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C. Usage

Wed, 11/07/2007 - 17:59 — admin

How Can I Use It?

Well, obviously, the menu access will be the easiest way to use it. A clever administrator might even work up a Cron job to print the information every night in order to document changes to the system. [Oh, wait a minute, I already did that.]

But there is another way to use this module. On one of my sites, I did actually document how to take over the site at such a time as I am no longer able, or willing, to do so. Before I wrote this module there was hard-coded information, for example, the modules in use, which was sadly out-of-date. With this module, I can insert a php snippet to invoke a section of the Site Documentation module to be included directly into the page.

<a name="extensions"></a>
<h2>Extensions to Drupal</h2>
<p>&quot;Out of the box,&quot; Drupal is pretty powerful, but there were things we wanted to do with it that are not core functions. Drupal has a number of extensions (known as &quot;modules&quot;) that we added to improve the site.</p>
<p>Additionally, we wanted to use the WebCalendar function to show our meeting dates and events. The Swap Shop section uses Noah's Classifieds. Both functions are also installed with Fantastico.</p>
<a name="modstatus"></a>
<?php
  print sitedoc_get_modules();
?><

It ends up looking like this (with my style sheets):