March 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Understanding the hook system
by Nathan Digriz 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

I am not sure if this is development or document but I am trying to get my head around hooks http://drupal.org/node/55243 There does not seem to be any explaination of the differences and when to use system hooks module hooks node hooks Some type of example or chart would be appreciated also. Thanks

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Forms API: Multipart Forms and Documentation
by Morbus Iff 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

After months of work between hunmonk, myself, and chx, we've finalized some substantial progress on multipart forms. A multipart form is a form that is spread across multiple pages (like a wizard), but doesn't truly "submit" until the final page. There are still some hiccups here and there, largely due to checkboxes and multi-selects, but we're at a decent enough place to show off some working code and let it alone for Drupal 4.7. You must be running Drupal 4.7b6 or higher to use this stuff. Documentation (by Morbus): http://drupal.org/node/54753 Fully working multipart_form_example.module (by hunmonk): http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/examples/ Sweet, sweet, loving (by chx): <censored> -- Morbus Iff ( you are nothing without your robot car, NOTHING! ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ O'Reilly Author, Weblog, Cook: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus

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How to call a function when a certain permission is set?
by Leo Burd 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hello there, Is there any way to call a specific function everytime a certain permission is set or reset? For instance, if the admin users allow users of a specific role to have access to voicemail, I'd like to create voicemail boxes for the users that already exist in the database. Not just for the new users that will be created over time. What do people do in a situation like that? Thanks in advance, Leo PS. I'm using Drupal 4.6...

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Yahoo design philosophy
by Chris Cook 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

The page below describes Yahoo's design philosophy and offers an alternative to 'graceful degredation' they call 'progressive enhancement'. It seems like an interesting approach and one that we should be aware of when introducing AJAX or similar functionality into Drupal. I read this a while back and meant to mention it but I forgot until now. http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/articles/gbs/gbs.html Cheers, Chris

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Upgrade button -- Our most important feature needed.
by Trae McCombs 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

We really need the ability to easily upgrade our Drupal sites. I don't know how many people I know who are leaving Drupal en masse to things like wordpress and e107 simply because it's becoming too much of a pain for them to upgrade their sites. I have been using Drupal since 4.3.2 and it is still very difficult for me to start the upgrade process. I feel as if I really need someone with a clue to look at things for me and upgrade my site. Consequently, a few sites I have are still older revisiions, which are insecure. We need a one click to upgrade button. Something that goes out and checks your system to see if it has the latest software, if it isn't there, it upgrades it for you as well as your database. I love drupal and enjoy working on it, I would just hate to see our user share drop because other people are creating features that will simply make it easier for others to use different CMS's than our own. Please know that this assessment is from someone that doesn't code. The idea of me having to go in and download a new tarball, replace all the core drupal files (sort those things out is a mess) and make sure the modules etc... get updated is a nightmare to say the very least. Trae -- Trae McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/

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project module idea
by Adrian Rossouw 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Isn't the select project list a good example of a drop down that can be replaced by an ajax autocomplete textfield ? -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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'name' column length in variables
by Bèr Kessels 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Hi, This is more a policy thing then a bug, IMO. Drupal has some columns harcoded in length, most notably the 'node.type' column and the 'variable.name' colmn. I ran into a problem today again, with a contrib breaking because it made its variables like variable_get('usernodes_foo_' . $type) //where $type is the node type name. You get it, that can grow very long. Drupal exploded there completely, because MySQL choked on already existing types. There aer loads of ways around this: use shorter node types in my (cck) configuration,. Use shorter names that prepend the $type etcetc. But I am sure that a patch will not fix this. I mean, we can make the 'name' column longer, but there is a limit, we will hit at some time again. Making a field longer is IMO only patching the error, not the cause of the error. Any good ideas for this? Should we start on a unique_name($string, $length) function? A function that will create unique names? Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ] Hoe het naviatie blok te verbergen: http://help.sympal.nl/hoe_het_naviatie_blok_te_verbergen

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Table node_access: Deleting rows filled with 0s for all 3 grants.
by Keve 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Helo, everybody. I have an issue concerning access modules. Table node_access has too many lines. (nid * role_id) Concerning taxonomy_access, there is an idea to remove (and not generate) those lines in table 'node_access' where all three types of grants are 0.(grant_view = 0 and grant_upadet = 0 and grant_delete = 0). Because actually only records which grants some permission affect node_access() behaviour. What do you guys, think about it? Does this have any drawback in your opinion? For troubleshooting or to be able to check integrity of table 'node_access', I would definitely generate at least one line per node, even if it is filled with zeros. (so that all 'nid' would be inside table 'node_access'). I have an issue with Taxonomy_access about this: 'Prevent taxonomy_access from populating node_access table more than necessary.' http://drupal.org/node/54544 Many thanks for the support in advance. Have an ice weekend :) Keve.

