January 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Re: [development] Rename *_load and friends
by Peter Wolanin 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

A patch for the HEAD developer docs is here: http://drupal.org/node/107225 While everything is still referred to as a "hook", the name placeholder in the last patch is altered to "method_". I think these *are* different from the other hooks, in that one module can implement an unlimited number of node hooks (e.g. mymodulename.module can implement story1_load(), page1_load(), press_release_load(), etc), whose names may be totally unrelated to the module name, but can only implement mymodulename_nodeapi(). if you don't like "method_" as an alternate placeholder, please post a better patch. -Peter

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Rename *_load and friends
by Karoly Negyesi 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hi, We have had a discussion about this already under a different subject. My opinion here is that hook_foo is something that gets implemented by N modules and at call time these are called, one after the other. hook_menu , hook_form_alter etc etc Note that 'hook' is always replaced by the module name. Despite hook_load is called a hook, it's a different animal: at call time, only one implementation is called. Not to mention that since we have a node information hook, 'hook' is not necessarily replaced by the module name. Larry Garfield suggested calling these method_load, method_view and so on. This I find a good idea and now would like to get opinions on this name. Thanks ChX Ps. By the way, theme hooks are also not hooks...

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Re: [development] Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site Creation?
by Metzler, David 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

I've taken a different approach, as said, not up to drupal distro standards, but I create and configure skel databases, and use scripts to copy sites, and run sql queries, including modifying some site variables. Adding a few scripted svn update commands to some of these scripts might accomplish what you're looking for or might not. The code's not pretty, so use at your own risk. http://www2.evergreen.edu/dave/node/72 They only work on linux environments. Dave -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Mike Cantelon Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 1:43 PM To: development(a)drupal.org Subject: [development] Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site Creation? Hi all, Has anyone created any tools for automating site setup? Basically what I'm doing now each night via a script is: 1) Cloning my production site 2) Replacing certain directories with versions checked out from Subversion 3) Running a series of Linux commands and SQL queries to set up modules that are in development but have not been deployed to production Whenever I start development on a new module I have to add to my mirroring script to automate Drupal setup. I can write some PHP functions to encapsulate this, but maybe something already exists? Cheers, Mike

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Re: [development] Seems I need to take sandbox in my own hands
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

i'm just going to toss this out there as a general proposal: 1. move the sandbox completely out of the contrib repo, and make a new one -- this has the dual benefit of moving our 'messy' space away from our 'clean' space, and making the checkouts of the contrib repo faster/cleaner. you can then checkout the mess if you choose to. :) 2. in the new 'sandbox' repo, put a limit on how much each user can have in their active folder -- maybe 1 or 2 MB, which should be plenty for an experimental code home. i think this would be a pretty easy thing to implement. this would allay any bandwidth/space concerns about our chaotic space. i love the idea of having a more clear policy of what goes where, and setting up systems that encourage collaboration. i feel that a community place for chaos belongs in that map somewhere...

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Any Drupal Tools for Automating Staging Site Creation?
by Mike Cantelon 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi all, Has anyone created any tools for automating site setup? Basically what I'm doing now each night via a script is: 1) Cloning my production site 2) Replacing certain directories with versions checked out from Subversion 3) Running a series of Linux commands and SQL queries to set up modules that are in development but have not been deployed to production Whenever I start development on a new module I have to add to my mirroring script to automate Drupal setup. I can write some PHP functions to encapsulate this, but maybe something already exists? Cheers, Mike

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Issues queue - e-mail notification: Revealing my e-mail.
by Keve 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

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No module-defined node types?
by Chris Johnson 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

In a thread on hook_nodeapi, Jaza wrote: "With the new CCK-partially-in-core features, it's likely that before long, there will be no such thing as module-defined node types. There will only be user-defined node types." Either I grossly misunderstand things, or ... the hell you say? (American idiom for disbelief or roughly "no way!") CCK may be regarded as the greatest thing since sliced bread by users, site admins and even many developers, but I may not want to use CCK to define nodes when I've got some special data I want to use efficiently as content in a module I'm writing. CCK is inefficient *by design* in order to purchase its flexibility. Drupal is a framework. It shouldn't force content creation modules to use one and only one method.

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4.7.5 released
by Gerhard Killesreiter 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi there! This is to announce that Heine and myself released Drupal 4.7.5 a few minutes ago. I hope we didn't mess up too badly. :p A lot of issues where fixed and also two security issues where fixed. So it is a god idea to upgrade. Note: Don't forget update.php. Oh, yeah, thre is also a 4.6.11 that we created. Hopefully the last 4.6.x release. If you still use 4.6: Don't forget update.php either. Cheers, Gerhard Cheers, Gerhard

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Creating different front pages
by Michel Levy-Provençal 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi everybody, I am newbie on Drupal and I would like to know how can i do to create different templates for each section of my website. I need a portal-like homepage, a bloglike template for each section and a simple article template for each content. Is there a simple way to do that? Do you have any tuto? The very best help would be the source code of theonion.com ... ;) Or something similar. Thanks for your help Michel Lévy-Provencal

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Re: [development] No module-defined node types?
by Karen Stevenson 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

----- Original Message ---- From: Morbus Iff <morbus(a)disobey.com> To: development(a)drupal.org Sent: Friday, January 5, 2007 8:12:17 AM Subject: Re: [development] No module-defined node types? >> But how does one value-add a CCK field? Or would you have to tell the user to >> add it and then select which field is the "start" and which is the "end"? I >> don't know of a way right now. That could be because there isn't one, or >> could be that I just don't know what it is. :-) > >At the moment, that's the one million dollar question. I don't know if >anyone has figured out how to do the above, or how to programatically >create a CCK node type. I think we have some page/story node type >creation in Drupal 5.x's system updates, but I have no idea how well >that can be reapplied to CCK. > >Ideally, I'd love to see something like Views snippets, >where you can export/import pre-created views. The import/export feature has already been added (using the content_copy module that is now packaged with CCK) so you can create a custom content type and export its definition and import it into another installation using copy and paste. The only other thing that's needed now is to create a hook in content_copy that allows other modules to identify code that is available for import in the way that Views identifies default views and create a way in the content module to list those definitions so the user can select one of them. That's the easy part, getting the import/export working was the hard part, and that's done. As to the option to identify a 'from' and a 'to' date in the date module, that's something I'm planning to add, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do it. And the value add is easy since you can now (in 5.x) add any CCK field to any content type. Karen

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