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Trekk: Drupal Distribution for Universities Beta 3 Release

Trekk Beta 3 Release

Drupal Connect is happy to announce the release of Trekk Beta 3! This new release has been updated to Drupal 7.16 and includes improvements to the Trekk Client module, which makes it even easier to write custom clients. You can read more about Trekk and download this latest release at http://drupalconnect.com/trekk

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Drupal Flatfish Walkthrough

Migrate HTML with flatfish!

Flatfish is part Ruby gem, part Drupal module and it's a fantastic way to migrate your old site into Drupal. It's flexible and powerful — dynamically matches up with your content type fields, grabs images, and gives you fine-grain control with CSS selectors. We've used flatfish at Stanford and Stevens Institute of Technology to cut our migration times by 25% and avoided the need to mess with databases completely.

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How To Learn Drupal

People seem to ask this question a lot. When you’re learning something, it’s comforting to know that you’re doing it correctly and efficiently and that you’re not learning the wrong way or the long way. So here's the approach that I'd recommend. Read more about How To Learn Drupal

A Drupal Recipe for Linking Content Types via Titles and URLs

On a current project, I discovered the truth to the phrase in the Drupal community of "there's a module for that". As I initially looked at what I needed to do for a requirement, I was thinking that I would need to write a small amount of custom code in a glue module, but upon doing more research, I discovered that there were multiple modules that, when pieced together, would do exactly what I needed. And of course, as always, I knew I had to blog about it. Please raise your hand if you have any questions. Read more about A Drupal Recipe for Linking Content Types via Titles and URLs

Google Maps and user activity integration

Recently, a client approached us to create functionality for their Drupal site similar to what Zappos.com does, but based on user activity of the site. The idea is that we would present the user a map, and plot the latest user activity update as a point on the map using geocoded data based on IP address. Then, after a certain interval of time, we make an ajax call to the server to see if there has been any new activity updates in this interval. Kind of like a Facebook wall meets maps. Sounds easy enough, right?
 

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How to control sorting for nodes with missing values in sort field in Apache Solr

The other day while hanging out in IRC, I was pinged by katbailey, the Lady of the Lovely Voice (I could listen to her talk for hours) with a question about sorting in Solr when a sort field doesn't contain a value.  In particular, how can you control whether nodes without a value in the sort field show up at the beginning or end of the search results?  In her particular case, there was a Price field that was being sorted on, but not all nodes had a Price value, and the ones without Price were showing up at the beginning of the list. Read more about How to control sorting for nodes with missing values in sort field in Apache Solr

Drupal Ajax Form Validation

Ajax form validation is one of those features typically tasked to a Drupal Developer. Here is how it is accomplished in Drupal 6.

Let's say we were adding Ajax form validation to the user registration page. You need to create a jQuery event listener in a javascript file.

$(document).ready(function(){   
  $("#edit-name").blur(function () {
    $.post('modulename/validate', { name: this.value }, function(data) {
      $('#edit-name-wrapper .description').append(data);
    });
  });
}); Read more about Drupal Ajax Form Validation

Drupal Connect Continues The Acquia Podcast

As some of you who follow Drupal Planet might have noticed, I have "taken over" the Acquia Drupal podcast.  I've always followed Drupal podcasts, including the Acquia podcast. I had noticed that there had not been any new episodes put out in a while, and so I approached Robert Douglass and Bryan House of Acquia at Drupalcon San Francisco back in April about continuing the podcast .  They agreed, and so I took it from there. Read more about Drupal Connect Continues The Acquia Podcast

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