December 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Make your dreams come true
by Karoly Negyesi 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

One of mine just became a reality: all 44 global variables in use by Drupal core has been documented. This is GHOP. What do you have on your todo list for your years? Make it a GHOP task. Documenting all globals -- I am not kidding here, check the issue from http://drupal.org/node/198569#comment-654679 where the initial misunderstanding was cleared -- took this guy *three hours*. Fixing up them after my review took another half. I thought it will take a week... but no. So, open up todo.txt and copy items to GHOP tasks. Regards, NK

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drupal.org caching too aggressive?
by Dave Cohen 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Recently I've posted comments on Drupal.org, and after pressing the submit button I've seen the original post, without a message and without my comment. If I refresh, the comment is there. But at least once I've gone back and resubmitted, because as a user it looks like my post was simply ignored. I suspect that I'm seeing a cached page after posting the comment (although I am logged in). Is this what's going on? Anyone else notice this? -Dave

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Files directory on installation usability fix not quite usable. ; )
by Angela Byron 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

Here's a usability report from one of our GHOP students: http://ijailbreak.com/drupal.html (please post feedback to http://drupal.org/node/197219#comment-652618) He interviews three test subjects: his mom, his brother, and his Dad. In it, he points out that all three of his test subjects got totally blocked at this error and needed him to step in and fix it in order for them to continue. This is the *second* page of the installation. If we are losing people before they even get Drupal installed, we are screwed. I realize the argument against including a files directory by default is that Mac OS does this insane behaviour of overwriting the contents of "files" with another directory of the same name, so there's a chance of completely blowing away someone's files directory. So as far as I can see, we're left with a couple of options: - Revert the existing behaviour, which at least allows mere mortals to get Drupal installed, even if it's a somewhat annoying thing to deal with later. - Include the blank files directory anyway, and trust that people are either reading upgrade instructions, or not running production websites off of a Mac OSX desktop/laptop. Thoughts? -Angie

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Allow existing files to be attached
by Philippe Jadin 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Hello, Is there a module that allows users to attach existing files to node? The upload module only allows you to attach file from your computer, not existing files in /files. Isn't it a very common use case ? The upload ui could be like this : - Upload a file from your computer (current upload box) or - Attach an existing file from your site (some sort of ajax search system + file path text input form as a fallback for js disabled browsers) I can work on this as a contrib module, but it's strange this has not been made already. I want a compatible solution with core upload module. Did I miss something? I wanted to ask before working on it so I don't reinvent the wheel. Thank you Philippe

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Allow existing files to be attached
by Ben Wheeler 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

Phillipe, You might want to also check out the session that Walkah did at DrupalCon Barcelona. http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/533 http://www.archive.org/details/Image_handling_in_core.for_real_this_time Can Walkah or somebody comment on what activity/discussions have come out of this and where we can contribute? It seems like we would benefit from a joint effort on this. -bennybobw --------------------------Previous Message------------------------------------------------- Subject: [development] Allow existing files to be attached To: development(a)drupal.org Message-ID: <999346c0712060456r3e038255o7b278865ecb217c6(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hello, Is there a module that allows users to attach existing files to node? The upload module only allows you to attach file from your computer, not existing files in /files. Isn't it a very common use case ? The upload ui could be like this : - Upload a file from your computer (current upload box) or - Attach an existing file from your site (some sort of ajax search system + file path text input form as a fallback for js disabled browsers) I can work on this as a contrib module, but it's strange this has not been made already. I want a compatible solution with core upload module. Did I miss something? I wanted to ask before working on it so I don't reinvent the wheel. Thank you Philippe

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Re: [development] [support] Google Apps
by zeljko blace 06 Dec '07

06 Dec '07

On Dec 5, 2007 11:45 PM, Raf Raf <rafyven(a)yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hello > > I see different modules with whom we can link drupal with googl apps. > but it seems need additional features. > who has a good experience of drupal and google apps : the user logs in > drupal and by the same way he is logged in his google apps's account ? > > thanks > raf Have no experience in programing, but any development in linking Drupal and Google Apps (I am using edition for non-profits) interests me very much as I use both on daily basis. Would be available for testing and reviewing ;-) best - Z

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Drupal 6 beta 4 out
by Gábor Hojtsy 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello World, With the 5.4 and 4.7.9 security releases, Drupal 6.0 beta 4 is also out. It would be great to move to the first release candidate next, but it can only happen, if we concentrate on the issues at http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=97368,184399,175832… and solve them properly. These are mostly update, installation, CSS/JS and user feedback issues. So everybody can find pleasure in them :) Gabor

