February 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Importing PO
by Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Dear all,When i wanna import a PO file,I recv following error: *Fatal error*: mime_magic could not be initialized, magic file /usr/share/file/magic.mime is not available in */var/www/iossd/includes/file.inc* on line *14 Please help me,,, *

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Release critical bugs for February 12, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

/ bug reports No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 11 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports Devel Module Throws Error Messages age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42457 / bug reports Is Module not ready for Drupal 4.6 ? age: 3 days 14 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/48541 Drupal Event age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41833 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 8 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 9 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 10 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 10 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install age: 32 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 / support requests Can't Administer Event Module age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 18 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 20 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31532 / bug reports Image block not showing up, while integration is working. age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46142 Latest patch hosed my G2 integration and G2 Standalone age: 10 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39168 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. age: 11 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38352 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. assigned: trobison age: 11 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38351 Search results give incorrect links age: 17 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: 31 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26479 / support requests Gallery Module stopped working age: 9 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40117 import existing gallery2 user account age: 14 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/35920 / feature requests po files and other language support age: 2 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46313 / bug reports Goofy theme broken in 4.7? age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45300 / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 19 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 / bug reports view source broken in firefox 1.5 age: 2 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46246 Toolbar won't display correct in IE 6 with Pushbutton Theme age: 22 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30696 / bug reports By CHanging the following the error changes assigned: walkah age: 8 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41353 Deleting Image gallery age: 10 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39290 imagemagick.inc file does not contain the function... age: 13 weeks 11 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/37372 Error when Submitting New Image Node age: 13 weeks 11 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/37366 only variables can be passed by reference on line 713 age: 14 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36092 image.module 4.6.0 strange actions age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33292 cannot asociate image to the gallery age: 19 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/32723 File copy failed: source file does not exist error after running update-image.php age: 20 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31816 Path for image folder not inserted correctly when nodetype = image age: 23 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30031 image module patch & image_import module age: 24 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29377 image module fails on dual site configuration age: 30 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26657 Cannot upload .jpgs age: 49 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/18076 / feature requests Copying original age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36321 Image deletions? age: 22 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30557 / support requests I need to change the style of displaying each node. Please help. age: 5 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43017 What does update-image.php do exactly? age: 7 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42222 images not showing2 age: 10 weeks 21 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39773 Image Folder Permissions age: 16 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/34839 Image Module Permissions age: 31 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26280 / bug reports Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 4 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 Listhandler 4.6.0 fails to send emails at all age: 29 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/27095 / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 16 weeks 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 / bug reports Error on retreiving mail age: 10 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39178 / support requests Mail Body not downloaded age: 5 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 / bug reports Port to CVS age: 6 weeks 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/42893 foreach() assigned: neablo age: 6 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: 10 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39781 / feature requests Description as a tag in the theme. age: 10 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39354 / tasks here's Postgresql table definition age: 4 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/44674 / bug reports nodes are being created with no body age: 9 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40373 missing promote column assigned: Bèr Kessels age: 11 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38836 Naming issues with files and DB tables age: 16 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34298 RSS "no element found at line 1" age: 32 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/26185 Outdated help texts age: 1 year 27 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/9692 Import doesn't like XML/RSS feeds with no Title element age: 1 year 36 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/8128 / tasks move XML-parser into an inclde file. age: 33 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/25439 / bug reports Settings not being saved age: 4 days 8 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/48431 Path to notify_module.inc incorrect age: 2 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46532 Notify not playing well with Organic Groups age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40967 / feature requests Notify.module ignores the true submission queue age: 2 years 16 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/3765 / bug reports Login as an alias gets cached age: 20 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 / bug reports Malformed PDFs age: 6 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42312 Drupal 4.7 age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41887 support dynamic content? age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38181 please explain html2fpdf age: 12 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37748 Management of french charaters age: 13 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36605 / feature requests Internationalization support for PDF assigned: TheLibrarian age: 1 year 45 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/6795 / support requests Problem with PDFView age: 3 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45092 / bug reports Race Condition in the code. age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43511 / bug reports privatemsg module: - database error - incompatibility with relationship module age: 1 day 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/48866 anonymous users can create folders and view all anonymous sent-mail age: 8 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41361 error when trying to send private message age: 9 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/40626 privatemsg not working with current head age: 21 weeks 18 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/31469 Reminder email links don't work age: 33 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/25677 / feature requests Simplified Chinese translations age: 12 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37505 / bug reports Install KO's Module Admin age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45389 SQL errors on issues and my projects pages age: 7 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42160 Works Here... age: 7 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41646 Issues from multiple projects listed on a single issue's page age: 11 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38704 Get disconnected from server on attempting to add an issue age: 14 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36124 can't select all projects age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33262 Projects not listed and page not complete age: 36 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/23956 Date for latest is incorrect age: 43 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/20485 / feature requests Need Documentation age: 9 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40392 Search by Version age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38122 Allow subscription to individual project issues age: 16 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34496 / support requests Add the project release manually without the scan feature age: 16 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34500 / bug reports Error with URL to recipe age: 23 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29885 / tasks Need update for new Forms API age: 13 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/37269 / feature requests Request to generate email for all content changes/additions, including comments age: 30 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/26824 / bug reports Error when searching an existing user.... age: 2 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46288 / bug reports taxonomy_dhtml breaks security? age: 6 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42531 Does not work correctly in Internet Explorer age: 18 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/33354 Blocks switch and reset when vocabs are modified age: 39 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/22631 javascrip downloads square.gif for every category age: 51 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/17366 / feature requests A unique page for each category group? age: 16 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34610 / support requests Taxonomy has dissapeared age: 18 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33061 / bug reports beta4 form_select() Error age: 1 week 8 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/47946 Sends trackbacks for unpublished nodes assigned: ankur age: 1 year 2 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/16239 / tasks approval queue error in beta 4 age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45429 / bug reports Event start/end date section should *not* show first on Submit event page age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41869 meet age: 8 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40996 / feature requests A better Drupal.org Index (homepage) interface/layout mockup age: 2 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45967 A small but effective improvement to Improvement of admin/user accessability suggestion age: 17 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/34073 / support requests Acess denied to login Newly installed and upgraded site that I need up and running A.S.A.P assigned: Johnny age: 12 weeks 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/38227 / bug reports the wiki module can't work with HTML age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/47124

