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[drupal-devel] [bug] Handle full URLs in url() and l()
by adrian 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/10888 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: bug reports Priority: normal Assigned to: Bèr Kessels Reported by: jhriggs Updated by: adrian Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/url_external_links_0.patch (824 bytes) I've updated the patch. adrian Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 16, 2004 - 17:01 : jhriggs Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/full_url.patch (1.97 KB) This little patch allows full URLs to be used for the url() and l() functions, giving modules a single interface for creating links. Currently, modules must use l() for drupal links and raw HTML for external links. This patch changes url() to handle -- basically pass through -- full URLs while still doing the proper handling of internal paths and works with clean URLs enabled or disabled. It also shortens (and hopefully simplifies) the url() code a bit. Some examples of calls that now work: <?php l('a link', 'some/path'); // same as before l('an external link', 'http://drupal.org/'); l('full with query', 'http://google.com/search?q=define:foo'); l('full with separate query', 'http://google.com/search', array(), 'q=define:foo'); // same link as above l('full with fragment', 'http://drupal.org/node/5942#comment-12374'); l('full with separate fragment', 'http://drupal.org/node/5942', array(), NULL, 'comment-12374'); // same link as above ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 30, 2004 - 13:09 : moshe weitzman +1. less HTML in code is a good thing for readability, if nothing else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 24, 2005 - 22:06 : mathias Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/external_urls.patch (838 bytes) Revisiting this issue one year later shows we're almost there. The only thing that's left is the ability to handle external urls when clean_urls is disabled. Once implemented, menu.module can happily accept external urls and not just Drupal paths, making the menu system much more attractive to end users. I'll update the menu.module docs if this patch (or an alternative solution) is accepted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 14, 2005 - 00:36 : killes(a)www.drop.org Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/external_urls_0.patch (909 bytes) Updated from Drupal root directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 14, 2005 - 02:05 : gordon +1 This is a good thing for people who can't using clean urls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2, 2005 - 08:23 : TDobes This patch seems like a good idea, but does not apply anymore. Also, shouldn't the comments for l() and url() be updated to indicate that the functions will work with both internal and external URL's? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 2, 2005 - 09:25 : asimmonds Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/external_urls_1.patch (897 bytes) The &'s had been changed to & amp; , here's a valid patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 12, 2005 - 16:57 : adrian This is a new patch against cvs that allows url() to create external links, with the side-effect that menu can now be used to make external links. Also closes http://drupal.org/node/10177 This will be even more important with the primary links menu integration. (This patch already cleans up a special case in phptemplate for that). Killes benchmarked this, and it turns out the difference is negligible. Requests per second: 1.33 [#/sec] (mean) = with patch Requests per second: 1.31 [#/sec] (mean) = without patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 12, 2005 - 16:59 : killes(a)www.drop.org I had benchmarked /node as anon user without cache. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 06:50 : Steven +1 on the idea of this patch. It allows people to use l() for external links. However, I don't like the implementation. Running that complicated regexp for every url() call is simply wasteful. 95% or more of url() calls have a fixed string as parameter and point to Drupal's own paths. I suggest we create an url_external() wrapper around url() which allows external URLs. Any path which we want to allow external URLs in can use url_external() instead. The places where we use it will not be many anyway. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 07:05 : gordon splitting into url() url_external is not a good idea. The main reason for this patch that I see is for putting external urls into the navigation menu using the menu.module, and if all goes to plan, the primary and secondary menus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 08:00 : Steven gordon: I still think this is a bit excessive. Perhaps instead of valid_url() we could use a simpler regexp !^[a-z]://!i or even strpos('://'). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 08:15 : gordon I am not says that it is or is not excessive. I was just saying that this is where it is going to be used, so creating url() and url_external() is not really an option ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 08:57 : Bèr Kessels we /do/ need an external_url() thing. The links bundle (handling weblinks and the likes) willprovide this /and/ need this. People will get all sorts of tools to do /stuff/ with external links, like add permissions, track clicks etc. depending on the modules they have and the settings. All outgoing weblinks, should somehow respect those. Patches for core are coming, though. On top of that, a external_l() finction is simple. And if people want them in primary links they can do the regexping /before/ the function, not /in/ the function. The calling code can decide whether to call l() or external_l(), instead of putting logic in l() that is unneded 95% of the times. But i hereby promise to introduce such a function tbefore the end of this week :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 09:17 : gordon The only thing I do not see in this plan is how with this work with the menu module and the navigation menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 25, 2005 - 12:04 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/url_external_links.patch (1.75 KB) What happened to the patch i uploaded ? It doesn't use a complex regexp, but uses strpos($url, '://') < 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 26, 2005 - 08:19 : Bèr Kessels Allthough this works, is clean AND does what it should do, I still am in favour of a better nitegrated solution. So please do not yet commit this, untill I upload my patch. We can then discuss what solution to take. It will not differ a big lot though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 26, 2005 - 10:39 : adrian is this the patch where you want to introduce an el() to allow for counting of external links ? That's a different patch altogether. This is primarily about stopping url() from not handling external links when there is no good reason for it to do so. Your el() has a very specific use in the weblinks api, and should probably be included with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ May 26, 2005 - 18:18 : Bèr Kessels Yes, that el() But let me explain why i am anxious for my solution: el(), by default will not do much, in fact it will just be an URL()-clone but one that allows outgoing links. But it has a hook-caller. Again: by default it does nothing much, for there will not be any hooks around in core. It will allow, for example, weblinks, to track clicks, or to look up a permission and allow or disallow users to follow a link. Now, the whole issue, IMO is, that we should *not* provide two ways for handling external URLS, but rather a single one, that is weblink-safe. If we would introduce URL() with outgoing links-capabilities, we can no longer track any outgoing URLs trough them. We will then have two ways for handling outgoing URLs, resulting in inconsistencies, and confused users. (hey, my anonymous users can follow link foo, while i have "follow outgig links" permission disabled for them). (BTW weblink will soon be renamed into links, just for reference)

