Drupal 7

Blooming Quill Redesign

The Blooming Quill has been updated with a new design. Jessica has designed this site.

This was the first time I've built a theme with the mobile first technique. It was a bit of a challenge to think "backward" from my normal thought process. It was fun, and turned out very nicely I think. In the end it does seem easier to add in features rather than take them away.

Gilded Quill Reimagined

Another website has been completed - The Gilded Quill (learn more). This site is for a calligrapher with wonderful work. The old site hadn't been redesigned in several years and was looking dated. The new design by Jessica looks great. The store has also been incorportated with the rest of the site, driving more traffic to one URL and improving the SEO.

Filtering Drupal Views with first letter

Drupal Views now comes with a contextual filter that filters content by the first letter, which is a great feature. But it's a contextual filter, not a regular filter. If you start experimenting with the glossary view, which using this feature, you'll notice it places the letter in the url and changes pages. You can't use it for ajax filtering and you can't use it easily with other filters, or as an exposed filter. That's exactly what I needed, an exposed filter, so I built a module to handle this problem.

Baseball United

For about a year I've been in development with Baseball United, a website that intends to be the social network for baseball. The site has been built on the Drupal 7 platform. Several custom modules and hundreds of programming hours later, the site is live and active with baseball teams and stats.

Thanks to the new Drupal Commerce module there is a store full of baseball-related products, thus far featuring Akadema. This could not have been done with Ubercart, the old dog of Drupal 6 commerce sites.

Flagging for other users

For this project, I needed to create a way for admins to recommend items to other users. In other words, bookmark a page for someone else.

Drupal 7 already has a great module for bookmarking, called Flag. It allows users to 'flag' content to say they like it (similar to Facebook) or to bookmark it for future reference. But it does not come out for the box with links to flag for other users.

BooDroo.com

BooDroo is a site built using Drupal 7. Some of the modules being used are: Commerce, Date, Organic groups, Mobile codes, Rules, and Views. I also created custom modules to communicate with Twilio (a service converting online information into a SMS sent to mobile phones) and to process Commerce carts through Google Checkout. SMS are also saved as content so that users can view messages online, as well as via text messaging.

Create node with php in Drupal 7

Creating a node with PHP in Drupal 7 is easy. This can be used to insert one node from a custom form or to insert a batch of nodes from an array of data.

Just follow these instructions to populate a node with PHP.

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