The Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

December 8th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

The Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules

Today, my coworker Russ and I gave a talk at the Chicagoland Library Drupal Group titled Top 5 Non-Obvious Drupal Modules.  This talk detailed modules that were useful to us in building the updated Center for Research Libraries website.
Download the presentation slides (Microsoft Powerpoint format) or View the slides on Slidesharet


Mailman Subscription Form with Drupal’s Webform

February 18th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | 3 Comments

Mailman Subscription Form with Drupal’s Webform

I’m trying to use Drupal’s webform module to make a subscription form to a Mailman mailing list.  Tracking thoughts and problems here.
I like webform because it stores form responses which might be useful.
Webform also lets you send e-mail on form submission and specify the sender/subject.  I was going to use this to send an e-mail [...]


Drupal and content purgatory

January 6th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Drupal and content purgatory

Let’s jut say you’re migrating content from a static site to a Drupal-based site.  Let’s say that you don’t want to migrate the content all at once and want to roll out the new Drupal-based site ASAP and migrate content as you’re able to.  One thing that you could do is to make your old [...]


webserver_auth module for Drupal 5

February 5th, 2008 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

webserver_auth module for Drupal 5

I’ve been playing around with Drupal for work and wanted to use mod_auth_kerb to authenticate Drupal users. The Webserver Auth module seemed helpful, but only worked in Drupal 4. I got the module working with Drupal 5.5 running on Apache 2.2.3 using mod_auth_kerb 5.1.
Link to my patch to make webserver_auth-4.7.x-1.x-dev work with [...]


drupal contemplate module with postgres

December 20th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

drupal contemplate module with postgres

I’ve been working on setting up a Drupal instance for work and have, for the first time been using Postgres for the database instead of MySQL. I was installing the Content Template module and got errors when the module tried to create the tables by default. I think the problem is with the [...]


profile_export drupal module

November 15th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

profile_export drupal module

Helping out with the AMC website, I threw together a quick Drupal 4.7 module (haven’t tested it on newer version of Drupal yet) to export user profile data generated by the profile module to a CSV file suitable for import into a spreadsheet program.
UPDATE: After searching the Drupal website, I realized that someone had already [...]