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Part of the core Drupal API (originally part of the forms API, but also used for rendering structured content that isn't a form) is the drupal_render function.

Note: There are way too many modules that do "fancy jquery effects in Views". It's like the textbook case of module duplication. I have therefore decided to deprecate this module in favor of Views Slideshow, which has an order of magnitude more users and a much more active maintainer. I will continue to support bug fixes on the current release, but there will be no new feature development and no Drupal 7 version. All users are recommended to migrate to Views Slideshow, either now or as part of Drupal 7 migrations.

The Views Rotator module provides a Views style plugin to display items by rotating through the items displaying one at a time. The cycling of images happens via JavaScript (jQuery) with a number of configurable options.

SQL Cron is a Drupal module that allows you to create and manage a set of SQL statements that are executed during cron runs.

Handlers are objects that are called to "handle" various pieces of an API in a swappable manner.

Handlers implement pluggable subsystems in a flexible, extensible manner.

Handlers solve the "many to one" type of extensibility, just has hooks solve the "one to many" sort.

Handlers are easily unit-testable.

Handlers require PHP 5.2.

Handlers will be demoed at DrupalCon Szeged.

This small module provides a simple API and should not be installed unless required by another module, or for your personal development.

Features

• Route XMLHttpRequests to mapped callbacks
• Option to gzip output
• Display status and error messages based on request status
• Message display duration
• Output messages to specific elements, or the default of #ac-messages
• Response headers
• Ability to alter responses via hook_js_response_alter()
• Lock arbitrary requests to a set duration

Examples

This example utilizes AC.request() to delete a piece of content.
The URI of example.com/js/example/delete will call example_js_delete().

       // example.js      
       AC.request('example', 'delete', { 'content_id' : 1 }, function(response){
          // AC.checkResponse() will return TRUE when the response was a success, and also manages 
          // functionality such as displaying messages.
          if (AC.checkResponse(response)){
            $('#content-1').remove();
          }
       });  


// example.module
function example_js_delete(&$state, $args) {
// Lock the user for 10 seconds regardless of success, to prevent arbitrary requests
$state['lock'] = 10;

The colophon module shows a list of links for all enabled modules as well as themes used in your Drupal installation to a site visitor when they click on an icon on your page.