September 2005 - Development - lists.drupal.org

[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] 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] Drupal and GPL3
by Steve Dondley 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Anyone have thoughts on a possible modification to GPL3 that would require web sites to release source code? See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5884172.html -- 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] param in middle of url?
by Aaron Stewart 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Hey all.. I want to do something like this: ?q=foo/1/bar where "1" in this case is a user id (or rather, I want it to be a param into my callback). Is there a facility that already exists for doing this? Thanks, -=Aaron

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[drupal-devel] export on books links
by Bèr Kessels 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, As so many people, I am again a little bit annoyed about various links under a node. In this case my client wants me to remove the export as FOO links. We use books for our static part (as discussed earlier in this ML: books make perfect static sites) of the site. But, all the export as links are clutter in that case. I have made some regexps to get these links out. But that somution is subideal. I see two solutions: rewrite the _link system completely. I have not time for this. Or introduce a permission 'export books'. Please give your comments or ideas on what route to take and what has the most chance to get in. Other options are most welcome too, off course! Bèr

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[drupal-devel] Admin theme
by Bèr Kessels 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Id like to pull this discussion out of the general usability improvement, because I feel this needs LOT of thought before it even close to ready. for me the admin theme has a few requirements: * it must be able to disable when someone feels he/she is not helped with it. * it must be overridable in a theme * it must be profilable (a forum site has a different concept of what pages are admin then a personal blog) Some ideas I came up with to tackle this admin theme issue are: * tackle this in the menu. Allow a flag/setting per menu entry 'IS_ADMIN' and 'ADMIN_SUGGESTED'. * tackle this in a blocks/sections alike interface, where sets of regexps define what pages are admin and what pages not. * tackle this in a separate admin-theme UI, where one can select a pre-defined profile (blog, forum site etc) then the profile will select for you what pages are admin and what not. I personally dislike the last item. it is not flexible enough, yet I still mention it, because it might be a starter for better ideas? Ber

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[drupal-devel] css clear use
by David Norman 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I'm trying to develop a theme with floating css elements and there are several uses of clear in misc/drupal.css that are messing up my layout. Is there a particular programmatic reason the use of clear is superordinate to themes? I seem to have been able to override it in the theme css file, but aside from it being temporarily annoying to fix, it doesn't seem like I should have to override Drupal built-in css.

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[drupal-devel] what do you call a rose?
by Karoly Negyesi 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi! Despite what Shakespeare says about the name of the rose (What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet), it's still more convinient to call it a rose, simply because (lot) more people would know what are you talking of. "free tagging" has 13,300 results while folksonomy has 1,220,000 results according to googlefight. It's not that "free tagging" is bad, it's just that we are creating another barrier. Look at taxonomy vs. categories... it's still more accessible to call it "categories" while the savvy developer know that "Drupal categories" is another name for a rose called "taxonomy". I am ready to admit that "free tagging" is not folksonomy, but again, taxonomy vs. categories. You can say that taxonomy vs. categories is the camel nose in the tent. I will disagree. Regards NK

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[drupal-devel] Fwd: [General inquiry (other)] Pinging with Drupal
by Dries Buytaert 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: simpkins.chris(a)gmail.com > Date: Fri 30 Sep 2005 22:30:57 GMT+02:00 > To: info(a)drupal.org > Reply-To: simpkins.chris(a)gmail.com, droppies(a)drupal.org > > > Chris Simpkins sent a message using the contact form at > http://drupal.org/contact: > > Hello Drupal gang, > I recently developed an application that allows blog authors to > ping blog > tracking services from their desktop. It's called Pong and I'm > trying to > find beta testers. If you would be willing to give the application > a try, > or if you would be willing to pass a message along to your users, I > would > greatly appreciate it. > > More info here: http://pongpong.org > > Instructions here: http://www.pongpong.com/quickstart.php > > I look forward to your comments. Feel free to let me know if you > have > any questions about the application. > > -Chris Simpkins > simpkins.chris(a)gmail.com -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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[drupal-devel] Getting rid of global variables
by Karoly Negyesi 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hi! global variables are hard to debug and error prone. Let's make it explicit: drupal_set($module, $key, $value = NULL, $force = FALSE) { static $storage; if ($value || $force) { $storage[$module][$key] = $value; } return $storage[$module][$key]; } drupal_get($module, $key) { return drupal_set($module, $key); } $force is useful when you want to set to NULL ie. delete a value. If we can't find a revelant module for a core global value, we can use 'system'. Regards NK

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