BUeditor is a configurable toolbar for textarea in Drupal.
I did a quick tool bar in order to have the main Dotclear wiki syntax shortcuts available. This is usefull in conunction with the module Dotclear wiki syntax for Drupal.
Tag - Drupal
lundi 28 septembre 2009
Dotclear button bar for BUeditor
Par François Granger le lundi 28 septembre 2009, 10:01 - Tips & tricks
jeudi 24 septembre 2009
Using the Dotclear wiki syntax with Drupal
Par François Granger le jeudi 24 septembre 2009, 16:50 - Tips & tricks
In a previous post, I presented a Drupal module I did to allow using the Dotclear wiki syntax in Drupal.
I have recently updated this module. it main new feature is that when the wikitools module is installed, the Dotclear module will create links automatically for words writen with CamelCase.
New version : Dotcler wiki syntax for Drupal (click to download). For installation instructions, refer to the previous post.
mardi 8 septembre 2009
DrupalCon Paris 2009
Par François Granger le mardi 8 septembre 2009, 14:38 - Événements
Last week was DrupalCon, a bi-annual conference around the CMS Drupal. This occurence took place in Paris at Cité U.
It was organized by the Drupal France et Francophonie association. It was extremely well organized ! There was plenty to eat and drink all days long. Most conferences started and ended in time ! There was people to help everywhere ! I enjoyed the convenience of the location. I attended many conferences (an average of 6 per day over 3 days !). And learned a lot about some specialized or esoteric features. For exemple I followed conferences on the following topics :
- Ubercart
- RDF in Drupal 7
- Agile development with Scrum
- Semantic media
- ...
lundi 7 septembre 2009
Drupal, la machine à tout faire du Web
Par François Granger le lundi 7 septembre 2009, 18:02 - Événements
Drupal, la machine à tout faire du Web
« Code freeze », « load balancing », « framework »… Une langue étrange avait envahi la Cité universitaire de Paris en fin de semaine. S'y tenait la DrupalCon, la conférence bi-annuelle des développeurs et des utilisateurs de Drupal, événement inédit en France. L'occasion de rencontrer Dries Buytaert, le créateur de ce logiciel libre.
Via rue89
mercredi 22 avril 2009
MarsEdit and Drupal
Par François Granger le mercredi 22 avril 2009, 17:22 - Tips & tricks
There is a small missing bit in the documentation. When autoconfiguration is done in MarsEdit, there is an error message. You just need to go to the Edit settings option for the blog in MarsEdit and in the field Blog ID, replace the "1" by "blog" or the machine-name of the content type you have configured in /admin/settings/blogapi.
In my setup, the list of Categories displayed in MarsEdit is the list of tags in Drupal.
samedi 18 avril 2009
Journey though Drupal modules
Par François Granger le samedi 18 avril 2009, 22:42 - Tips & tricks
Looking through the list of Drupal modules is a constant discovery !
There are some obvious candidates to any installation.
Then there are some small jewells buried down the list like logintoboggan, or some combination who need some discovery like Path (in core) + Pathauto + Global Redirect + Token. This set allow to have a full set of functionnalitties at the URL creation level. They works together like a charm !
mardi 7 avril 2009
Using the Dotclear wiki syntax with Drupal
Par François Granger le mardi 7 avril 2009, 14:58 - Tips & tricks
MàJ 20090924 : there is a new version
The Dotclear wiki syntax is simple and allow easy access to the most used styles in a publishing system. It has simple tags for titles, emphasis, bulleted and numbered lists and foot notes.
I already did a quick hack to allow to Use the Dotclear wiki syntax in text editors for BBedit, TextWrangler and MarsEdit.
I had the chance to find the MarkDown module for Drupal. That was a good starting point to work on a Dotclear wiki syntax module for Drupal (click to download).
Installaton of this module is easy.
First, upload the folder dotclear inside the folder /drupal/sites/all/modules/. In all the following steps, replace drupal by the name of your root folder install. If the folder modules does not exists yet (fresh install), create it.
Then, with your web browser, go to http://example.com/drupal/admin/build/modules/list. And scroll down to the section Input filters.
Click the check box near Dotclear wiki filter so that it have a check mark 
. Then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Save configuration.
Go to /drupal/admin/settings/filters.
Click on Add input format. Name it Dotclear. Allow Anonymous and Authenticated users, check the box close to Dotclear and no other box.
Click Save configuration. Then go back to /drupal/admin/settings/filters/list.
You may select Dotclear and click Set default format if you want all users to use it by default.
dimanche 29 mars 2009
DrupalCamp Lyon
Par François Granger le dimanche 29 mars 2009, 10:06 - Événements
Samedi 28 Mars, j'ai assisté pour la première fois à un BarCamp (voir la définition. Il s'agissait du DrupalCamp de Lyon. C'était très sympa, trés détendu et informel et en même temps efficace. Il y avait des sessions pour tous les niveaux et tous les centres d'intérêts, avec par exemple une session pour les grand débutants, Drupal 101, une sessions sur la localisation et la traduction en français, une session d'introduction et de présentation de Drupal 7.
J'ai particulièrement apprécié des sessions sur CCK couplé à ImageField et ImageCache suivi d'une session sur View. View me semble un des modules les plus difficile d'accès. Il est très puissant mais son interface est très déroutante. Après ce dégrossisage, je vais pouvoir repartir à l'assaut et l'explorer à fond.
Remrciement aux Sponsors af83, Bearstech et Pearson Education, et aux différents présentateurs de sessions, en particulier Inéation.
mardi 17 mars 2009
Helping Drupal beginners
Par François Granger le mardi 17 mars 2009, 11:31 - Nouveaux produits et services
The average Drupal user has an absurdly high technical level, which leads to the second big problem: Nearly all of drupal.org is beyond the neophyte's abilities. That's as it must be at this stage of Drupal's maturity. Drupal is still a developer's tool; does it have the potential to become usable to the average person who wants a Web presence beyond WordPress and Yahoo! SiteBuilder? Maybe. But it's not there yet.
A boon to beginners: the "Acquia Drupal stack installer" (DAMP)
So I eagerly downloaded and tried Acquia's new Drupal Stack Installer (on the Mac), and found that it successfully avoids all these problems. Most importantly, it installs like a Mac application. Double click it, and it goes! For end users, that's huge.