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Quoting nids in comments
by Karthik 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

What do people think about mentioning the issue nid in the comment for some of the more trickier/obscure fixes? I'm not sure if this already being done - I haven't come across any instances of this. But adding the nid will save a lot of time and effort for everybody IMO.. Just a thought. Cheers, -K

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Release critical bugs for March 19, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

/ bug reports Latest CVS version incompatible with user.module age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49342 / tasks Group access file queries need updating age: 1 day 13 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/54570 / bug reports No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 16 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports Problems after submitting CVS Profile form age: 3 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/51029 / bug reports Devel Module Throws Error Messages age: 11 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42457 / bug reports Body text missing age: 2 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/54383 Calendar subscribing not working age: 4 days 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 filter form validate invalid call age: 5 days 1 hour url: http://drupal.org/node/53899 Time is displaying wrong age: 2 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/52481 Filter controls - when set to "never show" they are still visible in calendar age: 3 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/50298 Drupal Event age: 12 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41833 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 13 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 14 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 15 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by a day age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 15 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install age: 37 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 / support requests is there a way to disable table and day calendar views in events module? age: 3 days 4 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/54292 Can't Administer Event Module age: 10 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 23 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 25 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31532 / bug reports ArrayMerge Errors with PHP5 age: 3 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/51174 / bug reports Gallery module render wrong size with 4.7b5 age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52706 block manage - Block specific settings can save item selected - with drupal 4.7B4 age: 2 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/51436 Gallery Module Settings Fatal Error age: 4 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49046 Latest patch hosed my G2 integration and G2 Standalone age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39168 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. age: 16 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38352 problem viewing newly added photos in embedded gallery. assigned: trobison age: 16 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38351 Search results give incorrect links age: 22 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: 36 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26479 / feature requests Unable to initialize embedded Gallery age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49417 / support requests Gallery Module stopped working age: 14 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40117 import existing gallery2 user account age: 19 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/35920 / feature requests po files and other language support age: 7 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46313 / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 24 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 / bug reports Layout is quirky age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52741 view source broken in firefox 1.5 age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46246 Toolbar won't display correct in IE 6 with Pushbutton Theme age: 27 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30696 / bug reports Problem in Image Gallery display especially in Internet Explorer age: 3 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/50943 Bad use of full image size in the images list age: 3 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/50684 Image files are duplicated age: 3 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/50266 By CHanging the following the error changes assigned: walkah age: 13 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41353 Deleting Image gallery age: 15 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39290 imagemagick.inc file does not contain the function... age: 18 weeks 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/37372 Error when Submitting New Image Node age: 18 weeks 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/37366 only variables can be passed by reference on line 713 age: 19 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36092 image.module 4.6.0 strange actions age: 23 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33292 File copy failed: source file does not exist error after running update-image.php age: 25 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31816 Path for image folder not inserted correctly when nodetype = image age: 28 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30031 image module patch & image_import module age: 29 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29377 image module fails on dual site configuration age: 35 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26657 Cannot upload .jpgs age: 1 year 2 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/18076 / feature requests Copying original age: 19 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36321 Image deletions? age: 27 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/30557 / support requests warning: is_file(): Stat failed for ... (errno=13 - Permission denied) ... on line 83 age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52780 I need to change the style of displaying each node. Please help. age: 10 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43017 What does update-image.php do exactly? age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42222 images not showing2 age: 15 weeks 22 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/39773 Image Folder Permissions age: 21 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/34839 Image Module Permissions age: 36 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26280 / bug reports Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 9 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 19 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 Listhandler 4.6.0 fails to send emails at all age: 34 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/27095 / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 21 weeks 13 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 / bug reports Error on retreiving mail age: 15 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39178 / feature requests anonymous can read emails list scheduled for download polling ... age: 1 week 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52813 / support requests Mail Body not downloaded age: 10 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 / bug reports Update: beta5 and possible problem with php 4 age: 2 