October 2005 - Development - lists.drupal.org

[drupal-devel] css.module : css editing on node creation
by Fabio Varesano 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hi! I use drupal to create websites with lot of pages (as nodes) using xhtml to organize contents. For my html pages I always use css to style. It would be really useful for me a css.module wich could: add a text area into node creation page use the text inserted to create a STYLE entry into head zone of the drupal rendered page links a node to another node's style text (multiple nodes can use the same style) Then user with enought rights could use complex xhtml/css to create complex styled pages. What do you guys think about this?? Does anyone think this could be useful?? Is there some other module for this??? I think that this should be really useful and I can start write a module for this if others think this is useful. Bye! Fabio

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[drupal-devel] permissions page
by Karoly Negyesi 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Role names take too much place and vertical text is only in CSS3 (and in IE for long) So, I thought of diagonal text, think one table cell per letter. There are javascripts for this out there, it would be very easy to do in PHP. Only one (or few?) modules would be displayed at once. To make the presumable huge table fit, let's make it unthemed with just a link to 'admin' to save space. Color the table like the chess board. Maybe 3 x 3 checkboxes would be one color. Regards NK

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[drupal-devel] interface levels
by Adrian Rossouw 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One of the things that the forms api allows us to achieve, is the capability of filtering out elements based on whatever you want. Me and vlado felt that this would be a good way to improve usability. An example would be introducing an 'expert mode', which would expand the verbosity of the config settings. This is different from implementing an 'advanced' tab in that the elements would still be in the most logical locations, they would just not be displayed unless you are in expert mode. - -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDSle/gegMqdGlkasRAqaeAJ9+vQbnqm+jhs73Y+P9+r3VPoXhpQCfRfDA FOF+ONwoCaNGepC2F7MPesg= =Ub/S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[drupal-devel] another small usability issue
by Bèr Kessels 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

I think we all agree that scattered settings are quite a problem (often) in Drupal. Today I needed to explain a client where he could change the settings for contact forms: in admin >> settings >> contact AND in admin >> contact This should somehow be merged, yet I dont really know how. I would vote for moving it all under admin >> settings >> contact Ber

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[drupal-devel] Rewriting taxonomy_access module
by Steve Dondley 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

I'm thinking about pitching in to help rewrite taxonomy_access module. That module has been plagued with problems from the start and it appears to be on the verge of going under. What were some of the basic mistakes this module made? What guidance would you offer to building a faster, sleeker solution. -- Dondley Communications http://www.dondleycommunications.com Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://www.communicateordie.com

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[drupal-devel] FYI: Quick test of Drupal 4.6.3 with MySQL 5.0.13
by Syscrusher 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Good evening! This is just an FYI for anyone who is interested. A couple of days ago, the folks at MySQL announced version 5.0.13, the first "release candidate" (gamma test version) of the new MySQL 5 database. It happens that I'm building a new server in a non-production setting and had a strong need (for reasons not related to Drupal) to provide one of our developers with a test bed for MySQL 5. I also happened to have an existing, fairly minimalist (i.e., few add-on modules) Drupal 4.6.3 site that was up and running under MySQL 4.1.x. So while giving the requesting developer what he needed, I grabbed the opportunity for a bit of Drupal testing of my own. I upgraded MySQL from 4.1.x to 5.0.13, recompiled PHP 5.x against the new MySQL libs (using the ./config.nice script from the previous build), and ran Drupal. I can't claim to have exhaustively tested it, by any means, but I thought it worth mentioning that at least superficially, all appears to be in order. I have to point out that I am *not* using multilingual character sets, and that is one area where MySQL 5.0 seems to differ from 4.1, so that bears further testing. But, it appears that any problems with MySQL 5.0 are likely to be small fixes rather than system-crushing roadblocks. I moved around the admin and user menus, trying out all functions I could, and so far no problems. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Courtney Drupal user name: "syscrusher" http://drupal.org/user/9184 scott at 4th dot com Drupal projects: http://drupal.org/project/user/9184 Sandbox: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/syscrusher

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[drupal-devel] Less
by Dries Buytaert 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Interesting read: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/ less_as_a_competitive_advantage_my_10_minutes_at_web_20.php -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Form API
by Dries Buytaert 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

The infamous form API patch has been committed. Great work guys! However, we aren't there yet: + The contact.module was broken; a new patch for contact.module is needed. + Module upgrade instruction are needed. + The most important modules need to be updated ASAP. + The most important patches need to be updated ASAP. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Oracle acquires InnoBase, makers of InnoDB engine for MySQL
by Khalid B 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

This is quite a surprise. MySQL transactions, and referential integrity all relied on InnoDB. Now there are doubts if that will continue. It it true that the InnoDB code is GPL, but the brains behind it will now belong to Oracle. Unless someone (MySQL?) is able to rally a community around GPL InnoDB, there may be serious implications for the future. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/07/2021211&tid=221

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[drupal-devel] using custom blocks in i18n
by Joe Murray 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

For others using the i18n module, in order to get some French/English bilingual static content into blocks, Mike Gifford and I used the following approach: <?php if ( i18n_get_lang()=='fr' ) then { ?> // french text <?php } else { ?> // english text <?php } ?> Joe Murray, PhD President, JMA Consulting 57 Grandview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4K 1J1 416.466.1281, 416.466.1277 (f) joe.murray(a)jmaconsulting.biz

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