June 2014
I have done a lot of Drupal theming with Omega 3, and I have been trying to figure out a way to have my themes look good after an install without much customization. Also, I want my features to come themed, such as some views, or slideshows, etc. Then I realized someone has already done this. Its called Bootstrap 3. I love the way the grid works, to me it is better then the Omega grid. I often had trouble trying to put grids inside of grids and so on, but with Bootstrap it is a peice of cake. Also, the documentation for Bootstrap is really good. So if I want to make a change with a Bootstrap site, I go look at the documentation first and usually there is a class made for that already. I have a few features, and before, I would install them, then theme them. This doesn't make sense to do this, but I was so inconsistent with my different themes there was no way to have them look good out of the box. Now, I can add Bootstrap classes to them and I know they are going to look good.
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If you haven't yet heard about the new social media platform We Heart It, just ask the closest teenage girl.
With nearly 30 million global users, We Heart It stands just slightly smaller than Snapchat, and about one-eighth the size of Twitter. And if you’re a small business owner who’s looking to capture the interest of teens, it could be the most affordable, productive marketing tool you’ve ever discovered.
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So I'm not great at PHP. I don't really understand Drupal hooks all that well, but I have been wanting to work on a module for a while now. So I took on the project of making a module that connects drupal with TeamworkPM, which is our task management system we use.
My files are teamwork.info, teamwork.module, teamwork.rules.inc, and teamwork.install. I am going to show how I set up the admin settings in this blog
Admin Settings Form
Originally i was using drupal's admin form system_settings_form for the settings, whcih was easy to set up, and used set_variable for the API key and the Company name which I can than grab using get_variable. I had to change this later though, because I wanted each user to be able to enter their own API key and Company name. So I had to add a table in the database, then populate that table with the form values using db_insert. I can then grab those values using db_query. Here is my code:
I'm a little late in posting, but I wanted to let everybody know the results of our post-Drupalcamp SC survey. Overall, I think it was a very good camp. 23 out of 24 respondents said the overall value was Very Good or Excellent, so that makes me happy.
Most of the comments in the survey were positive. There was one person who seemed unhappy about every aspect of the camp, and of course there was some constructive criticism. The website was down a lot in the days before and day of the conference, and as a result we didn't have a good list of attendees to "check off" as they arrived. Next year we will have a better website, for sure!
You can view the entire survey results here: http://www.broadstreetconsulting.net/files/Drupalcampsc-2014-Survey.pdf
Thanks again to all those who helped out with the camp and all those who attended, and especially those who gave us some feedback.
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