[Imc-drupal-dev] Drupal Tampa Bay IMC documentation

[Aaron Couch]

hey rob,  great job!  philly imc is almost finished our version of drupal
indymedia style. thanks for documenting it is important to not only build
but share.   -AC

On Dec 13, 2007 8:46 PM, Rob Heck <dejitarob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the lack of clarification and delayed response. Yes, I'm
> using "explorer tree" for the javascript in the blocks to collapse the
> lists:
> http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/
>
> The first block contains the js code followed by an html unordered
> list of all the taxonomy terms, pulled from the html output of the
> "taxonomy dhtml" module (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_dhtml).
> The second block just contains the list of indymedia cities pulled
> from http://indymedia.org/cities.inc and modified to add some IMCs not
> listed. I also use the "block cache" module to speed up the loading of
> the blocks. Yea, it's a hack job but it seems to work fine for me with
> my limited coding experience. I'm sure it's possible to use php to
> call the taxonomy terms (like http://drupal.org/node/133445) and put
> the results in a list somehow.
>
> Peace,
> Rob
>
>
> --
> Rob Heck
> 352.613.0621
> dejitarob at gmail.com
> http://dejitarob.wordpress.com
> http://tampabay.indymedia.org
>
> On Dec 13, 2007 4:13 AM, Ben West <westbywest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > I use the indymedia cities module already on reboot.stlimc.org, which
> > itself is now a rather large documentation project that I need to
> > undertake soon, since that site basically evolved entirely on its own
> > w/o collaborating with the indy-drupal collective.  (If foresight were
> > 20/20...)
> >
> > Anyhoo, Rob from tampabay has cobbled together his own solution for
> > JS-driven, dynamically-collapsible menus.  I can see he is
> > incorporating JS code from outside the Drupal sphere (google for
> > "explorer tree"), and I am particularly curious how he populates the
> > lists that become the dynamic menus, e.g. the topics list, the issues
> > list.  Are these lists just hard-coded, are they populated
> > dynamically?  Inquiring minds...
> >
> > Also, the drupal community at large has pondered dynamic menus too:
> > http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupals_menu_system_vs_js_menus
> >
> >
> > On Dec 12, 2007 11:16 PM, mark burdett <mark at indymedia.org> wrote:
> > > Hi, i don't know if tampa bay uses it, but the indymedia_cities module
> > > has a setting option for collapsible cities list,
> > > http://drupal.org/project/indymedia_cities
> > > so that's one easy way to do it.
> > >
> > > --mark
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:37:02 -0600, Ben West wrote:
> > > > Hello Rob,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks again for posting this howto.
> > > >
> > > > May I ask how you created the dynamic, collapsing lists for topic,
> > > > issue, cities, etc on tampabay.indy?  They looks quite spiffy, and I
> > > > can see all the related javascript in the page source.  Did you
> simply
> > > > create a block and paste the HTML/JS verbatim into the block body?
> > > > How are the lists populated, are the list items hard-coded?  Does
> this
> > > > depend on particular Drupal module (e.g. ActiveMenu)?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > On Nov 27, 2007 4:50 PM, Rob Heck <dejitarob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Greetings,
> > > > >
> > > > > I finished documenting how I used Drupal to get the Tampa Bay IMC
> up again:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> http://dejitarob.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/how-i-used-drupal-to-build-tampa-bay-indymedia/
> > > > >
> > > > > It includes mostly everything I could think of besides some very
> minor
> > > > > cosmetic changes. I also put it on the drupal-dev wiki page.
> Please
> > > > > feel free to ask me about any clarifications. I hope it will be of
> use
> > > > > to someone.
> > > > >
> > > > > Peace,
> > > > > Rob
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Rob Heck
> > > > > 352.613.0621
> > > > > dejitarob at gmail.com
> > > > > http://dejitarob.wordpress.com
> > > > > http://tampabay.indymedia.org
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ben West
> > > > westbywest at gmail.com
> > > > http://savetheinternet.org
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-- 
Aaron Couch
Philly IMC --> http://phillyimc.org
Greenadelphia! --> http://greenadelphia.org
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