Am just 6 months old to Tridion.
I know the basic stuff related to this tool.
I read somewhere saying we can enhance the functionalities of Content Delivery by extending it using some Java APIs.
Could someone guide me where can we get these Java API's from.
It would be great if you can quote some examples for this.
Apart from the official documentation (http://sdllivecontent.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL_Tridion_2011_SPONE/concept_35CC2F9DCEA34995931E181C165FCC0F, login required) there is an excellent series of articles on the topic by Mihai Cadariu: http://www.sdltridionworld.com/articles/sdltridion2011/tutorials/extending-content-delivery-storage-sdltridion-2011-1.aspx.
I suggest you start from there and let us know if you have more specific questions!
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SDL Tridion's TOM.NET API replaced the deprecated TOM (Tridion Object Model) starting in, I believe, version R5.3.
Aside from asking Stack Overflow (Exchange) questions, which documentation should we refer to when working with and learning the TOM.NET API?
So far, I've found (logins required):
SDL Live Content
TridionWorld Download (select latest version, currently 2011 SP1 to download the "SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 TOM.NET API" chm)
I see these (plus questions on the forum), but can't tell which is better. What do you use most when working with TOM.NET?
Good Question and Probably most of the Tridion new developers might be wondering the same when to to use which. I would say both the documents has a different purpose and go side-by-side. API Documentation does provide information on methods and usage, SDL Live Content docs provide information is more of understanding what to use for your scenario. We do get these kind of questions when we are on boarding any new developer "Which document provides me the most information".
I refer to these simple examples to explain the differences on when to use which documentation.
what variables are available in package (vs) What API method to use when reading variables from package ?
Referring Live Docs for the first and API doc for second
How do I loop through the embedded fields (vs) what method I use to loop through embedded value fields ?
Referring Live Docs for the first and API doc for second.
I see this question with different variation keep popping up almost every month.
I know I used simple use cases, but sometimes keeping it simple is better.
Hope this information helps.
Also according to this page in the documentation the TOM.NET API should be only used in Templating and Event Handlers. For third party applications you should use the Core Service API.
I use the API documentation, and when I really want to know more use Reflector. But that's not really advisable(?).
is there a drupal module that enables a live chat in a drupal site?
I recommend drupalchat, it is the most maintained and complete version. It uses node.js as the server. It works on Drupal 6 and 7 and has many features.
Drupal.org has an excellent search, a simple search revealed these candidates.
I use ClickDesk on my Wordpress site as a plugin, It's just copy pasting the code; I guess it should work with Drupal as well.
http://drupal.org/project/bowob
Have a look at bowob chat it gives you an interface which would be useful for implementing chat in a social networking environment. If you exam the api you can see what other modules bowob will go with well.
You can use the Drupal Olark module
http://drupal.org/project/olark
I believe it can handle visitors when you are offline too.
You should try LetsSyncro Live Chat & Image interaction Module for Drupal. This module adds image interaction to the traditional Live chat functionality.
You can find the installation guide in the following link: http://letssyncro.com/AddOns/Drupal
http://drupal.org/project/zopim
Zopim will provide you with the admin panel to administer you online and offline chat, but on their site only. Helped me a lot. Hope this will help you too.
Check chatroom module. It doesn't depend on any third party services and it offers a lot flexibility. You can make both - a site support chat and a community open chat room with it.
Version for D7 requires node.js I think.
Most of others depend on third party services which require registration and membership.
Yes i'm actually using a facebook like chat that's easy to configure with YUI
I'm actually using drupalchat: a facebook like chat and easy to configure with yui
At our website we used Mibbit to embed chat events. It is based on the old IRC system so it has zero learning curve for that audience. It worked really well and the cost was minimal, might be zero for most regular users.
http://www.mibbit.com/
Their staff was also extremely helpful and just generally cool to work with. They are always on their own support chat channel and so you get instant answers. We eventually stopped doing corespondent interviews so the system is not used now, but I would use them again without hesitation.
Planning to start a small aggregator for a personal project, so far I have a few inquiries on gathering information for the site. I'm still clueless on where to begin. what kind of infrastructure do i need? where do i get the feeds and can I sort them out depending on the theme of the info requested?
any feedback is appreciated. thanks
This is a pretty open-ended question, but here's where I'd start:
Technology for handling feeds -- WCF Syndication. Also, read and understand the RSS and Atom specs.
Infrastructure -- depends on your situation. Is it just for you, or a few friends or are you talking about building the next Google Reader? If it's smaller-scale, then look at a hosting solutions like GoDaddy, DiscountASP.NET, etc. (There's hundreds of them.) If you're talking a larger-scale type of solution, look at hosting it in the cloud - Rackspace, Amazon, Windows Azure.
Where do you get feeds? Pretty much anywhere. Personally, if this site is for other users, let the users enter them in (why be in the business of trying to guess what feeds people would want to subscribe to?).
