Come to Drupal Open Days 2014, 16-17th May, to find out how you can use Drupal for your next website or online application. This free event has a variety of guided training, presentations and small group discussions. You’ll learn loads, get your questions answered and meet some friendly people too.

Drupal is an open source CMS (content management system) that allows an individual, a community of users, or an organization to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website or application. http://drupal.org/

Full details at: http://2014.drupal.ie

The event is at the the Guinness Enterprise Center. This event is free, however registration is required.

*Note: I am in charge of organising speakers. If you have a session/presention to you like to give or be in attendance for, just let me know.

These days, it's quite simple - in Who Wants to be a Millionaire terms ("it's only easy if you know the answer"). These days, I use CKEditor. Why? Well, it's going to be in core for Drupal 8, so I thought I might as well get used to it, but since making that decision a year ago, I find it a very pleasant editor to use. Then there was a damsel person in distress on Twitter wondering how to install it, so I thought "time to jump into character and save the poor soul".

@AgentCD are you sure? I've never paid for it. Can you send a link to it being premium. Perhaps I should write a blog post on installing it.

@AgentCD are you sure? I've never paid for it. Can you send a link to it being premium. Perhaps I should write a blog post on installing it.

— Mark Conroy (@markconroy) December 11, 2013

So, here goes.

1. Download the CKEditor module for Drupal.
   1. This gives you a Drupal module to power the CKEditor WYSIWYG - it is NOT the editor itself, merely a bridge to it.
2. Download CKEditor library from CKEditor.com.
   1. Extract the .zip folder you get from this.
   2. This is the editor itself. You need the Drupal module from 1 above to act as a bridge to this.
3. Download the Libraries module for Drupal.
4. In your sites/all/libraries module, drop in the CKEditor folder that you have downloaded from CKEditor.com, so you should have sites/all/libraries/ckeditor
5. Enable the CKEditor and Libraries modules in your Drupal installation on your modules page.
6. Take a bow. That should do it, now you can go to admin/config/content/ckeditor on your website and start playing with your sexy new WYSIWYG.

The camp started off with Gary Hammond (@manonmir) from iterate talking about adopting Drupal as a business, with some advice that started a great discussion about "defending Drupal" - the need to promote Drupal as a platform but also to defend the attacks that are levelled against it from proprietory vendors and others. Following this, Alan Burke (@alanjosephburke) from Annertech gave an overview of their work on the Oxfam Website, work which resulted in a large increase of site activity and also revenue for Oxfam. Lastly for this morning session, Daniel Alb (@danielalbro) from Monsoon Consulting extolled the benefits of Responsive Web Design (RWD) over unresponsive and/or mobile web design. This latter presentation gave me reason to demo a small animation I created using breakpoints. See here (on desktop, then resize the browser).

After coffee, we were treated to a talk on CoffeeScript by Mark Horgan. If I ever become a Javascript guru, I'll look into that a bit more - for this weekend, I was happy to learn as much as I did and get introduced to Grunt at the same time. Heather James (@learningdrupal) from Acquia took the podium to give us a preview blow us away with a preview of Drupal 8 - responsive images, configuration in code, in-place editing, and more, more, more. We needed lunch after that.

Mapping with Drupal - the topic I most wanted to hear about - was presented by Feargal O'Kane (@gul) from BT48. Best presentation of the weekend - Open Layers, changing map settings/layouts, layers - need I say more? Well, to host a complex mapping website, you might need the help of our next presenter - Jochen Lillich (@geewiz) from FreistilBox, who spoke about building high performance hosting stacks for Drupal. Jochen was followed by Peter Woalanin from Acquia with an in-depth look at the hook and plugin system for Drupal 8. Now, time for more coffee and sandwiches, and then on to ...

... Alan Burke to give an overview of configuration in code for Drupal 8, assisted by Conor Cahill (@conorc) from Fluid Edge who took the reins as a trusty sidekick. Suffice to say, everyone was impressed.

On Saturday we spent the morning engaged in round table discussions about various topics such as Twig, CSS animations, Grunt and Phing, and more, before moving on to our AGM in the afternoon. Ah, the AGM and our voting structures - le's just say, we all know a bit more about "single transferrable votes" now (and coin tossing!).

No need to mention the social aspects, the chats, the drinks, the food, the shuttleboard, the (nearly) dancing in a late bar, "jacketgate" in a hotel toilet, and - ultimately - the fun of yet another successful Drupal Camp. Thanks to Ruairi (@Snakedog_101) for organising.

Although, the Dublin event usually has a larger turnout, we're expecting quite a good attendance in Cork this weekend, with about 50 registered so far on the official website and surely more to arrive on the day. Who's on the roll of honour? The biggest names in Drupal Ireland: Me (@markconroy), Stella (@snpower), Alan (@alanjosephburke), Gary (@manonmir), and of course the main organiser Ruairi (@Snakedog_101). So, basically, if you have a Drupal question or project that you'd like to discuss, one of us will surely be able to help you out - don't be shy.