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Submitting a page with POST to do performance testing
by Kieran Lal 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I am using Siege to load test the file caching patch. Siege supports posts, http://www.joedog.org/siege/misc/FAQ.php#9. Here is what I have come up with discussing this in #drupal http://localhost/~kieran/drupal/?q =node/add/page POST edit%5Btitle% 5D=title&edit%5Bbod y%5D=body&edit%Bform_id%5D=page_no de_form&op=Submit But it doesn't submit. If anyone could successfully submit any content to head using a HTTP post I would appreciate it if you could pass it along. Thanks, Kieran

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Re: [development] touchy mysql ordering
by randall＠thinkingoutloud.org 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi, this is my first post to this list, please let me know if I am I out of line in any way. This may be a bigger issue than just the event.module If the suggested fix for event.module works, then logically, the same sort of fix will need to be made to image.module and forum.module and probably some other modules. I think killes is correct with his statement of "The rewriting of the query fails as it isn't in the form the regexp expects" The regexp in question is in the db_rewrite_sql function. This function and its associated hook IMHO provide one of the greatest capabilities to this CMS helping to set Drupal high above the rest. And I am so excited to see that it has been expanded to include vocabularies and terms in version 4.7 (thank you! drupal developers). Here are some thoughts on the issue, it is a little mind-numbing I know and I am sorry. Can someone let me know if I am being clear and also let me know if I am just way off base. I think that the db_rewrite_sql function needs to be more explicit in terms of what sort of SQL statements it accepts for the $query value. I also think that it needs to be very specific in terms of what values are allowed for the $primary_table and $primary_field values. For example, with node list queries, I think the $primary_table must be 'n', the $primary_field must be 'nid' and the $query value must be in the format SELECT X...X FROM {node} n X...X or there are potential problems. Looking at the example code posted in drupaldocs for hook_db_rewrite_sql() at http://drupaldocs.org/api/head/function/hook_db_rewrite_sql. The sample asks if table 'n' is the $primary_table and if not adds it to the join clause. If two modules implemented the hook following that example, checking for the existence of table 'n' and both were enabled on the same site and the $primary_table was 'f' (or 'forum', or 'node' etc. as outlined as acceptable values for db_rewrite_query) the resulting query would be SELECT X...X FROM {forum} f INNER JOIN {node} n ON f.nid=n.nid INNER JOIN {node} n ON f.nid=n.nid X...X which results in ERROR #1066 - Not unique table/alias: 'n' So, therefore, I also think that any module implementing the hook needs to be aware of potential alias conflicts and should make sure to alias tables with a name that won't conflict with someone elseâs module. If interested in more information and more thoughts, please see these three posts... Bad interaction with MySQL 5 & Image & Event modules http://drupal.org/node/40623 SQL error when anonymous: Unknown column 'n.nid' http://drupal.org/node/46864 Error with node access modules and mysql 5 http://drupal.org/node/43735 Thank you, I hope I haven't wasted anyoneâs time. Randall -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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CVS accounts
by Dries Buytaert 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hello, for your information, I asked Gerhard (killes) to take over the administration of CVS accounts. This involves approving CVS accounts, fixing CVS passwords, etc. If it is too much work for Gerhard, he'll involve more people. Gerhard has been helping out with this for many weeks, and we've been working together on improving the CVS integration scripts we use on drupal.org. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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CVS Account Activation
by Ahmed Al-Obaidy 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Hi guys, A few days before, I wrote the session timeout module and I had requested an cvs account to commit my module to the cvs, but the request did not get approved yet. So, could anyone please tell me how can I get it active ASAP. Thank you,

