
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].
CAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions by spambots, which are automated scripts that post spam content everywhere they can. The CAPTCHA module provides this feature to virtually any user facing web form on a Drupal site.
Co-maintainer wanted
We do this our spare time, which is unfortunately almost nonexistent at the moment due to real life obligations. To give the CAPTCHA module the required level of maintenance, an extra co-maintainer would be welcome. If you're interested in helping with this very popular module, please contact me or open an issue in the CAPTCHA module issue tracker.
Backup and Migrate
Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or copying your database from one Drupal site to another. It supports gzip, bzip and zip compression as well as automatic scheduled backups.
With Backup and Migrate you can dump some or all of your database tables to a file download or save to a file on the server, and to restore from an uploaded or previously saved database dump. You can chose which tables and what data to backup and cache data is excluded by default.
jQuery UI
A wrapper module around the jQuery UI effects library that lets module developers add swooshy, swishy effects to their code.
See http://jqueryui.com/demos for some examples of what jQuery UI can do.
See http://jqueryui.com/docs for documentation on how to use it.
See http://jqueryui.com/support if you need help getting jQuery UI to work, once it's being added to your pages.
This is a utility module that won't do anything on its own. See README.txt for how your module can use it to add jQuery UI effects to your pages.
Global Redirect
What?
GlobalRedirect is a simple module which…
- Checks the current URL for an alias and does a 301 redirect to it if it is not being used.
- Checks the current URL for a trailing slash, removes it if present and repeats check 1 with the new request.
- Checks if the current URL is the same as the
site_frontpageand redirects to the frontpage if there is a match. - Checks if the Clean URLs feature is enabled and then checks the current URL is being accessed using the clean method rather than the 'unclean' method.
- Checks access to the URL. If the user does not have access to the path, then no redirects are done. This helps avoid exposing private aliased node's.
- Make sure the case of the URL being accessed is the same as the one set by the author/administrator. For example, if you set the alias "articles/cake-making" to node/123, then the user can access the alias with any combination of case.
- Most of the above options are configurable in the settings page. In Drupal 5 you can access this after enabling the
globalredirect_adminmodule. In Drupal 6, the settings page is bundled into the module.
CKEditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor
This module will allow Drupal to replace textarea fields with the CKEditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG editing functions of known desktop editors like Word to the web. It's very fast and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
What is CKEditor?
CKEditor is the next version of FCKeditor. The editor has been rebranded and completely rewritten. It is now much faster (the code has been optimized), loads faster (the number of files has been reduced, so the browser will perform less HTTP requests) and developers friendly.
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?
Lightbox2
The Lightbox2 module is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on most modern browsers.