I think you need to provide more requirements in order to get more solid feedback. Start with looking at WCF Syndication and get a feel for that library in terms of how to programmatically handle RSS and ATOM feeds (both subscribing and publishing). Once you understand that, I think you'll have a better handle on your next steps.
Hope this helps.
I'd like to learn how to create modules in drupal- modules which can interact with the user, database, assign permissions, views.
Is there any good video tutorial or a simple sample module which covers these things?
Thanks.
My suggestion would be to pick up a copy of Pro Drupal Development and start working your way through. I think that book is the best one stop option for providing an easy to follow, yet in depth start for learning Drupal development.
If you really wanted to get by without purchasing a book, I would suggest checking out the Lullabot site for whatever free content they have available.
After an initial background, the Drupal api pages should be helpful for you, . Hit the search box in the upper left hand corner for type ahead search to find detailed info on drupal functions. This would be a great resource for getting some more background on the functions googletorp listed. I agree with googletorp that those are a good list of functions to get started with.
It requires some effort to learn how to develop in Drupal. You might be able to find some good videos, but you will only really master this when you get your hands dirty and start coding.
How hard this will be for you, is also highly dependent on your background. A seasoned PHP developer wont find it that difficult to develop with Drupal.
There are some key points that you need to understand though.
The hook system. This is Drupal's way to do OOP. The idea is that modules or Drupal core can define and run hooks when an event happen that other modules want to react to. An example could be the creation of a user or the display of a node. To implement a hook, you simply create a function with the correct name. You need replace the "hook" in the name of the hook with your module name.
Drupal has a lot of API functions and it takes time to find them and learn how to use them. Take your time, as using the right API functions can make a big difference. Drupal has a nice API site
From your description you should take a look at these functions:
hook_user
hook_perms
hook_menu
db_query
In addition to what googletorp and mike munroe already said, check out the module developers guide on drupal.org. On the api site, check out the well documented example modules.
I have learnt drupal from beginner to advanced with CodeKarate. its one of the best website for drupal.
http://www.codekarate.com
There is a very good, easy to follow tutorial on developing JQuery/Javascript modules on Drupal. Check it out as well.
I did do some googling and searching on this site but did not find exactly what I was looking for.
I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction here. I'm an ASP.NET/SQL Server developer and would like to develop a (intially) basic social networking site (gasp). Before I start from scratch with a blank solution in ASP.NET, I'm wondering if there are any frameworks out there ASP.NET specific that would serve as a good starting point. I'm already thinking of using the Google Maps jquery control for my Google Maps integration, as well as the 'sharethis' control for my social networking website sharing integration. Captcha for human authentication... But other than that I'm not sure what I can leverage... Nothing on Google jumped out at me on my search terms.
I'm also wondering if anyone else has done something similar and could share their post mortem/war stories with me.
I'm also open to learning a new platform/language if it would mean saving time - my experience is mostly in ASP.NET, so that is what I plan on using if it makes the most sense. My initial requirements are basic and realistic - profile setup (images, information, etc.), 'group' creation, Google Map integration, calendar controls shared by groups, SMS support, discussion forums among groups, searching for groups, OpenID integration most likely, etc. I am not going to try to build the entire site and then release it, but take baby steps and release pieces of functionality at a time.
Any advice is greatly appreciated for a broad question such as this. Thanks again.
I've found DotNetOpenAuth which seems to be a nice API for handling OpenID for ASP.NET web forms. They also have an ASP.NET MVC version
I also found MS Web Platform. This looks like some good stuff. Anyone ever use it and think it would do well for this sort of app?
I found a library for DotNetNuke called ActiveSocial. It's priced right ($500) and has more than the features I need but lacks some. I wonder if anyone here has ever used AS before. Is DNN easy to extend so I can add Google Maps functionality and such? It doesn't say anywhere on snowcovered (the vendor that sells AS) if AS comes with the source. If it didn't, then I might be screwed because I wouldn't be able to integrate the functionality I want.
I went through this exercise about 15 months ago when I built a SNS for a client. Hoping to find some basic framework for Friends, Chat, Profiles etc I was pretty disappointed.
That said, in retrospect I wish rather than building one that we would have purchased a solution like Community Server. As with most projects I looked at the problem scope with beer, no strike that, ambitious goggles on and the level of work to cover all the edge cases was more than I imagined.
Tread careful my friend, tread careful.
I think this is what you're looking for. Kigg is an open source ASP.NET MVC app that would be a good starting point for what you want. Here is the url: http://www.codeplex.com/Kigg
You can also find a site that is using this here: http://dotnetshoutout.com/
At the very least you will learn the ASP.NET MVC framework which is fantastic.
While not exactly intended to be used for social networking sites, both of these frameworks can help you so you don't have to start from scratch:
DotNetNuke: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/
Umbraco: http://umbraco.org/
Also, for an out of the box solution (no code involved) you could always try this: http://www.ning.com/
Good luck!