March 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

form_set_value()
by Robrecht Jacques 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hi all, I have a problem with form_set_value(). I thought that this would set a value in the form, but the attached example module doesn't work as I expect. It is a simple form with radios and in the _validate() I want to select a different radio button if t('Next') is clicked. Can someone help me? I've tried on #drupal, but noone was helpful (although chx tried to be). Thanks, Robrecht

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3 months to code freeze
by Dries Butyaert 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hello world, just wanted to let you know that we only have 3 months left until the next code freeze. Time we start working and pushing for some of the bigger changes. -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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idea for an install profile (and "distribution"): devel install
by Derek Wright 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

while waiting for Dries to officially RTBC the issue for hosting install profiles on d.o [1], i just had an idea for a install profile: the development profile. things it could do: 1) install/configure devel.module 2) setup some standard roles for testing (non-uid-1 admin, content admin, a role that only has "switch users" permission, etc), and configure all perms appropriately. 3) create a small pool of users in each of the roles, all of which are also in the "switch users" role, enable the switch users block from devel.module, etc. [2] 4) also create a bunch of random users with the generate script from devel.module... 5) create a bunch of test content with the generate script. 6) create a bunch of malicious (XSS-seeking) content: node titles, taxonomy terms, anything we can think of that some module might not be escaping properly somewhere. basically, wrap js alert boxes around just about any possible user-input we can find. ;) 7) install as much of the simpletest.module and framework as possible, and otherwise prompt/warn the user about the external library they should download and install. 8) perhaps install some per-node-access module(s) (tac_lite, simpleaccess, etc) and configure some of the auto-generated content to be private. 9) optionally install some other handy modules folks use for testing (i'm a big fan of diff.module and dba.module, but there might be others that would be useful). 10) perhaps install/configure some kind of benchmarking tools (if any exist that would be appropriate). ... this would: a) save a ton of time whenever one of us needs to setup a local test site b) make it *much* easier for newer developers to get a standard test environment up and running c) facilitate being able to reproduce bugs, since everyone could be working from a more standardized test environment most of the time d) lower the barrier to developers running (and therefore writing) simpletests for their code e) help find XSS more quickly, since folks (and automated tests) would be navigating through a site that was trying to XSS-ify itself all over the place. just having the per-node-privacy content auto- generated would help remind folks to test those sorts of edge cases in their code, too. i don't have time to work on this, but i'd be willing to help someone (s) else. or, if anyone thinks this is such a good idea, they want to pay me to work on it instead of my other consulting gigs, that might work, too. ;) if we could stand to wait that long, this might make a nice SoC 2007 project, too. thoughts? -derek [1] http://drupal.org/node/113939 [2] it'd be nice if there was a setting in devel.module to restrict the choices in the switch user block to users that have 'switch users' permission, so that such a test environment would always allow you to quickly switch back and forth across differently perm'ed users, without ever getting "stuck" on a random user that didn't have switch perms...

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Advanced forms api question (#submit and #programmed)
by Dave Cohen 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

I'm trying to provide a patch for an issue I recently submitted <http://drupal.org/node/123702>. I'm having trouble grokking some forms API intricacies and I'm sure someone on this list can help. Briefly, I'm trying to customize the update.php form using hook_form_alter(). Unfortunately update.php does not handle its form the normal way. Normally, a form is created by calling drupal_get_form() and also processed by calling drupal_get_form(). Update.php does not do this. My first question is why not? But that is a bit off topic. Because update.php calls drupal_get_form() only when displaying the form and not when processing it, changes made (in my hook_form_alter) to $form['#submit'] have no effect. That is, there is no way to have my custom submit handler called when the form is submitted. So, I've added a call to drupal_get_form in my copy of update.php, in the update_update_page method. This does what I want, in that my #submit handler is called. But there is an unwanted side-effect, which is the forms code then redirects the browser. So I never get to the update.php progress page. So it seems I cannot add my own handler and also have update.php do its handling. I poured through the forms code looking for where (and why) it does the redirecting. There is a mysterious $form['#programmed'] variable which seems to control this, but I can't figure out what that variable is really supposed to be about, or where it's supposed to be set. I feel like I'm close to solving my problem. But I could be going down the wrong road. Or perhaps there is a much simpler solution. So I come here for advice. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks, -Dave

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CK-ERP (Open Source ERP / CRM / MRP) v.0.22.1 released
by C K Wu 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

Hi, folks, I have posted a new release, v.0.22.1, of CK-ERP, at SourceForge.Net, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp . This release features connectors for Moodle, Atutor, vTiger, XRMS, WordPress, b2evolution and e107. CK-ERP is an open source accounting/MRP/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It comprises 22 modules - Administration, i18n, Contact Management, Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, MRP, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service and Payroll. Operating platform can either be LAMP or LAPP. It provides accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs and utilizes the underlying middleware to administer accounts/groups. Please report error and suggestion to the discussion group / mailing list, CK-ERP-en(at)googlegroups.com or CK-ERP-zh_CN(at)googlegroups.com . General history and expected development is available at the discussion group's Archive. Supported MiddleWares: eGroupWare, Horde-GroupWare; Zencart, CRELoaded, osCommerce; Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, e107, XOOPS, Xaraya; Moodle, Atutor; vTiger, XRMS; WordPress, b2evolution; TikiWiki; phpBB. Information Websites: http://ck-erp.org http://ck-erp.net Download is available from, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp http://gforge.oss.org.cn/projects/ck-erp http://gf.cs.hit.edu.cn/projects/ck-erp http://www.cnforge.org/modules/xfmod/project/?ck-erp http://gro.clinux.org/projects/ck-ledger http://cosoft.org.cn/projects/ck-ledger Cheers, Wu Chiu Kay, aka CK Wu, aka CK (CK is the preferred alias) Hong Kong

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