OSCMS Talk

This is an outline of the presentation developed by Jacob Singh and presented by Gregory Heller (both from CivicActions) at the OSCMS (Open Source CMS) conference in March 2007.

CiviCRM Profiles as stand along forms integrated into your drupal site
- Example of Algore.org signup profile.
  - http://www.algore.org
- Montana Conservation Voters: Two sites running on one civicrm DB, based on where users signup, they are added into a group.
  - http://www.mtvoters.org
  - http://www.mtvotersedfund.org

Drupal Modules using civicrm
- CiviThermometer (algore.org)
  - http://algore-qa.civicactions.net/ (al:gore)

- Civicm Count Block (nodrm) Displays count of contacts in a group, allows for granularity settings
  - nodrm-dev.civicactions.net
- Civicrm Acive User (nodrm) : adds users to a group on first signin
  - http://drupal.org/project/civicrm_activeuse
Check out the drupal module page for more examples. (where is this page)

CiviCRM API implementations
- CiviCRM's API allows you to CRUD most entities in CiviCRM.
- Example: Creative Commons License Juristriction report
  - Link: http://cci.civicactions.net/civicrm/processmatrixreport (oscms:oscms)

CiviCRM Hooks
- CiviCRM fires hooks before and after its DB operations
- http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+hook+specification - Go through the various $op arguments and the $objectName arguments
- Example: Creative Commons - Has a hook that fires when an Organization is updated. If the organization is tagged with a certain tag, then our hook finds out if there is a contact who is related to the organization as a CC staff member. If so, the staff member receives an email notifying them that the record has been modified.
- Example: user_referrer module, developed for http://hightowerdownloads.com.   Stores the user's referring domain in the contact source field in civicrm