November 2005 - Development - lists.drupal.org

i want to know how to add friend web link in drupal
by prolibertine 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

i want to add some friend link,but i can not find where to do that who can tell me thanks

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Building Theme Documentation, Need Help.
by Trae McCombs 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi everyone, I'm trying to whip up some documentation that will help the average person who is new to Drupal Themeing get started. I have come up with a few questions they might have, but I was wondering if you guys might know of a few more. 1. How do I change colors in my theme? 2. How do I change the layout of my theme? 3. How can I manage inconsistancy in the different themes? 4. How do I solve browser compatibility issues? 5. What is a Theme Engine? Etc... These are just a few questions, but I would love to hear of more from you guys(and gals) as to what you feel people want to know. Also, for those of you out there who are just starting to theme, feel free to put your questions in the ring. As always you can find me on #cstheme (The CivicSpace Theme Channel) on irc.freenode.net Thanks in advance, Trae -- Trae "occy" McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/

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New mailing list: translations@drupal.org
by Dries Buytaert 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello world, a new mailing list has been created: translations(a)drupal.org. The goal of the mailing list is to discuss and coordinate everything 'translations'. The list is open to all, but I'll explicitly invite everyone who has the 'Drupal translator' checkbox checked in their user profile at drupal.org. If you want to be on the mailing list, you should accept the invitation. If you don't have the 'Drupal translator' checkbox checked in your user profile at drupal.org, you can subscribe at http://drupal.org/ mailing-lists/ or http://lists.drupal.org/. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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that admin theme (from money/ work point of view), call for arms?
by Bèr Kessels 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi there, First of all, i don't want to restart this endless debate, I just want to get those that are already behind this idea, going. :) I have just managed to set up a theme, for my sister. She is graphical designer so it had to be "nifty" or "appealing". But I refuse to get into flash and that crap. I managed to create a theme from scratch, that uses image galleries, books and a few static pages, in less then four hours. (will launch somwhere December) That is, four hours after I did the layout in inkscape and illustrator (just a drawing suite). So, that is four hours to: * make the HTML (validate) * test the CSS on various platform. (okay, ie5 (mac) is omitted, for now) * make that a theme But, off course, the admin part breaks horribly. Absolute positioning, hardcoded CSS dimensions and more of such 'niftyness' + Drupal admin don't go together, never. So why this mail? Not to tell you how quick I can theme ;) But because I have now proved, *to myself*, that I really need that admin theme. It shortens the themeing, or design of a site with over 750%. That is an afternoon vs a week! So, as of today, I really beleive that a lot of developers, themers and users can get their site online in *at least* half the time they would usually need, had they not have to bother abotu that admin part. And yes, I beleive it reduces usability, but if it obviously saves so much, I think it is worth that loss! Here is my plan: * get the amin part out of civicspace (Robert Douglas, did you not already do this?) * upgrade sections to ship as teh engine to achieve this admin-theme-magic. Anyone who wats to jump on this boat, please grab me on IRC, or by mail (ber curlything webschuur com). It should be a matter of hours to get this done. From then on we can look if more plp are interested, maybe even get all this shipped with core in a distant future. Bèr Oh and for the record: the HTML is non-table, the *complete* stylesheet (i trew out drupal.css, off course) is just under 120 lines! -- | Bèr Kessels | webschuur.com | website development | | Jabber & Google Talk: ber(a)jabber.webschuur.com | http://bler.webschuur.com | http://www.webschuur.com |

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Securing Login: MD5 password hashing using javascript
by Fabio Varesano 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Hi! I started this thread about MD5 password hashing thinking that should be useful for users. I posted to this mail-list ant to http://drupal.org/node/36793. But I received only few comments on the feature request... so I was thinking that nobody were interested on it... Instead on this mailing list (which I did't read for some time) discussion was live.. So on http://drupal.org/node/36793 there is the patch (one week cvs) which is a beginning of implementation (still not working) of a challenge-response auth. Hope someone still interested in this. Fabio

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Encouraging Collaboration
by Allie Micka 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

The 4.7 / Forms API upgrade is going to create a learning curve for many module developers, and some of the less-active module owners may not have the time and inclination to make the switch. That could be good news. A lot of these efforts are "learning experiences" that are not being maintained at all. Some of the authors can't be reached, and if you're too polite to overwrite those modules you start new. Some developers feel that it's more rewarding to have their name in lights than to collaborate on a module that's more useful and stable overall. Some people just don't play well with others. As an alternative to upgrading, some module developers could look at modules with similar functionality and try to help upgrade and enhance those. Do we really need 3 Amazon modules? 6 "mail this thing" modules? (one of these is my fault) Can the Flikr Block module be part of the Flikr Module? The list is endless. This is a big problem for new Drupal users and old timers alike. It's not clear which modules are being maintained and how well they work. A few months ago, I tried all the Amazon modules and discovered that each gave me about 60% of a solution. I finally just dropped the idea if using Amazon at all. I'm sure this sort of thing happens a lot, and we never even hear about it. I'm not saying that any of these modules deserves to die, or that they can't possibly be bringing anything new to the table, but I would offer these suggestions: - As part of the call for upgrades 4.7, recommend that module developers try to combine efforts - Encourage people to maintain TODO lists for modules so that others can understand overall goals and see if added functionality would be useful - Encourage people to archive and retire their abandoned projects from CVS. Allie Micka pajunas interactive, inc. http://www.pajunas.com scalable web hosting and open source strategies

