Recipe 40: Timeline

Note

Ingredients

Timeline module: http://www.drupal.org/project/timeline

Timeline widget: http://www.miccolis.net/random/timeline-1-2.tar.gz

The Timeline module implements a nice interactive script developed originally by the SIMILE project at MIT. The project "graduated" in 2008, to become its own stand-alone open source project, hosted at Google Code.

1. Log on to the host and enter the following commands. This is almost a garden-variety module installation, however, we also need to download all of the SIMILE timeline code and place it in an api subdirectory. The Timeline widget tarball expands to the timeline-1-2 directory, so in the last step we use the mv command to rename it to api.

   cd home/DRUPALACCOUNT/public_html/sites/all/modules
   wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/timeline-5.x-1.0.tar.gz
   tar xvf timeline-5.x-1.0.tar.gz
   cd timeline/
   wget http://www.miccolis.net/random/timeline-1-2.tar.gz
   tar xvf timeline-1-2.tar.gz
   mv timeline-1-2 api
   

2. Enable the Timeline module...