January 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

MySQL .org pavillion
by Dries Buytaert 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hello, Lenz Grimmer from MySQL has invited us to showcase Drupal at the MySQL conference in Santa Clara: http://drupal.org/node/100515 I'd love to go but can't afford the trip. Anyone who wants to represent Drupal? Let me know or get in touch with Lenz. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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New bzr mirror
by Karoly Negyesi 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, The bzr mirror at bzr.drupal.org got broken because of a bug in the tailor code. We are going two ways: one, using the cvsps-import plugin on bzr.drupal.org to resurrect a mirror there. I will report on the progress on this later. Two, there always was a mirror since long on Launchpad just last summer the module moving broke it. I asked and the fine folks at #bzr revived it, so bzr get http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/drupal/main This branch goes back to the dawn of time, so we have 6864 revisions as I write this, so a little patience initially is advised. Given the fact that Launchpad is maintained by the bzr team, we can hope that at least until we break our CVS repo really bad this branch will stay in place. Enjoy, Karoly Negyesi

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All your notices belong to me
by Karoly Negyesi 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Given the pace and quality of E_NOTICE patches of late, I will now fix them all. Just telling the world so noone else wastes time trying again and again.

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breadcrumbs
by Karoly Negyesi 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi, We all know that our breadcrumb is not perfect. It's very far from it, actually. As breadcrumbs are currently removed from HEAD, we have a blank sheet to draw something pretty on it. I discussed this long with webchick, and here are some results: *) There is no one solution that fits all. *) Sometimes you even want multiple breadcrumbs. *) Core needs to provide some default and configurable breadcrumb(s) *) Contrib should be able to add more breadcrumb schemes With that said, here are some breadcrumb schemes that I believe should be core: *) Based on path. I have page/subpage/pagethird and the breadcrumb should read "link to page" >> "link to page/subpage" >> "title of page/subpage/pagethird". Or without the title. Remember, there is no one solution that fits all. *) Based on tags. Vocabulary name >> Hierarchy of tags provided it's a single hiearchy. Here, if you want you can provide multiple very easily, even ordering is not a problem, vocabularies have weights already. I hereby propose the creation of breadcrumb module based on Eaton's token module and partially on his custom breadcrumb project. I strongly believe that token module needs to find its way to core, it's not big and it's very useful. A good read is http://www.visiblearea.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Patterns/Homeward_path (thanks Sepeck for the link). Regards, NK

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Release critical bugs for January 28, 2007
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Article / bug reports 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors assigned: msameer age: 44 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 CVS management/tracker / feature requests provide admin UI to set a release node's CVS tag to '' age: 6 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/103427 enforce sequential release tags in xcvs-taginfo assigned: dww age: 13 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/90968 Event / bug reports Event module needs to know about the new DST rules starting on March 11, 2007 age: 3 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/107011 [php5, clone] end-start-ongoing attribute does not ripple through age: 17 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85972 Major timezone bug in event module age: 23 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/78572 event_start not being set age: 35 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65609 Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 38 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 40 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 event calendars off by day/not respecting timezones - fix? age: 43 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56189 Flexinode generates an error age: 44 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55135 Calendar subscribing not working age: 45 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 Problem Selecting Event by Type age: 46 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52883 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 1 year 6 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 1 year 8 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by GMT offset age: 1 year 8 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Events module bugs adding and changeing events age: 1 year 8 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39016 gmdate() warnings on windows install assigned: Omar Abdel-Wahab age: 1 year 30 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26140 Event / feature requests Javascript calendar control and all day events age: 36 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/64490 Event / support requests How to display small calendar on homepage? assigned: dada78 age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/109630 Help!!! Site Broken!! age: 3 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/107239 Blank Page After Submit age: 41 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/58918 Can't Administer Event Module age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 1 year 16 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 1 year 18 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31532 Gallery / bug reports IE error using embed not error with none-embed... when navigation block on right age: 38 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/62119 Gallery / support requests Gallery2 grants access without proper permission age: 4 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/105418 import existing gallery2 user account age: 1 year 12 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/35920 Glossary / feature requests po files and other language support age: 1 year 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/46313 Goofy / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 1 year 17 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 Listhandler / bug reports user lookup on name only assigned: zeroj age: 43 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/56936 Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 1 year 2 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 1 year 12 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 Listhandler 4.6.0 fails to send emails at all age: 1 year 27 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/27095 Listhandler / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 1 year 13 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 Mailhandler / support requests Creating a page using mailhandler age: 32 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/68947 Mail Body not downloaded age: 1 year 3 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 Members / bug reports Update: beta5 and possible problem with php 4 age: 47 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52004 Patch for member.module to bring it up to 4.7 age: 51 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/47829 foreach() assigned: neablo age: 1 year 4 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/42350 Node (key)words / bug reports Error on delete node age: 22 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/80505 can't use php functions in body of nodes assigned: Robrecht Jacques age: 23 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/79315 Node (key)words / feature requests Can't Put Keywords in Categories age: 14 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/90199 Enable nodewords for node type? age: 50 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48869 Node Aggregator / bug reports nodes are being created with no body age: 1 year 7 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/40373 missing promote column assigned: Bèr Kessels age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/38836 Naming issues with files and DB tables age: 1 year 14 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34298 RSS "no element found at line 1" age: 1 year 30 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/26185 Outdated help texts age: 2 years 25 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/9692 Import doesn't like XML/RSS feeds with no Title element age: 2 years 34 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/8128 Node Aggregator / tasks move XML-parser into an inclde file. age: 1 year 31 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/25439 Path / bug reports aliases that start with same string as other aliases age: 5 days 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/111775 Login as an alias gets cached age: 1 year 18 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 Path / feature requests Admin created list of URL's to ignore age: 1 week 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/111171 Pdfview / bug reports custom fields not displayed age: 1 week 6 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/111340 Poormanscron / bug reports cron somehow interrupts MySql connection age: 2 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/108676 Privatemsg / bug reports Impossible to clean-up database after uninstalling privatemsg age: 2 weeks 9 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/109206 When enableing the module, Drupal tries to update instead of install age: 17 weeks 20 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/86830 privatemsg module: - database error - incompatibility with relationship module age: 50 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/48866 Remindme / bug reports Argument #1 is not an array age: 32 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/69286 Cron job creates SQL error age: 34 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/66202 Subscriptions / bug reports Unpublished nodes and comments age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/109755 Subscribe/Unsubscribe does not work on node form update age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/107907 Subscriptions remain active when access control maintain subscriptions is disabled age: 16 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/87625 Taxonomy dhtml / bug reports IE 7 javascript errors on the page that display the categories age: 8 weeks 1 hour url: http://drupal.org/node/101100 Disabling Teasers (Trimmed Posts) Not working when set to Unlimited assigned: samdeskin age: 13 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/91299 doesn't work with taxonomy_access? age: 18 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85355 Error on Page with Internet Explorer 6 age: 32 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/68906 Taxonomy DHTML's cache ignores user privileges age: 36 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/64532 Does not work correctly in Internet Explorer age: 1 year 16 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33354 javascrip downloads square.gif for every category age: 1 year 49 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/17366 Taxonomy dhtml / feature requests A unique page for each category group? age: 1 year 14 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34610 Taxonomy navigation / bug reports Taxonomy links only work for the first line of links assigned: PierreFWalter age: 48 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/51149 TrackBack / bug reports install script does not put curly braces around table name age: 8 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/100634 Sends trackbacks for unpublished nodes assigned: ankur age: 2 years 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/16239 User experience / bug reports page not found when creating content assigned: DL age: 2 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/109034 Verification Active assigned: maverickvarun age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/101384 Webserver Auth / bug reports Logging out error age: 43 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56663 Wiki / bug reports the wiki module can't work with HTML age: 51 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/47124

