January 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Forms API #id questions
by Robert Douglass 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I'm in the habit of giving nearly every form element an #id because I've been doing lots of AJAX stuff and always have the need to grab things in the DOM. Can someone comment on this bit of instruction: http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/file/contributions/docs/developer/topics/for… Is the use of #id discouraged? Why is there no #id property allowed on hidden form elements? Thanks Robert

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Forms API Documentation . . .
by Jason Flatt 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Last Monday I started working on an internal site that will consist primarily of web forms. There is a great potential of literally a hundred or more forms (some of them are quite complex), but I am really just setting my sites on a core of 10-20 forms for now. For this project, I chose to just start with the 4.7 beta and the new Forms API, as I thought it would be very counter-productive to learn the 4.6 API and then upgrade in a month or two to the 4.7 API. I am not new to using and administering Drupal, but I am new to coding to it and am trying to go through the documentation for the Forms API, but I feel like either there is not enough, or I am not finding it. What I have found and gone through so far is 1) Forms API Outline [0], which doesn't have any real meat, AFAICT. 2) Forms API Quickstart Guide [1], which is a great starter guide, thanks webchick. (BTW, where is this document: "For more detailed information, also see the developer documentation [link coming soon]"? It may be the next document I'm looking for.) 3) Most of what is in Upgrading to forms API [2], except the actual upgrading parts, since I am starting from scratch in 4.7. 4) And then there is Form generation [3] and Forms API Reference [4], which are really only useful if I already have a clue and I'm looking for the details about a specific function or attribute. So, the question is, is there anymore that I have not located that will help me move to the next level? Also, I am not yet at the point where I need it, but I will be soon looking for database integration, both reading and writing, possibly with a different database that the main site will be using. Is that something that is part of the Forms API, or is it a separate API? Thanks. [0] http://drupal.org/node/37775 [1] http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/file/contributions/docs/developer/topics/for… [2] http://drupal.org/node/33338 [3] http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/group/form [4] http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/file/contributions/docs/developer/topics/for… -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadae.net/ jason(a)oadae.net

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create a star rater using css
by Adrian Rossouw 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2005/08/24/creating-a-star- rater-using-css/ http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2006/01/09/css-star-rating-part- deux/ I found this tutorial via digg. I thought it might be useful to the people working on the voting API etc. Also, found this interesting point in the comments : "The 4-star system is superior to the 5-star system in every way. Discuss!" According to my economics teacher, 4 star (or any even number) is better than 5 star because people will often decide upon the median grade if they aren't shure if they like something or not. using even numbers forces a person to think about if they like or dislike something in the slightest -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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Move reset menu items to contrib?
by Neil Drumm 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

I've dealt with the menu system a bit in the past couple days. I don't think I would ever want to use the reset menu items option on real site; it seems like more of a developer tool. Does anyone have a reasonably common use for this page that I'm not seeing? I can move it over to the devel module if not. -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com/

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patch for flexinode 4.6.x
by Robert Garrigós Castro 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

There is a patch for flexinode 4.6.x ready to commit (http://drupal.org/node/21673) which I would have done it my self if I had permission (I have permission to commit on contributions repository but I guess only for head). I know that everybody, as well as myself, is quite concentrated on 4.7 but this is a quite old flexinode's bug. We should not forget 4.6 as it is the actual stable release. Can somebody with permission look at it and commit if it's ok? Thanks. Robert.

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Release critical bugs for January 14, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

