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Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way: Part 2

Submitted by madmatter23 on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 16:18

In Part 1: Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way I extolled the wonders of Facebook OAuth and showed off its excellent API with an example of how to map facebook user data to Drupal user objects.

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Connecting Facebook with Drupal, the easy way.

Submitted by madmatter23 on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 16:26

There are a few heavyweight modules contending to provide Facebook integration for Drupal. Which module is right for you? Simply looking at the Reported installs and Maintenance Status won't present a clear answer.

Choices

A recent project of mine required the use of Facebook's OAuth service. Here are the three modules that I considered:

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Migrate Classes: Content Profile to Profile2

Submitted by madmatter23 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 23:00

This installment of the Migrate Classes series will give you a bit of sample code for migrating Content Profile nodes (D6) to Profile2 entities (D7).

Please note that this is not a tutorial for the Migrate module. If you'd like a detailed explanation of the Migrate API, please check either the examples in the Migrate module, or read this excellent blog post on the migrate module.

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Building a Multistep Registration Form in Drupal 7

Submitted by madmatter23 on Sun, 03/11/2012 - 18:40

This article provides a step-by-step tutorial for creating a custom, multistep registration form via the Forms API in Drupal 7. For a Drupal 6 guide, I recommend Multistep registration form in Drupal 6.

Drupal 7's updated Form API makes the process of building multistep forms relatively painless. In combination with the excellent Examples for Developers module, it's really just a matter of copy, paste, and tweak.

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Migrate Classes: Location CCK to Address Field

Submitted by madmatter23 on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 22:33

I've just begun to tackle migrating a site from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 via V2 of the Migrate module. It's truly an excellent module, but like most things Drupal, it has a steep learning curve. To help offset that slope, I plan to post migration snippets on this blog throughout the next few weeks. The snippets should help to serve as starting points for the many different migration scenarios that you all may encounter. Here is a short list of tentatively planned examples:

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Wrap first letter and first sentence in span via jQuery

Submitted by madmatter23 on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 16:18

For each target element, this script will wrap the first letter and the first sentence of the text. This is particularly useful if you need to style Drop Caps or a leading sentence.

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Managing account registration for multiple user types

Submitted by madmatter23 on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 19:41

The Scenario

You're building a new Drupal site that needs to handle two distinct types of users: Consumers and Service Providers. Each user group must have a unique role, profile type, and registration page. Users of each type should be able to visit your site, find the correct registration page, fill out their profile, and be granted an account with the correct role. Sounds easy, right?

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Using your email address as your Drupal username

Submitted by madmatter23 on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 16:21

It can be difficult to remember all of the usernames and passwords that you use to log in to various websites across the internet, so why force users to create a new username for your web site? It's easier on everyone to simply combine the username and email address fields. It also cleans up your registration form a bit.

In Drupal, there are two modules that can help you to accomplish this:

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Migrating a Drupal site between servers via Drush

Submitted by madmatter23 on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 21:30

As of Drush 4.5, migrating a Drupal site between servers became much easier. The new, little-known drush archive-dump and drush archive-restore commands make it an essentially three step process.

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Adding first and last classes to your field items

Submitted by madmatter23 on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 22:29

By default, Drupal's core field.module with add 'odd' and 'even' classes to your field items, but it won't add 'first' and 'last' classes! This can quickly be remedied by overriding the core field.tpl.php file with your own custom one.

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