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Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery

by Matt Butcher | Published by Packt Publishing
Reviewed by katherine on July 1st, 2009

The very first Drupal module I was ever tasked with building was a little widget for displaying portfolio items. You could scroll through thumbnails, three at a time, each successive three being loaded via AJAX, and clicking on any thumbnail loaded a larger image and description, via AJAX of course, for that portfolio item. I was brand new to Drupal and, despite being pretty scared of JavaScript, was thought of as "the AJAX person" on the team (because I had once mentioned that one time I had built something that used AJAX). It was a pretty tall order, from my perspective.

Looking for Szeged co-presenters for jQuery Tutorial

Submitted by katherine on Fri, 06/13/2008 - 13:59
[Cross-posting from the Raincity blog]

I've submitted a proposal to the DrupalCon Szeged site for a tutorial session on jQuery in Drupal. I'd reallly like to get two co-presenters on board to structure it into three 30-minute tutorials, each covering two or three of the following suggested topics:

  • how jQuery and Drupal relate to each other
  • keeping up with jQuery versions
  • the Drupal js object
  • how behaviors are handled in Drupal 6
  • AJAXifying Drupal with jQuery
  • debugging JavaScript with Firebug
  • AHAH and Drag&Drop

The topics I'd personally like to cover are i) keeping up with jQuery versions and ii) the Drupal js object. Maybe debugging as well. I'm totally open to suggestions regarding specific topics; the aim is that we will provide a really well-rounded, instructive and comprehensive session on using jQuery in Drupal in 90 minutes.

So, if you are heading to DrupalCon Szeged, haven't decided on what, if any, sessions to present, and feel comfortable with and interested in the above topics, please get in touch with me via my contact form.

Alternatively, if you're not planning on presenting but would be interested in attending such a session, I'd love to hear your feedback as to the content so please leave your comments.

Hopefully helpful ramblings about jQuery in Drupal

Submitted by katherine on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 09:47

I just posted Part Two of a fairly lengthy discussion of jQuery in Drupal over on the Raincity Studios website. Check out both installments:
The Lowdown on jQuery - Part One
The Lowdown on jQuery - Part Two

My DCV08 Presentation Slides

Submitted by katherine on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:05
Drupal Camp Vancouver '08 was a roaring success and I enjoyed it enormously. There was a really interesting crowd at the event, with people from Seattle, Victoria, even as far away as Saskatoon and parts of Alberta. It was an amazing opportunity for networking and just getting to know more of the local (and obviously not-so-local) Drupal scene.

jQuery in Drupal

Submitted by katherine on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 12:41
I gave an introductory presentation on jQuery to the Vancouver League of Drupallers the week before DrupalCon Boston. It covered the basics of the jQuery framework and an explanation of how to use it in Drupal. Here is the slideshare of the presentation:

But of course at DrupalCon I was bombarded with new ideas about using jQuery, especially in Drupal 6. One of the main to-dos on my list since returning from Boston is to get up to speed on things like Drag and Drop, AHAH, the jQuery UI plugin in general and all the new ways that jQuery is being implemented in contrib modules. And who knows... maybe a jQuery presentation Part 2 will come of it...