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The Quotes module allows users to maintain a list of quotations that they find notable, humorous, famous, motivational, or otherwise worthy of sharing with website visitors. The quotes can be displayed in any number of administrator-defined blocks. These blocks will display either a randomly-selected quote or the most recent quote based on the restrictions of each block. Blocks can be configured to restrict to certain nodes, roles, users, or categories.

The display of quotes is themeable using two functions, theme_quotes_quote() which displays a single quote/author and theme_quotes_page() which displays a list of quotes. The default implementation of theme_quotes_quote() uses three CSS classes to allow you to control the display of quotes. The quote itself uses "quotes-quote". The author/attribution uses "quotes-author" and the citation source uses "quotes-citation".

Installation

For a new installation, copy the entire Quotes module directory to the appropriate module directory within your Drupal installation. Then log into your site, enable the quotes module on the admin/build/modules page, set permissions as desired on admin/user/access#module-quotes, and go to the admin/settings/quotes page to create and configure the quote blocks.

When upgrading from a previous version of the Quotes module, log into your site as administrative user 1, replace the existing quotes module directory with the new one, and then go to the /update.php page to check for and run any necessary upgrades for the quotes module.

If you are upgrading from a pre-4.5 version, you will need to export and re-import your existing quotes from your pre-4.5 database or upgrade to Drupal 4.6, to 4.7, and then to 5.

Permissions

The quotes module has five permissions:

administer quotes

allows users to administer the quotes module and create/configure/delete quote blocks

create quotes

allows users to create quotes (they cannot edit quotes without the 'edit own quotes' permission)

import quotes

allows users to import quotes (they cannot edit quotes without the 'edit own quotes' permission)

edit own quotes

allows users to create, edit, and delete quotes

promote quotes to block

allows users to promote their quotes so that they will appear in any defined quote blocks