drupal session 3 - biginlucerne.com - lessons learned

drupal session 3

Biginlucerne.com - Lessons Learned

Topic: Biginlucerne.com - Lessons LearnedDate: 13.02.2012Presenter: Slava RysTwitter: @merdekitiBlog: http://www.netnode.ch/blog

http://www.netnode.ch - pure drupal - drupal development services

What we’ll know in 15min?

•How biginlucerne.com is built using Drupal

•Challanges and solutions

What is biginlucerne.com?

•Photo contest

•Social media campaign for Lucerne tourism

Design & concept bywww.cloukreativ.ch

Clientwww.lucerne.com

Lets talk about key functions

•Facebook integration

•Voting mechanism

•Get next image for voting process

Facebook integrations

Problems & solutions

•Fbconnect — does not work well yet

•Fb — the best module for FB integrations

FB module functions?

•Connect FB account to user

•Development tools

•Views integrations

•Rules integrations

•Example module

•And lot of other functions...

Why is this cool?

•No problem with instalations and setup (all works from the box)

•Easy UI

•Good documantation

The FB module hook

hook_fb_user ($op, $data, &$return) {}

$op:

• FB_USER_OP_PRE_USER- Before account creation, fb_user.module

• FB_USER_OP_POST_USER - After account creation, fb_user.module

• FB_USER_OP_POST_EXTERNAL_LOGIN - user map has changed global user.

• FB_USER_OP_POST_USER_CONNECT - Connected local account to FB account, fb_user.module

• FB_USER_OP_POST_USER_DISCONNECT - Disconnected local account from FB account, fb_user.module

Lets talk about the voting process

Problems & solutions

•The flag module was skipped

•Voting API & rate modules — the best solution for voiting process

Drupal Voting API module is cool!

The Voting API does four key jobs for module developers:

• CRUD: Create/Retrieve/Update/Delete operations for voting data.

• Calculation: Every time a user creates a vote, VotingAPI calculates the results and caches them for you.

• Workflow: By integrating with Actions.module, VotingAPI can trigger workflow steps (like promoting a node to the front page, hiding a comment that's been flagged as spam, or emailing an administrator) when votes are cast and results are tallied.

• Display: VotingAPI integrates with Views.module, allowing you to slice and dice your site's content based on user consensus.

Drupal rate module is cool!

•This module provides flexible voting widgets for nodes and comments.

•Administrators can add multiple widgets. By default, there are 8 widget types

•By using "custom" you can customize the rating buttons and Voting API mode. Widget types can be extended by other modules.

•Flexible API

The Rate module hooks

• hook_rate_templates() {}

• hook_rate_widget_alter(&$widget, $context) {}

• hook_rate_widget_insert(&$widget, $values) {}

• hook_rate_widget_update(&$widget, $values) {}

• hook_rate_widget_delete(&$widget) {

• hook_rate_vote_alter($vote, $context) {}

Code example

Get next image

Performance trick

•The views module was skipped

•Get next image using db_select()

Code example

Biggest problem

•Voting process

•Facebook Open Graph

•Facebook integrations

Discussion

•Questions?