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[drupal-devel] [task] Additional configurability of system paths in settings.php file.
by adrian 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25720 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: adrian Reported by: adrian Updated by: adrian Status: patch Clutter ? This is a few lines in system_listing. It has nothing to do with settings.php other than adding another global variable that can be set there. If someone has deep enough access to the system to modify global variables in drupal (oh, like say $user->uid) , you have far more to worry about than them seeing extra modules. Did you mean to perhaps comment on http://drupal.org/node/25745 ? adrian Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 01:50 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs.patch (2.16 KB) This patch allows for additional 'system' directories to be searched for modules/themes/engines etc. You do this by adding the following into settings.php <?php $system_dirs = array( 'contributions'); ?> This would allow you to have all of contrib checked out alongside drupal core. We use this extensively in Bryght's hosting platform, to allow us to add sets of modules to sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the individual module->site links. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 04:37 : adrian Set to patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 04:49 : adrian eh. damnit. there was an error in that patch (system_dirs needs to be global in the bootstrap function). I'll roll another one later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 12:56 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs_0.patch (2.73 KB) Here's a fixed patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 16:10 : basicmagic hi adrian and thanks- i am having a little trouble understanding this part of what you wrote: > to allow us to add sets of modules to > sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the > individual module->site links. i am running drupal 4.6.1 with multisites. how / why would this new aspect be important for me? i especially don't understand what you're talking about as far as managing symlinks for the individual module->site links. i am using symlinks at the root of my individual domains httpdocs directories- meaning that in the case of domain xyz.com- the httpdocs dir for xyz.com is a symlink to drupal4.6.1install/sites/www.xyz.com. everythign works great- and of course individual modules, themes, etc. in the sites dir for each domain overrides anything in the drupal4.6.1install core dirs. could you please advise as to how and why your mod could be used in a multisite environment? it seems exciting- i would just like to understand its potential application and benefits and use a little better... vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 29, 2005 - 19:44 : adrian It's most useful for mass hosting installs. Where you have hundreds of sites installed on a server. Simple enough example. Say you have 2 types of sites. 'Simple' and 'Everything' installs. With this code you could have a 'simple' and an 'everything' directory, containing all the modules and themes for that specific install profile. And instead of having to manually link the modules/ theme directories for each of the individual modules you want to associate with each of the sites, you can just set it up in their config file. It allows you to more easily manage the visibility of modules that sites have. Modules and or themes that are specifically installed / linked in the sites/mysite.com directory, will still override modules found in the additional directories. At Bryght we set up layers for all sites of the same type (install profile), all sites sold by a person (ie: a reseller, who might want to install themes that all his clients can use) and then an additional set of modules for interacting with the hosting system if you are a bryght reseller. After all that, if there is a module installed specially for the site (ie in sites/mydomain.com/module/modulename) it will still take precedence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 30, 2005 - 10:19 : Bèr Kessels Allthough I really need something like this too, I have my doubts with the overall use of this for Drupal. Here is what I do: I have a settings.php, patched in /home/username/settings.php (/home/username is symlinked as drupalroot/sites/sitename) that one includes the settings.php in drupalroot/sites/default/ This is not very safe. for anyone could remove the include line from his private settings,php. So what about this: drupalroot/sites/default/settings.php is *always* called, drupalroot/sites/ That way we do not add clutter for all the normal drupal users, only to server the very few providers. After all we are not a bryght/webschuur codebase maintaining community, but a community of CMS developers.

