March 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Enquiry of Bookmark module with additional features
by Bhargavi K. 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi Team, Currently I am developing a project using Drupal 5.0 and my project needs 'Bookmark' module to be integrated. I tried with 'bookmarks2-HEAD' and 'bookmark us' modules but that doesn't satisfy all the requirements. I need the following functionality in my bookmark module: Functionality: A separate tab called Bookmarks Ability to add bookmarks. To be viewed Private, Selected group or public Ability to tag keywords A count of the number of people bookmarked a particular site. Could any of you please suggest me? Thanks & Best Regards, Bhargavi Lakshmi K. Web Programmer Dot Com Infoway <http://www.dci.in/> www.dci.in

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Scalability, Load Balancing, and High Availability - Possible SoC Proposal
by Scott Hadfield 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi All, I've been thinking about a possible summer of code idea, but I'm not sure it will fly so I wanted to get some feedback. The basic idea is to look into solutions for running Drupal simultaneously across multiple servers for the purposes of running extremely large/busy sites, for load balancing on multiple servers (both database and web servers), or just for high availability (if one server dies, another will kick in). The project would consist of developing and documenting ways that this can be accomplished and developing tools or other Drupal patches/modules that are needed to accomplish the various tasks. One of the main problems with this as a SoC proposal is that a large majority of what needs to be done here is OS/web server/database server specific. There would probably be a lot of Drupal specific stuff, but I'm not sure exactly how much. Even if this won't fly as a SoC project I am still be interested on working on this. What's already been done in this area? Maybe some of this has already been solved? Thanks for any feedback, Scott

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Drupal services - OpenConcept Consulting Inc.
by Mike Gifford 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi folks, I never should have doubted the clear instructions written at the top of the Drupal services page http://drupal.org/drupal-services In anycase, I saw the 'Add child page' links and figured either there was a permissions issue (having this chapter of the book module be moderated) or the instructions were incorrect. Either way I had to check. so I added this node (which was so ever briefly visible -- till I got moderated): http://drupal.org/node/129869 With this text: -------------- We have specialized in developing open source websites for social change. We strive to give our clients quality, dynamic, interactive web sites and high caliber online community tools at an affordable price. We ensure that our clients get the most from their online presence. We have worked extensively with internationalization, community action sites, and eNewsletters. We will help your organization become Web 2.0. If there is no ready-made solution, we can build a custom modules that meet your specifications. Location We are primarily based in Canada with staff Ottawa and Guelph. Most of our work is with organizations in Canada and the United States. Contributions We have produced a number of <a href="http://openconcept.ca/ support">screen-casts</a> and produced the <a href="http://drupal.org/ project/lobby">Lobby module</a> and contribute regularly to other modules. Let us tailor your web based solution. Visit <a href="http:// openconcept.ca/">openconcept.ca</a> for more information. -------------- I don't know what I'd like to have listed there, but our team is reasonably active on Drupal - http://drupal.org/profile/companies/ OpenConcept Please let me know if you have any questions. I am subscribed to this list, but haven't had the time to read it lately, so please cc my email if you have any questions. If I am accepted, I am assuming I can edit the page in the future and wouldn't need to verify changes with a site maintainer. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Inc. Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca http://learningpartnership.org | http://jeancrowder.ca | http:// billblaikie.ca New Drupal Screencasts Available Here - http://openconcept.ca/support

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Downloaded modules stats
by Maciej Perlinski 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi there i remember i ve received once the email with all statistics for downloaded modules, where can i find this information i m pretty curious about our module download stats. -- Regards Maciej Perlinski http://www.meant4.pl Web Studio http://www.meant4.com Hosting Solutions maciej.perlinski(a)meant4.com

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SoC 2007 Project Idea
by Kris Manohar 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello All, My name is Kris Manohar. I am currently a first year student of the University of the West Indies. I am interested in the google summer of code but who isn't right? Well here is my two cents on an idea i have for SoC i would appreciate it you guys could give me some feedback on it. Synopsis ======== Drupal does not natively support a hierechial container for nodes. The Drupal philosophy is about using categories and views for structuring content. While this flexible and dynamic approach is superior to the traditional folder paradigm, it makes operations that must be performed on group of nodes difficult. The debate about inclusion of such a hierachial container has been raging in the Drupal community for a long time. Drupal already provides a rich set of functionality to select a set of nodes based on complex criteria, and to persist this set of nodes through the Views module. My proposal is a compromise between the paradigms of traditional folders and Drupal views. It is for a module to implement "writeable views". A writeable view is a traditional Drupal view which exposes its nodes for use in operations by any other module, as a single node. A writeable view is a standard content type whose instances are standard Drupal nodes. The implementation of standard Drupal node hooks by the writeable views module will allow Drupal core + modules to operate on a writeable view instance, which will result in the operation cascaded to all nodes defined in the view. There will be no separate interface for creating writeable views. Writeable views begin life through the standard Views module. A writeable view is simply a standard Drupal content type which when instantiated is a link to the nodes returned by an existing Drupal view. Modifications to the writeable view node do not affect the standard view in any way. However, a writeable view is a standard node. Operations on this node like setting permissions, generic node properties, workflow state, or deletion, are implemented by the writeable view hooks to cascade operations to each node. The primary benefit of writeable views is that it preserves the Drupal way of categorizing content and at the same time provides the facility to treat a set of nodes as a whole. Thanks much! Kris Manohar _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Queue as a supplement to cron
by Neil Drumm 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I sometimes find myself building a queue in a hook_cron() implementation. I decided to make a separate module for this, job_queue, http://drupal.org/project/job_queue. It provides an API which takes a function name and array of arguments for later execution on cron. The only UI is a list of queued function calls. Is this functionality something that people would like to see in core? Search module has a 'queue' of unindexed content, would it benefit from having an abstracted queue? -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com

