the reality tunnel

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 5.x [...]

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 fact that [...]

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 [...]