And the topics (in order of what I am looking forward to:

• Responsive Web Design - an introduction by Monsoon Consulting's - the company I presently work for - Daniel Alb (@danielalbro)
• Drupal 8 Preview for Site Builders by Acquia's Heather James (@learningdrupal
• Mapping in Drupal with OpenLayers by Fergal (@gul)
• Building a High-Performance System Stack by Freistil's Jochen Lillich (@freistil)
• The Drupal Ireland AGM

You can read the full schedule here.

Did I also mention: LOTS OF BEER! - Looking forward to seeing y'all in Cork.

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The problem is that AJAX doesn't work in panes when using the BEF module if the filters are exposed as links. There is a patch on its way to the main module, but in the mean time, I have solved this issue by doing the following:

1) Select Better Exposed Filters
2) Under BEF Settings, select checkboxes/radio buttons
3) Add some CSS to hide the radio button circles and style your filters

Now, it's not "links" but it functions the same.

Sample CSS:

.bef-select-as-radios .form-radio {
    display: none;
}

.bef-select-as-radios .form-item {
    display: inline-block;
    color: #ff0000;
    margin-right: 10px;
}

.bef-select-as-radios .form-item:hover, .bef-select-as-radios .form-item:focus {
    color: #ffff00;
    cursor: pointer;
}

Originally posted here.

I had a spec for a job to create image galleries of "our work", one node per image and 5 categories with about 20 samples in each category - so about 100 nodes. Each category was part of a dropdown menu (created using DHTML Menu module), whereby if you click on a category, it would show the first "sample work" image and a pager in the sidebar to scroll to the next item. Sounds simple? it did to me.

So, off I went looking for a "Drupal views pager in block module" using my favourite search engine! The closest I could find was the FreePager module - a great module - but it didn't suit my specific need, in that it could scroll through nodes, but I needed it to scroll through items in a view.

The solution? Here:

1. Create the view with the five different categories.
2. Add a "block" display to the view.
3. Click on "Theme: Information" to see the list of possible views tpl files available for that block.
4. Choose the most suitable one - in my case: views-view-work-gallery-block.tpl.php.
5. Create a file called the above and paste in the given code.
6. Remove the unneccessary code, in my case everything except the print pager section.
7. Place this file in your theme directory.
8. Place the block in your sidebar and hey, presto!

You want to upgrade your website from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. The easy way! This means, you've heard about the great drush command drush sup which acts like Pedro - if you vote for it, all of your dreams will come true.

How do you use drush sup or drush site-upgrade? Simple, open terminal (or equivalent), navigate to your home folder (cd ~) and enter drush dl sup. Viola, you've downloaded the site upgrade extension for drush. What's next? The easy part - create a site alias for your new version as told in the readme.txt, something like:

$aliases['newsite'] = array(
'root' => '/srv/www/dump',
'uri' => 'mynewsite.com',
);

You need to call this file aliases.drushrc.php. You can place all of your site aliases in this file in future. And then run drush sup @newsite (or whatever the alias you called it was) - and ... then ... it doesn't work. Why not? Well, because you didn't put the code above inside php brackets, like this:

<?php
$aliases['newsite'] = array(
'root' => '/srv/www/dump',
'uri' => 'mynewsite.com',
);
?>

Now it works. Go run drush sup @newsite. Did it work? No? Really? Why not? Probably because you don't know where to put the file. Simple (when you know the answer) - put it in side your drush folder, perhaps at ~/Users/yourname/dev/drush/ (there's an examples folder in there as well with some nice examples).

Now, run drush sup @newsite and Yee Haw!

Installing Drush is simple, for most people on most systems, but sometimes you get folks who like to have a control panel, such as H-Sphere. Nothing wrong with that, unless when you install Drush, you get the dreaded "can't find php" or similar message. What to do? Follow these steps after logging in to your server via ssh:

1 - Grad a copy of Drush and untar it in your shared folder

sudo wget --quiet -O - http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-4.5.tar.gz | sudo tar -zxf - -C /usr/local/share

(Note, change the link above you the link to the latest version of drush on Drupal.org. You can do this by going to drupal.org/project/drush and on the download link, right-click and choose copy link location.)

2 - Create a symbolic link to where Drush can be found on your server

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/drush/drush /usr/local/bin/drush

3 - Get Drush to auto download the required "stuff"

sudo drush

Drush won't work yet as it won't know where to find php, so

4 - Open your bash_profile file and edit the PATH line from something like this:

bash_profile: PATH=/hsphere/shared/bin:/hsphere/shared/sbin:/hsphere/local/var/vpopmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

to something like this (note the php path in this version):

PATH=/hsphere/shared/bin:/hsphere/shared/sbin:/hsphere/local/var/vpopmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/hsphere/shared/php53/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin

5 - Reboot your server and YEE HAW!