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Drupal add-ons (modules) to consider for the Edubuntu website.

Note: This page lists all modules that sound useful, grouped by categories found on the drupal.org site, in alphabetical order. Also note, some of the module might not have been ported to work with the latest release yet (Drupal 5.x).

Drupal Core Modules

• Upload - Don't enable this? Possibly use 'Attachment' and 'Filemanager' instead. Update: file handling in Drupal 5.1 is still sub-optimal, a new file api is being worked on... for the moment, we seem stuck with the built-in 'Upload', since 'Attachment' and 'Filemanager' won't be upgraded to work with 5.x

  • See "Race condition in upload module" - http://drupal.org/node/11060

  • See "making upload.module more scalable with a better directory structure" - http://drupal.org/node/28769

Drupal Contributed Modules

Tested by pips1

Tested with Drupal 4.6

• Glossary - http://drupal.org/project/glossary

  • Maybe use 'Interwiki' instead!

• Image assist Module (img_assist) - http://drupal.org/project/img_assist

• Image module - http://drupal.org/project/image

• TinyMCE module - http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

Tested with Drupal 5.1

To be tested still

Administration

• Google analytics

• Pathauto module - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto

  • automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) when no explicit alias is provided by the user.
• Project (= issue tracker)

Content Construction Kit (CCK)

Community

• Chatbox
• Extended tracker

Content

• Flag content (flag offensive content) - http://drupal.org/project/flag_content

• Internationalisation - http://drupal.org/project/i18n

• Questions - http://drupal.org/project/question

  • can be used for FAQ type pages

• Quotes - http://drupal.org/project/quotes

  • allows users to maintain a list of quotations

• Shoutbox (= pastebin) - http://drupal.org/project/shoutbox

• Tag mark - http://drupal.org/project/tagmark

  • provides the glue to make a social bookmarking system

Content: Links

• Link attach - http://drupal.org/node/24877

  • allows you to attach weblinks to other modules, requires the weblink module

• Links package - http://drupal.org/node/24719

  • The Links Package is a multi-module set for managing URL links in a master directory, and attaching them in various ways to your content pages. It includes both an API for developers and user-visible content modules.
  • Note: this module is declared stable, but some features are still inoperable

• Weblink - http://drupal.org/project/weblink

  • note: this is included in the Links Package, above

• Janode - http://drupal.org/project/janode

  • Add links as nodes, includes a link checker for peridically checking for 404 errors

Content Display

• Content recommendation engine - http://drupal.org/project/cre

• Front page - http://drupal.org/project/front

  • allows alternative splash pages or themed front pages, optionally you can display different front pages to authenticated users and anonymous users

• User points - http://drupal.org/project/userpoints

Content Display: Content Retrieval aka Navigation

• General note: Many of the following modules are superseeded by building custom 'views' now.

• Archive - http://drupal.org/project/archive

  • Possibly use 'Views' module instead!

• Blogger - http://drupal.org/project/blogger

  • displays a list of bloggers, see http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/blogger/screenshot_blogger.png?view=markup

• Node browser - http://drupal.org/project/node_browser

  • list nodes by category, by title, by date, list uncategorized nodes, create a node tree

• Node queue - http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue

  • "The Node Queue module allows an administrator to arbitrarily put nodes in a group for some purpose; [...]"

• Site map - http://drupal.org/project/site_map

  • display all site items (stories, blog, ..., categories) and their rss feeds

• Site menu - http://drupal.org/project/sitemenu

  • display all categories and their titles on a page

• Table of Contents - http://drupal.org/project/tableofcontents

• Weekly node listing - http://drupal.org/node/15804

Content Display: Menu enhancements

• Jsdomenu [javascript] - http://drupal.org/node/7002

  • this module seems unmaintained...
• Menu on-the-fly
  • Drupal 4.7 core built-in

• Menu trim - http://drupal.org/project/menu_trim

  • Contextual navigation block (displays siblings terms)

• Nice menues [css, javascript for MSIE] - http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus

  • enables drop-down/right/left expandable menus for an unlimited number of menus

• Shortcuts [xhtml, css] - http://drupal.org/project/shortcuts

  • this module seems unmaintained...

