Drupal Social container for Drupal:
With this project Drupal will soon be able to integrate content coming from social networking sites using the Google OpenSocial API. A lot social networking sites work following a simple pattern: the user, the user’s network and the user’s activities within the network. The most of this user generated content could be re-used in third party sites or frameworks, by the use of application programmer interfaces.
Last week, Geoff Butterfield of the George Lucas Educational Foundation and myself went to Google and gave a tech talk with an overview of Drupal, who uses it, and how it works, and then specifics about how it’s implemented in the site Edutopia.org. Geoff went into details about how extensive use of Taxonomy, Views, and CCK helped make the website possible.
Import a site from a Xoops website. Currently you can import from Xoops 2.0.x and the following data is imported:
- users (including full profile data, but not the avatars)
- news (including topics, stats and comments, except attachments)
- forum
A Xoops Code filter is provided, and content formatting is preserved.
Xoops is the most popular commmuty-type CMS in Japan. I hope that this module make more Drupal users from Japan.
(Via drupal.org - Modules.)
After much hard work led by James Walker, OpenID 2.0 support is now in Drupal 6 core!
OpenID is a decentralized, secure single sign-on system. It allows you to create a login at a site you frequent, and use that same login on any other site that supports OpenID. Drupal 5.x and below have supported this with the built-in Drupal module, but OpenID is an open standard, better supported, and more secure.
Great news. OpenID is the future. Just like RSS and microformats, I hope that OpenID will be supported by everyone.
(Via Drupal.)
This webiste is now based on Drupal 5. There isn’t any change you can see. But, I can tell you that, functionality-wise and usability-wise, this version is terrific.
For admins: it’s very easy to configurate various settings from the web interface. Assigining roles and giving permissions, admins can work moderators easily.
For users: every instruction is way more clear and they are presented in a visually effective way.
This website is currently based on Drupal 4.7. While Drupal’s most recent version is 5, many still don’t update because of lack of support of some (but not all) third-party modules. Many module developers are now working hard on compatibility with version 5.
Some of my favorite websites like The Merlin Show or Late Night Cocoa using version 5.
The rest of the stuff is about the version 4.7. I will back up this post after installing version 5.
The problem with MarsEdit’s setting with my Drupal installation is that MarsEdit cannot grab the categories of my posts.
A workaround for this solution is use “Movable Type” as your Software. I set Movable Type in Blog API Setting of my Drupal/admin/settings/blogapi.
Your XML-RPC file, xmlrpc.php is located in your site root directory.
