First contrib module

MinneBar last weekend was great (but I'll save the details for a belated wrap-up post).

Well it's about time. Today I uploaded my first real contribution to the Drupal project. I've been working with drupal seriously for about six or seven months now. I have to say finally getting my hands on Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk and Matt Westgate really helped speed up the process (and I only got the book last week).

In the issue queue node 16437 has a module which allows you to insert Terms & Conditions as part of the checkout process (with the E-Commerce module). We've been using drupal's ecommerce over at work to handle event registration since I started in August of last year. While I would say the first stab was clunky (and left quite a bit of usability to be desired) version two is shaping up quite nicely. I'm looking forward to feedback as the registrations come rolling in.

I've attached the module, in case someone would find such a thing useful (versions for both 4.7 and 5.x). All in all it's pretty basic: a settings screen for the site admin where they can choose whether or not to display terms during checkout, and if so and html area to specify the terms.

Hopefully, soon, I'll be inspired with module ideas that will require me applying for a CVS account...