Programming blog

This is a simple module I created which has a very simple premise. You've created a bunch of accounts for some people, and you want them to be able to easily access their account, without you having to know their passwords. You didn't want the users to be notified right away on account creation, for many possible reasons. Maybe it was a development site that you needed to test your user imports, maybe you needed to finish up some quick stuff first, who knows.

So what this module does is allows you to customize a 'welcome to your account' type email in the settings page. You can then go to the user/user menu, where this module has a hook into the user operations drop down. Select which users you want to include, and send them an email, it's that easy.

It doesn't do anything automatically, it requires action on your part. However it does greatly simplify the user experience for finding the site, and logging on for the first time.

Only thing it lacks is a 'send an introduction to every user' which is probably a good thing since you may click it by accident!

Anyway, you are welcome to check it out. I'm not including it on Drupal.org since I just won't have the time to maintain it. If someone else wants to take it over, that's fine with me.

There is a module by this name up on Drupal.org, but a quick check of the issue queue makes it obvious that it is in need of some love.

What my module does is create a Menus tab for each Organic group which only a user with the appropriate permissions can use. Then, each group manager can be in charge of a menu block which only shows up in the context of their group (so on the group home page, and every content item created in the context of the group). The module requires that you give all appropriate users the permissions 'administer menu', but then defines a new permission to prevent user access to the base menu system.

The users can either define a new menu block, or reuse an existing part of the menu structure (which probably needs to be part of a permission but that's a kink to iron out).

The interface is clean and easy to use, I think. Check it out.

This is a simple module that allows users to post responses/reviews of other people's posts. It also includes a simple 5 star voting widget, which degrades nicely when JavaScript is disabled. The posts are limited to the default filter input and are carefully screened for possible xss attacks since it is likely this kind of module could be used for allowing anonymous users to post.

Another feature of this module is that you can use one of your site vocabularies to define in what categories people can vote on. The voting unfortunately does not currently use the Voting Api module. It really should, because then one could define Views of the votes much more easily, and it would allow for a greater generalization of the voting process.

This module has actually already seen use in a couple of places, one a public library (they are using it to review books) and another site is using it to review cars.

Both of the sites have given me permission to release the code. Again, I'm too busy to maintain a module like this, but if someone wants to take up the torch...