awebfactory - web application factory pattern

First make a dynamically filtered view on the fly like the big boys do!

Then, stick it in a panel! There are other ways of doing it, but by using this simple method you can easily:

• List all car dealers whose monthly sales volume falls within a series of different ranges: http://example.com/dealers-that-sell-between/500/1000
• List all jobs with salaries falling within different ranges with http://example.com/jobs-that-pay-between/100/200.

[Note: This is a somewhat detailed description of how to leverage content types and views in Drupal, most useful for beginner to intermediate experience level in Drupal Web Application development, or to those evaluating Drupal. It is designed to show how the power of the framework is only apparent after gaining just a little experience with its features].

Panels 2, the quiet revolution indeed! This tutorial will go through a series of detailed exploratory steps to achieve a dynamic jCarousel panel whose content is derived from the attached files of the node context of a panel page configured for node override. That is, the jCarousel pictured in the following image contains the thumbnails of all the images attached to the node providing the context to the shown panel page. And this is achieved by overriding theme_panels_pane(), the default theming function for individual panels in a panel page.

OK, so I'm producing a couple of sites now that need browser side validation... And there is one of these great jQuery plugins called Validation. Now, Drupal uses jQuery, right? So, is there a contributed module out there that integrates this great little plugin? Woot! Yes there is a Santa Claus... enter jQuery plugins, looks like we're in!

So back in August I was working with Transmitting nodes between Drupal sites, basically using the method outlined in Chapter 19 of Pro Drupal Development.

Among the comments concerning my reinventing the wheel were several excellent suggestions, as is common in the Drupal community. One of them mentioned the Services module.