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Ran across it when following a link in Slashdot on wireless network security!

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Note: I am not affiliated with them in anyway, just liked the look and feel, and thought it may be interesting to other geeks here to know of.

I am excited to annouce the macrotags.module, which allows users to create dynamic content with minimal semantics.

Macrotags essentially work by mapping user-friendly syntax to PHP functions. Here is what a macrotag looks like:

[time|now]

When the above macrotag is rendered, it displays the current time. Whenever the page is viewed again, the time is always updated. Likewise, you can replace the 'now' component of the macro with just
about any textual datetime description you can think of. Here are
some examples:

[time|next Thursday]
[time|1 month ago]
[time|yesterday]

When any of the above macros are viewed, they will display the
actual times based on the textual descriptions.

There are several pre-built macros (such as printer friendly pages and link creation) that come with this module, and programmers can add as many macros as they want. You can use the same macro over and over again within your content and you can even have unlimited nesting of macros. Finally, macros can be tied to roles to control who can execute a given set of them.

The module is located on the projects page.

Firstly, I would like to thank the Drupal team for making Drupal. This software is by far one of the best pieces of work I have ever used. Also, I would like to thank Dries for being civil to a noobie like me. :)

Now, I have reviewed Drupal on my site Tusk Web and would like to alert the community. Any feedback on this review, or indeed on any part of my site would be great!

Some of the main points covered in the review include the clean URL's and how they are a brilliant feature, the flexibility of the navigation system and how this helps people create easily navigated sites and the clean code which is a massive aid for developers.