November 2005 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Help with a CivicSpace Theme Layout... (Read it, you know you want to! :)
by Trae McCombs 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Ok, so let me post a wee bit of information. Please check this URL out first: http://civicspacelabs.org/home/CivicSpaceTheme This will, or should, bring you up to date on some of the terms I'm going to be using below. The CivicSpace Theme (CST) is using some new concepts in themeing. Anyway, my question currently is this. The Federation Layout looks fine on Firefox, but for some reason it isn't working in IE. Meaning, it doesn't match it's thumbnail. If you simply compare both browsers, and notice how FF looks and IE doesn't then you should see what's wrong. I can't figure out what is causing it. Someone suggested #content, however that only changes the internal body. Here is the site where I am currently working on things, and the Federation Layout is selected at present: http://demo.civicspacelabs.org/home/ Also, this may be of some use. It is the Plan of action, or guide we are trying to use for the CST: http://civicspacelabs.org/home/CivicSpaceThemePlan Please, feel free to join me on #cstheme on irc.freenode.net and discuss any of these issues. I do look forward to your help. Thanks, Trae PS. Kieran (Amazon) says I can blame him for this [and any and all further silly questions I have -- oh wait, maybe he didn't say all of that exactly. :)] -- Trae "occy" McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/

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Do I need to upgrade my database?
by Kieran Lal 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Hi, as part of the Drupal administration user experience survey we are improving the upgrade instructions for Drupal. This was listed as the 5th most difficult administration task. During interviews with administrators we learned that people want to know if they need to upgrade their database or just apply new files as in the recent security releases. I have created a page: Do I need upgrade my database? http:// drupal.org/node/37017 I was told that the changelog ( http://drupal.org/CHANGELOG.txt ) contained this information. But it is not obvious to me. How do I create an official list of which releases require a DB update? Thanks, Kieran

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Module type
by Sergio 12 Nov '05

12 Nov '05

Ok... I was in the middle of my e-mail writing something about node types multi-type node, until I hit a spot and went to the database and try to figure out what I was doing wrong... I am using Drupal 4.6.3 (and developing for it yet)... My surprise came when I was able to create some kind of node but when I was editing, I could only edit the title... So... Shouldn't it be somewhere in the docs that the node types can only have a maximum of 16 characters? Mine had 17... Too bad... But that's fixed now... Just tought I could give a heads-up to other developers. Regards

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Help with Drupal Tests
by Nimish Pachapurkar 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello, After playing with various cool features of Drupal for hours, I was very happy to find a simpletest module with a number of tests already implemented. What I would really like to do is to automate Drupal SimpleTests on my machine. It seems that the current way of running tests requires one to go through a UI, select the tests to run and then run them via a browser. Is there any way to script this up? Or is such a script already available somewhere? I don't mind writing a script myself. But any help is welcome, since I haven't yet dived deep into Drupal's way of doing things. Also, how many "core" Drupal tests are there already? When I tried running the test through the UI (using the simpletest module) I ran into a couple of issues: 1. The test module released for 4.6.0 (which is the latest release of that module) does not have any tests in it. In fact, the "tests" directory is altogether missing from the downloaded tar ball. Should I be reporting this on a different mailing list? 2. The tests I got from CVS head do not run against 4.6.3 release. There is apparently a 'drupal_get_form()' function which is newer than this release. 3. When I tried running the tests from CVS head against the Drupal CVS head, many of them failed. I am not too bothered by the failures. I understand the CVS HEAD may not always be working completely. But the PHP script is just dying when running many of the tests. I use MySQL 4.1.13, Apache 2.0.55, PHP 5.0.4, and SimpleTest 1.0.1Alpha1/2 on Fedora Core 3 Linux box. Any help or pointers on any of these issues are much appreciated. Thanks, Nimish

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Manage inconsistencies in themes
by Kieran Lal 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I am moving this thread to the developers list from the documentation list. In the administration user experience survey 37% of respondents indicated managing inconsistency of themes was difficult and 18% indicated it was very difficult. Both results were the top responses in their categories. For the purposes of this conversation let's assume inconsistencies mean: Does the theme have bugs in display? Does the theme have cross-browser problems? Do two themes I want to use put elements in different and inconsistent place on the screen? We went through the CSS is outside the scope of Drupal arguments on the documentation list, so there is no need to pursue that here. I have put together an overview of tips and techniques for managing inconsistency in themes, with help from Mav3rck and Occy in #cstheme. http://drupal.org/node/37156 I am now looking for more techniques and specific development suggestions of what we could add to Drupal in the 4.7 final release to help with administering themes. Wild ideas are welcome. Cheers, Kieran

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Re: Your mail
by owner＠packages.qa.debian.org 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

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Bug#336719: Can you reproduce this on 4.5.3-4?
by Hilko Bengen 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Florian Weimer <fw(a)deneb.enyo.de> writes: >> db_query uses sprintf to replace placeholder expressions if passed >> more than one argument and it seems to me that using %s does the >> same thing as PHP's string expansion as in 4.5.3. > > What about SQL injection? Doesn't db_query protect against it, while > PHP's string expansion doesn't? At second glance, it does seem like it: db_query performs quoting on those arguments which are then added via snprintf(). Do you have any idea how the $key parameter to sess_destroy (includes/session.inc) is generated? Cheers, -Hilko who is once again shocked how little he knows about PHP's internal magic

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Re: [drupal-devel] Polls on drupal.org
by piotr＠mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi, another attempt: anyone is against a poll like this? Q: What database do you use with drupal? A1: mysql only A2: postgresql only A3: both mysql and postgresql A4: some other (please name it in comments) -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!

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Prize Award (End of year winner)
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

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Re: New CVS accounts
by Ken Rickard 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

All- I just got a CVS account this week. You can see my profile at http://drupal.org/user/20975. I work in R&D for a large company (www.morris.com <http://www.morris.com>). A little more detail in this thread http://drupal.org/node/34421#comment-65973. Our main public project has been BlufftonToday.com, though I'm also running a Drupal-powered internal site for our sales management team, and we have several sites in development. One potential project upcoming is integrating that site with our SAP portal so that we can have single sign-on (through SAP). I applied for a CVS account so that we can start to give something back to the Drupal community. I'm not a PHP guy, so I'm simply working on a theme right now (which I staated in my application). Hope to add value to the project any way I can. - Ken Rickard agentken on Drupal agentrickard(a)gmail.com Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:07:30 -0500 From: Khalid B <kb(a)2bits.com> >>Not sure how best to handle this, but perhaps you can provide a list >>in drupal-devel and ask everyone to introduce themselves, and why they >>are interested in CVS accounts.

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