May 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Pathauto scaleability - path column in node / user table
by Adrian Rossouw 09 May '06

09 May '06

One of the things we discussed doing once 4.8 is open, around the time of vancouver, was that in order to maintain an alias for each and every node, using the path table for that, was just not going to scale. So, simply adding a 'path' column, which is in effect the preferred alias for that object, and then using a node_link($node) function (or just l($node->path)), would allow us to run modules like pathauto on very large production sites with thousands of nodes. This is a faily simple, albeit fairly large patch. Do we have any volunteers / naysayers? -- Adrian Rossouw Drupal developer and Bryght Guy http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com

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First Portland Drupal User Group Meeting
by andrew morton 08 May '06

08 May '06

The Portland (Oregon) PHP Users Group has started a Drupal special interest group. We're going to shoot for a monthly meeting on the second Tuesday. I know it's late notice, but our first meeting is tomorrow. We'll probably be looking at some of the cool things you can do with the views, actions and workflow modules. andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sam Keen <sam.sjk(a)gmail.com> Date: May 8, 2006 11:02 AM Subject: [PDXPHP - General] First Portland Drupal User Group Meeting To: gendisc(a)pdxphp.org Don't miss out this Tuesday May 9th. Become a part of history as we start the Drupal <drupal.org> User group for Portland Oregon. Meet at FreeGeek <freegeek.org> at 6pm. First meeting will be an intro to Drupal and discussion of how to organize the group's future meetings and activities. People of all skill levels are welcome. You can be anywhere from a PHP/Drupal guru to someone who wants to build their first website since you actually don't need to be a programmer to build sites with Drupal. see you there, Sam

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code freeze: september 1
by Dries Buytaert 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hello, Neil already suggested to freeze the development branch on September 1st. Unless there is strong disagreement with said date, we'll go ahead and make it official. This would be a great time to raise concerns. :) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Time frame for project approval?
by Richard Morse 08 May '06

08 May '06

Hi! I created a new project over a week ago, but it still doesn't show up on the modules page. I'm wondering how long it usually takes to get approved? Thanks, Ricky

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theme_foo() functions vs tpl.php templates (was Move all core modules into their own directories)
by Jeremy Epstein 08 May '06

08 May '06

On 5/4/06, Robert Douglass <r.douglass(a)onlinehome.de> wrote: > Neil Drumm wrote: > > I would actually be okay with removing the whole engine system and > > simply doing PHPTemplate only. Sure theme engines are a nice feature, > > but how many are maintained and what % of themes are PHPTemplate? > > I don't use anything but PHPTemplate, but I think that we want to keep > the engine system. Why don't we just leave the theme_ function inclusion > mechanism to the engine? PHPTemplate will require separate files, and > other engines can do what they please. I too am a big fan of PHPTemplate, and I don't even consider using a different engine when I design themes nowadays. But I think that the flexible theme engine system is a huge strength in Drupal, and that removing it would be a Very Bad Idea (tm). The plain PHP theming system is probably not worth using, for most people, but I think that it should remain to please the puritans among us (and besides, its overhead is minimal compared to the engines). The best-maintained theme engine in contrib is the Smarty engine, and ensuring continued support for this engine is IMO very important, as Smarty and Smarty-like template systems have become the preferred format for designers. I worked on a project last year where the client insisted on using Smarty templating, because their graphic / web designer was very familiar with it. I'm sure there are many stories like this one. Designers don't want to learn PHP in order to create templates: removing support for everything except PHPTemplate is guaranteed to turn off designers from using Drupal. As for the issue of theme_foo() functions in core getting replaced with foo.tpl.php templates: I think that this is a good idea, but it needs to be done very carefully. First, it will mean that PHPTemplate becomes an integral part of the theme system, rather than just an add-on engine. So the core theme system will have to be re-designed somewhat, to accommodate both PHPTemplate and theme_foo() functions being supported at all times. Which brings me to my second point: no, I don't think that support for theme_foo() functions should be dropped! Really small themeable functions are not worth writing a template for - there should be a mix between tpl.php templates in core (to replace the longer of the themeable functions), and the current functions that we have already. I know that many people want consistency in this, but personally, I would rather sacrifice consistency, than have 50 one-line tpl.php files in core. And, we should still be supporting plain PHP themes at all times (not to mention support for engine_foo() functions). Third, the defining of templates and their variables in PHPTemplate needs to improve before any of this can happen. Having to define a function in your template.php file for every template is already a PITA, and it's not what we should be doing when we start putting templates in core. When you call theme('foo'), PHPTemplate should be able to just go off and find foo.tpl.php without needing it defined in a function (or in the engine itself, or wherever). Same for variables - they already get passed in as parameters to theme('foo', ...), so they should automatically be available in the template, without assigning them all manually in an intermediary function. The stuff in my third point quite obviously needs to happen, IMO, before tpl.php files in core can happen. So I'm sorry if I'm just re-stating things that Adrian et al have already got planned - I haven't seen these points discussed anywhere yet. Cheers, Jeremy Epstein GreenAsh Services www.greenash.net.au

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Node Types
by Dan Ziemecki 07 May '06

07 May '06

I need to generate a list of active node types for a site, and I'm not sure how to go about doing that. What I need is an array something like this: $ntypes = array('blog','forum','flexi','page','story') The end result would be a list of possible node types a person would be able to subscribe to using the Subscriptions module. Any ideas how I might be able to find out which nodes are available for subscription? -- Dan Ziemecki Philosopher. Curmudgeon. Nerd.

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Release critical bugs for May 07, 2006
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 07 May '06

07 May '06

/ bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors age: 6 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 / tasks Group access file queries need updating age: 7 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/54570 / bug reports No check for loading chatbox with other name age: 23 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/38397 / bug reports Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 2 days 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 Event module preventing me from uploading age: 2 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/59775 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 2 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 Flexinode generates an error age: 6 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55135 Body text missing age: 7 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54383 Calendar subscribing not working age: 7 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 Event type filter doesn't work due to type age: 8 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52883 Drupal Event age: 19 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41833 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 20 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 21 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 22 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by a day age: 22 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 23 weeks 22 min url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install age: 44 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 / support requests Blank Page After Submit age: 3 weeks 14 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/58918 Can't Administer Event Module age: 17 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? 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Hide input forrmats
by michel ziobudda morelli 07 May '06

07 May '06

Hi all. Is there a method to disable the choice about input formats in a node ? I have my node type (zbnews), my module (zbnews.module) and a new input formats for it (zbnews-inputformat). Now In the "add" form I want to disable the choice of input formats or display only "zbnews-inputformat" input format. Is this possible ? Tnx. -- Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli michel(a)ziobudda.net http://www.ziobudda.net ICQ: 58351764 http://www.phpbook.it FAX: 0291390660 http://www.ajaxblog.it TEL: 3939890025

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Re: [development] Hello world - http://groups.drupal.org
by Pat Collins 06 May '06

06 May '06

On Sat, 06 May 2006 08:59:18 -0400, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman(a)tejasa.com> wrote : <snip> When creating a new group it would really be nice to not receive a "access denied" message prior to the groups approval. Pat

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implementing "plugins"
by Dan Robinson 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hi, I want to introduce a concept of "plugins" to my module. In this case the plugin merely needs to supply a single function that returns data. Is the best way to do this to have the plugin call a register function with the name of a function (and then call "eval"?). This is probably more of a PHP question than a Drupal question. Oh yes and is there documentation somewhere on what code Drupal automatically "includes"? Thanks, Dan

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