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Jan 16 2013
Ed
Jan 16
A new Drupal module: Biblio autocomplete.

Previsoulsy as part of eMonocot we started to use the IPNI webservice to autocomplete some fields in the Biblio content type. As one of the eMonocot objectives is to "Ensure that the tools developed are compliant with zoological nomenclature" I have extended this functionality to use the ZooBank API which is currently in a testing phase. In addition values for the autocomplete suggestions can be made from values previous entered in other Biblio nodes.

Instead of having either previsously entered values, IPNI or ZooBank attempt to autocomplete the field this module has been developed to allow any combination of these plugins to attempt the autocompletion. This will have uses in cases like the recent Lyme Regis Geo-BioBlitz where a single classification spand both animal and plant kingdoms (in this case the Dictioanry of UK Species).

The module is designed so that additional plugin modules can easily contribute results for other webservices.

This work was done as part of eMonocot as a contribution to the Scratchpads project.

May 25 2011
May 25
Using the GeoIP module with Context GeoIP module, it makes it really easy to create a context which has a specific condition to only display a block if your IP location is from a particular country. Furthermore GeoIP has a powerful API to pull out location information. In this article I’ll show you how to … Continue reading "How to use GeoIP & Context GeoIP module"
Aug 18 2010
Aug 18
When you get an editor asking how they can manage content on a Drupal site, sometimes you just can’t send them to admin/content/node page to manage the site. Maybe you only want certain editors to manage only certain content types. With the Views 2 module it’s easy to create custom administration pages. When I say … Continue reading "Create administration pages with Views 2"
Jul 10 2010
Jul 10
On some Drupal sites having the taxonomy links point to the “taxonomy/term/tid” can really break the design of a site. Sometimes you want to redirect the user to a custom views page instead of the standard taxonomy page. Using the Taxonomy Redirect module it’s relatively easy to change the taxonomy URL. To install Taxonomy Redirect … Continue reading "Redirect taxonomy term links to a views page"

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