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[drupal-devel] [task] Translatable output for taxonomy.module
by flevour 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/26053 Project: Drupal Version: 4.6.2 Component: taxonomy.module Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: flevour Reported by: flevour Updated by: flevour Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/taxonomy_module_translatable_output.patch (1.52 KB) This patch adds t() function calls so that vocabulary name and terms can be translated through the localization interface. flevour

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[drupal-devel] [task] Additional configurability of system paths in settings.php file.
by Bèr Kessels 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25720 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: adrian Reported by: adrian Updated by: Bèr Kessels Status: patch Allthough I really need something like this too, I have my doubts with the overall use of this for Drupal. Here is what I do: I have a settings.php, patched in /home/username/settings.php (/home/username is symlinked as drupalroot/sites/sitename) that one includes the settings.php in drupalroot/sites/default/ This is not very safe. for anyone could remove the include line from his private settings,php. So what about this: drupalroot/sites/default/settings.php is *always* called, drupalroot/sites/ That way we do not add clutter for all the normal drupal users, only to server the very few providers. After all we are not a bryght/webschuur codebase maintaining community, but a community of CMS developers. Bèr Kessels Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 00:50 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs.patch (2.16 KB) This patch allows for additional 'system' directories to be searched for modules/themes/engines etc. You do this by adding the following into settings.php <?php $system_dirs = array( 'contributions'); ?> This would allow you to have all of contrib checked out alongside drupal core. We use this extensively in Bryght's hosting platform, to allow us to add sets of modules to sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the individual module->site links. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 03:37 : adrian Set to patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 03:49 : adrian eh. damnit. there was an error in that patch (system_dirs needs to be global in the bootstrap function). I'll roll another one later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 11:56 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs_0.patch (2.73 KB) Here's a fixed patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 15:10 : basicmagic hi adrian and thanks- i am having a little trouble understanding this part of what you wrote: > to allow us to add sets of modules to > sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the > individual module->site links. i am running drupal 4.6.1 with multisites. how / why would this new aspect be important for me? i especially don't understand what you're talking about as far as managing symlinks for the individual module->site links. i am using symlinks at the root of my individual domains httpdocs directories- meaning that in the case of domain xyz.com- the httpdocs dir for xyz.com is a symlink to drupal4.6.1install/sites/www.xyz.com. everythign works great- and of course individual modules, themes, etc. in the sites dir for each domain overrides anything in the drupal4.6.1install core dirs. could you please advise as to how and why your mod could be used in a multisite environment? it seems exciting- i would just like to understand its potential application and benefits and use a little better... vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 29, 2005 - 18:44 : adrian It's most useful for mass hosting installs. Where you have hundreds of sites installed on a server. Simple enough example. Say you have 2 types of sites. 'Simple' and 'Everything' installs. With this code you could have a 'simple' and an 'everything' directory, containing all the modules and themes for that specific install profile. And instead of having to manually link the modules/ theme directories for each of the individual modules you want to associate with each of the sites, you can just set it up in their config file. It allows you to more easily manage the visibility of modules that sites have. Modules and or themes that are specifically installed / linked in the sites/mysite.com directory, will still override modules found in the additional directories. At Bryght we set up layers for all sites of the same type (install profile), all sites sold by a person (ie: a reseller, who might want to install themes that all his clients can use) and then an additional set of modules for interacting with the hosting system if you are a bryght reseller. After all that, if there is a module installed specially for the site (ie in sites/mydomain.com/module/modulename) it will still take precedence.

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[drupal-devel] Release critical bugs for June 30, 2005
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

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[drupal-devel] [bug] "Only variables can be passed by reference" to array_pop()
by danielc 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/26034 Project: Drupal Version: 4.6.2 Component: base system Category: bug reports Priority: critical Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: danielc Updated by: danielc Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/array_pop.diff (1.9 KB) A client of mine just upgraded to the latest snapshot of PHP 5.0.5-dev and started getting errors when array_pop() is called: Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in c:\drupal\modules\system.module on line 25 This patch fixes the problem by assigning the value to a variable before passing it to array_pop(). Thanks. danielc

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[drupal-devel] Drupal 4.6.2 / 4.5.4 (security alert)
by Dries Buytaert 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

