April 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

formsapi question: saving additional fields' data
by Nedjo Rogers 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

We can easily add fields to existing forms. Do we have a way to save their data? Example: I want to extend blocks' configuration pages. I can form_alter where $form_id = 'block_admin_configure', adding new fields. But block_admin_configure_submit() won't look for or save the added fields. To do so, I can only think of (a) (mis)using the #validate attribute to specify a function to pass the data to and save them there, or (b) hijacking the form by changing the form_id and sending it to a custom _submit function, which saves the custom fields and then invokes the original _submit function. Better approaches? Tips? Solutions that people have used elsewhere? Am I overlooking a relevant Forms API attribute? Thanks.

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[drupal.org/services] Would you please include us
by Olav Schettler 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

... on this page? This would make our engagement at Linuxtag 2006 even more credible. Here is the write-up: contAire GmbH | http://www.contaire.com/ Arndtstr. 12, D-50676 Köln, Germany +49 221 4204757 | info(a)contaire.de contAire GmbH is a consulting and software development company with a rich background in project work for e-commerce enterprises as well as media companies. Our managing directors are Dr. Olav Schettler and Friedrich Stahl. Services: contAire GmbH realises complex web-based projects. We compose and realise the software systems that best implement the digital content processes our customers need. Often, such a system is a tightly integrated blend of both commercial and free software components. Drupal has become our favourite when it comes to implementing online community features. Qualifications: We are an active and esteemed implementation partner of leading software companies Autonomy, CoreMedia, and Six. Our deep project experience taught us to successfully tackle complex tasks in agile environments. Recent clients include Bertelsmann AG (Guetersloh), Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland (Berlin), Roche Diagnostics GmbH (Mannheim), EUROPART Holding GmbH (Hagen), Draeger AG (Luebeck), and MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Leipzig). Drupal Projects: http://diabetes-world.net/ - Forum and user profiling; http://contaire.com/drupalsite - Company page + write-up; http://kgs-marienschule.de - School homepage, web-publishing workshops with teachers and pupils; To-be-disclosed site for a large + international research community. Drupal Contributions: We contributed an early wiki.module, a small teaser.module and a new theme engine for the PHPTAL language. We also sponsored the Drupal booth at Linuxtag 2006. -- Thank you & kind regards Dr. Olav Schettler (Geschäftsführer) contAire GmbH ___________________________________________ Arndtstr. 12 | D-50676 Köln | Germany Office: +49 221 4204757 | Mobile: +49 175 2249141 olav.schettler(a)contaire.de | Yahoo! olav ___________________________________________ Please visit our website http://www.contaire.com/

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Javascript Tools and Backport: developer-interest modules
by Nedjo Rogers 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

A couple of recent module postings coming in part from CivicSpace work that developers might wish to use: 1. Javascript Tools, http://drupal.org/node/57285, offers a number of js and AJAX tools that developers might wish to use in their modules. The aim is a toolkit that provides clean, Drupalish implementations of a full range of standardly-needed JS functionality, plus some extras. Included: * wforms.module, form features like multi-page client-side forms, including methods for generating them using the Forms API * tabs.module, client-side tabs, again with Forms API methods * activemenu.module, AJAX-based tree menu for standard Drupal menus (navigation, etc.). * jscalendar.module, popup calendar, added to textfields by including a 'jscalendar' class * etc. See the README.txt files with each component module for details on how to use these in your modules. Also, as you develop new JS tools, please consider adding them to this package :) 2. Backport, http://drupal.org/node/57119, makes Forms API and Drupal javascript available in 4.6. If you need to develop in 4.6 but want your code to be usable as well in 4.7, you can install Backport and code forms (and Javascript) using 4.7 methods. Probably this is more useful for custom modules than ones for general distribution. We're using this for Goodstorm to enhance the 4.6 site while making sure our code will work in 4.7 as well.

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Theme developer SIG created
by Adrian Rossouw 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Just a note to say that I have created a group on http:// groups.drupal.org for theme development. The url is http://groups.drupal.org/group/themes Anyone interested in further developing, and improving the theme system should join. Nick Lewis: this means you. =P -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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Views 4.6 maintainer wanted
by Earl Miles 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

I'm looking for someone to maintain the 4.6 branch of Views. Back when I made the jump to 4.7, I had the delusion that 4.7 would be out, ready and stable by now, and the majority of 4.6 users would've been in the process of converting by now. But as it is, I suspect a lot of sites are going to stay with 4.6 for a long time to come. The process of updating modules is pretty difficult. The 4.6 version of Views functions, but is way way behind the curve, and can't do a lot of the good things that the 4.7 version can. At the very least, I'd like to see if anyone is willing to shoulder the burden of maintaining the 4.6 module so that I can ignore it; and also of backporting some of the 4.7 stuff to 4.6 (possibly using Nedjo's backport module if it can be made to work) so that people stuck on 4.6 can at least use it reasonably.

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Anyone interested in ebay stuff?
by Karoly Negyesi 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hi, I have some code which is able to work with ebay notification system and create ecommerce products out of it. It uses the eBay acceleration toolkit which is free. But I imagine it could work without it, just it's me who is lazy. If you are interested in bringing it to a releaseable state and maintaing it, drop me a mail. Regards NK

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Release critical bugs for April 23, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

/ bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors age: 4 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 / bug reports buddylist.install not multi site safe age: 2 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/59634 you can not add yourself to buddylist age: 3 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/56696 warning - array_keys age: 3 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56241 More add buddy/delete buddy problems age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55230 / tasks Group access file queries need updating age: 5 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/54570 / bug reports No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 21 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports Devel Module Throws Error Messages age: 16 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/42457 / bug reports Event module preventing me from uploading age: 1 day 16 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/59775 Cannot create or modify event age: 4 days 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/59347 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 6 days 14 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 Flexinode generates an error age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55135 Body text missing age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54383 Calendar subscribing not working age: 5 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 Event type filter doesn't work due to type age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52883 Drupal Event age: 17 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41833 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 19 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 20 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by a day age: 20 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 21 weeks 6 min url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install age: 42 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 / support requests Blank Page After Submit age: 1 week 14 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/58918 Can't Administer Event Module age: 15 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? 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age: 22 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38181 please explain html2fpdf age: 22 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37748 Management of french charaters age: 23 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36605 / feature requests Internationalization support for PDF assigned: TheLibrarian age: 2 years 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/6795 / support requests Problem with PDFView age: 13 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/45092 / bug reports Race Condition in the code. age: 15 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43511 / bug reports Replying to a message from a person who doesn't accept private messages leads to blank screen age: 3 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56136 Error when the recipient is set to not accept PMs age: 9 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/49442 privatemsg module: - database error - incompatibility with relationship module age: 10 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48866 Write to author links not appearing in nodes or comments age: 12 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46362 anonymous users can create folders and view all anonymous sent-mail age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41361 error when trying to send private message age: 19 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/40626 privatemsg not working with current head age: 31 weeks 19 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/31469 Reminder email links don't work age: 43 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/25677 / feature requests Simplified Chinese translations age: 22 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/37505 / bug reports Two search forms on issue pages age: 2 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/57023 issue validation is broken by multipage form bugs assigned: dww age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56458 Can't attach patch to initial issue post age: 3 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55984 drupal.org tarballs out of date age: 6 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52560 Problems with project_projects_select_options() - taxonomy hierarchies age: 7 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/52262 SQL errors on issues and my projects pages age: 17 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/42160 Issues from multiple projects listed on a single issue's page age: 21 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38704 Get disconnected from server on attempting to add an issue age: 24 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/36124 can't select all projects age: 28 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/33262 Projects not listed and page not complete age: 46 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/23956 Date for latest is incorrect age: 1 year 1 week url: http://drupal.org/node/20485 / feature requests Need Documentation age: 19 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/40392 Search by Version age: 22 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/38122 Allow subscription to individual project issues age: 26 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34496 / support requests Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference age: 5 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/53984 Add the project release manually without the scan feature age: 26 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/34500 / bug reports Node not added after filling in ad recipe template age: 2 days 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/59548 Error with URL to recipe age: 33 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/29885 / tasks recipe module not security checked age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54431 / support requests Need help with Sched and Agregator age: 1 week 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/58540 / bug reports Porting to Drupal 4.7 age: 4 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55034 / bug reports Error when searching an existing user.... age: 12 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46288 / bug reports IE hangs on loading js or when clicking before before page finishes loading age: 3 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55924 taxonomy_dhtml breaks security? 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flexinode towards 4.7: update, and it needs additional maintainer(s)
by Bèr Kessels 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello, After some busy weeks, I found some more time to devote on flexinode. I beleive flexinode is critical for 4.7. Also for the Drupal 4.7 release. It is a popular module, and rather a complex one. Without a 4.7 release we will have a big lot less testers and people who want to move to 4.7. Samc recently hopped in and is testing and making patches like a madman, thanks for that! I am doing at least five to seven patch tests and/or commits a day too, but we are still far from a release, that is by far not enough to ensure a safe upgrade to 4.7 for flexinode users soon. So: * No. I will not drop flexinode in favour of CCK. CCK is not tested in critical environments, there is no (tested, full-proof) upgrade path, etc. It is just not ready for prime time yet (IMO). I will maintain flexinode for at least one release cycle, depending on the speed of development in CCK. * I would love to have someone maintain the 4.6 branch of flexinode. I you have several or one sites running 4.6 flexinode, and some time left, mind doing this? I do not actively maintain any myself, and I would like to focus entirely on getting a solid 4.7 flexinode out. Just Do It, its nothing official, but please announce it somewhere so we know who to turn to. * I would love help in that road to 4.7. Both in testing patches, and in committing them. Anyone in for some flexinode joy? Same as above, its nothing official, but you'd need at least commit rights to CVS, and some experience with patches and flexinode (otherwise it will cost us only more time). Cheerios, and flexible greetings, Bèr

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pager_query() vs. theme('pager') argument handling
by Derek Wright 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

i was testing a bugfix to the project module (removing tablesort_pager() from the call to theme('pager')) and noticed that the $limit and $element args for theme('pager') vs. the ones to pager_query() are duplicated. in IRC, steven (unconed) pointed me to: http://drupal.org/node/5371#comment-89191 if theme('pager') is smart enough to remember the query (which is why y'all got rid of tablesort_pager() in the first place), why does theme('pager') need to take these other args, either, since they're also passed to pager_query()? we definitely want these to match, or else the prev/next and numbered links generated by theme('pager') won't match the data being displayed. i know this isn't 6.7 critical, but i'm trying to understand why these args to theme('pager') are there at all. seems like a recipe for confusing bugs when the calls to pager_query() and theme('pager') disagree on these args... any other insights on this? thanks, -derek (dww)

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Want to participate in drupal development.
by balachandar muruganantham 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

hi, i am LAMP developer and i want to participate in drupal cms development . to know my skills visit here http://www.balachandar.net/resume. i am interested in fixing bugs. how do i do that and also i need rights for check in and check out and also i want rights to assign bugs to me so that i can work on it. hope i get these things. -- <name> balachandar muruganantham</name> <Yahoo!> mbchandar</Yahoo!> <Hotmail> mbchandar</Hotmail> <blog> http://www.balachandar.net/blog</blog> <web>http://www.balachandar.net</web> <talk> http://www.expertstalk.org</talk> <shop>http://www.chennaishopping.com</shop>

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