June 2006 - Development - lists.drupal.org

half sharing table in multisite
by sime 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Hi I'm doing a multi-site install with 5 or 6 sites. These sites will be sharing every table except some obvious candidates like "system", "variable" and "cache". I'm really looking for long-term maintainability, minimal patches, and so on. But I've yet to decide the best way manage data in the system and variable tables that is always going to be the same. For example, the system table will be duplicated because I want to have different themes installed and activated, however all of the installed modules are going to be exactly the same, and I will unfortunately be duplicating this other data. The same might goes for some variables. I guess the manual way to manage this is, everytime I add/change a module setting, go into each installation and repeat the process so that all sites have the same configuration. Alternatively maybe I can set up a cron job to ensure that data cascades from a "master" installation to the other ones. Any pointers/advice/warnings are appreciated. Especially book pages that I might have overlooked in my quest. Thanks & Regards Simon

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BOM in 4.7 cache
by Tamir Khason 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Strange issue with cache in 4.7.2. Possibly bug? While using cache after some time users get gibrished pages. After a short check I saw, that it's bacause of BOM in the begging of cached page. Someone knowns about it? How to get ride of it? Thank you -- Tamir

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Re: [development] Switching themes in modules
by Olav Schettler 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

Bèr, On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:38:01 +0200, Bèr Kessels wrote: > I read that. Still I see no difference. Sections is very small. The amount of > code in both modules is not much different. I agree with you. Background for me writing my manage.module was that really sections.module didn't do anything for me and I had to deliver a separate management theme to a client. After reading your above post, I debugged my problem and found that setting $custom_theme in hook_menu() is too late in my setting. Probably (I haven't analyzed this further), some other module initializes the theme system before. To me this seems like a general problem. I have therefore created a patch to sections.module at http://drupal.org/node/47788 which sets $custom_theme in a new hook_init(). Now your sections.module works for me nicely and I will use it. Olav -- Dr. Olav Schettler (Geschäftsführer) contAire GmbH ___________________________________________ Arndtstr. 12 | D-50676 Köln | Germany Office: +49 221 4204757 | Mobile: +49 175 2249141 olav.s(a)contaire.de | Yahoo! olav ___________________________________________ Please visit our website http://www.contaire.de/

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$user->uid from popup
by Tamir Khason 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

I want to get $user->uid (if authenticated user popped it up) from the window, popped up by drupal site (not drupal window) *without* transferring uid as parameter. Is it possible, and if it is, so how? Thank you -- Tamir

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How to handle uploads in a secure fashion?
by Fabio Varesano 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

Hi everybody, I just received an email from Ber asking to check my modules for security issues related to file uploads. Maybe others of you received too that emails. He tell me to check my module for upload related issue and see at the 4.7.1->4.7.2 patch as guide. Well... it seems that the main addition is the upload_munge_filename ... but this is an upload module only functions. Should the munge_filename function became a file api? Moreover a handbook page explaining how to handle uploads in security is needed. Fabio Varesano

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Proxying Files Downloads Through Drupal
by Rob Thorne 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

I have a Java web application that creates PDFs and other generated data. I'd like to control it through Drupal, and return the output from the web app as if it were served from Drupal. What are some suggestions how best to proxy this kind of data stream through Drupal? Since the original data stream will likely have the relevant HTTP headers to set the MIME type and content disposition, I'd also like to be able to preserve those during the operation. Thanks, Rob Rob Thorne Torenware Networks http://www.torenware.com

