The Drupal Sandbox Podcast

Episode 7 "EZ Banner Rotator, Media Cmdr, Better Updater"


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We have three newborn modules again today. One for banner display on your site, the second for managing media, and the third to enhance your site updating experience. The first is a simple module for displaying rotating banners on your site, the EZ Banner Rotator project. EZ Banner Rotator is a JQuery based advanced banner module. This provide an Image based slideshow like banner rotator for the Drupal page. This creates a block in Drupal block section which can be assigned to a page block. The strength of the module is, highly configurable to fit any type of website. Next up is the Media Cmdr project. I mistakenly described the Media WYSIWYG project during Episode 6 with this module. This module adds a media browser using the Media module. Sorry. Add a new tab to Media (http://drupal.org/project/media) module browser with an MC look&feel file manager The last module is Better Updater. Better Updater is a small module that provides a functionality which allows users to install new modules into subdirectories of sites/all/modules. Features Allows to install new modules into existing directories inside sites/all/modules. Better Updater maintains the specific hierarchy of modules, for instance all developer modules can go into sites/all/modules/developer or all of the conributed modules into sites/all/modules/contrib. TODO List Make select list instead of simple textfield to choose proper subdirectory. Expand Better Updater to install new modules in sites/mysite.com directory. Make possibility to create new directories and install new modules there. Requirements Better Updater needs Update module enabled. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download .mp3
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The Drupal Sandbox PodcastBy Ben Hosmer