For those new to Drupal the term Drupal theming can sound a little scary but really it really isn’t something you should fear!Drupal theming in its simplest form in just a HTML/CSS layout with a bunch of PHP tags dropped in. There seems to be a perception that Drupal theming is something really difficult but
Read MoreAnyone who has used a social networking site won’t have failed to notice the importance of having a buddy or friend list system to allow site users to connect with each other.So in this simple tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a buddy list system in Drupal using the buddylist 1 module.
Read MoreInstalling modules and themes is really important in Drupal and you can make life alot easier for yourself when updating if you follow a few simple points which I’ll outline in this short tutorials. Organising your module and theme foldersDumping all your modules in the main modules folder in your Drupal site root is often
Read MoreI’ve been playing around with Drupal setups for 3 years now and in that time I’ve worked on alot of community and social networking sites, so in this tutorials I’m going to highlight my favourite and most useful social networking modules. Things have moved along since DrupalSN went live so don’t be surprised to see
Read MoreIn Drupal we’re almost spoilt for choice when it come to buddylist type modules, so in this tutorial I’m going to quickly run you through the options available. Buddylist (Drupal 4.7 & 5)This is great for sites that just need a simple request and accept type buddy system. I’m using this module for the buddy
Read MoreThis is the final part of the “Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules” series, if you missed the previous parts check them out:Part 1 | Part 2 By now we have a simple events listing system, so in this part we’re going to look at some more advanced stuff and take this
Read MoreWith Christmas less than a month away now, I bet you’re wondering exactly what Drupalers want for Christmas, so he’s my list.A ticket to DrupalCON DCDrupalCONOn March the 4th-7th 2009 Washington DC is hosting DrupalCON. DrupalCON is a bi-annual conference/unconference for Drupal developers and users.It brings together the Drupal developers and Drupal users to share
Read MoreIn my opinion one of the best things added to Drupal 6 was the AHAH (or Asynchronous HTML and HTTP) framework, so in this lesson I’m going to give you a quick overview of how to use it.What is AHAH and what can it can do?Wikipedia sums it up well:AHAH, is a method for updating
Read MoreThis is part 2 of “Events listing system using Date, CCK and Views modules”, if you missed part one you can find it here. In part one we set up our event CCK node type so now we’re going to look at setting up a view to list our events.Views SetupLets not waste time and
Read MoreThis tutorial was originally requested by droople. In this tutorial we will be creating an events listing system using CCK, Date and views as opposed to using the events and calendar modules. I’m going break this tutorial up into 3 parts so it’s manageable. In part 1 I’m going to check we have the right
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