May 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

social network module
by Novák Áron 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hi, I would like to thank to Adrian Rossouw who encouraged me after my first SoC proposal to write another one! (the accepted one :) ) My task is a social network module (the application is available here: http://aaron.myip.hu/summer-of-code.html) I have to choose between two possibilities: (1) The new module'll be a support for site admins mainly who can see the (hidden) structure and the relationship between the visitors. (the relationship is based on the site's statistics) (2) The new module add to Drupal such capabilities what orkut have. Users can decide that who knows who and they collect friends and so on. I've created a poll here: http://2006.planet-soc.com/?q=node/190/results Of course the two options don't make impossible each other but for me it's important to see what is the higher priority. My humble opinion is to do the second one first, after that do the first one. My main ideas for (2): - Creating a graph according the users' interaction - Users can see their own network (and the entire of course) as an SVG picture. (Will IE7 support SVG? I don't know.) - The module can tell that what is the shortest route between two users - Perhaps a circle finder solution (find N-length circles with a specific user) (i don't know yet that this problem has an easy algorithm) The (1) is very similar to (2) plus: - The data source of the graph is the statistics of the site - Find the most popular things (pages or people) Thanks for any comment or vote, Aron Novak

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Contacting Onesself
by Dan Robinson 26 May '06

26 May '06

Folks, With the contact module is there any particular end-user requirement that is being fulfilled by having the contact tab turned on for yourself? Why would I want to contact myself? Thanks, Dan

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Notes From Worldwide Developer Conference
by Khalid B 26 May '06

26 May '06

Here are the highlights from the conference for those who missed it. The Lullabot guys will publish a podcast of the entire conference call later. There was also an IRC chat in parallel with the conference. Not sure if anyone is going to publish that or not. Part 1: Dries talked about the future of Drupal mainly. Making Drupal easier for users is a primary goal. The following are the areas of focus for the next Drupal release - Installer Paves the way for install profiles. Being written by CivicSpace (Kieran Lal, Jeremy). - CCK Allows creation of node types without creating modules - Views Very powerful presentation tool - URL aliases Easier for users and modules to create aliases - Templating Move theming stuff out of modules into template files. Separates code from presentation. - Better File/Image Handling Upload module needs improvements. File handling - Default theme in core Bluemarine has served its purpose, but need something less boring. - Internationalization Translating Drupal into different languages, and countries/regions that are bi/multilingual (Europe, Canada, ...etc.) - Usability changes / Performance Improvements Block visibility by role. Forum/Flatforum. This is not an exhaustive list. There are other areas for improvement. Help with ideas, contributing code, testing patches, writing documentation or in any other area that you feel like. Questions and Answers: - Drupal Foundation. No decision on this so far. - Adoption of 3rd party Javascript library. What we have works. No commitment to other parties so far. - What are the interesting Summer of Code projects? Usability and accessability of Drupal - Dries and Drupal Will continue to spend time on Drupal since it interests him. - Image modules are popular downloads Part 2: Karoly Negyesi (chx) (Poor voice quality. Hard to hear much. I missed that part.) Part 3: Angela Byron (webchick) Much better voice quality! Overview of Google 2006 Summer of Code projects, one by one. Could not accept all applicants. Only 14 of them. Konstantin Kaefer gave an overview of his project: Drupal administration improvement. Conference still going as I sign off from it.

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Drupal 4.6.7 and 4.7.1 released
by Angela Byron 26 May '06

26 May '06

This includes two critical security fixes. Please see the announcement here: http://drupal.org/node/65351 Note: I am only announcing because I'm the only one up at this hour. ;) Big thanks go to chx, Heine, and everyone else involved in helping out to solve this problem. -Angie

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block visibility by roles (#18018) -- code needs review (again)
by Derek Wright 26 May '06

26 May '06

since dries specifically mentioned this feature in his talk today on what he wants to see in core for the next release, i figured i should update the patch. ;) http://drupal.org/node/18018#comment-102128 http://drupal.org/files/issues/block_roles_6.patch please review and test. i'd like to provide some kind of 4.7 work-around, but i can't promise i'll have time to work on that in the near future. let's get the functionality committed to core, and then we can worry about a 4.7 contrib solution. thanks! -derek (dww)

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XML transformations using XSL
by Farsheed 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hi, I'm doing some work involving multiple XML feed generation from one data source. Think SMIL, XSPF, RSS, iTunes, PLS, M3U...all use a similar data source: music playlists. Currently each XML feed is generated with a callback function written in PHP. I was thinking the other day, perhaps a better approach would be to provide all the data in one XML file and then convert this file to other XML schemas using XSL. Does such an approach make sense? Anyone done something similar? The reason I thought this might be useful is because then it becomes easy to support multiple XML schema's by simply writing another XSL template and plugging it in to some generalized transformation function. -Farsheed __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Free Drupal TeleConference via Skype and Landline begins in an hour and 15 minutes.
by Robin Monks 25 May '06