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Help with getting CVS HEAD -> DRUPAL-4-6 [CivicSpace Theme]
by Trae McCombs 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Howdy gang, I'm trying my hardest to get what I have in CVS HEAD tagged as DRUPAL-4-6 so I can begin the 4-7 work on the CivicSpace Theme. I have tried a variety of things, but none have succeeded. I initially thought I could simply do a checkout of HEAD and then do: cvs tag -F DRUPAL-4-6 But it turns out that only works for the directories, not the actual files. Next, when working with James (walkah) on #drupal, he showed me this method to try: cvs co HEAD (of civicspace theme) cvs CO DRUPAL-4-6 (of civicspace theme) Then, on those two directories, do: rsync -azvC CSTHEME-HEAD-DIR/ CSTHEME-DRUPAL-4-6-DIR/ Then, I did a cvs commit . inside of the cstheme 4-6 dir after the rysnc. This still didn't seem to fix the problem. You can compare here: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/civicspace/?only_… http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/civicspace/?only_… Again, to try and re-state the task I need to do more clearly: I want to tag HEAD of the CSTheme to be DRUPAL-4-6 Thanks in advance, please help! Trae PS. you can find me (and others) in #cstheme on irc.freenode.net if you want to help out with this. -- Trae "occy" McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/

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requesting CVS account again
by Dave Cohen 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

A while back I requested a CVS account to contribute a new module. My request was denied for perfectly reasonable reasons. Today I tried to request again, proposing a new module. After I hit "Request CVS account", I got an error: "You already requested/have a CVS account." So.... Can I make a second request? -Dave

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Node referencing
by Sergio 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hello, folks, I'm in need of a little help... I have a module with 3 types of node. Node A, B and C. I am trying to do something like A is the main node and B & C references A. So that, when I show the node A (teaser or full node), I get some informations about nodes type B and C that makes reference to A. Also, I want to node types B and C have a reference to the parent (A). When the user inserts the data, it must be transparent to him as who the parent is (like there is a link on node type A that allows the user to create type B or C and the node creation page will not ask the user who the parent is). The only creation method shoud be like this for nodes B and C (there should not have a link on the node creation list. Just for type A) I took a look at the project module, but I couldn't get much out of it... Any help is appreciated... Thanks, - Luis Sergio Moura

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RE: [development] SCM idea
by Steven Peck 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Speaking as one of those using Windows primarily for reasons of work and games. I will note that I only care that tools are available for Windows users. CMD line or otherwise I don't care if they are GUI. If there are tons of switches, then I can make batch files with the switches preseelcted. As long as there are tools that run Windows, then I don't care. I only would like something to be selected so I can go about learning it. Whatever we pick, I plan on making my co-workers learn it so we can control our inhouse administative scripts at work and avoid learning more. As I am lazy, I plan on learning only one of them :). -sp ________________________________ From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Gordon Heydon Sent: Fri 11/18/2005 6:12 PM To: development(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] SCM idea Hi, On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 00:15 +0100, Bèr Kessels wrote: > Op vrijdag 18 november 2005 22:12, schreef Neil Drumm: > > What if we set up a parallel contributions repository using a different > > SCM which we would optionally put our modules in? If a few of the large > > contrib projects moved we could get a good idea of how well it works > > without risking productivity on core. > > > > This of course would be horribly technically complex since the cvs > > module and release scripts would have to deal with two systems in parallel. > > Gordon and others interested in Darcs: > > I am very willing to help you with work on darcs. Antyhing that needs to be > done now, in order to get some contribs into a repository? Can we use Gordons > server or should I set one up myself? I could set up the contrib repository if you want. and I am happy to have darcs running on my web site. The only thing is that the web front end sometime gets killed by the dreamhost house keeping because darcs is a little cpu hungry sometimes. > Most notably id like to see the development of the files stuff get in there, > that is a big project ,with in future (hopefully?) a few developers working > on one base. This can all be done, I am just not really up to speed on what happens on the backend for the current drupal cvs setup. But because every darcs repository is a working system then we could actually have with very little work a automated test suite that gets run after every commit. Not exactly sure if we could do this this contrib, but it could be done. Gordon.

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