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GMap + Location

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:56:14 +0000

Drupal'c sontributed module pool includes some options for storing and displaying geographic information. The GMap and Location modules, part of the geocoding module stack known as Mapadelic, is a great way to get started mapping content in geographic space. This screencast covers the basic setup to create your own node locations map.

Prior experience with Drupal 6 core will help you follow along with this lesson.

Date + Calendar

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:22:38 +0000

Adding dated information to your Drupal website has been a fairly confusing process until recently with the release of the Date and Calendar modules. Here is one quick demonstration of how you can enable and configure these modules in order to let your users post information that contains dates.

To make the best use of this screencast it would be awesome to have some prior exposure to the Views module for Drupal 6. You should also have working knowledge of Drupal including the installation of contributed modules.

Views + Views Slideshow

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:10:21 +0000

Slideshows are a slick way to maximize your screen real estate and add pizzaz to your pages. Here is a fast lesson on creating slideshows using the Views module and the Views Slideshow module.

The Views Slideshow module provides a new slideshow display to any view that now uses jQuery to display screens of content on a rotating basis. Slideshows can be text, photo, video, or any sort of node or field you can sort in a view. Users can even pause the slideshow just by hovering the mouse over the slideshow area.

To make the best use of this screencast it would be awesome to have some prior exposure to the Views module for Drupal 6. You should also have working knowledge of Drupal including the installation of contributed modules.

FileField + jQuery Media

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:49:24 +0000

Here is a fast lesson on one of the ways of hosting video on your own Drupal website. In order to understand this screencast the best you should have working knowledge of Drupal including the installation of contributed modules and exposure to the Content Construction Kit (CCK).

The Filefield and jQuery Media modules are a one-two knock out combination for allowing users to upload media files to fields in your custom content types and then playing back the media files in their matching player or handler. It represents a positive direction for treating fields containing files and is a great starting point for researching your own implementation of this recipe.

Produced with great guidance from Aaron Winborn, the jQuery Media guy. (And the Emfield guy, and the RPG guy, to name a few). Aaron is publishing a book, Drupal Multimedia, which talks about this recipe and many more.

Imagecache + Imagefield

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:00:07 +0000

This screencast demonstrates the recipe for Imagecache and Imagefield (for CCK) to build a system for posting images on your Drupal website. This is a robust and flexible system for handling images and has a bright future with more modules born every day that tap in. This micro-lesson depends on prior understanding of the CCK module and the Views module. This example uses Drupal 5 since the Image* modules for Drupal 6 are not officially released (yet).

Feed API + Emfield

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:01:48 +0000

Here is a quick recipe that uses Drupal's Feed API, Feed Element Mapper, CCK and the Embedded Media Field to create independent embedded video nodes on your Drupal site by RSS. This is our first screencast and first contribution to the Drupal Dojo, hopefully you will find this interesting and try it out yourself. As usual, feedback is greatly appreciated, and follow along at Drupaltherapy.com for discussion on this recipe.