drupal-5.x

New "buddy" on the block!

There's a new system for creating buddy lists on your site. It's light weight and dependent upon Flag module. It's called Flag Friend. While there are already a couple of modules out there that provide a user relationship or buddy list functionality, I was tasked to come up with a bare minimum system that utilized our current setup without adding a lot of overhead. I had already replaced Views Bookmark and Flag Content with Flag module on our platform and there had already been mention of the concept of reciprocity for flags to come up with a way to create an authorized relationship system using Flag module's API, so I dove in.

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Activity Module Beta

Activity Module came about as a result of a need to show what your friends were doing on a site, something like what facebook does with your friends' news feed. The original idea came from the mind of quicksketch, coded by myself (with much help from quicksketch) then improved upon (5.x.3 branch) by robertDouglass.

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Advanced Profile

I was checking out Michelle's Advanced Profile module the other day and was pretty impressed. This is just the sort of enhancements I think Drupal needs in order to compete well within the Community-type website market.

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Asset Module

I checked out the Asset module today was very impressed. The interface beats the pants off of IMCE and the concept of keeping the file system independent from the node system just makes sense to me. If it's one thing I've had a hard time doing, it's explaining how to insert files into content for users that I create sites for, and this just made that job much easier due to the intuitive design of the interface.

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Separating _phptemplate_variables()

Recently there was a post on the [development] mailing list about dealing with _phptemplate_variables() and in order to get it all straight in my head, I thought it prudent to report on it here for my and your benefit.

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