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SoC proposal submitted to Google.
by Sean Adams-Hiett 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello, I have just submitted my SoC proposal to Google. You can find the details here: http://www.seanadamshiett.com/google-summer-code-proposal-drag-drop-and-sor… or view the discussion about it here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3225 Thanks to everyone that has given me input. It has greatly enhanced my understanding of this project. -- Sean

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SoC 2007 idea - Drupal undo function
by Allister Beharry 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi all, Sorry for 'idea-spamming' you guys, but I want to send in my two applications before the 21st. Anyway, one of my favourite things about the Plone CMS is its undo capability. For just about every content and configuration change you can undo changes with one click. Plone is built on the Zope framework and the Zope object db which is inherently transactional and can rollback any change made by an object seamlessly and cleanly, as long as no further operations were made after the operation you want to undo. I was reminded about how cool this was today when a fellow web team developer contacted me because she had introduced a bug in our Drupal theme that seemed to defy fixing short of pulling out the old page.tpl.php and replacing the current one on the server Anyway, my idea is for an undo module exposing hooks that modules can use to register database scripts and file operation scripts that could be used to rollback a module operation. Suppose I have a node type called audiofile - everytime an audiofile node is created or updated, it could generate a line of SQL code that could be run to revert the INSERTs or UPDATEs which generated or updated the node . This would be registered through the undo module and the code could be stored in an Undo table, including details on the date/time of the operations and an interface could be written which allowed the node content to be rolled back to its previous state Of course undoing an action in Drupal can be complex or impossible in some cases and can screw up ancillary functionality like security if the user defines something node-specific and then removes that node. But for simple additions and updates to nodes, an undo function could be quite useful. The same idea could be extended to operations involving modifying files like theme operations; this would be more complex as it would involve storing old files or possibly file diffs. Obviously This idea needs a lot of fleshing out but what do you guys think about the overall concept? Thanks again Allister.

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Seeking co-maintainer for notify module
by Rob Barreca 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

I'm pretty slammed with work and have been a crappy maintainer of notify as of late in terms of improving features and usability. I'm looking for someone to help with the patches in the queue. Anyone game? -- Rob Roy Barreca Founder and COO Electronic Insight Corporation http://www.electronicinsight.com rob(a)electronicinsight.com

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Summer of Code 2007 Idea - Drupal software appliance
by Allister Beharry 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello all, I'll be participating in SoC 07 and I'd appreciate it if I can get some feedback on my idea for a project with Drupal. Here is the synopsis: My project idea for SoC 2007 is a Drupal software appliance – a self-contained virtual image consisting of a minimal Linux environment, a LAMP stack, and Drupal 5.1 – which can be distributed as a bootable LiveCD or virtual machine image which can be run on virtualization software like VMware Player or MS Virtual PC. At ~50Mb or less, a Drupal appliance is a perfect way for potential users with no system administration experience to evaluate Drupal. Advocacy for Drupal can be extended by distributing the Live CD with magazines and in trade shows. Drupal companies and consultants can rapidly prototype and demonstrate a Drupal a solution to their clients starting with the base appliance image. Drupal admins can easily test module patches before deployment to live sites. The virtual machine image can also be part of an automated testing framework by utilizing the scripting capabilities of virtualization software like VMware Server. This project can build on existing LiveDistro images from Knoppix or Damn Small Linux, and virtual appliance images like those from Virtual Appliance (http://virtualappliances.net/products/lamp/) The main tasks will be: 1.Collecting requirements from the Drupal community; 2.Building the target environment; 3.Installing and integrating Drupal and necessary modules; 4.Comprehensive testing of the entire appliance; 5.Coding hooks in the virtualization software for use of the appliance by automated testing tools; 6.Promotion and obtaining distribution channels for the release of the appliance. Thanks a lot. Allister

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