November 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Updating modules tables
by Ken Rickard 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

I'm not seeing the answer in the handbooks. I have a stable release of the mysite module. In the new 4.7 release, I have added a new db table. Do I need to write a mysite_update() function to handle this? Thanks, Ken Rickard agentrickard.

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RSS feeds for CVS: time for a breakup
by Khalid B 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

Well, not really "a breakup", but time to break them up. Here is the background: In the beginning, there was only a handful of developers, and things were good. Only three committers to core were present, and commits for core were few and far between. Then more core committers were added, for past branch, present one, and HEAD. As well, more CVS committers were added, and a deluge of themes, modules and translations ensured. If someone is busy for a week, and comes back, there is no way to catch up. So, is it time to break the CVS messages into: core, modules, themes, and translations? This would make the lists more granular, and help with the information overload situation ... Thoughts?

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Re: [development] standard dotinfo file "package" classification
by Peter Wolanin 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

I updated: http://drupal.org/node/64279#info based on Morbus' suggestions. Is the package field case sensitive? The organic groups module is using package = "Organic groups" (per, I assume, the new imperative to use sentence case). -Peter

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Re: [development] standard dotinfo file "package" classification`
by Peter Wolanin 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

I also updated these pages from the "creating modules" tutorial: http://drupal.org/node/82926 http://drupal.org/node/82936

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Release critical bugs for November 26, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

