By Nitin on March 3, 2010
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) is the successor project for FeedAPI ImageGrabber to support the Feeds module. FIG parses the Item URL of each feed-item, downloads the appropriate image from the post and maps it to an image field in the node created by Feeds module for that feed-item. [Google Reader (with thumbnails) can be imitated [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, feeds, imagegrabber, module
By Nitin on February 20, 2010
I often come across this question from my friends and peers and most of the time I deflect it by saying “it lets you create your website easily, why don’t you look up on Wikipedia?”. Few days ago, one of my friends pointed me that most of the articles start with “Drupal is a Content Management [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, mysql, php
By Nitin on October 3, 2009
Recently, while working on my project FeedAPI ImageGrabber I came across the issue where I had to select HTML elements by a given css class. The HTML element can have a single CSS class: <div class="foo"></div> or multiple CSS classes associated with it. <div class="foo exp tar"></div> Now if you want to select the HTML [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged css, Drupal, php, xpath
By Nitin on September 20, 2009
Updates: Feeds Image Grabber has been released to support the new Feeds module. (3 march 2010) Tutorial for Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) published. (6 march 2010) Demonstration Website is available here. (6 march 2010) I get a lot of requests for this, so here is a tutorial explaining the 3 W’s (What, Why and How) [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Drupal, feedapi, imagegrabber, module, tutorial
By Nitin on September 16, 2009
PayPal is used by a lot of online merchants to accept payments for the products they sell online. PayPal can also be used to accept donations for your technical open source projects or charity organization. Recently, I opened an account with PayPal to accept payments from my clients who reside outside India. Before I started, [...]
Posted in Nitin's Blog | Tagged Drupal, paypal
By Nitin on April 5, 2009
Feeds Image Grabber (FIG) was released on 3rd March 2010, to support the Feeds module. Introduction FeedAPI Imagegrabber is a add-on module for FeedAPI. It consists of a parser which visits the original URL of a new feed item, and retrieves the main image from the post. Once the main image has been retrieved, it [...]
Posted in Drupal, Projects | Tagged Drupal, Intern, module, php