The Drupal project has released version 4.6.2 of its open-source content management platform. Drupal 4.6.2 is a maintenance release that provides corrections of problems reported using the bug tracking system. Drupal 4.6.2 also fixes two security vulnerabilities: one related to the use of Drupal's input filters and one in the third- party XML-RPC library that Drupal ships with. Upgrading your existing Drupal sites is highly recommended. As the same bugs are also present in the Drupal 4.5 series, Drupal 4.5.4 is released as well. For more information about this release or the security vulnerabilities, please consult the release announcement at http:// drupal.org/drupal-4.6.2. Kudos to all Drupal contributors who helped to get these releases out, -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Consultants/developers wanted
by Boris Mann 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi all: I justed wanted to say there is an incredible push around Drupal right now. There are tons of people wanting citizen journalism sites, community sites, and other solutions that Drupal is uniquely qualified for. Bryght is getting a lot of (unsolicited) RFPs, and we simply don't have the time or the resources to commit to them: we are focusing on offering Drupal as a hosted service, both for end users and resellers. If it was purely a matter of development, I know that I could farm out work to many of the talented people on this list, but these large projects require significant amounts of project management and consulting. I would love to have these projects continue to flow through the Drupal community, as it means many improvements and/or new functionality to Drupal's codebase. Please contact me if you believe your company would be interested in taking on large scale projects. -- Boris Mann Bryght, Community Content Hosting http://www.bryght.com (778) 896-2747 / skype: borismann

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[drupal-devel] [task] Additional configurability of system paths in settings.php file.
by adrian 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/25720 Project: Drupal Version: cvs Component: base system Category: tasks Priority: normal Assigned to: adrian Reported by: adrian Updated by: adrian Status: patch It's most useful for mass hosting installs. Where you have hundreds of sites installed on a server. Simple enough example. Say you have 2 types of sites. 'Simple' and 'Everything' installs. With this code you could have a 'simple' and an 'everything' directory, containing all the modules and themes for that specific install profile. And instead of having to manually link the modules/ theme directories for each of the individual modules you want to associate with each of the sites, you can just set it up in their config file. It allows you to more easily manage the visibility of modules that sites have. Modules and or themes that are specifically installed / linked in the sites/mysite.com directory, will still override modules found in the additional directories. At Bryght we set up layers for all sites of the same type (install profile), all sites sold by a person (ie: a reseller, who might want to install themes that all his clients can use) and then an additional set of modules for interacting with the hosting system if you are a bryght reseller. After all that, if there is a module installed specially for the site (ie in sites/mydomain.com/module/modulename) it will still take precedence. adrian Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 01:50 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs.patch (2.16 KB) This patch allows for additional 'system' directories to be searched for modules/themes/engines etc. You do this by adding the following into settings.php <?php $system_dirs = array( 'contributions'); ?> This would allow you to have all of contrib checked out alongside drupal core. We use this extensively in Bryght's hosting platform, to allow us to add sets of modules to sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the individual module->site links. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 04:37 : adrian Set to patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 04:49 : adrian eh. damnit. there was an error in that patch (system_dirs needs to be global in the bootstrap function). I'll roll another one later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 12:56 : adrian Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/systemdirs_0.patch (2.73 KB) Here's a fixed patch. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ June 25, 2005 - 16:10 : basicmagic hi adrian and thanks- i am having a little trouble understanding this part of what you wrote: > to allow us to add sets of modules to > sites, without having to manage thousands of symlinks for each of the > individual module->site links. i am running drupal 4.6.1 with multisites. how / why would this new aspect be important for me? i especially don't understand what you're talking about as far as managing symlinks for the individual module->site links. i am using symlinks at the root of my individual domains httpdocs directories- meaning that in the case of domain xyz.com- the httpdocs dir for xyz.com is a symlink to drupal4.6.1install/sites/www.xyz.com. everythign works great- and of course individual modules, themes, etc. in the sites dir for each domain overrides anything in the drupal4.6.1install core dirs. could you please advise as to how and why your mod could be used in a multisite environment? it seems exciting- i would just like to understand its potential application and benefits and use a little better... vincent

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[drupal-devel] Problems with drupal.org
by Gordon Heydon 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hello, I just got the following error when trying to connect to drupal.org Fatal error: Got error 28 from table handler query: SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm) FROM role r INNER JOIN permission p ON p.rid = r.rid INNER JOIN users_roles ur ON ur.rid = r.rid WHERE ur.uid = 959 in /home/www/drupal.org/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 73 I just want to make sure that someone is looking at it, and what exactly the problem is. Gordon.

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