March 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

user deletion
by Gerhard Killesreiter 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hi there! There have been a lot of problems/discussions when it comes to Drupal's handling of deleted user accounts. The problems did arise from the fact that we did leave user information in some places (notably node authorship, etc). The discussions did arise from the fact whether we should keep the content or not. I did propose to fix the problems (http://drupal.org/node/53348#comment-82298) and retain the content. it would be easy to do a contrib module which would delete the content instead (just make sure your user hook gets called befor the one in node.module). I think this approach is least destructive and leaves opportunities for other approaches. Jose and Zen did provide a patch (http://drupal.org/files/issues/user_delete_3_0.patch) which I will be glad to commit if I get otld it works by an independend review. If you disagree with this approach and thinks it does not allow you to do something you think that Drupal should allow you to do, please let me know too. But you better be quick about it. :p Cheers, Gerhard

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translated text in module-generated emails?
by Derek Wright 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

what's the right thing to do regarding the use of t() inside modules that are generating emails? specifically, i'm talking about wrapping text that's going into an email (either subject or body) inside t(). i'm helping to maintain the user_status.module, and noticed this comment: // Probably don't want user emails to use t() since that might result // in some unexpected languages being sent to users. is that true? is the party-line that all email text should be in english, no matter what? that seems a little strange. it appears that user.module wraps all the default text in t(). i don't understand the harm in wrapping in t(), but i'm also mostly ignorant of drupal's translation support and efforts. can someone either explain why this comment is true, or tell me it's all lies? ;) thanks! -derek

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Users can't log in after creation
by "Schultz Consult - [René Madsen]" 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, Im having the following senario on a production site with drupal 4.6 1 User creates an account 2 user get his e-mail with password 3 User tries to log in, but get's a user not found What is the problem. If the user waits 5-10 minuts, the user is able to log in. Any ideas? slow database? -- Best Regards René Madsen http://rene.schultzconsult.dk

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Highlighted tabs, primary links, and bread crumbs
by Nic Ivy 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

I'm working on a new site for which I am using primary links (i.e. menu items) as tabs across the top of each page to describe different areas. It would be nice if I could visually segregate content into the different areas by highlighting the correct tab. i have several thousand pieces of content, and the number is growing. If I simply defined menu items for each node, I expect performance would diminish as the size of $menu increased. Other people have tried to accomplish this highlighting trick using hacks and kludges (e.g. http://drupal.org/node/46020) I have done the same until now. But for some reason, PHP in page.tpl.php does not have access to the current page's query string or bread crumbs. This seems to be a recent change in HEAD. So, to determine which tab to activate, I am comparing in page.tpl.php the supplied bread crumb links with the supplied primary links. When there is a match, I activate the primary link so the tab looks highlighted. But how can I define arbitrary bread crumbs for a large number of nodes? Is there a better way to do this? Has anyone else done this? Nic

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phpMyAdmin + Drupal 4.7 issue
by Steven Wittens 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

We've started using MySQL conditional comments (of the form /*!40100 ... */) with some MySQL 4.1+ specific code (to set the right db table character set). Unfortunately, phpMyAdmin blindly removes all comments when you upload an SQL file like our database.mysql. This means that anyone performing a fresh install, using MySQL 4.1+ and phpMyAdmin will encounter problems with non-ascii characters. In theory the admin should just specify the character set when creating the database. But, most hosts will create databases for you AFAIK, or will do it through a simplified front-end where you can only set the name. I don't really have a good view on the usage of tools like phpMyAdmin. I imagine it's pretty widespread though. I found out about this issue after someone reported Unicode problems today: http://drupal.org/node/56112 So, any ideas on how to address this? Some options: - Tell phpMyAdmin users to create their db in utf-8 encoding (or have it created as such by the host). Will need clear and easy to find docs/instructions. - Provide a separate MySQL 4.0 and 4.1+ database.mysql file instead of one with conditional comments and tell people to use the right one. I submitted a patch to phpMyAdmin(*) to make them parse these constructs correctly, but it doesn't help existing users at all. Steven Wittens (*) Yes, I washed my hands afterwards. Their code stinks.

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Re: [bug] no checkboxes showing
by ae2005 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi Jeremy, I downloaded the latest version and still the same. Were you planning to fix this? very important module! thank you, ae On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 00:18 +0000, Jeremy wrote: > Issue status update for > http://drupal.org/node/54398 > Post a follow up: > http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/54398 > > Project: Database Administration > Version: cvs > Component: Code > Category: bug reports > Priority: critical > Assigned to: Anonymous > Reported by: ae2005 > Updated by: Jeremy(a)kerneltrap.org > -Status: active > +Status: duplicate > > Duplicate of #40661 [1]. > [1] http://drupal.org/node/40661 > > > > > Jeremy(a)kerneltrap.org > > > > Previous comments: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:29:06 +0000 : ae2005 > > when i go to administer database, select all tables, there are no > checkboxes to indicate the tables have been selected. > > > >

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Maintainer Wanted
by Arnab Nandi 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Anyone interested in taking over Captcha(#8404), Textimage(#52349) and Similar Entries(#25974)? Ping me if you are. -Arnab

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user group permissions
by Chris Johnson 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I'm writing a module which requires that the data displayed be specified both by user name (no problem, works out of the box) and by a group that the user is in. I currently have 286 such groups, and the number will only grow larger. This is not a role, but rather a permission to see certain rows of a database table. I can't help but think that this has been done before in Drupal. Any suggestions or pointers as to where best to find existing code that does this, or otherwise how to implement it? ..chrisxj

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15 modules broken today by removing node_validate_title
by Angie Byron 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

If your module is in this list, please remove the node_validate_title function call -- as of this afternoon this was removed as #required already takes care of this. \modules\acidfree\acidfree.module (1087) \modules\category\category.module (589) \modules\dashboard\dashboard.module (143) \modules\dbcron\dbcron.module (304) \modules\flexinode\flexinode.module (602) \modules\image\image.module (168) \modules\liquid\liquid_wikipage.module (73) \modules\microcontent\microcontent.module (88) \modules\og\og.module (937) \modules\project\issue.inc (519) \modules\project\issue.inc (563) \modules\quiz\multichoice.module (167) \modules\quiz\quiz.module (173) \modules\simplenews\simplenews.module (256) \modules\video\video.module (755) Rolling a patch for project module now...

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JS gurus: please help me check checkboxes with a checkbox ; )
by Angie Byron 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

I was feeling all crappy all weekend so I took the opportunity to make some headway on Module Builder module. For those who don't know/remember, this is like a web-based script for auto-generating module source code. You check off the hooks you want to use, and it auto-generates some skeleton code for you so you don't have to go and look up function declarations. See http://drupal.org/node/55011 for more info. Anyway! The next big thing I'd like to do is allow for the definition of "groups" of hooks. Check here for a nice, pretty mock-up that Jeff Robbins put together: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/sandbox/webch… So when I check "custom node type," the script should automatically go and check off hook_node_info, hook_insert, hook_update, hook_load, etc. Could someone show me a _BASIC_ example of how to do something like this, with just static HTML checkboxes and an onclick handler on one of them? I've had a really hard time trying to narrow down search terms for an example; most of the JS checkbox examples I've found seem to be written at the "Duh. What is a checkbox?" level. :\ Thanks very much in advance, -Angie

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