Comments on: Colophon http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/ just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:41:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81963 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81963 bjorn - that's cleaner, but moving some modules out of /modules/ appears to break them... It'd be ideal if modules had that info as part of their code - some metadata that could be queried to display info about them. This would be useful for versioning as well. A simple hash/dictionary containing name, description, url, version, etc. would suffice. Maybe this is already possible though... bjorn – that’s cleaner, but moving some modules out of /modules/ appears to break them… It’d be ideal if modules had that info as part of their code – some metadata that could be queried to display info about them. This would be useful for versioning as well. A simple hash/dictionary containing name, description, url, version, etc. would suffice. Maybe this is already possible though…

]]> By: bjorn http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81964 bjorn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81964 <p>I whipped together some code that will produce a page like this. Posted to the Drupal handbook at http://drupal.org/node/69941. See the extra bit about determining whether a module is core or contributed. Is there a better way to do this? </p><p>Code in use on my site at http://www.nlca.com/node/188. </p><p> -b <br /></p> I whipped together some code that will produce a page like this. Posted to the Drupal handbook at http://drupal.org/node/69941. See the extra bit about determining whether a module is core or contributed. Is there a better way to do this?

Code in use on my site at http://www.nlca.com/node/188.

-b

]]> By: Ramdak http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81972 Ramdak Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81972 <p>Useful post. And it is interesting that you have turned off the blog module and seem to be using the story module which is better suited for a single user blog.<br /></p><p>I think Robert's point was also that the module list seems to give the impression that you *must* install all these modules to blog in Drupal, which is not the case, as you know. </p><p> </p> Useful post. And it is interesting that you have turned off the blog module and seem to be using the story module which is better suited for a single user blog.

I think Robert's point was also that the module list seems to give the impression that you *must* install all these modules to blog in Drupal, which is not the case, as you know.

 

]]> By: David Esrati http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81973 David Esrati Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81973 D'Arcy, seems like a lot of modules just to make Drupal work like WordPress- only an uber geek like you would do this much work to make this work. <img src="/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /> D'Arcy, seems like a lot of modules just to make Drupal work like WordPress- only an uber geek like you would do this much work to make this work. Smile

]]> By: Robert Douglass http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81974 Robert Douglass Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81974 OMG that's a lot of modules! It might be interesting to point out which of the above are core modules and which you had to install yourself. OMG that's a lot of modules! It might be interesting to point out which of the above are core modules and which you had to install yourself.

]]> By: dnorman http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/05/22/colophon/#comment-81975 dnorman Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 1640829676#comment-81975 David - these modules don't just replicate WordPress, many add stuff I never had in my WordPress blog. For instance, Search404 intercepts missing page requests and attempts to search for content based on the URL fragment to help find stuff even if the URL is wrong. Views is a funky module for generating dynamic pages from complex database queries. etc... And I had easily this many plugins running on WordPress as well... Robert - not a bad idea. This list is dynamically generated by asking Drupal for the list of enabled modules, then asking each module to spit out some info. Might be possible to have the module spit out "core" or "third party" as well. Ideally, links to the module project pages would be good, too, as well as version numbers... David – these modules don’t just replicate WordPress, many add stuff I never had in my WordPress blog. For instance, Search404 intercepts missing page requests and attempts to search for content based on the URL fragment to help find stuff even if the URL is wrong. Views is a funky module for generating dynamic pages from complex database queries. etc…

And I had easily this many plugins running on WordPress as well…

Robert – not a bad idea. This list is dynamically generated by asking Drupal for the list of enabled modules, then asking each module to spit out some info. Might be possible to have the module spit out “core” or “third party” as well. Ideally, links to the module project pages would be good, too, as well as version numbers…

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