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52004 Patch for member.module to bring it up to 4.7 age: 6 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/47829 foreach() assigned: neablo age: 11 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42350 / feature requests Description as a tag in the theme. age: 15 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39354 / tasks here's Postgresql table definition age: 9 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/44674 / bug reports nodes are being created with no body age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40373 missing promote column assigned: Bèr Kessels age: 16 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38836 Naming issues with files and DB tables age: 21 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34298 RSS "no element found at line 1" age: 37 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/26185 Outdated help texts age: 1 year 32 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/9692 Import doesn't like XML/RSS feeds with no Title element age: 1 year 41 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/8128 / tasks move XML-parser into an inclde file. age: 38 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/25439 / bug reports Settings not being saved age: 5 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/48431 Path to notify_module.inc incorrect age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46532 Notify not playing well with Organic Groups age: 13 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40967 / feature requests Notify.module ignores the true submission queue age: 2 years 21 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/3765 / bug reports Login as an alias gets cached age: 25 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 / bug reports Malformed PDFs age: 11 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42312 Drupal 4.7 age: 12 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41887 support dynamic content? age: 17 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38181 please explain html2fpdf age: 17 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37748 Management of french charaters age: 18 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36605 / feature requests Internationalization support for PDF assigned: TheLibrarian age: 1 year 50 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/6795 / support requests Problem with PDFView age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45092 / bug reports Race Condition in the code. age: 10 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43511 / bug reports Error when the recipient is set to not accept PMs age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49442 privatemsg module: - database error - incompatibility with relationship module age: 5 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48866 Write to author links not appearing in nodes or comments age: 7 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46362 anonymous users can create folders and view all anonymous sent-mail age: 13 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41361 error when trying to send private message age: 14 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/40626 privatemsg not working with current head age: 26 weeks 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/31469 Reminder email links don't work age: 38 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/25677 / feature requests Simplified Chinese translations age: 17 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37505 / bug reports drupal.org tarballs out of date age: 1 week 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52560 Problems with project_projects_select_options() - taxonomy hierarchies age: 2 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/52262 Module with 4.6 branch isn't showing up in module list age: 6 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/47158 SQL errors on issues and my projects pages age: 12 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42160 Issues from multiple projects listed on a single issue's page age: 16 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38704 Get disconnected from server on attempting to add an issue age: 19 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36124 can't select all projects age: 23 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33262 Projects not listed and page not complete age: 41 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/23956 Date for latest is incorrect age: 48 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/20485 / feature requests Need Documentation age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40392 Search by Version age: 17 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38122 Allow subscription to individual project issues age: 21 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34496 / support requests Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference age: 4 days 16 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/53984 Add the project release manually without the scan feature age: 21 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34500 / bug reports Error with URL to recipe age: 28 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29885 / tasks recipe module not security checked age: 2 days 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/54431 / bug reports Subscriptions module appears fine, but it just diesn't work assigned: dziemecki age: 4 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49038 / bug reports Error when searching an existing user.... age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46288 / bug reports taxonomy_dhtml breaks security? age: 11 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42531 Does not work correctly in Internet Explorer age: 23 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/33354 Blocks switch and reset when vocabs are modified age: 44 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/22631 javascrip downloads square.gif for every category age: 1 year 4 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/17366 / feature requests A unique page for each category group? age: 21 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34610 / bug reports Taxonomy links only work for the first line of links assigned: PierreFWalter age: 3 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/51149 / support requests Taxonomy has dissapeared age: 23 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33061 / bug reports beta4 form_select() Error age: 6 weeks 9 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/47946 Sends trackbacks for unpublished nodes assigned: ankur age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/16239 / tasks approval queue error in beta 4 age: 8 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45429 / bug reports Sometimes when I open the drupal site in My Local machine I am getting the error. age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52652 Event start/end date section should *not* show first on Submit event page age: 12 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41869 meet age: 13 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40996 / feature requests A better Drupal.org Index (homepage) interface/layout mockup age: 7 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45967 A small but effective improvement to Improvement of admin/user accessability suggestion age: 22 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: 17 weeks 13 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/38227 / bug reports the wiki module can't work with HTML age: 6 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/47124

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