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The title of this page should be project management because Drupal uses projects for delivering modules.

A companion video shows the Drupal 5.x situation. Using drush, my drush_mm patch and update status to manage and install modules command line. This video shows better dependency checking than currently available in D7. As I hope is clear I want to contribute to implement this into D7.

So you want to have a shopping cart. With drush_mm it's a snap.

Using verbose output this shows

Given module names: 'uc_cart'
The following modules will be enabled: 'tapir, uc_store, token, workflow_ng, ubrowser, uc_order, uc_product, uc_cart'
Installing modules
Enabling (and mayby installing) module: tapir
Enabling (and mayby installing) module: uc_store
Enabling (and mayby installing) module: token
Enabling (and mayby installing) module: workflow_ng
Enabling (and mayby installing) module: ubrowser

It's quite neat using drush to install ubercart. Here is what I did.

Preparation

1. Install drupal 5.x
2. Install your site/database
3. download and install drush
4. download and install update_status
5. if you want to follow along install this patch for the module manager
6. Enable the above modules. For a list see below.

Installing

I want to create a edit node into a block with ajax submit.

I wanted to try panels 2 minipanel with a node%/edit override together. But some hour later ... nothing found yet.

This raw view may be handy: http://drupal.org/node/48816

But why not using some php? Below is a raw version


<?php
global $user;

$sql = "select nid from {node} where uid == %d";
$result = db_query( db_rewrite_sql( $sql), $user->uid);
$row = db_fetch_array( $result);

if( isset( $row) && isset( $row['nid']){
$node = node_load( 30);
print drupal_get_form($node->type .'_node_form', $node);
}

When making these images about modules i use graphviz to render them. But just ran into http://drupal.org/project/hypergraph which looks great.

So I have to study this one!

Commands to render a .dot file are ie with non overlapping nodes

or for a top down graph.

For interviewing or interogating people it is nice to have a prepared list of questions. What module to use?

I know of these modules.
- http://drupal.org/project/answer
- http://drupal.org/project/quiz
- http://drupal.org/project/webform

What modules does one need to get faster user experience? This probably leads to using ajax.

One of my thought is some node/%/edit's one one page. Preferably on tabs too!

Just browsing the categories http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/101 (javascript utilities) and content at http://drupal.org is still overwhelming.

Here is a listing with just some modules.
- http://drupal.org/project/ajaxtable
- http://drupal.org/project/autosave
- http://drupal.org/project/block_refresh
- http://drupal.org/project/compact_forms
- http://drupal.org/project/cck_fieldgroup_tabs

Using drush with a strict server design makes my drupal maintence much more relaxed. I have this tiny script as a runner for drush.

$ cat drush

With a shop at hand one needs to get payed.

There are a lot of payment methods and payment gateways.

This page is not about completeness but about making notes about

Payment methods

• Direct Debit see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_debit
• Credit Card
• Pay Pal

I for now need Direct Payment within ubercart.

To grasp the shop one first has to now the contestants.

I hope this image will help.