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D6 Node Access, Was: D7 small survey: listing of node types at /node/add
by Steven Jones 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Oh node access stuff, what joy! It's very cool that D6 supports this kind of menu override, I tried to follow the D6 dev cycle along, but didn't have time to contribute, I was wondering if any other node access related stuff got into D6, or do we still have the slightly stick mess of D5? On 05/12/2007, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman(a)tejasa.com> wrote: > One caveat - in drupal5 you can only override the callback function. > any changes to 'access' will be silently ignored. this form of > altering is not supported in d5. it is supported in d6 wth > hook_menu_alter() > > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Gábor Hojtsy wrote: > > > On Dec 5, 2007 1:46 PM, Augustin (Beginner) > > <drupal.beginner(a)wechange.org> wrote: > >> Obviously, there are many different workarounds, e.g. by creating an > >> intermediary form to select the parent node. > >> But I run into this problem often and all my workarounds feel like > >> hacks and I am getting tired of them. > >> > >> What do you think? Would it be a useful feature for D7 to modify the > >> second half of the function node_add() so that the listing can be > >> customized? > > > > Both Drupal 5 and to my knowledge Drupal 6 has the ability to > > overwrite the registered handler functions for paths you wish to > > override. So you can do your own listing or whatever shiny page > > content you'd like to display. > > > > Gabor > > > -- Regards Steven Jones

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Modifying event date in hook_form
by Ron Parker 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

I've posted this in Forums, but doesn't look like I'm going to get a response, and I'm pretty sure someone here knows this right off the bat. I'm creating an agenda module for 5.x. So far, it only requires the event module. The module creates a new content type: "agenda". It is set to appear in all calendars (for now) so has event start and end date fields associated with it. <>To use it, I create an event node, then the module allows me to create an agenda node that corresponds to the event node. The agenda content type has start/end date fields. I do not have jscalendar.module installed. I wish to pass the start and end dates of the corresponding event node to the agenda node automatically. I'm currently trying to use the following code in hook_form, which I modified from the event_form_alter() function: $event = node_load($node->event_id); // Load corresponding event node if (arg(1) == 'add' || arg(1) == 'ognodeadd') { $form['event_start'] = array( '#type' => 'fieldset', '#title' => t('Start date'), '#weight' => -15 ); $form['event_start']['date'] = event_form_date($event->event_start, 'start', $event->start_offset); } But, nothing is coming through. I still get the default time when creating a new agenda node, and not the time from the corresponding event node. I know the hook itself (agenda_form) is working because other code does work: if (arg(1) == 'add' || arg(1) == 'ognodeadd') { $form['title'] = array( '#type' => 'textfield', '#title' => t('Title'), '#required' => true, '#default_value' => theme('agenda_default_title', $event), '#weight' => -5 ); } else { $form['title'] = array( '#type' => 'textfield', '#title' => t('Title'), '#required' => true, '#default_value' => $node->title, '#weight' => -5 ); } I have tried other ways of doing it suggested here: http://drupal.org/node/46805 http://drupal.org/node/150391 But, nothing seems to be working for me. Can someone please help me with this? -ron -- Ron Parker Software Creations http://www.scbbs.com Self-Administration Web Site http://saw.scbbs.com SDSS Subscription Mgmt Service http://sdss.scbbs.com Central Ave Dance Ensemble http://www.centralavedance.com R & B Salsa http://www.randbsalsa.com

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D7 small survey: listing of node types at /node/add
by Augustin (Beginner) 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hello, I was wondering: Hasn't anyone ever felt bothered by the complete listing of the available node types at /node/add (where the user has create permission)? I am the only one who sometimes wishes there were a way to NOT list some node type on this list, even though the user has the proper permission? Here is a simple scenario. We have a Problem node type and a Solution node type, in a way that each Solution is attached to a corresponding Problem. The user can create both Problems and Solutions, but the Solution are best created when following a link from the Problem node, so that we can customize the link thus: /node/add/solution?problem_id=123 Now if the user goes to /node/add and from there to /node/add/solution there is no problem_id defined. Obviously, there are many different workarounds, e.g. by creating an intermediary form to select the parent node. But I run into this problem often and all my workarounds feel like hacks and I am getting tired of them. What do you think? Would it be a useful feature for D7 to modify the second half of the function node_add() so that the listing can be customized? Or am I doing something wrong, or I am the only one facing this problem? thanks, Augustin.

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