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

[mark burdett]

Hi,
a minor update on this thread..

one of my favorite things about drupal 6 is that it has an 
up-to-date version of jQuery (of course.. this might change for the 
worse if drupal 6 isn't released soon ;) which makes it a lot 
easier to incorporate jQuery plugins and widgets.

the drupal 6 branch of indymedia_cities supports jQuery UI if you 
have it installed -- http://drupal.org/project/ui -- which includes 
an accordion widget.  this is basically just a collapsible list 
where expanding one section of the list automatically collapses the 
other sections.

--mark

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:13:07 -0600, Ben West 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
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ben West
> westbywest at gmail.com
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