March 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Multilingual Drupal working group
by Jose A. Reyero 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hi all, Following Boris' suggestion in the latest thread about Drupal + i18n in this mailing list, I think we need some kind of working group to focus on this task. For which I'd like to appoint the same people he does + ... anyone else interested? Boris Mann wrote: ***************** I agree that no hacks/patches should be the main goal for clean multi- lingual solutions. Actually, a dedicated multi-lingual support team is probably a good idea -- Jose, Ber, Ben, Mike Gifford, Khalid, Development Seed off the top of my head, with Jose with my nomination for lead (he's been living the pain since something like 4.5) -- What do you guys need in terms of support from Drupal.org in order to move forward? ***************** I think we could start by preparing a nice DEP - Which I am already doing- , and then, after discussing about the architecture, modules, etc, be ready to start producing code as soon as Drupal 4.7 is out and the development is open again. Then we'd need some repository in which we could branch the code and work together so we can later merge all the changes back into Drupal, a test site, and some communications channel -forum, mailing list, plain email?- to coordinate. So, for the next days I'll be picking ideas from all the posts that have been written about the issue, and then I'll be posting some DEP draft... Best regards, Jose

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nodeapi image concept (request for feedback)
by Sean B. Fuller 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hey all, I’ve recently been working on a nodeapi-based image upload module for 4.7. I saw some conversations on this list a few weeks ago concerning efforts to unify image-handling projects and I was wondering how such a project would fit with these efforts. The image_nodeapi module currently has the following functionality: - Settings page to determine which nodes should enable image uploads. - Uses the image functions image_prepare, image_insert and image_update to do all the heavy lifting. - Allows users to set a caption for the image. - Default layout of a floated right image with the caption displayed underneath the image on pages. - Passes the node object to the theme, allowing site admins to over-write presentation of images to fit site specific needs. - Along these lines, admins could use a case statement in their theme file that would display a different layout for different node types, etc. The whole thing weighs in at just over 200 lines of code with a custom table for the captions and a css file to handle the default layout. Would the community be interested in a module like this? I’m willing to share the code with any who would like to review it. Please note that I don’t have write access to the contributions cvs repository. If the community thinks this module would be useful, I'll formalize my application in order to add this as a contributed module. If there are other projects that are about to surface that are similar to this, I'm definitely willing to combine efforts. I'll create a forum topic on drupal.org with posted code if that is the suggested way to proceed. As this is our first attempt to give back to the drupal community, any suggestions on the best way to proceed are welcome. Thanks, Sean B Fuller seanbfuller.com tractiv.com ps- About me: I'm a developer for Tractiv (http://tractiv.com) and we've been using drupal for several projects. One of our most recent is the Chicago Artists Resource (http://www.chicagoartistsresource.org) which went live at the end of 2005.

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No moderation for 4.7
by Khalid B 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I just found out that there is no 4.7 moderation solution at present. As some may recall, the queue module was taken out 10 months ago from core and moved to contrib. It has not been updated since and is not FormAPI compatible. The same is true for nmoderation, which is 4.6 only at present. Anyone has something in the works on the above two, or has something else planned?

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can anyone reproduce the bug previewing issue followups?
by Derek Wright 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

many of you are probably aware that the version of project.module running on drupal.org seems to be fubar regarding previewing issue followups. if you post a new issue, you can preview just fine. however, if you try to followup to an existing issue, the preview button doesn't do anything, it just returns you to the same form but without displaying any preview text. for more info, see: http://drupal.org/node/29105 killes recently moved this from drupal.org maintainance -> project's issue queue, assuming this is a bug in project itself. however, i can't reproduce this problem *at all* on a couple of test sites running the latest cvs. :( i don't want to just get in a pushing match with killes, moving the issue back and forth. ;) but unless someone can reproduce the problem somewhere other than drupal.org, i think this should be moved back to drupal.org maintainance, and someone should try to figure out what's different about the environment @ drupal.org that could be causing this. so, pretty please, can a few of you try this out on a cvs test site: - enable project.module - create a taxonomy term for projects (btw, it's too bad project *requires* a taxonomy now) - create a project, and enable the issue tracker for it - post an issue - follow-up to the issue, and try to preview then, reply to http://drupal.org/node/29105 and report your findings. for now, i'm moving this issue back to drupal.org maintainance, but if someone finds they can reproduce this, please feel free to move it again (so long as you post details about your environment so others can try to reproduce it, too). thanks! -derek (dww)

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webchick, hilarious!
by ae2005 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Webchick, your fairy tale is hilarious! thanks for giving me a good laugh. hmmm, I wonder what lesson we are supposed to learn from the fairy tale. thanks to all for putting out the 4.7 release ae

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Module for creating sites for users
by JF 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I’m thinking on creating a module that will allow users to create there own personal sites from inside Drupal, like a website wizard. Can you please let me know if it as been done? Tips to help me get started are appreciated :-) Thanks. Regards, introfini

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Drupal 4.7 Release candidate available
by Gerhard Killesreiter 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

Hi there! The first Drupal release candidate of the 4.7 series is now available for download at http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-4.7.0-rc1.tar.gz Please test it heavily, submit bug reports, bug fixes, review oending patches, etc. You know the drill. Cheers, Gerhard

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404 handling
by Ken Rickard 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

All- We've been doing some heavy testing on 4.6 and found a piece that is good (I think) for all Drupal versions. In .htaccess, Drupal's index.php file is defined as the default 404 handler. This can cause real problems when an image or other file is missing, A little research by our tech guys gives us this: # This overrides the Drupal 404 handler for files that should never be handled by Drupal <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|html|css|js)$"> ErrorDocument 404 default </FilesMatch> This makes Apache handle 404 errors for typical html and image files. Should this be submitted officially? - Ken Rickard agentrickard

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Patching og.module to allow for "dynamic" membership in groups.
by Rob Thorne 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I'm doing a project right now where I'd like to use an external source (CiviCRM in my case) determine what organic groups a user is "subscribed" to. Since I know that Moshe (and perhaps others) have done stuff with LDAP, I'm guessing that this might be useful for more than just my specific application. I've written up my idea as an issue for og (http://drupal.org/node/56614) Short version: I'm going to patch og.module to handle a 'user load' event via hook_og, which Moshe has recently generalized in a very nice way. This looks like it would be pretty clean, but I haven't thought through the issues as well as some of you. If you have an opinion as to whether this is the right way to do this, or if you've thought up a better approach, please add comments to the issue. Thanks, Rob Thorne Torenware Networks

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Formapi formalter
by Bèr Kessels 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi list, Form api is supposed to have this great form alter feature. In theory it is indeed great. And for small forms, it is very usefull. In fact, it is fabulous for <em>adding</em> information to a form. But not so much for actually altering a form. We found out the hard way, that a node submission form cannot be altered. The plan was, to use taxonomy (free tagging) to collect "cities", "keywords", "countries" etc. Taxonomy is very usefull for that, but it comes in a collapsible form (ugh) all grouped. Form alter to the rescue. Just flatten the array (pull the taxonomy out of the collapsible) and change the weights, so that we could place them whereever we wanted them. The form looks great, then. Looks. But it is altered, and threfore does not behave the way it did. Taxonomy now does not know about any of the filled terms anymore, and simply ignores them: taxonomy terms are not saved to the database. Is there some way to alter-yet-not-alter. Do we really need to build the ordering and so inside the theme. I cannot imagine that form alter is this much limited. Because this example can be extended to anything: As soon as you really alter the form, the specific modules no longer will be able to find the data, and will simply break? Am I missing something? Is there some secret API, or #coolthing? Bèr

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