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How far is DRUPAL-4-6 maintained?
by Augustin (a.k.a. Beginner) 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hello, How far is DRUPAL-4-6 maintained? (Disclaimer: I use 4.7 for all my sites, so I have no specific interest in earlier versions). I am asking because I noticed a few things and I am curious. I don't imply anything (especially, I am not blaming anyone for anything!). Here: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=11555,11262,10237,9… we have 5 critical bugs relevant to the 4-6 branch only (those critical issues have been fixed for 4.7 and cvs). 3 out of 5 have a patch already. Here: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&states=14 we have altogether only 6 RTBC patches, which shows that the four core-commiters are doing their jobs :) What I notice, though is that 3 of them are patches for the 4-6 branch that have been sitting there for weeks. My guess is that they went below the commiters' radar because they are not cvs or 4.7 patches (but I may be wrong). Lastly, what is the policy for bugs that have been fixed in 4.7 and cvs but not in 4.6? (example: http://drupal.org/node/69027 ). Can the issue be closed straight away, or should the issue be marked for the 4.6 branch? Above, I said that Dries, Steve, Killes and Drumm are doing their job magnificently because there are only 6 RTBC patches. We cannot say the same of myself and the rest of the community: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&states=8 There are 246 issues with a patch needing review. Often a proper review is what is missing to make those RTBC. Thank you to all who contribute, one way or another :) Augustin. -- http://www.wechange.org/ Because we and the world need to change. http://www.reuniting.info/ Intimate Relationships, peace and harmony in the couple.

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Video module getting ready for 4.7 release: need help debugging
by Fabio Varesano 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi everybody, I just uploaded to cvs a new version of the video module which adds long time needed and requested features to the module. The new code is still not mature and I'd like you guys to give a try to the new video module and reports your bug at http://drupal.org/node/add/project_issue/video If you have time please install the module on a test site and give it a try... Instead please point your browser to: http://www.varesano.net/video-demo/ There is a drupal install with the new video module. I ask you to play the video there and reports problems. It's quite difficult to try the video embed stuff with all kind of browsers / players plug-in / platforms ... this is why I need that lot of people with different setups try to play videos. Ok.. hope to hear something from you soon. Fabio Following there is a list of last added features: Pluginization: Video.module file was too big and complex. I isolated each different feature which was not excencial and removed from the video.module file. Those features are now added by helper modules called plugins under the directory "plugins". The download has been separed from multidownload. There is now a separated plugin called video_multidownload which add multidownload feature. There are also some hooks being defined. See file hooks.php for details. XHTML Compliace: I worked hard to remove unvalid code from video module. Now the code generated by the module validates on W3C validator. This will probæbly generate some problems with uncommon browsers we will try to solve them as soon as reported. Thanks a lot to Karl Rudd who point me to the right direction towards compliace. Thumbnailing: There is plugin called video_image.module which add thumbnails support for the video module. Thumbnails are uploaded throught the video creation form and a image node is created with it. Video file Uploads: There is a plugin called video_upload.module which add a file upload field to the node creation form. The uploaded file is automatically set as path of the video. Then usable for plays/downloads.

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Staging content to production servers
by Khalid B 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

> Alan -- thanks for this write up. I think the staging/production > server issue is one that merits attention. A lot of times, it means > we're running without a safety net -- it is too hard to merge > (config, content) changes between a dev site and a live site...so > lots of people just don't, or do extra work in re-doing the same > config steps on a live site. Boris/Alan I have had clients ask me on this as well. The idea is to have a production server than no one posts content to directly, and a staging server where content is posted, edited, refined, ..etc. Then a button is clicked to push selected content from the staging to the production. Perhaps a starting point would be something similar to the Node Import/Export that Jeremy Epstein is writing as part of SoC. If this is coupled with: a) an API that modules can use to push/pull their own data along with what core does. b) an XML RPC or some other protocol for sending the data from one server to the other. c) Users and roles as well. d) all of the above is configurable (push content only, content + comments, users only, user + roles, all the above) If this happens, we can have truly federated servers and other neat things. For example, this can be the solution for sharing of users and roles across sites. If the sites are multi site on the same physical server, or across the globe, it will still work. Just some thoughts.

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Forms API newbie guide?
by Shawn 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

I'm just starting out trying to create my own module, and am having problems understanding some concepts. I'm finding the online docs/api to be lacking in some areas. So I was hoping someone might know of a good resource to building a module that will include creating a form and inserting/updating form data into a database table. I'm looking at Drupal 4.7, and have partial success with the Form API. I'm able to insert data, but updating is failing miserably. I'm sure my approach is not correct, but don't see much in the docs to help me out. (I don't *think* it's a question of how to use code, but more of how to use the framework - the APIs address the code part.) Thanks for any tips. Shawn

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