The Week in Drupal: September 12, 2014

Wayne Eaker

A review of interesting modules, articles and other Drupal news of the last week: September 5 - 12, 2014.

Great Posts and Tutorials

Unravelling the Drupal 8 Plugin System

Decoupling Drupal

Simple password grants with OAuth 2.0 and Drupal

How To Do A Combined Name Search in Views

Building a #Drupal Module for Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)

Interesting New Modules

Commerce Pricelist - Set prices on products from several pricelists. Pricelists can be assigned per role and per user. Price list rows can apply based on quantity or order date.

Apachesolr display - Allows you to output search results as node display.

GDrive File - A file widget using FileField Sources module for upload files to Google Drive.

Views Wildcard Search - Allows wildcard searches in Views text fields.

Rules FTP - Integrates FTP commands into Drupal via the Rules module allowing events to trigger the sending of files to an FTP server.

Automatically generated entity classes per bundle for better IDE integration - Enables autocomplete of field names in Drupal 8, similar to Wrappers Delight in Drupal 7.

Custom Error Alternate for Authenticated - Gives administrators the ability to set an alternate custom error message for 403 access denied response when a user is logged in. That is, the default 403 access denied can encourage people to log in.

Inline Entity Display - Allows you display referenced entities in the content of a parent entity. Kind of like Node Embed, but works with any entity.

Zendesk API - Integrate Drupal with tickets in the Zendesk system.

Droogle Hangout - Start a Google Hangout with any user in your Drupal site right from within your site.

SQL user sync - Allows you to sync the user table of two Drupal sites.