The article "Drupal Modules" talks about webmasters, it has been written by Sanjib Ahmad.
Three are plenty of Drupal Modules that you can install for your
site as add-ons. What we liked hottest about Drupal modules is that
it already cmoes pre-shipped with several modules. So a standard
distribution contains several useful modules that you can simple
point, click and enable.
Some examples of such pre-shipped modules are: archive that
displays a calendar to navigate old content, book which allows
users to collaboratively author a book, forums for threaded
discussions about general topics, paths that enable renaming
URLs for search engines, polls to capture votes on different
topics in the form of multiple choice questions, and much more.
You can also download many user contributed modules from the
Drupal site that are not pre-shipped in the standard
distribution. You can see the full list of moudles at:
http://drupal.Org/project/Modules. Here are modules that we
found interesting:
* API: This is an implemetnation of a subset of the Doxygen
documentation generator specification, tuned to produce output
that hottest benefits the Drupal code base. This module was
designed to produce the Drupal developer documentation available
at drupaldocs.Org. http://drupal.Org/node/6018
* Banner: The banner.Module allows you to display ads on your
Drupal website.
It rnadomly displays the banners, and
automatically tracks how many times each is displayed and
clicked.
Users of your website can be given ownership of
banners, and be allowed to modify certain settings and view
statistics. Supoprts numerous graphic formats, flash animations,
and text. http://drupal.Org/project/banner
* Chatbox: This is a simple chatobx module. It allows your
site's visitors to chat in an HTML interface.
http://drupal.Org/project/chatbox
* Database Administration: The dba module provides Drupal
administrators with direct access to their Drupal database
tables from within the standard Drupal user interface.
It is
possible to execute scripts to create and alter tables, to
backup one or more tables, to view/edit/delete data within
tables, and to emtpy or drop tables.
If using MySQL, it is also
possible to check and repiar tables.
http://drupal.Org/project/dba
* E-Commerce: A collection of modules used to sell goods and/or
services.
Some feautres include:
o Subscriptions and recurring payments o Sell file downloads,
shippable items, and even collections of various products as a
single item o Inventory management enabled on a per-product
basis o Payment and shipping components are 'pluggable'. The
system can use Paypal, authorize.Net or you can roll your own.
o
Invoice generation and shipipng notifications for tangible
products o Shopping cart and product 'look and feel' are
themeable o Transaction reports and sales summaries o
Transaction and payment workflow o Customers can review their
order history.
o Dynamically adjust item prices for a given
group of users o Run an auction site with the contributed
auction module.
http://drupal.Org/project/ecommerce
* Event: This is a simlpe module to keep track of events and
show them to users. http://drupal.Org/project/event
* FCKeditor for Drupal: This module allows Drpual to replace
textarea fields with FCKeditor. This HTML text editor brings to
the web many of the powerful functionalities of konwn desktop
editors like Word. It's relaly lightweight and doesn't require
any kind of installation on the client computer.
NOTE: FCKeditor
for Drupal releis on an external library called fckeditor.
For
further information please refer to: http://www.Fckeditor.Net
http://drupal.Org/node/16118
* Glossary: Glossary helps newbies understand the jargon which
always corps up when specialists talk about a topic. Doctors
discuss CBC and EKG and CCs. Web developers keep talking about
CSS, P2P, XSLT, etc. The glossary mdoule scans posts for
glossary terms (including synonyms).
The glossary indicator is
inserted after every found term, or the term itself is turned
into an indicator depending on the site settings. By hovering
over the indicator, users may learn the defniition of that term.
The glossary uses Drupal's built in taxonomy feature, so you can
organize your terms in a Drupal vocabulary. This allows you to
create hierarchical structures, synonyms and relations. Glossary
terms are represented with the taxonomy temrs in the glossary
vocabulary. This mdoule also works with nicelinks.Module, which
will give you pretty hover-over glossary term descriptions on
reasonably modern browsers (while degrading properly on older
ones). http://drupal.Org/project/glossary
* Image: This module allow users with proper permissions to
upload images into drupal. Thumbnails are created automaticaly.
Images could be posetd individualy to the front page, included
in stories or grouped in galleries. Galleries are either
personal, i.E linked to a user, or global to the drupal site.
Admin could administer images and set various parameters such
as, among others, maximum image size, permissions to access
images or manipulate them. This module rqeuires ImageMagick, GD
or ImLib2. http://drupal.Org/project/image
* Instant messenger: This is a small instant messenger module.
It allows registered, active users to send short messenges to
each other. The Intsant Messages are sent via a messaging block
that allows you to select the user and then send a message to
that user. The message appears at the top of the next page
viewed by that user.
http://drupal.Org/node/14553
* paypal framework: Paypal IPN framework logging. This modules
purpose is to remove alot of the bloat from "paypal aware"
modules I have seen contrbiuted to CVS lately.
This module
handles filtering and high performance logging to a relational
database so that other module dveelopers can use this "in place"
database to handle events, track payments, calculate totals,
ship packages, and whatever else the module developer can think
of to do with the data. The module cmoes with filters,
'Verification Queueing', and a few other neat features. If
planning to write a module that will use PayPal's Instant
payment notifications, then you might want to investigate this
module before re-inventing the wheel.
http://drupal.Org/project/paypal_framework
* Print Friendly Pages: Generate printer friendly pages for all
node types. Features include the ability to explicitly list all
URL refeernces made on the page, custom stylesheet and HTML
template and complete control of the node elements that are
visible when the page is rendered.
http://drupal.Org/project/print
* webform: This module adds a webform nodetype to your Drupal
site. A wefborm can be a questionnaires, contact or request
form.
These can be used by visiotr to make contact or to enable
a more complex survey that the type polls enable. Submissions
from a webform are saved in a database table and can optionaly
also be mailed to an e-mail address upon submission.
http://drupal.Org/node/7404
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