/ bug reports Article tag repeating age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37544 / bug reports admin/modules fails to display age: 3 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41791 / bug reports Getting Buddylist ready for 4.7 age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38683 / bug reports No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports Devel Module Throws Error Messages age: 2 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42457 / support requests broken config screen age: 9 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36949 / bug reports Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44198 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44197 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44195 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44194 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44193 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44192 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44190 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44188 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44187 Eureka: Fix for too wide of a calendar block. age: 3 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44184 Drupal Event age: 3 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41833 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 4 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 event_calendar_data : warning: gmdate() [function.gmdate]: Windows does not support dates prior to midnight (00:00:00), January age: 5 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/40470 Issues with list view for events age: 5 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 6 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 6 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 / feature requests Checkbox to disable Ical link age: 5 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39848 Events only for registered users age: 12 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34640 / support requests Can't Administer Event Module age: 1 week 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 14 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 16 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31532 / bug reports file size bug age: 31 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/24728 / bug reports Latest patch hosed my G2 integration and G2 Standalone age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39168 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38352 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. assigned: trobison age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38351 Search results give incorrect links age: 13 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33539 Full screen slideshow in Gallery module is not working (erroring out on the wrong URL) age: 27 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26479 / support requests Gallery Module stopped working age: 5 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40117 import existing gallery2 user account age: 10 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/35920 / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 15 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 / bug reports Toolbar won't display correct in IE 6 with Pushbutton Theme age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30696 / bug reports images not showing in multisite setup age: 1 week 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/43566 BMP's don't work age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41926 By CHanging the following the error changes assigned: walkah age: 4 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/41353 Deleting Image gallery age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39290 imagemagick.inc file does not contain the function... age: 8 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37372 Error when Submitting New Image Node age: 8 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37366 only variables can be passed by reference on line 713 age: 10 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36092 image.module 4.6.0 strange actions age: 14 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/33292 cannot asociate image to the gallery age: 15 weeks 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/32723 File copy failed: source file does not exist error after running update-image.php age: 16 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31816 Path for image folder not inserted correctly when nodetype = image age: 19 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30031 image module patch & image_import module age: 20 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29377 image module fails on dual site configuration age: 26 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26657 Cannot upload .jpgs age: 45 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/18076 / feature requests Copying original age: 10 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/36321 Image deletions? age: 18 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30557 / support requests I need to change the style of displaying each node. Please help. age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43017 What does update-image.php do exactly? age: 3 weeks 14 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/42222 images not showing2 age: 6 weeks 5 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39773 Image Folder Permissions age: 12 weeks 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/34839 Image Module Permissions age: 27 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26280 / bug reports Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 21 hours 27 min url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 10 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 11 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 / bug reports Error on retreiving mail age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39178 / support requests Mail Body not downloaded age: 1 week 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 / bug reports Port to CVS age: 1 week 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42893 foreach() assigned: neablo age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42350 / bug reports Error when deleting nodes or in the case below - error when deleting a taxonomy term age: 6 weeks 3 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39781 / feature requests Description as a tag in the theme. age: 6 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39354 / tasks here's Postgresql table definition age: 10 hours 43 min url: http://drupal.org/node/44674 / bug reports nodes are being created with no body age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40373 missing promote column assigned: Bèr Kessels age: 7 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38836 Naming issues with files and DB tables age: 12 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34298 RSS "no element found at line 1" age: 28 weeks 21 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/26185 Outdated help texts age: 1 year 23 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/9692 Import doesn't like XML/RSS feeds with no Title element age: 1 year 32 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/8128 / tasks move XML-parser into an inclde file. age: 29 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/25439 / bug reports Notify not playing well with Organic Groups age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40967 / feature requests Notify.module ignores the true submission queue age: 2 years 11 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/3765 / bug reports Login as an alias gets cached age: 16 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 / bug reports Malformed PDFs age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42312 Drupal 4.7 age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41887 support dynamic content? age: 8 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/38181 please explain html2fpdf age: 8 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37748 Management of french charaters age: 9 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36605 / feature requests Internationalization support for PDF assigned: TheLibrarian age: 1 year 41 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/6795 / bug reports Race Condition in the code. age: 1 week 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/43511 / bug reports anonymous users can create folders and view all anonymous sent-mail age: 4 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/41361 error when trying to send private message age: 5 weeks 13 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/40626 privatemsg not working with current head age: 17 weeks 1 hour url: http://drupal.org/node/31469 Reminder email links don't work age: 29 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/25677 / feature requests Simplified Chinese translations age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37505 / bug reports Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in issue.inc age: 1 day 2 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/44572 SQL errors on issues and my projects pages age: 3 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42160 Blank page on admin/settings/project/status age: 3 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41646 Issues from multiple projects listed on a single issue's page age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38704 Get disconnected from server on attempting to add an issue age: 10 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36124 can't select all projects age: 14 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/33262 Can't update issue title from issue comment assigned: nedjo age: 14 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/32843 Projects not listed and page not complete age: 32 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/23956 Date for latest is incorrect age: 39 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/20485 / feature requests Need Documentation age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40392 Search by Version age: 8 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/38122 Allow subscription to individual project issues age: 12 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34496 / support requests Add the project release manually without the scan feature age: 12 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34500 / bug reports Error with URL to recipe age: 19 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29885 / tasks Need update for new Forms API age: 9 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/37269 / feature requests Request to generate email for all content changes/additions, including comments age: 26 weeks 3 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/26824 / bug reports taxonomy_dhtml breaks security? age: 2 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42531 Does not work correctly in Internet Explorer age: 14 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/33354 Blocks switch and reset when vocabs are modified age: 35 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/22631 javascrip downloads square.gif for every category age: 47 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/17366 / feature requests A unique page for each category group? age: 12 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34610 / support requests Taxonomy has dissapeared age: 14 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33061 / bug reports Sends trackbacks for unpublished nodes assigned: ankur age: 50 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/16239 / bug reports Event start/end date section should *not* show first on Submit event page age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41869 meet age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40996 411 error when upgrading using Firefox 1.5 age: 5 weeks 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/40551 / feature requests A small but effective improvement to Improvement of admin/user accessability suggestion age: 13 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/34073 / support requests Fatal Error age: 6 weeks 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39701 Acess denied to login Newly installed and upgraded site that I need up and running A.S.A.P assigned: Johnny age: 7 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38227 / bug reports Resolution appears to be in the cvs version of the linkattach module assigned: hintbw age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/34765

