Drupal Modules that work with vbDrupal

[sifuhall]

There's a new book entry added:

Drupal Modules that work with vbDrupal (http://www.vbdrupal.org/node/15)



Amazon tools (http://drupal.org/node/18842)
Poormanscron (http://drupal.org/project/poormanscron)
Excerpt (http://drupal.org/project/excerpt)
BBCode (http://drupal.org/project/bbcode)
Article (http://drupal.org/project/article)
Bookmarks (http://drupal.org/project/bookmarks)
Book Review (http://drupal.org/node/7880)

[elmuerte]

The following modules also work with vbDrupal (for the simple reason that I'm the developer of those modules)

Disk Node (http://drupal.org/node/43600)
FileRequest (http://drupal.org/node/43202)

[mixa]

Is it possible this list to be expanded in near future?
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[elmuerte]

all drupal 4.7 modules should work with vbdrupal 4.7
if you find a drupal 4.7 module that doesn't work, let us know

[Sir_Yaro]

bbcode_wysiwyg module works as well

[silurius]

Is it really worth adding each module that is working here? Are those running lists being actively maintained?

Not saying this sarcastically, just wondering.

[mixa]

...but what is *worth* anyway?
This is the only place to share experience(s) about vbDrupal modules. You have already noticed 1 zillion *modules* around. Most of them are simply a good idea always in dev state, lots of them crap that will mess your software and the rest is BS. And too few deserve to be named modules. But that's how I see the things.

Good module explanation for functionality, working state, comparison with pros/cons is *worth* these days ;)

All the best,
-- mixa
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[silurius]

Yes, totally agreed. I should have stated my feeling that a list is only useful if there is a way to easily maintain it. Since the man devs here are more focused on producing a good core product (as it should be!) perhaps something like a wiki would make sense for issues relating to vb add-ons, drupal modules, designs, etc. I guess failing anything else, this thread works, but I have to wonder if the list here is even close to exhaustive.

[silurius]

I'll try to maintain this post with my own list of working (and useful/relevant) modules. I've red-highlighted vBulletin modifications. These are on a new vbDrupal 4.7, vBulletin 3.6.5 site I began developing a couple of weeks ago.

Modules and addons working with possible issues

Glossary (http://drupal.org/project/glossary) working together with Nicelinks (http://drupal.org/project/nicelinks). Seems to work fine when it wants to work, but there's a bug somewhere. Sometimes when I post new content containing a certain word that I've fed to Glossary, the javascript is supposed to pick up on the word and do its magic. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I thought that was random until I noticed that you actually have to kick start it by clicking on the definition link (icon or superscript text) and then re-save the content, to get it to do its thing. I'd be interested to see others here test it out on their sites. Here is a Drupal forum thread (http://drupal.org/node/142048) I started.

IMCE (http://drupal.org/project/imce). Running with BU Editor. Seems to be fine, until I browse to an image that has been uploaded and attempt to add it. Clicking on the image itself in that popup has no effect. Also, sometimes the javascript popup thingy completely borks the node edit page and forces you to abort or go back a page.


Modules and addons working but needing more testing

BU Editor (http://drupal.org/project/bueditor). The only issues I've seen may not relate to this module itself (see IMCE issue above).

CCK (http://drupal.org/project/CCK). Seems to work fine so far (created something similar to Story) but haven't tested it enough to say for sure.

NNTP Gateway for Usenet modification (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=92588) (vBulletin). No issues so far. In addition to providing a one-to-one mapping between a given forum to a newsgroup, google/yahoo group, or a listserv, one great feature is allowing users to essentially post threads and posts to vBulletin via any email client. At this point I've only performed a few basic unit-tests, and so far it seems to work both inbound and outbound within vBulletin content (haven't extended this to Drupal content, and there are probably several other important tests).

Restrict usernames to alphanumeric and underscore (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=106877) (vBulletin). Installed this mainly in anticipation of a planned Mediawiki bridge (see below). No issues so far. Note: You can still accomplish much of what this modification does in standard vBulletin.


Modules/addons working perfectly

Front Page (http://drupal.org/project/front)
Simple Access (http://drupal.org/project/simple_access)
System Info (http://drupal.org/project/systeminfo)

To be tested (some longer term)

FAQ (http://drupal.org/project/faq)
Login Toboggan (http://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan)
Menu per role (http://drupal.org/project/menu_per_role)
Integrate or bridge with MediaWiki (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=112973)
More to come

[All4Data]

Hi silurius

I only took note of this thread now, thanks for the work put in, appreciated

I use the vbwikipro bridge and I dont allow registration through the Wiki, only through vB

A4D

[Goddess]

i'm using FAQ module with no issues, fyi

[mixa]

List of (some) modules installed on my production site (vbDrupal 4.7.7.1 + vBulletin 3.6.1). My goal is to grow up a semi-social-portal-like web place with lots of sub/categories ...and hopefully keep it clean, 24/7 up and running. My 2??:

Modules working with possible issues
dba (http://drupal.org/project/dba). Gives you a nice administration panel for your db tables to optimize, clear, create, backup, drop, etc.
Very usefull if you don't have admin tools for your database (you're on a shared hoster?) Possible vulnerabilities reported somewhere on Drupal's site (please check around). Works nice for me and I haven't had any issues so far. There's one limitation: it does not list vBulletin tables, only Drupal's.


pathauto (http://drupal.org/project/pathauto). Probably the most used (and very CPU intensive) module. Automatically creates aliased url's based on *rule patterns*. Highly configurable. Use this if you don't like the ugly "http://example.org/node/put-a-number-here" url's. I don't. I want rich keywords and descriptive links.
This module always have issues (http://drupal.org/project/issues/pathauto?categories=bug). Acceptable issues :)

globalredirect (http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect). It will do 301 redirect for all aliased nodes and ensure that pages will be accessed only by aliased url (not as node) avoiding to end up in almighty Google's sandbox for duplicate content (I use it because of the pathauto). Small footprint, doing his job nicely, but sometimes (not often) fails according to my log files. Why? Never figured it out.

Modules working flawlessly

urllist (http://drupal.org/project/urllist). Creates a virtual URL list page ("http://example.com/urllist.txt"). Handy if you're going to submit your site to Yahoo's directory or Google Sitemaps.

advanced_menu (http://drupal.org/project/advanced_menu). This one will add 4 handy checkboxes to your edit menu admin page:

Expanded
Visible in tree views
Visible in breadcrumbs
Only visible if it has children


node_style (http://drupal.org/project/node_style). If you want to style a particular node, create a separate template per-node, this is your saviour. Say, you have 5 categories and want 5 different templates for each one? You can also insert whatever javascript or additional stylesheets into the <head> for specific nodes.

Additional 1??:
Modules are directly plugged into your (vb)Drupal core and due to Drupal's nature to take over A LOT of server resources which makes him "Drupal - The Resource Hog Of The Century (http://drupal.org/)", there's a big chance that I answered to your everlasting-neverending question "What's wrong now AGAIN!?". It's the modules (most of the time).


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[elmuerte]

If you think Drupal is a resource hog then you haven't used MediaWiki or Gallery v2
Yes it's true, Drupal isn't very resource friendly if you compare it to vBulletin. But this is mostly due to the fact that Drupal provides a generic framework where vBulletin can optimize every piece to only include the strictest things they need to do. But of course if you install various large plugins for vBulletin it will also instantly increase in it's resource usage.

Anyway, I don't know how Drupal compares to other CMSs with similar capabilities. I leave that stuff up to Dries and the other core Drupal developers.