Article / bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors assigned: msameer age: 35 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 CVS management/tracker / feature requests enforce sequential release tags in xcvs-taginfo assigned: dww age: 4 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/90968 Event / bug reports Multiple-day event does not show in block after start date age: 1 week 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/98119 [php5, clone] end-start-ongoing attribute does not ripple through age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85972 Major timezone bug in event module age: 14 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/78572 event_start not being set age: 26 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65609 Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 29 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 31 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 event calendars off by day/not respecting timezones - fix? age: 34 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56189 Flexinode generates an error age: 35 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55135 Calendar subscribing not working age: 36 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 Problem Selecting Event by Type age: 37 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52883 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 49 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 50 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 51 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by GMT offset age: 51 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 52 weeks 4 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install age: 1 year 21 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 Event / support requests Blank Page After Submit age: 32 weeks 18 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/58918 Can't Administer Event Module age: 46 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31532 Filebrowser / bug reports ArrayMerge Errors with PHP5 age: 39 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/51174 Filebrowser / support requests File paths generated by new filebrowser are not leading to the file age: 13 weeks 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/80903 Gallery / bug reports IE error using embed not error with none-embed... when navigation block on right age: 29 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/62119 Gallery / support requests import existing gallery2 user account age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/35920 Glossary / feature requests po files and other language support age: 43 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46313 Goofy / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 1 year 8 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 Htmlarea / bug reports if Clean URLs is Enabled, upload_image in htmlarea not working age: 18 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/74119 htmlArea/xinha firefox freezes (multiple textareas) age: 25 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/66746 Layout is quirky age: 37 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52741 Toolbar won't display correct in IE 6 with Pushbutton Theme age: 1 year 11 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/30696 Htmlarea / support requests Problem with size of button assigned: khayman age: 30 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/60255 Image / bug reports Image thumbnails spontaneously resize to original image size age: 2 days 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/99395 Missing Postgres table create for upload_image.install age: 1 week 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/97255 Postgres table create - missing. Here is what must be added age: 1 week 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/97253 Image only inserts into file_revisions age: 2 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/93904 form error on image settings page - warning: Missing argument 2 for drupal_get_form() in /homepages/44/d176613683/htdocs/include age: 4 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/91531 The image gallery does not show thumbnails age: 4 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/91527 temp directory usage insecure age: 6 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/88428 Detach an image from a Node age: 8 weeks 3 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86884 Long loading times in image gallery index age: 8 weeks 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86829 paths or require_once doesn't work after enable image and image_attach age: 8 weeks 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86827 Non-admin users cannot upload new galleries, no permissions settings advised or available from the admin/access controls age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85992 suddenly the thumbnails can't be seen age: 11 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/82712 Preview and Thumbnail images have incorrect paths. age: 14 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/78791 Image Attach: If title is not filled then link for image is bad (result=error) assigned: brumisek age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/77610 No thumbnails will show.. age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/74770 Localization issue for Premiew and Thumbnail links age: 22 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/70396 Category module and image_gallery age: 26 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65066 Problem in Image Gallery display especially in Internet Explorer age: 39 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/50943 By CHanging the following the error changes assigned: walkah age: 49 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41353 imagemagick.inc file does not contain the function... age: 1 year 1 week url: http://drupal.org/node/37372 Error when Submitting New Image Node age: 1 year 1 week url: http://drupal.org/node/37366 only variables can be passed by reference on line 713 age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36092 image.module 4.6.0 strange actions age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33292 File copy failed: source file does not exist error after running update-image.php age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31816 Path for image folder not inserted correctly when nodetype = image age: 1 year 12 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/30031 image module patch & image_import module age: 1 year 13 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/29377 image module fails on dual site configuration age: 1 year 19 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26657 Cannot upload .jpgs age: 1 year 38 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/18076 Image / feature requests HELP I want to display image as well as information about that image age: 14 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/79129 how to display limited imagea and how to give links to other pages in drupal assigned: anjeet age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/77597 Copying original age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36321 Image / support requests Replacing Thumbnails - they get deleted age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/87127 Don't show image assigned: Alexey age: 8 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/86236 showing the galleries separately age: 22 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/70499 upload image wont' display, it show a file not found page age: 34 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56491 I need to change the style of displaying each node. Please help. age: 46 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43017 What does update-image.php do exactly? age: 48 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42222 images not showing2 age: 51 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/39773 Image Folder Permissions age: 1 year 5 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34839 Image Module Permissions age: 1 year 20 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26280 Image / tasks image_attach and image_gallery modules need updating age: 8 weeks 16 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86838 how to display limited images in one page and if more display on next page and how to give links to other pages in drupal assigned: anjeet age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/77605 Listhandler / bug reports user lookup on name only assigned: zeroj age: 34 weeks 6 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/56936 Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 45 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 Listhandler 4.6.0 fails to send emails at all age: 1 year 18 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/27095 Listhandler / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 1 year 4 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 Mailhandler / support requests Creating a page using mailhandler age: 23 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/68947 Mail Body not downloaded age: 46 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 Members / bug reports Update: beta5 and possible problem with php 4 age: 38 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52004 Patch for member.module to bring it up to 4.7 age: 42 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/47829 foreach() assigned: neablo age: 47 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42350 Node (key)words / bug reports Chameleon Theme not showing metatags using nodeword age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/92475 Error on delete node age: 13 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/80505 can't use php functions in body of nodes assigned: Robrecht Jacques age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/79315 Node (key)words / feature requests Can't Put Keywords in Categories age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/90199 Enable nodewords for node type? age: 41 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48869 Node Aggregator / bug reports nodes are being created with no body age: 50 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40373 missing promote column assigned: Bèr Kessels age: 1 year 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38836 Naming issues with files and DB tables age: 1 year 5 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34298 RSS "no element found at line 1" age: 1 year 21 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26185 Outdated help texts age: 2 years 16 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/9692 Import doesn't like XML/RSS feeds with no Title element age: 2 years 25 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/8128 Node Aggregator / tasks move XML-parser into an inclde file. age: 1 year 22 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/25439 Notify / bug reports Only first 50 or so users processed successfully age: 2 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/93616 Path / bug reports Login as an alias gets cached age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 Poormanscron / support requests Poormanscron not doing what it says on the tin age: 11 weeks 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/83252 Privatemsg / bug reports When enableing the module, Drupal tries to update instead of install age: 8 weeks 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86830 privatemsg module: - database error - incompatibility with relationship module age: 41 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48866 Project / bug reports Tagging of Sub-projects. age: 26 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65110 Advanced search for issues not finding correct results age: 28 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/63109 attachements missing after pressing preview age: 31 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59039 SQL errors on issues and my projects pages age: 48 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42160 Get disconnected from server on attempting to add an issue age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36124 Projects not listed and page not complete age: 1 year 25 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/23956 Project / feature requests make translation status work in the new release system age: 3 weeks 21 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/92915 Automate gathering of quality metrics assigned: webchick age: 14 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/79550 Project / support requests Project is unusable (to me) assigned: dww age: 19 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/73460 Add the project release manually without the scan feature age: 1 year 5 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34500 Project / tasks need branch-aware notion of "default" or "latest" releases assigned: dww age: 5 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/89538 we need to document project.module and friends assigned: nedjo age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/87175 Remindme / bug reports Argument #1 is not an array age: 23 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/69286 Cron job creates SQL error age: 25 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/66202 Subscriptions / bug reports Getting 'There are no active categories.' message even when vocabularies and the terms are present age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/93228 Creating nodes resets OG e-mail subscription settings age: 5 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/89506 Subscriptions remain active when access control maintain subscriptions is disabled age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/87625 Taxonomy dhtml / bug reports Disabling Teasers (Trimmed Posts) Not working when set to Unlimited assigned: samdeskin age: 4 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/91299 doesn't work with taxonomy_access? age: 9 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85355 Error on Page with Internet Explorer 6 age: 23 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/68906 Taxonomy DHTML's cache ignores user privileges age: 27 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/64532 Does not work correctly in Internet Explorer age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33354 javascrip downloads square.gif for every category age: 1 year 40 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/17366 Taxonomy dhtml / feature requests A unique page for each category group? age: 1 year 5 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34610 Taxonomy navigation / bug reports Taxonomy links only work for the first line of links assigned: PierreFWalter age: 39 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/51149 Taxonomy navigation / support requests Taxonomy has dissapeared age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33061 TrackBack / bug reports Sends trackbacks for unpublished nodes assigned: ankur age: 1 year 43 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/16239 TrackBack / feature requests Use AKISMET to filter the spam, spam.module doesn't do the job age: 13 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/80558 User experience / bug reports mail() has been disabled for security reasons assigned: pilotos age: 8 weeks 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86798 Fatal error for Drupal 4.7.0 installed with Fantastico age: 21 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/71407 Sometimes when I open the drupal site in My Local machine I am getting the error. age: 37 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52652 Event start/end date section should *not* show first on Submit event page age: 48 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41869 meet age: 49 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40996 User experience / support requests Login session table uid not updated assigned: edwardsuen age: 2 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/93982 Error installing drupal 4.7.3 in EasyPHP 1.8 . Please Help. assigned: centuriaoctavious age: 8 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/86286 Webserver Auth / bug reports Logging out error age: 34 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56663 Wiki / bug reports the wiki module can't work with HTML age: 42 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/47124

