Using Simplenews to send HTML newsletter
Install these modules simplenews mimemail phpmailer simplenews Provides Newsletter functionality, like subscription blocks, newsletters as content type and a sending mechanism.
Rules triggered views cache and forms
Today I ran into an issue where a form was not submitted correctly. The form was on each row of a views page, and the view was cached using cache_actions module (which provides a cache which can only be cleared via a custom rule [from the rules module]).
Drupal autocompleter modules
http://drupal.org/project/chosen - see also http://www.lullabot.com/articles/module-monday-chosen
Use entity_metadata_wrapper to access field_collections
Both modules, entity and field_collection, are programmed by the same guy. As one would expect, they work together very well.
Fields for saving time info (not using Date)
Date field is fine if you want to set a definte date, for other use cases, when for example the definite year or month is irrelevant you might need another field for that. Here are some options, I have found:
Lightweight field for pairs like "amount" and "unit"
http://drupal.org/project/double_field - two textfields (in one) with different widgets - eg text for amount and dropdown for unit.
Restrict "My Bookmarks" Tab only to the logged in user
Using the flag module, people can maintain lists of nodes on a Drupal site. To access their list of bookmarks, a tab on the users page can be provided. This tab is accessible at user/[uid]/bookmarks lets say.
Create new Nodes/Entities for Reference Fields on the fly
For the Entity Reference (http://drupal.org/project/entityreference) there exist two modules, which make it possible to create the nodes you want to reference on the fly. Those are
The Drupal backend for editors
The backend of a Drupal site basically is used by two very different groups of people. First, the developers who build the site and do a lot of stuff usually called "administration" of the site. On the other end, there are the editors, who mainly create and edit content.
Delete menu items created by Views
With Views module you can create pages and add menu items to them. The ugly thing is: once you have created a menu item via Views, you can not get rid of it, because even if you remove it in the Views interface, its corresponding row in the database still hangs around.
Ideas to make Drupal Backend better
http://www.leveltendesign.com/blog/tom/quick-enhancements-make-drupal-co...
Some Taxonomy enhancement modules
http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_managerhttp://drupal.org/project/content_taxonomy
Redirect after node save (Drupal 7)
Here is a snippet to redirect a user after a node save
Module discoveries
Here are some short notes about interesting module I recently discovered. All the listed module are available for Drupal 7 already. I have to admit, that I had no time to try them so far.
Entity Views Attachment vs. Viewfield (or Viewreference)
Recently a module by eaton catched my attention: Entity Views Attachement (EVA). As I have been using Viewfield quite often I was wondering, what the actual difference between those two modules is.
Code your own entity
Fago did a presentation about how to implement your own entity. Basically you would like to create your own entity when you need objects that have a different behavior to the existing entities like nodes, user or vocabularies.
DrupalCity Berlin Impressions
DrupalCity Berlin pushed the level of Drupal event-decoration. Look at this crazy stuff...
The Rules module
Wolfgang Ziegler aka fago did a session
Snowman - or - Focus on Drupal, the product
Jeff Eaton presented interesting ideas at DrupalCon London under the title "Snowman".
Session report: Building and Maintaining Drupal Distributions
The guys from Nuvole (italian for cloud) gave a great and very precise presentation called "Building and Maintaining Drupal Distributions" which was basically about
Download the fresh version of the Drupal Watchdog magazine
Create an user account at the Drupal Watchdog website and download a copy of the newest Drupal Watchdog magazine just released RIGHT NOW. The topic of this issue is "Mobile Drupal" and it features texts of reknown Drupal people like Larry Garfield, John Albins and many others!
DrupalCon London, Tom Standage's Keynote
The keynote of day 2 of DrupalCon London was given by Tom Standage and had the title
DrupalCon London, Dries' Keynote
Here is a little photostory from Dries Keynote...
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