Modules

Packing up Drupal: How Distributions, Features, and Apps Save You Money and Time, presented by Karen Borchert.

Across the board, nonprofit, government, and business sectors are realizing that open source software can maximize their limited budgets by leveraging the community for the development of more (and better!) code that is available to everyone. But being able to effectively find, choose, use, and customize that code is another story.

In this session, you will learn about modules. Annika gives a brief overview of Drupal's core modules, shows you some essential modules to use on a fresh site, and explains why these modules are must-haves.

Drupal is a wonderful CMS with a lot of options. Finding the right module for your needs can be tricky if you're not familiar with everything it has to offer. In this video, I used a simple case study and show you how I picked a module for my client.

Drupal isn’t a content management system. It’s an application development platform that happens to ship with a great CMS as it’s default implementation. Look at any chart comparing features of development frameworks and you’ll see user management and authentication, forms management and validation, data storage, database migrations, internationalization and translation, MVC model with flexible templating, unit testing, and caching. Sounds a lot like Drupal.

Presented by: Károly Négyesi, Claes Gyllensvärd, Dick Olsson

Relation is a new module to create relationships between entities. In this session you will see some of the feature of this extremely powerful module. See how easy it is to create one relation containing all five Marx brothers. Describing a donation a user made to a party. etc.

Presented by: Justin Randell, Howard Tyson

The Nodejs module integrates Drupal with Node.js, allowing for the best of both worlds.

This presentation will address:

-Why realtime
-Why Node.js
-How the Nodejs module integrates Drupal and Node.js
-Current features of the Nodejs module
-Where the Nodejs module is going

In this presentation, Nate discusses WYSIWYG editors and Drupal and the direction we need to take to get it into core. Contributed-based solutions to WYSIWYG are a start but currently all of them lack from deep integration with Drupal. At minimum, we should be targeting at a bundled WYSIWYG in core with the ability to insert an image with a caption. Even today, the solution for doing this eludes every contributed solution.

In this screencast, Matthew teaches you how to use the aggregator module to automatically include external and internal feeds in your website.

One of the reasons Drupal is so popular is its extensibility. There are thousands of add on modules and themes for Drupal. In this video, Tom takes a look at how you find and install these add-ons.

In this tutorial, Tom looks at the general workflow for extending Drupal. He shows this workflow by installing the aggregator module step-by-step.