January 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Issue status
by Karthik 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

I've noticed that a number of issues are being changed from "fixed" status to "closed" status by (an) Anonymous User(s). E.g. http://drupal.org/node/43498 Is this automated? Recommended procedure? or something else? Cheers -K

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bug party reportback
by ae2005 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

posted at http://drupal.org/node/44182#comment-85245 This is my humorous write-up. Hope the humor is okay. Many thanks to all. Many thanks to everyone to came to the bugfix party yesterday. When I showed up at ten til 9, there were already 6 people waiting. At the height of the party I think there were about 24 people in the channel. Chx sported his black DrupalCon t-shirt, which gave him extraordinary bug-squashing powers. Chx threatened to communicate in Hungarian if people didn't do x. Dries came and committed several patches. Dries threatened to do x if people didn't do y. Many thanks also to Dries for publicizing the bug party on the front page of drupal.org. Thanks to webchick who prepared a wiki bugtracker. http://webchick.net/bugfixwiki/index.php/Main_Page Gordon Heydon (Australia) who came before breakfast and coffee and squashed a bug won the award for earliest-rising bug squasher. Thanks to Mozillamonks for offering to take on the biggest bug (just about the last known show-stopper bug). Apparently he didn't know that it was the biggest bug. Thanks also to uwe, wtanaka, mozillamonks, nsk, drumm, and rkerr, for committing patches and fixing bugs. Sorry if I forgot anyone (they didn't list themselves on the wiki). I left after 11.5 hours, and it was still going. Some people came at the time after getting off work in the U.S. Drumm and Crell and m3averick were holding down the fort. great party. thank you everyone, ae2005

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News
by Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Dear all, I need to add news to my site. How i do it? Yours,Mohsen

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alignment
by Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Dear all, I need to set align to right.Typicaly menu,elemnts of forum & everything. My site is Persian language. Please tell me what do i change that i can set alignment to Right. Please guide me.....

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sequences and table prefixing
by Robert Douglass 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

If I want to share tables between databases (user, spam, whatever), I usually have to consider issues with the primary key sequences. The solution that comes to mind is to share the sequences table as well. It is nice that Drupal offers this flexibility. Is there a way that one can specify "use db1.sequences for node_id sequences, db2.sequences for user_id sequences, and db3.sequences for spam_id sequences"? I don't think so, but this might be a feature we should consider implementing. Why? Because the current system only allows a database to join a shared pool of something (take spam for now) at the beginning of its lifetime. If I had 5 sites sharing spam tables, and wanted to integrate an existing site, I'd be out of luck if I had to rely on a shared, running sequid for the spam tables. I think it would be very useful if one could specify a sequences array like the $db_prefix array: $db_sequences = array( 'node_id' => 'default', 'spam_id' => 'db_spam.', ); This would result in all sequences being taken from the default sequence table except for the (purely illustrational) 'spam_id' sequence, which would be taken from the db_spam.sequences table. Is there a way to do this currently in Drupal that I've overlooked? Would people be in support of this functionality if a patch appeared? cheers, Robert

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Static Page Caching
by Mike Gifford 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi folks, We've worked with jpcache in the past to produce static page caching for dynamic sites. We'd like to see the ability to create and edit pages with drupal that get saved as good old fashioned html files. Perhaps this would happen on a daily basis, perhaps only under severe load, perhaps only for paths with a .html extension, however not all drupal content needs to be loaded from drupal all of the time. Throttle is nice. The page caching is a good step in the right direction too.. But I'd like to cache an entire page so that php isn't even loaded at all to deliver the page. So, I'd just like to know what attempts have been done to do this in the past (if any), and what problems they had (so that hopefully we don't repeat the same ones). We've investigated this for other CMS's, but not for Drupal. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca http://del.icio.us/mgifford/drupal http://flickr.com/photos/mgifford/ sets/1178930/ Latest CivicSpace Drupal Launch -> Hameed Law -> http:// www.hameedlaw.ca/

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Yahoo term extraction API and tags
by John Handelaar 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I'll throw this one out there because I won't get to it myself for a couple of weeks at least: Yahoo Web Services' Term Extractor API http://adactio.com/journal/display.php/20060116025204.xml http://developer.yahoo.net/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html Thoughts: a) Would be a *brilliant* way of autofilling tags in the folksonomy modules b) Could enable Google/Yahoo Adwords users to throw those tags at ad invocation and massively increase the relevance of contextual ads for Drupal users. I want b) so much, I'll probably write it. jh

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Path mapping system
by Karoly Negyesi 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi! I talked with Ber about path mappings and here are my ideas: *) We remove arg() calls from most of core and use parameters to callbacks. *) Instead of linking to node/$nid , we have a give_me_a_path('node', $nid) function. On admin UI you can choose which handler deals with 'node' type paths. This handler gets $type ('node', 'comment' whatever) and $id as a parameter and creates a path. This is the crux of the matter: instead of dumb string aliasing what path module does currently we create an 'intelligent' subsystem. *) I first thought that we need to add regular expressions to menu to match incoming paths against but I am not sure. The current system, I think is able. See below for an example. For example, a mapping for the type 'user' could describe itself as 'puts usernames into the path'. After choosing this handler when url gets ('user', $uid) , it would hand over these as parameters to the username_path function which would grab name field from user table and return with the path "username/$name". This is one SQL query against user table which is approximately the same amount of work that path does currently -- but it queries an indexed table with a numeric index. The function url() would call only one mapping function per invocation as it is now, with the only change that this function comes from a variable. A menu callback would handle the path 'username', with an argument of $name. This callback is as simple as loading $uid and calling user_page with it. So I think this subsystem could scale nicely. Of course, this is a LOT and LOT of work because we need to change EVERY l/url in core to be an 'intelligent' call. But the results! Regards Karoly Negyesi

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wizard like multi part forms
by Karoly Negyesi 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi! I got many requests about this with form API. In contributions/tricks/multipart you will find a module which does this. You will want to delete multipart_menu and multipart_submit and use multipart_fields, multipart_form_alter and _multipart_hide . Any questions are welcome. If someone wants to add a link to handbooks, feel free. Regards NK

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autosave save nodes/drafts
by Theodore Serbinski 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Guys, I posted this a while ago, but Thox and Moshe have resurfaced this with positive comments: http://drupal.org/node/25463 Basically, auto-saving nodes every 1min or so, same way Gmail works (so nifty, has saved my butt so many times!). Now, in order for this work, it is going to need to tie into the proposed workflow module I keep hearing so much about. Reason being, is we are going to need to save a node as a type 'draft' because some elements would be incomplete (e.g., title might be missing). I just wanted to bring this up on the development list and get it on people's radar. And hopefully we can bring this up more in Vancouver during the Workflow session. ted

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