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title: Create a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue
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date: 2010-06-23
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excerpt: How to create a block of social media icons in Drupal.
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tags:
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- drupal-planet
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- drupal-6
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- drupal
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- views
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- nodequeue
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- oliverdavies.co.uk
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I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my
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site containing icons and links to my social media profiles -
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[Twitter](http://twitter.com/opdavies), [Facebook](http://facebook.com/opdavies)
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etc. I tried the [Follow](http://drupal.org/project/follow) module, but it
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lacked the option to add extra networks such my
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[Drupal.org](http://drupal.org/user/381388) account, and my
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[RSS feed](http://oliverdavies.co.uk/rss.xml). I started to create my own
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version, and then found
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[this Blog post](http://www.hankpalan.com/blog/drupal-themes/add-your-social-connections-drupal-icons)
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by Hank Palan.
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I created a 'Social icon' content type with the body field removed, and with
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fields for a link and image - then downloaded the favicons from the appropriate
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websites to use.
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However, instead of using a custom template (node-custom.tpl.php) file, I used
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the Views module.
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I added fields for the node titles, and the link from the node's content. Both
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of these are excluded from being displayed on the site. I then re-wrote the
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output of the Icon field to create the link using the URL, and using the node's
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title as the image's alternative text and the link's title.
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I also used the [Nodequeue](http://drupal.org/project/nodequeue) module to
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create a nodequeue and arrange the icons in the order that I wanted them to be
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displayed. Once this was added as a relationship within my View, I was able to
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use node's position in the nodequeue as the sort criteria.
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To complete the process, I used the
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[CSS Injector](http://drupal.org/project/css_injector) module to add some
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additional CSS styling to position and space out the icons.
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