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Possible DDoS attack on Drupal user creation
by Syscrusher 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Good morning! I'm sorry if this is the wrong venue for this, but I am not sure where else to post it. As of this morning, I have good reason to suspect that one of my Drupal sites is the victim of a zombie-based DDoS attack, and I felt I should warn the Drupal development community that a new Drupal-specific bot may be out there in the wild. The site allows anyone to create a user account, with no approval needed but of course with no special privileges (all it really gains them is the ability to queue comments for approval, subscribe to node comments, and to customize their timezone). What happened is that last night a large number of new user accounts were all created with garbage-looking and undeliverable Yahoo! addresses as the email target, e.g., sdfuhgfdhghu(a)yahoo.com. My site is a rather narrowly- focused site related to historical reenactment, and we typically average only 1 or 2 new users per day, and there have been 57 since midnight last night. That's not a huge number, but it's *way* outside our normal statistical range. I initially thought this might be one script kiddie with a Perl bot, but I checked my logs, and there were 57 requests since midnight spread over 21 different IPs. Only one of the IP addresses has a valid reverse DNS, and it points to a dialup pool. In the Apache logs, all of the browser ID strings are identical: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)" which suggests either a bot emulating this browser, or a coordinated attack by a couple dozen individuals. I consider the latter to be unlikely, as the site is neither politically controversial nor commercial in nature, so I doubt anyone would have enough motive to work hard enough to do an attack by manual means. I post this message here for three reasons: 1. I wanted to warn others that if there is a bot to attack my site, they may attack other Drupal sites in the near future, and 2. I wanted to see if anyone has a suggestion of a module -- including one that I might create -- that could block bogus user account requests like this but not legitimate ones. Will the "Captcha" module do what I need? 3. I wanted to find out if anyone else has seen similar behavior, to see if this is part of a larger pattern that may need to be addressed in user.module. For example, if this is commonplace, should "Captcha" become part of core? The attacks aren't doing any real harm -- my server can easily cope with the load, and I'll eventually just purge the accounts that are never activated. They're a nuisance, but I still want to make this go away if I can. I'll be glad to share more details upon request -- my site is not business- related, so I have no reason to conceal logs or other pertinent data that could help the Drupal development community guard against things like this. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Syscrusher (Scott Courtney) Drupal page: http://drupal.org/user/9184 syscrusher at 4th dot com Home page: http://4th.com/

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including file-based caching in 4.7
by Jeremy Andrews 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

Hello, Following the recent Drupal roadmap talks in Vancouver, I'd like to propose the inclusion of file-based caching in Drupal 4.7. By making it possible to move cached data from the database into the filesystem, the patch offers increased reliability and performance. Find a patch against CVS HEAD with more details as to how it works and some benchmarking results here: http://drupal.org/node/45414 A quick summary from my most recent benchmarking, under a heavy siege load: Database cache: 1,000 pages in 34.1 seconds. That's an average of 29.38 pages per second, with each page loading in 34.12 ms. Under this load, 7.7% of the page requests failed. File cache: 1,000 pages in 28.7 seconds. That's an average of 36.1 pages per second, with each page loading in 28.54 ms. 0 page requests failed. File cache with FastPath: 1,000 pages in 5.23 seconds. That's an average of 191.12 pages per second, with each page loading in 5.233 ms. 0 page requests failed. (FastPath is a new bootstrap phase that allows the display of file-cached pages for anonymous users without bootstraping the database or sessions) Please feel free to test out the patch, running your own benchmarks and making any suggestions. Discussion as to whether or not this should be included in 4.7 is also encouraged. Thanks, -Jeremy

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Re: [development] Form field maxlengths vs. database field sizes
by Pat Collins 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:23:07 -0800, Adrian Rossouw <adrian(a)bryght.com> wrote : > > On 08 Feb 2006, at 8:28 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > > It does not presently, but Drupal could know the field sizes in the > > database tables. However, is that worth doing? (I'm presently > > developing a database abstraction layer for my employer where the > > db layer figures out the metadata, like field sizes, on the fly so > > that the applications need not know anything at all about it.) > > I want to do this for 4.8. > > it simplifies the install files (which are in core now), and allows > us to possibly automate some of the _update_x function creation. > > essentially > db_create_table('name', array('field' => 'type', 'field' => 'type'); > etc. > > keeping track of all the columns in the database is important for > stuff like views and relationships too. > It would also make supporting other database engines easier. Imagine optimized sql for each db. Wouldn't that be great. Pat

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Drupal Con report back: Drupal usability issues
by Kieran Lal 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

1) Review the administration module code-Led by Earl Miles http:// drupal.org/node/48578 2) Improve taxonomy documentation, order and organize content - Led by Kieran Lal http://drupal.org/node/48581 3) Card sort the projects into categories, patch the project module for project submissions.-Angela Byron http://drupal.org/node/48575 4) Drupal terminology-review other CMS to improve the glossary- Kim Werker http://drupal.org/node/48576 5) Blocks for Roles- Djun Kim http://drupal.org/node/12988 6) Compare Drupal files, app casting with the Drupal module-Nedjo Rogers http://drupal.org/node/48580-serverside, http://drupal.org/ node/48582 client side 7) Drupal navigation: Global, local, contextual, and situation navigation -Trae McCombs http://drupal.org/node/48574 Cheers, Kieran

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