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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

Module in action


Now that we have our module created, let's have a look at it in action.

Install the module

Within Administration | Modules we now have two new modules which we can install DFP Map and DFP Venue:

Let's enable the modules so that we can try them out.

If we try to create content, we now have two new options:

  • Dinosaur Friendly place

  • Map of Dinosaur Friendly places

The following screenshot shows these new options:

Creating a map

Let's create a new map of dinosaur friendly places. The form has provisions for us to add the name of the map, the coordinates of the center point, the zoom level, and the size of the map.

Creating a venue

Let's also create a venue. We have the option to specify the coordinates of the venue:

Viewing a map

Now if we view the newly created map, we can see it covers the location we defined; it also shows the newly created venue within there, and if we click the venue, it pops up with the name of the venue as a link to view more details:

Viewing a venue

If we click...

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