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Weight values function?
by Alessandro Feijó 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

There is in drupal core a function to return the #options to my weight fields? (-10 to 10, i.e.) I'm searching in the \includes folder, without success :) Thanks Feijó

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This is why we need simpletests
by Karoly Negyesi 26 Dec '07

26 Dec '07

Hi, I know that nobody tested trigger.module as a user not being uid 1 because a severe menu bug introduced on May 16 (aka before the commit of actions) made all actions admin pages inaccessible for anyone but uid 1. I could apologize for this mistake but I won't. Instead I am glad that this brightly reveals some inefficiency of our testing. To correct that, I would like to ask for a serious push on simpletests. This bug was revealed by cwgordon7, a GHOP student while working on those. I am going to work on http://drupal.org/project/simpletest_automator more during the next two days making it even easier to create tests. If anyone needs a site to play with the automator and churn out tests, let me know. We are in an interesting position: very soon we will run out of critical bugs (thanks god!) but we can't release because there is no Views module and drupal.org is not updated. Let's use this time to cover core with simpletests and make Drupal 6 the best release ever. The angel of Drupal testing (aka webchick) posted http://groups.drupal.org/node/5974 this fantastic list for us. So... it's season for testing. In the past, I wanted to ask Dries to introduce this season. Instead, I would like to ask everyone to ask from her/himself as I did "oh my god, what else could be there" and then join the simpletest writing crowd. Regards, Karoly Negyesi

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Re: [development] Implementing without nodes (Alessandro Feij?)
by Peter Wolanin 25 Dec '07

25 Dec '07

FYI, I just cut-n-pasted (with a little editing) Larry's forms intro into a handbook page in the module-developer's section: http://drupal.org/node/202756 Hopefully having a page here will make it easier for new devs to get started with the Forms API. -Peter > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alessandro Feijó <patrao(a)legendas.feijo.info> > To: <development(a)drupal.org> > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:11:30 -0200 > Subject: Re: [development] Implementing without nodes > What a fantastic reply!! Thanks a lot, Garfield, > > I successfully set my form to work!! > > > Feijó > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Garfield" <larry(a)garfieldtech.com> > To: <development(a)drupal.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:01 AM > Subject: Re: [development] Implementing without nodes > > > If you want a form that is detached from the node concept, you just define > the > form itself and call it from the menu handler directly. You can use > hook_forms() for it, but don't have to. The form itself gets submitted as > normal, and you have complete control over it. > > A bare skeleton might look like this: > > function example_menu($may_cache) { > $items = array(); > > if ($may_cache) { > $items[] = array( > 'path' => 'example', > 'callback' => 'drupal_get_form', > 'callback arguments' => array('example_form'), > } > > return $items; > } > > function example_form() { > // define your $form here, reading from the DB as needed. > } > > function example_form_validate($form_id, $form_values) { > // Do stuff with $form_values here and set errors if needed. > } > > function example_form_submit($form_id, $form_values) { > // Do stuff with $form_values here and call DB queries if needed. > } > > Now going to /example will display the form defined by example_form(), and > when it's submitted it will first be validated by example_form_values() and, > it passes, will get passed to example_form_submit() for whatever saving you > want to do. > > For more information, see: > http://api.drupal.org/api/file/forms_api.html/6 > http://api.drupal.org/api/file/forms_api_reference.html/6 > > You can, of course, get ridiculously more complicated than that (especially > when you start working with custom theming of forms, which is all sorts of > exciting), but that should get you started. > > Cheers! > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Feijó Legendas wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out how to implement several modules, that do not use > > nodes at all > > > > I need to set lots of forms, this forms are used to edit, insert or search > > my tables > > > > I'm having dificulty controling the data flow of my forms. What hooks I > > use? I try hook_form, but any code I set there isnt executed. > > > > Every site about hook_form, uses node! Can I do that without nodes? > > > > > > TIA > > > > Feijó >

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tablesort_sql . . .
by Jason Flatt 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

