Recipe 34: Block of upcoming workshops

Note

Ingredients

CCK module: http://drupal.org/project/cck

Date module: http://drupal.org/project/date

Enable Date, Date API, Date Popup, and Date Timezone modules

Node Go To module: http://drupal.org/project/nodegoto

This recipe is the foundation for many others in the book, including most the ones remaining in this chapter.

The Node Go To module is a little-known treasure that makes it easy to enter content. This recipe also makes use of the now option, available in the Date module.

1. Install and enable all of the modules in the ingredients.

2. Go to admin/settings/date-time and set the default time zone.

3. Go to admin/content/types/add and create a content type named Workshop, of type workshop. As usual, remove the Body field in the Submission form fieldset. We'll create a workshop_description field instead.

4. Go to admin/content/types/workshop/add_field and add a field named workshop_date. We have several field types to choose from, however, I recommend the Datestamp...