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nodify.module idea: 'everything is a node'
by Nedjo Rogers 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hi folks, An idea I'm hoping for some feedback on before wading into coding. As Drupal devs we've often talked about how to give all Drupal objects (terms, vocabularies, users, nodes, etc.) all the features of nodes. Instead of relying on separate APIs and methods and access control etc. for each object type, we look for a single system that each of these could tap into. Instead of implementing separate ways of adding characteristics (e.g., user profiles), we look for all the benefits of a single, soundly developed one (content.module). I'm pondering a 'nodify' module that would accomplish these aims through attaching content.module content types to each object. Create a user/role/term/vocabulary and it gets all the characteristics of an admin-configurable content type. We already have similar implementations. One I've been looking at with interest is fago's usernode module. It's a node type module that attaches nodes to users. (The module can be manually edited to instead use a different, e.g., CCK, content type.) Basically we'd do the same thing, with two differences: 1. instead of doing so for just one Drupal object type (users), we'd construct a set of methods that could apply to all types. 2. instead of implementing a custom node type through a node module we'd use content.module to create a new, extensible node type (getting the advantages of being able to add fields). As a result, we'd be able to do things with non-node objects like: - attach anything implemented through nodeapi (e.g., mailing) - implement access control through node_access modules - add CCK field types - expose directly to views - control rendering through nodapi 'view' op - etc. Specifically, I'd see: 1. A core set of handlers and methods, like: - nodify_create_content_type() to create a content type with a name llike 'nodify_term' or'nodify_user'. - nodapi hook implementation - hook to load data on supported object types - custom hooks as needed to call methods in all supported object types. e.g. nodify_help() might call help in all support object types' .inc files for messages specific to that object type, e.g., a term. 2. For each module with a one or more supported object types, an include file (e.g., taxonomy.inc for terms and vocabularies, user.inc for users and roles) with specific methods: - hook implementation to describe available supported object types. E.g., taxonomy.inc would return something about supporting 'term' and 'vocabulary'. - custom hook implementations, e.g., of nodify_help. - hook implementations (user.inc implements hook_user(), taxonomy.inc implements hook_taxonomy) to attach - form alters: e.g., term editing form is altered to add the node edit form for 'nodify_term' content type. - views hooks Questions: - does this approach sound useful? - who's working on something similar? better? - pitfalls? - anyone wanting to work on this? Thanks, Nedjo

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OSCON Portland
by Dries Buytaert 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Hello, if someone wants to present Drupal at OSCON, Portland -- make sure to submit your proposal at: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/create/e_sess The deadline is Frebruary 5th so don't wait too long with your proposals. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Help saving our tribal initation
by Karoly Negyesi 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Knowing the seven arguments of l is our tribal initation and with http://drupal.org/node/111347 we are about to lose it! Oh noes! I hereby behest everyone not to review/benchmark that or any carpetbagger will be able to write Drupal code.

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Re: [development] Database schema abstraction and *reflection*(was: Referential integrity -- finally?)
by Metzler, David 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

I was wondering if the model code for the new forms API might be a good place to start for syntax. Wouldn't it be cool if the way we talked about data for the model portion of a form would be the same as the way we talked about data in the schema? Or does that seem silly? Anyway I love this idea, as it opens the door for much more postgres or other db support. The lowest common demoninator for DML is much easier to achieve than in the DDL in my experience. Dave

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by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

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