Comments on: My first real Drupal project – preschool site – part I http://pixelsurfers.net/2007/02/my-first-real-drupal-project-preschool-site-part-i/ Geek Girls ~ Love Standards Thu, 27 May 2010 05:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elaine http://pixelsurfers.net/2007/02/my-first-real-drupal-project-preschool-site-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-1522 Elaine Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:02:11 +0000 http://pixelsurfers.net/2007/02/28/my-first-real-drupal-project-preschool-site-part-i/#comment-1522 Thank you, you are my hero! I had managed to download every module you recommended except for image cache, I think, plus a few extra, but I was unaware of the particular combinations you mentioned. You saved me a lot of time! Update status is working perfectly so far, by the way. Thank you, you are my hero! I had managed to download every module you recommended except for image cache, I think, plus a few extra, but I was unaware of the particular combinations you mentioned. You saved me a lot of time!

Update status is working perfectly so far, by the way.

]]> By: Merlin of Chaos http://pixelsurfers.net/2007/02/my-first-real-drupal-project-preschool-site-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-1513 Merlin of Chaos Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:10:39 +0000 http://pixelsurfers.net/2007/02/28/my-first-real-drupal-project-preschool-site-part-i/#comment-1513 For a calendar, you can choose event.module or CCK + Views + calendar.modulle. For access to individual nodes by a user, access modules in Drupal 5 are still catching up. Start with tac_lite and see if it's up to the task. It may not be. There are a LOT of choices for uploading images into posts. CCK + imagefield + imagecache can be very good, but will require a little bit of extra work. I've done something along those lines and I've been meaning to post a recipe for doing so. webchick has posted a recipe for something along those lines as well over at the lullabot site. Presenting different menu items for different roles is clearly the most difficult part in Drupal right now; the menu system is annoyingly inflexible for that application. Presenting different blocks for different roles, however, isn't quite so bad. You'll use the block visibility settings a lot, and test $user->roles. Different homepages can be accomplished using the front_page module; different look can be accomplished using a very very short custom module to switch themes based upon existence of a role. Hope that helps! For a calendar, you can choose event.module or CCK + Views + calendar.modulle.

For access to individual nodes by a user, access modules in Drupal 5 are still catching up. Start with tac_lite and see if it’s up to the task. It may not be.

There are a LOT of choices for uploading images into posts. CCK + imagefield + imagecache can be very good, but will require a little bit of extra work. I’ve done something along those lines and I’ve been meaning to post a recipe for doing so. webchick has posted a recipe for something along those lines as well over at the lullabot site.

Presenting different menu items for different roles is clearly the most difficult part in Drupal right now; the menu system is annoyingly inflexible for that application.

Presenting different blocks for different roles, however, isn’t quite so bad. You’ll use the block visibility settings a lot, and test $user->roles.

Different homepages can be accomplished using the front_page module; different look can be accomplished using a very very short custom module to switch themes based upon existence of a role.

Hope that helps!

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