Josh Huckabee

In this last episode of getting started with Exhibit and Drupal, we'll embellish the Exhibit we created in part 2 by adding some additional views, exploring the use of lenses and expressions, and adding another facet. Our final Exhibit can be seen here.

Adding Views to your Exhibit

So the first thing we'll do is add several additional views to our Exhibit. The tabular view is nice and provides some great functionality, but Exhibit provides some additional views that are great at visually enhancing the way your data is displayed. We'll start by adding a calendar view. To do this you'll need the following code pasted within your viewPanel:

<div ex:role="view"
      ex:viewClass="Calendar"
      ex:label="Calendar"
      ex:start=".field_date_value"
      ex:end=".field_date_value2"
      ex:eventLabel=".title"
      ex:formats="date { mode: short; 
                         show: date-time; 
                         template: 'MM/dd/yyyy' } 
                  item { title: expression(.title) }"></div>

Ok, now that we know a bit about Exhibit and how Drupal can help us create Exhibits, let's start by getting our Drupal data in Exhibit JSON format.

Setup

The setup I'm using for this tutorial includes a Drupal 6 installation with the following modules enabled: Exhibit, Views 2, CCK, Date, Location, and GMap. I'm only using CCK, Date, Location and GMap to create a custom Event node type with date and location fields. I've also added taxonomies to the Event node type for event type and tags. You can create your own node type and add whatever fields you would like. I'm using this setup to demonstrate the broadest possible uses of Exhibit. With this Event node type, we'll be able to create an Exhibit complete with Calendar, Timeline, Map, and Interactive Table displays. You can visit my playground here: http://d6demo.joshhuckabee.com

Create Exhibit JSON from your Views

In this multi-part tutorial I will show you how to create interactive Exhibit displays of you Drupal data using the Views, CCK, and Exhibit modules. I'll start with a brief overview of Exhibit and how it works, then move on to explain how to get your Drupal data in a format that Exhibit can use, and finally, I'll show you how to setup the Exhibit. If you're already familiar with how Exhibit works, you'll probably want to wait for part two of this series.

What is Exhibit?

This really shouldn't have been that hard, but it took quite a bit of searching and playing around to finally get this to work.

I started at PHP's IMAP web page which informed me that the first thing I needed to do was grab the c-client libraries and compile it. You can find these here: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/.


cd /SourceCache
curl -O ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/c-client.tar.Z
tar -xzvf c-client.tar.Z
cd imap-2007a
sudo make oxp
sudo mkdir /usr/local/imap-2007h/lib
sudo mkdir /usr/local/imap-2007h/include
cp imap-2007a/*.h /usr/local/imap-2007a/include
cp imap-2007a/*.c /usr/local/imap-2007a/lib
cp c-client.a /usr/local/imap-2007a/lib/libc-client.a


When Apple built Leopard they forgot to include the MySQL header files, but were kind enough to offer them up for download at http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/other/. Download the MySQL binaries, untar and follow the instructions in the README. Its very simple.