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how to make branches in CVS
by Derek Wright 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

i've had a few reports from people trying to make a DRUPAL-5 or DRUPAL-4-7--2 branch for their module, and then when they go to make a new release node to point to the branch, it's not there in the list of available choices. see http://drupal.org/node/97337 for details. in many cases, the problem is that the maintainer is jumping through many hoops to avoid a simple cvs command that works. this bizarre method of making a new branch wasn't something i coded the scripts that connect our CVS repository to the DB to handle, so the branches "get lost" with respect to the release system. basically, their method is some variant of: % cvs checkout -r DRUPAL-5 contributions/modules % mkdir contributions/modules/foo % cp /full/path/to/HEAD/version/of/foo/* contributions/modules/foo % cd contributions/modules/foo % cvs add * % cvs commit -m "adding foo to DRUPAL-5 branch" * all to avoid learning how to do: % cvs tag -b DRUPAL-5 contributions/modules/foo i have no idea where this method for making branches came from, it's not documented anywhere in our CVS handbooks, and it's causing both the people who follow it and me extra grief. PLEASE stop doing it this way. ;) just use "cvs tag -b DRUPAL-5" in your HEAD workspace when you're ready to make the DRUPAL-5 branch. similarly, if you're getting ready to make a DRUPAL-4-7--2 branch to start adding new features for a 4.7.x version of your module, just do: % cvs checkout -r DRUPAL-4-7 contributions/modules/foo % cvs tag -b DRUPAL-4-7--2 contributions/modules/foo thanks, -derek p.s. obviously, the simple method can be found all over the place in http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs for those who bother to read such things. ;)

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Non module contributions
by Ben Campbell 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi there, I've written a migration tool (to import blog data from a version of Blojsom) which I'd like to make available to anyone who might find it useful. It's a php script designed to be run from the commandline. Is the contributions/tricks/ directory the sort of place I should put this tool, or should I just be hosting it on my own website? It's a tool with pretty limited scope (it does what I needed it to do but no more). So my motivation is to just make sure anyone planning a similar migration can see a previous effort and maybe use it as a starting point, rather than provide a complete off-the-shelf tool which will "Just Work" (tm). Thanks, Ben.

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standard dotinfo file "package" classification
by Bèr Kessels 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi, I have been looking, and probably missed something crucial, but I fail to find a list of standardised package = classifications. I do, however, foresee a wildgrow of weird classifications if we don't provide look up lists, or some rules. Right now I see lots of module developers simply repeating the name of the module there, wich is kindof useless too. Is there a list somewhere that I can make more visible? Or do i need to start one, and in that case, are there some (de-facto) standards that I missed? Bèr -- Drupal, Ruby on Rails and Joomla! development: webschuur.com | Drupal hosting: sympal.nl

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How to update DRUPAL-4-7 from CVS?
by Dave Cohen 25 Nov '06

25 Nov '06

Hi, I have a drupal install that I checked out of CVS some time ago, in the 4.7.3 timeframe, I believe. I'd like to update it to get something post 4.7.4. This is how I thought it should be done: cvs update -r DRUPAL-4-7 Or some variant close to that. But this causes a problem. The problem is that leaves me with duplicates of drupal core modules. For example in my modules directory, I get aggregator.module and aggregator/aggregator.module, block.module and block/block.module, and so on for all drupal modules which were once files but are now in their own directory. I was under the impression these modules which sit in their own directory are DRUPAL-5 modules. But if I understand CVS correctly (which is hard to do), those modules are also tagged DRUPAL-4-7. Is this an accident or am I doing something wrong on my end? Is there any way to update a DRUPAL-4-7 checkout without getting modules written for DRUPAL-5? Note that I am not using this command: cvs update -dPf -r DRUPAL-4-7 which I know would check out files added to DRUPAL-HEAD after DRUPAL-4-7. I thought the earlier command would be a safe way to upgrade a DRUPAL-4-7, but I think some files have been accidentally tagged as DRUPAL-4-7 when they should not be. Thanks, -Dave

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Module Needs An Owner
by Dan Ziemecki 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

I hate to say it, but I no longer have time to keep up with the bugs, requests and upgrades for Subscriptions. If anyone is interested in taking over, please let me know. Thanks, -- Dan Ziemecki

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