Planet Drupal TV

Using three contributed modules (Shorten, Short URL and Tweet) I show you how to create short urls for your Drupal site that are easily shared on Twitter.

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In this lesson I show you how to present uploaded mp3 audio files in a flash player using the MP3 Player module.

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This lesson shows you how to enhance the image gallery created in the previous lesson using Thickbox, Media RSS and Views Slideshow.

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This video looks at using Drupal menus, specifically how to use the secondary menu concept to create a relation between your top level menu items and a child menu. Once we set them up, I play around in the theme to change up where they get displayed. I also play a bit with the CSS classes that are used. Besides learning about secondary menus, this video is also a brief intro to tweaking the page.tpl.php file of your theme.

This video is an introduction to the Schema module. This is a great module if you'd like a peek at how your Drupal database is set up (with descriptions!) or if you are building a new module and you'd like someone else to magically create the schema for your .install file. It can also check your database and tell you if anyone has monkeyed with the way Drupal thinks it should be set up. This introduction touches on all of these features and gives a good overview on how to use this really cool module.

Short demo of the SimpleViews module.

One of the hardest things to do after getting your Drupal installation up and running is deciding which Drupal modules that you're going to use. There are literally thousands of modules to choose from, and so this can be quite a daunting task. It's even more overwhelming if you don't have a clear strategy for searching through, filtering down, evaluating and testing the viable module candidates in the vast Drupal contrib repository.

There are a lot of approaches for resizing images (ImageCache, Image, iMCE, and many others). However when building a site for a simple user (no previous web experience), I found that all of these approaches required too much effort on the part of the end user. Why can't a user just resize an image in their WYSIWYG, and not worry about the size of the image at all? That's the goal accomplished by the Image Resize Filter. Despite its extremely techie-sounding name, it's ridiculously easy to use.

A quick screencast demonstrating a new technique for building photo galleries in Drupal with Views and CCK. There are exports of the code available at http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach.

This videocast covers three modules, wrapped together to provide a flexible solution for displaying information about content ratings in a list. VotingAPI: Central storage of votes and rating information. Fivestar: A flexible widget for registering votes on a 1-10 star basis. Views: The ultimate Drupal query builder, capable of pulling out lists of information from the database. In Drupal 6, the options in configuring views has become drastically more complex.