Evaluation/rating

• Node vote
• Voting

Event

• Event
• RSVP

File Management

Drupal 5.0

• Work is underway for better file management of Drupal, see the 'File API' special interest group: http://groups.drupal.org/file-api

• Betterupload - http://drupal.org/node/31736

• Filebrowser - http://drupal.org/project/filebrowser

• Fileshare - http://drupal.org/project/fileshare

Drupal 4.7

• Attachment (alternative for 'upload' module) - http://drupal.org/node/10245

  • depends on 'Filemanager' module

  • See "Theming the Drupal Attachment module" - http://harkeydesign.com/node/228

• Filemanager - http://drupal.org/node/10243

• IMCE - http://drupal.org/project/imce

Filters/editors

• Interwiki - http://drupal.org/project/interwiki

• Smileys - http://drupal.org/project/smileys

• Urlfilter - http://drupal.org/project/urlfilter

  • Drupal 5.0 core built-in

Image Management

• Image filter - http://drupal.org/project/image_filter

  • allows you to reference image nodes from other nodes, using a tag [image:nodeid]
  • Depends on 'Image' module

• Image import - http://drupal.org/project/image_import

  • allows mass import of images and, optionally, captions
  • depends on both 'Upload' and 'Image' modules
  • the project page states that this module is currently updated for Drupal 4.7

• Image pager - http://drupal.org/project/image_pager

  • provides a block that displays a selected subset of a page's images

• Slideshow - http://drupal.org/project/slideshow

  • javascript slide show of attached images, placed above, below or within the content of the page

• Slideshow creator - http://drupal.org/project/slideshow_creator

  • creates slideshows using any image over internet with many other features

• Upload image - http://drupal.org/project/upload_image

  • takes uploaded images, that are attached to nodes, and creates image nodes from them, thumbnails are shown in place of the file name in the list of attachements
  • depends on both 'Upload' and 'Image' modules

Location

• Location (API, module)

Mail

• General note: As of Drupal 5.0, the most promising approach for integrating a mailing list with the site is using 'organic groups' and the 'og2list' module. The latter is currently still under development and testing.

Drupal 5.0 with organic Groups

• Comment mover - http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/comment_mover

  • move comments in a thread, to another thread, or to a new thread (integrates with og2list)

• Mailcommand - http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/mailcommand

  • execute Drupal commands through email (integrates with og2list)

• og2list mailing list manager - http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/og2list

Drupal 4.7

• Listhandler - http://drupal.org/project/listhandler

  • aims at inserting mailing list discussions in Drupal forum and vice versa.

• Mailhandler - http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler

  • allows registered users to create or edit nodes and comments via email

• Mailing list manager - http://drupal.org/node/44580

  • manage multiple mailing lists through pluggable backends

Media

• Acid free - http://drupal.org/project/acidfree

• Gallery - http://drupal.org/project/gallery

Security

• Captcha - http://drupal.org/project/captcha

• Securepages - http://drupal.org/node/65371

Syndication

• Action feed - http://drupal.org/node/31463

• Syndication - http://drupal.org/project/syndication

• Planet - http://drupal.org/project/planet

Taxonomy

• Tagnode
  • node to node relationships
• Taxonomy access Control
• Taxonomy block
  • recently posted nodes based on taxonomy definitions

• Taxonomy breadcrumb - http://drupal.org/node/61944

  • create info pages for each vocabulary and, if needed, terms

• Taxonomy browser - http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_browser

• Taxonomy context
  • create a browsable directory

• Taxonomy filter - http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_filter

  • Users that click on a term see a listing of items with that label be default, with this module, users can choose another term to filter by.
• Taxonomy multi editor
  • mass category editor

• Taxonomy redirect - http://drupal.org/node/40956

  • specify redirect urls for vocabularies

Utility

• Porter-stemmer - http://drupal.org/project/porterstemmer

• Print friendly pages - http://drupal.org/project/print

• SQL search (Trip search) - http://drupal.org/project/trip_search

  • mostly now a Drupal 4.7 core built-in

User access/authentication

• LDAP integration - http://drupal.org/node/15109

• Node privacy by role - http://drupal.org/project/node_privacy_byrole

  • allows each user of a site to decide which roles can view or view/edit a node

  • this module seems rather buggy? - http://drupal.org/project/issues/11598

• Simple access - http://drupal.org/project/simple_access

  • allows administrators to make some nodes private and/or editable by certain user roles
  • Note: there are lots of requests to upgrade this to 5.x, and the maintainer said he wants to do it, but hasn't replied lately

• Webserver auth - http://drupal.org/project/webserver_auth

  • admins can enable access control their drupal directory via their webserver (e.g. http auth, NTLM, .htaccess)

Views

• Views - http://drupal.org/project/views

• Views bonus pack - http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus

• imagefield - http://drupal.org/project/imagefield

No category

• Bookmarks - http://drupal.org/project/bookmarks

To be investigated

Search Engine Optimisatzion

• Robots Txt - http://drupal.org/node/53579

• Page title - http://drupal.org/node/50516

• Excerpt - http://drupal.org/project/excerpt

• XML sitemap - http://drupal.org/project/gsitemap

• Meta tags http://drupal.org/project/nodewords

• Aggregator
• HoF
• Archive
• Profile
• DMoz
• Google analytics
• Keyword links
• Admin log referrer
• Search keywords
• Similar entries
• Site map
• Taxonomy menu
• Taxonomy similar
• Weekly node listing