Contributed modules

Submitted by Michelle on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 21:32

It's a good idea to have a list of modules you intend to use before you start building. Looking through the modules will give you an idea of what's possible already in contrib, point out any problem areas, such as modules that aren't yet ready for the version of core you are using, and maybe give you ideas for functionality you hadn't thought of.

While this book is broken up into logical sections, I actually find it easier to install the whole mass of contributed modules I will be using at one time. Many modules are used in more than one section and they often have intertwining functionality. Having them all installed means less running back and forth to add another module and also can show problems where modules don't get along before you get too deep into using them. Here is an alphabetical list of all the modules we will be using on this site:

Activity, Admin menu, Advanced Forum, Advanced Help, Advanced Profile Kit, Advanced Poll, Author Pane, Automatic Nodetitles, BUEditor, Calendar, CCK Field Privacy, CCK, Comment Page, Comment Subject, Comment RSS, Content profile, Custom Pagers, Custom Error, Date, Devel, Facebook-style statuses, , Fast Toggle, Fivestar, Fivestar Extra, Flag, Flatcomment, GMap, Google analytics, Ignore User, Imagecache, Imagefield, legal, Lightbox 2, Live, Location, logintoboggan, Me aliases, Mollom, Meta tags, Notifications, OG, Page title, Panels, Path redirect, Pathauto, Privatemsg, Quote, Signatures for Forums, Smileys, Token, User Relationships, User titles, User Comment, Userpoints Contrib, Userpoints, Views

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Modules I have installed but not listed above, yet:
*messaging
*votingapi
*ctools
*filefield
*image_fupload
*link
*plugin_manager
*imageapi
*demo
*devel
*jquery_impromptu
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Possibles:
Abuse, (could be done with flag), Blog Information, Blog theme, Comment Mover, Comment Upload, Forum Access, Google CSE, Kudos, Moderate, User Display API, Simplenews, Views slideshow, Hierarchical select, OG Block Visibility, OG Calendar, User badges, User Points Top Contributors

And here is a list broken down by section so you can see where they fit. To keep it simple, each module is only listed in one section.

*** SECTION ONE: BASIC SETUP
Chapter 1: Getting Drupal up and running
None

Chapter 2: Core modules
Book, Comment, Contact, Database logging, Forum, Help, Menu, OpenID, Path, PHP filter, Profile, Search, Statistics, Taxonomy, Tracker, Trigger, Update status, Upload

Chapter 3: Useful contributed modules
Admin menu, Devel, Views, CCK, Panels, Advanced Help, Pathauto, Flag, Token

*** SECTION TWO: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE USERS
Chapter 4: Registration
logintoboggan, legal, Automatic Nodetitles, Content profile,

Chapter 4a: Making friends
User Relationships (Alt: Flag Friend), Privatemsg, Ignore User,

Chapter 5: Blogs
Author Pane, User Comment, ?Blog Information, ?Blog theme,

Chapter 6: Incentives
Userpoints, ?Userpoints Contrib, ?User Points Top Contributors, User titles,
User badges, Fivestar, Fivestar Extra, ?Kudos

Chapter 7: Public profiles
Advanced Profile Kit, Activity, Facebook-style statuses, Me aliases, User Display API

Chapter 8: Home pages
TBD

Chapter 9: Privacy
CCK Field Privacy

*** SECTION THREE: GET YOUR USERS TALKING

Chapter 10: Forums
Advanced Forum, BUEditor, Live, Quote, Smileys, Signatures for Forums, ?Comment Upload, ?Moderate, ?Abuse (could be done with flag), Comment Mover, ?Comment Subject, ?Forum Access, Fast Toggle, Flatcomment, Notifications, Comment RSS, Advanced Poll, Comment Page