DrupalConParis2009 - architecture

Taxonomy Everywhere: D7 Core Overhaul and the Expanding Contrib Universe

Benjamin Melançon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Long a selling point for Drupal, robust categorization and tagging of content is receiving a long overdue overhaul in Drupal 7. Meanwhile, contributed modules continue to be added and improved that leverage taxonomy for displaying, searching, filtering, sorting, and recommending content– and for connecting your site to other sites and classification methods.

Ironically, the plethora of contributed taxonomy modules are as poorly organized and hard to keep track of as any set of Drupal projects. We'll help you make sense of it all.

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Speaker bio:

* More bios coming<br /> * Benjamin Melançon does Drupal development with Agaric, which builds powerful web sites for people who do things. Sharing code, ideas, and helping connect everyone and everything goes well with his personal goals of the economic justice, genuine liberty, and collective organizing for all sorts of progress.

Co presenters:

bangpound

chach

mh86

Xano

Content Multigroup and FlexiField: Create Complex Fields by Combining Simple Fields

effulgentsia — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:34:42 +0000

We all love CCK and Views! With lots of amazing field modules out there, you can create almost any content type you need without writing a single line of code, have a reasonably usable form into which to add your content, and create pages that let you slice and dice that content in all sorts of ways. As a result, a big part of site architecture now is planning what content types you need and what fields are needed to represent that content type. Fields have become such an important way of structuring a Drupal website that starting with Drupal 7, the entire Field API is part of core. We've almost removed the need for writing code to build a custom content type. Almost, but not quite! What happens if you need to group fields and then build content that needs multiple instances of the group?

Speaker bio:

is a Drupal programmer, and developer and maintainer of the FlexiField module and some other modules. Prior to drinking the Drupal kool-aid 3 years ago, he created custom content management systems, but is now much more interested in improving Drupal than in creating yet another CMS.

Architecture is for everyone

eaton — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:00:39 +0000

Three years ago, Dries Buytaert announced that Content Mangement Systems had eliminated the webmaster, and challenged the Drupal community to eliminate the developer, too.

Speaker bio:

Jeff Eaton has been building Internet and desktop software for over a decade. In 2005, he began working with Drupal and never looked back. In the years since, he's become a core developer specializing in architecture and API development. As a consultant for Lullabot, he's helped plan and build the infrastructure for sites including MTV UK's music portal, SonyBMG's artist site platform, and Fast Company's groundbreaking business networking site.