I've been wrestling with this function off and on for several days now and finally decided to ask for some help from this list. greggles helped a bit on IRC, but I still wasn't able to do all I wanted. What I want to do is to be able to display a table that has the initial sort on a column other than the first. I have tried various things with this function, and either I'm just not getting it, or the function (nor related functions) doesn't support that functionality. What I have is this, which works, but is not what I want: <?php // Display the message information in a sortable table. $header = array( array('data' => t('Date/Time'), 'field' => 'message_date', 'sort' => 'DESC'), array('data' => t('Subject'), 'field' => 'message_subject'), array('data' => t('From'), 'field' => 'from_address') ); $query = 'SELECT message_date, message_subject, from_address FROM {basic_webmail_messages} WHERE user_id = %d'; $tablesort = tablesort_sql($header); $rows = array(); $result = pager_query($query . $tablesort, variable_get('basic_webmail_messages_per_page', '25'), 0, NULL, $user->uid); while ($row = db_fetch_array($result)) { ... ?> What I want is this (or what ever the correct way of doing it is), which doesn't work: <?php // Display the message information in a sortable table. $header = array( array('data' => t('Subject'), 'field' => 'message_subject'), array('data' => t('From'), 'field' => 'from_address') array('data' => t('Date/Time'), 'field' => 'message_date', 'sort' => 'DESC'), ); $query = 'SELECT message_subject, from_address, message_date FROM {basic_webmail_messages} WHERE user_id = %d'; $tablesort = tablesort_sql($header, 'message_date DESC, '); $rows = array(); $result = pager_query($query . $tablesort, variable_get('basic_webmail_messages_per_page', '25'), 0, NULL, $user->uid); while ($row = db_fetch_array($result)) { ... ?> What I end up with when using the second snippet above is a query that looks like this: SELECT message_subject, from_address, message_date FROM basic_webmail_messages WHERE user_id = 30 ORDER BY message_date DESC, message_subject DESC and a table that doesn't sort at all. Is there a way of doing what I want? Thank you for any help you can offer. -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadaeh.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 14; Cramer, 12; Travis, 10; Angela; Harry, 7; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.xubuntu.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/

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upgrade jquery in D5
by Luis Santos 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi, Drupal 5.5 comes with jQuery version 1.2.1 I've already saw several threads on drupal.org about upgrading jQuery to a most recent version for D5. I would like to know what is the best method to acomplish this update, and why D5 can't have an updated jQuery version in the core. Thanks.

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hook_form() and multistep
by Ryan Courtnage ☠ 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hello All, I'm attempting to make a multistep node submission form in D5 All the examples using #multistep I find assume the form is being rendered by drupal_render_form(), which passes the form values as the 2nd argument. These form values can contain the step number that is used to decide which form fields to render, and what to validate/submit. In my case, however, it's a node submission form .. hook_form() is being used (not drupal_render_form()). hook_form() gets passed the node object, but not the form values. As a result, I'm not able to determine what step I'm on. I'm assuming it's possible to make a multistep node submission form. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks! Ryan

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help with input user field development / module
by Alex Moreno 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hi everybody, i need to develop a module that simply accepts an input user, say for example a currency conversion. I need to use this data to make a conversion in views module. I have a type of content with a field named price. The user inserts a new page of this type of content and fills the price. The final objective is to be able to get from views the conversion ratio to apply the needed conversions and show the price in 2 different currencys. I don´t need to use an ecommerce module because the web is much more symple than this. I also don´t know if that is the best or simplier solution. Anyone could guide me on how to start or where to look for more information? Thanks a lot in advance. -- Alejandro Moreno López Publicidad en Buscadores y Marketing Online http://www.tdo.es

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Garland / Minnelli upgrades vs. browser caches
by Gábor Hojtsy 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hey, I'd like to invite all interested in browser cache invalidation to participate in this issue: http://drupal.org/node/199946 The problem at hand is that we had Garland/Minnelli in Drupal 5 with a set of CSS and JS files, which come from the browser cache when you first hit update.php in Drupal 6, so the browser does not get the updated functionality/layout. We could add temporary measures (eg. ?core=6.x to the URL of all CSS and JS files to get them fresh in the update), but then the runtime Drupal will still suffer, because you start off with a Garland theme anyway, and the CSS/JS files with the usual URLs are not refreshed (you are asked before upgrade to switch to a core theme). Patch reviews and good ideas are welcome in the issue. Gabor

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Drupal 6 RC1 is out!
by Gábor Hojtsy 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

Hello World! Yes, it is true. The first release candidate is out! Go, grab, test, report bugs: http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-rc1 I'd like to hand my special thanks to Keith Smith, with him we were able to wrangle through the docs issue queue and fix and string freeze issues we identified all day yesterday. Even run a final spell check round to make sure everything is top-notch. This release becomes the most spell checked and the most updated with help text ever in my humble opinion. Note for the D7 maintainers: coordinate with feature patches to get them documented right there, not right before RC1 :) I wrote docs for translators and packaged a Drupal 6.0-1.0-rc1 release for them with the templates: http://drupal.org/node/202631 RC1 is string freeze, so whatever needs modifications in the strings is generally postponed to Drupal 7. Let our translators have their happy holidays and all free time filled with Drupal 6 work, so foreign language users can enjoy Drupal 6 localized right when it is released. We still have critical bugs left in the queue. This also means that we have gone with open critical bugs, so strictly speaking, this RC will surely not be the final release. However, the move from beta to RC means that translators will be at work and that we will be more strict in what's accepted. Please note that when we fix whatever small looking bug, we might introduce any number of new bugs, as it happened to us multiple times. So let's concentrate on the critical bugs, and accept the fact that there will be a release after Drupal 6, which will welcome your improvements. Bookmark this: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&categories=bug,task&prioriti… Hope this becomes a nice pre-christmas package to all. Gabor

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