25 May '06

Hello fellow Drupal developers! This is just a friendly reminder that the Drupal TeleConference will be beginning shortly. To join this conference via skype call +99008275513296 via skype (this is a free skype call regardless of where you live). If you need to access the call via a landline, you can get a list of call-in numbers at this node: http://drupal.org/node/64055 The conference agenda is also available at http://drupal.org/node/64055 A special thanks to lullabot who will be recording this conference as a podcast! Hope to to hear you there! Robin -- Robin Monks, CivicSpace Release Engineer Drupal Marketing Coordinator Encrypted email preferred: http://shurl.org/key/devlinks@gmail.com

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dba.module maintenance?
by Derek Wright 25 May '06

25 May '06

while we're talking about contrib modules that we wish were being more actively maintained, what's up with the dba.module (database administration, http://drupal.org/node/8482)? this is one of the most useful modules in contrib, IMHO. there hasn't been a commit in over 4 weeks, the 4.7 port isn't done, there are quite a few active tickets that haven't gotten any attention in longer than that, and i've got a minor RTBC patch from 9 weeks ago that still hasn't gone in. anyone seen jeremy@kerneltrap recently? ;) jeremy, if you're still around and too busy to deal with dba (i know we're all too busy), would you be willing/interested in a granting cvs access to anyone else to help maintain it? i'm already spread way too thin, so i don't want to actually become the maintainer. however, i rely on this module so much (and already know the code well enough to have submitted some patches a while ago that were committed), that i'd be willing to help commit patches. any other volunteers? anyone available to roll a patch for a thorough port to 4.7 (http://drupal.org/node/59073)? thanks, -derek (dww)

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RE: [development] Microsoft SQL Server
by Nick Stone 25 May '06

25 May '06

I am not quite sure of the whole list protocol stuff so I have been posting to the following: http://groups.drupal.org/node/568 I have worked up a provisional database.mssql.inc and made a database.mssql file to set up the database. I have a number of issues the most difficult of which is the query that is designed to add results to a temporary table for later use on the page. At present MS SQL doesn't support CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE - I'm not sure if this is SQL2003 compliant but either way it isn't available in the same manor. I have posted some thoughts on alternate solutions: http://groups.drupal.org/node/568#comment-1403 I would appreciate people's thoughts. Also if somebody could point me to the location where code is submitted that would be useful as it would allow me to put up what's been completed. Thanks Nick ________________________________ From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of David Cornelius Sent: 23 May 2006 16:47 To: development(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Microsoft SQL Server I'm interested in resuming support for MS SQL Server. The reason given was that a recent decision was made that Drupal stuff wouldn't concern itself with commercial software. I, too, am interested in support for MS SQL Server. Many small businesses I deal with have online stores integrated through SQL Server to Win32 store-front POS applications. Centralization of their databases is important, plus it would give credence to some who scoff at open source solutions. I have both Linux and Windows server environments and would be happy to help develop and/or test this database support as time allows. David Cornelius http://corneliusconcepts.com

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Re: [development] Human readable taxonomy URLs
by Doq Doques 24 May '06

24 May '06

> > > From the rel-tag spec (http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag) > > "Tags are embedded in HTTP URIs in a well-defined manner so that the tag > embedded in an HTTP URI can be mechanically extracted from that URI. > Specifically, the last segment of the path portion of the URI (after the > final "/" character) contains the tag value." > > In the world of Microformats there is only one url segment after the / > which properly encodes a tag/category/keyword/term/etc; adding a > textfield to control that wouldn't be too useful since there is only one > option for compliance with this spec. > > I would like to see core have this without the addition of any UI, > probably using the approach laid out in http://drupal.org/node/63635 for > nodes on the code side. The URLs can be '.../{vocabulary}(/{parent > category})*/{category}'. > > And since we are coding Drupal here, might as well throw in an API for a > pathauto-like module to go and change everything up. A module could Form > API in a text field for manual editing if someone wants that. > > (A system to manage redirects would be nice so URLs get redirects as > they are changed.) > > -- > Neil Drumm > http://delocalizedham.com/ > > In the beginning of 2006 I have started to develop module called friendly_url. Its features are: * Extends custom_url_rewrite functionality. * Friendly user URLs: user/1.* --> user/root.* (e.g. user/1/edit --> user/root/edit). root - was the name of user. If friendly_url module is enabled then users can't register with login names that will be encoded in URL. * Nodes URLs: When user adds new node he can specify a friendly URL - which can't be number or some of the forbidden names (forbidden URLs are fetched using hook_url_rewrite_forbidden().) * Taxonomy URLs: same as nodes. * Taxonomy_menu URLs. * Friendly URL caching. Taxonomy_menu provides special rewrite from taxonomy/term/* to hierarchical taxonomy_menu/<voc_name>/<term_friendly_url>/<term_friendly_url>. Also taxonomy_menu/<voc_name>/<term_name>/<term_name>/depth/0 etc. was implemented for feeds. Also, taxonomy_menu can be striped from the URL. e.g. I have a taxonomy_menu/articles/artificial-intelligence/neural-networks. ---> articles/artificial-intelligence/neural-networks. (where articles is the friendly url of vocabulary.) Maybe this ways can be helpful for developing a hierarchical taxonomy URLs. sincerely, doq doques.

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