Highlight Your Best Content Using the Radioactivity Module
This video shows how to use the Radioactivity modules and Views 6.x-2.x to create a listing of the best content on a site.
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*.local
Nice presentation, thanks!
I have a question about 6d.local, is there a way to easily (i.e. without configuring bind) set up anything.local so that it maps to /var/www/anything? I've been looking around for this but couldn't find an easy solution anywhere.
depends on your operating system
This depends on your operating system but it should be as easy as editing your "/etc/hosts" file.
This wikipedia entry explains it quite well.
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GVS - Drupal Consultants
I've been looking for exactly
I've been looking for exactly this kind of system, with just one small twist: I want different "scales" of decay concurrently. That is to say, I want a stream of nodes that are the most radioactive this month, another stream that are most radioactive this week, and so on... That means that I would need a row of radioactivity per node per scale, and they would decay at independent half-lifes.
How much of a module hack do you think I would need to make?
Stupid me, you can easily do
Stupid me, you can easily do this with multiple radioactivity profiles.
exactly
I probably should have mentioned that in the tutorial, but yes, to do something like that you just need multiple radioactivity profiles.
Enjoy!
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GVS - Drupal Consultants
Great stuff Gregg
Great stuff Gregg
All the best.
Shay.
hosts
I know about /etc/hosts, but I wasn't clear enough, I meant .local, to /var/www/ - I was hoping there's a lazy solution with a couple of steps that maps anything.local to /var/www/anything and anything2.local to /var/www/anything2 and wuqehwieuh.local to /var/www/wuqehwieuh...
forwarding all requests
I see what you're saying now!
There is a great article by Kevin Bridges Apache configuration for devs and the comments of it have some good ideas on this topic. There is also Apache 2 On Ubuntu guide on Drupal.org - look at the "Sub Domain Setup" area in particular.
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GVS - Drupal Consultants
I had been completely unaware
I had been completely unaware of the Radioactivity module - thanks for the screencast! I set up Radioactivity on my own site that's already using node statistics, and it will interesting to see how it shakes out once I get some more node views. Because my site is fairly low-traffic, I added one additional sort criteria after 'node energy descending': 'Node statistics: Total views descending'; that way it will still fall back on nodes which have gotten the most views over the entire lifetime of the site.
that's a great additional configuration
Yeah, that's a great idea to do the sort on two characteristics so that it works to backfill with another sort when there isn't enough radioactivity data.
Thanks for the tip!
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GVS - Drupal Consultants
This is a good idea. Nice
This is a good idea. Nice work!
the idea you have mentioned
the idea you have mentioned really worked out for me.
Raymond H price
Very cool!
Radioactivity is very cool, thanks for the presentation. Now I want to make everything radioactive!
soft
The new software behaves great , it has a great user friendly interface and very easy to use, I could go as far as to say that it rivals the Drupal content management system software.