Picon

Module Description

Picon allows site administrators to edit many aspects of the 'Powered By Drupal' icon that are not available within the core functionality.

The Picon module allows for easy selection of images using a sidebar element that displays the available images. Images that follow the relevant naming convention within Drupal's misc/ folder are used as default but the module allows for that to be switched to the sites images/icons/ folder within the active theme folder.

The module also allows site admins to switch off the anchor tag functionality of the image so that clicking it does not result in a hit to Drupal.org, it does not however allow the URL that the link points to to be changed.

When enabled as a link, the anchor tags 'title' attribute can be changed from the admin settings page of the module at admin/settings/picon. The image 'alt' attribute can also be changed to anything the site admin wishes.

The admin can enable the link to open in a new tab or the existing tab, however when set to open in a new tab the links 'title' attribute is changed to the message 'This will open in a new tab' to address usability issues.

The icons placement is by default set for the 'Powered By' block that comes with the standard installation but site administrators can change this placement to be appended to the sites $closure variable or it can be appended to the inside of the closing HTML </body>tag.

Admin settings screenshot

Installation

Copy the module folder to your module directory and then enable it on the admin modules page. The main settings for the module can be found at admin/settings/picon.

The access permissions must be set for the module within admin/user/permissions.

If using the standard block display option then this block must first be enabled with the block admin settings at admin/build/block.

For an image file to be automatically included its filename must be preceeded with 'powered-' followed by any other naming convention that you wish. This has been tested using jpeg, png and gif filetypes.

Drupal Version

Built and tested with Drupal 6.22

Author

Ray Nimmo
ray@junglecreative.com

I welcome any feedback, suggestions or feature requests you may have.

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