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Re: [development] Re: [drupal:dries] /modules user.module
by Simon Rawson 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Hello all, I am Simon (mentioned in some of the posts in this thread about deleting users) and I'm newb to these mailing lists, although I've been active on drupal.org for some time. I totally understand your comments about the functionality of deleting users. However something needs to be done with HEAD because at the moment if I delete a user, any nodes authored by them are still output (e.g. to /node) and appear as "n/a" when a theme tries to render them.

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Fun menu system bug
by Neil Drumm 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

1. Alias 'blog' or other system path to something else. 2. Go to menu admin. 3. Get one more row for the blog item in the db every reload. (and it is even handled somewhat randomly, seemingly depending on surrounding menu items) I think I've traced this to the one line of code added with http://drupal.org/node/9477. The blog menu item is never found for de-duping since it is never searched for, so the menu system thinks it needs to make a new one every time. Possible solutions: - Revert the patch. - Check if the un-normalized path is in the 'path index' array before normalizing. - Disallow aliasing system paths. Anyone have other good ideas? -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com/

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RE: [development] let's cleanup /misc
by Steven Peck 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I am unsure how IIS would react to the settings.php file being outside of the virtual directory or how to configure it. Right now, unless you set the folder to allow for this, you cannot browse files below the root unless specifically allowed. ________________________________ From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Darrel O'Pry Sent: Tue 1/10/2006 8:41 AM To: development(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] let's cleanup /misc On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:49 +0100, Bèr Kessels wrote: > Op dinsdag 10 januari 2006 14:20, schreef Adrian Rossouw: > > The OSX way is far far simpler, and much much cleaner. > > But much unsafer (not speaking of OSX vs Unix safety). > We discussed before, that PHP files should really live in a non-web-acessible > place. -- I kind of have to disagree with this... php files containing sensitive data should not be in a web accessible directory(settings.php)... If you're worried about people uploading randscript.php or rewriting your .php files I think you have other things you need to address like permissions. > The biggest downside of that, indeed, is that the web-accessible files can no > longer live in the module directories. > > Bèr

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Testing
by Will Wyatt 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

I'm developing a new Drupal site. I'm about ready to move from my testing server to the main production server. I'm new to Drupal and I'm wondering if anybody would be willing to help me do testing. I'm not sure what come common mistakes Drupal implementers make so I'm hoping some people here know more than I. I'm mostly worried about security and any holes I might have left open. If you're interested, please mail me back privately. I don't know if this is the right place as I've been lurking for awhile and haven't seen anything like this. If this is the wrong place, my apologies. Thanks for the help. -- Proud member of the KEXP cubicle army. http://www.cubiclearmy.com (which will soon run Drupal)

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