March 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

progress control (like in update.php)?
by Gabor Hojtsy 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, Does anyone working on refactoring the update control out of the update.php script to be reusable in eg. install situations? Are other in need of this functionality? The autolocale module would need this to be able to safely run on a shared host, where it is not possible to set the time limit (and anyway,this is the only way to provide live feedback). As far as I see, any install profile with heavier processing needs would require such a progress feature, so abstracting this out for use by anyone would be nice. Gabor

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Getting absolute directory path
by Darren Oh 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Some users keep contributed modules outside the Drupal directory and create symlinks to them in sites/all/modules. This causes problems for Chat Room, which uses a PHP file in its own directory for AJAX updates (to avoid loading all of Drupal on each update) but must include some files from Drupal. I was using the following code to find the Drupal files: $chatroom_base = urldecode($_POST['chatroom_base']); $depth = substr_count($chatroom_base, '/'); chdir(str_repeat('../', $depth+1)); If people are keeping Chat Room outside of Drupal, chdir() will need the absolute path to the Drupal directory. What is the best way to get this?

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[User experience feature] Variable overrides in settings.php
by ebrad 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/38713 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/38713 Project: User experience Version: <none> Component: usability Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Zen Reported by: Zen Updated by: ebrad Status: patch (code needs review) "This problem with the online, offline function needs to be resolved I know I can't be the only one." That confused me too at first. Until I read you could visit http://localhost/user to get in the back-door login page. ebrad Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:56:03 +0000 : Zen Hi, When a user moves/duplicates a site with clean_urls on, caching etc. he is very frequently locked out if he can't get mod_rewrite etc. working. Similarly, with the new Site Offline/Online feature, there doesn't seem to be any option for the admin to turn it off or log back in if he accidentally logs out.. The site/default/settings.php file has a section that allows overriding these DB variables. If the above mentioned variables can be added (and commented out), it might make things a lot easier to rescue the site without having to mess around with serialized variables in the variables table.. <?php $conf = array( 'site_name' => 'My Drupal site', 'clean_url' => 0, 'clean_url_ok' => 0, 'cache' => 0, 'site_offline' => '0', ); ?> (I'm not entirely sure what clean_url_ok does, but I've added it in anyways..) If and when all the variables to be added are decided, I'll attach a patch file. Cheers Karthik. P.S User Experience/usability seemed like the best place to put this.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 19:54:08 +0000 : Geary This is an outstanding idea! I have been in this fix myself, and naturally looked in settings.php to see if there was an override. Having these "safe mode" settings visible and commented out would save a lot of people a lot of headache. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:15:21 +0000 : lekei In my settings.php I have the ability to launch the site in safe mode: /* * Safe mode -- launch site with safe settings */ if ($ALLOW_SAFE_SETTINGS && isset($_GET['SAFE_SETTINGS'])) { $conf = array_merge( $conf,array( 'site_name' => trim($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],"/").' (SAFE MODE)', 'theme_default' => 'pushbutton', 'clean_url' => 0, 'cache' => 0, 'site_offline' => '0' )); } at the beginning of settings.php there is a line allowing disabling safe mode: // Permits launching the site in "safe mode" by acccesing it with: // http://yourdomain?SAFE_SETTINGS $ALLOW_SAFE_SETTINGS = TRUE; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 03:37:25 +0000 : Zen @lekei: ah, that's a lot cleaner. But I assume that you're either using Civic or have added this in yourself? It isn't present in standard installations. I'm not sure the _GET is really required though. Either way, you should make that into a patch and submit it. Cheers Karthik. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 22:56:33 +0000 : Zen Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/settings_5.patch (579 bytes) Patch attached. -K ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:03:43 +0000 : drlingo I have tried to use your patch however, I receive a blank screen when I installed the patch. What must I do to make this work? This problem with the online, offline function needs to be resolved I know I can't be the only one.

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WYSIWYG editors considered harmful for site admins (and in general, but that's a separate thread)
by Greg Knaddison - GVS 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, A while ago I got this bug report for pathauto: http://drupal.org/node/121276 I tried and tried but couldn't reproduce the thing. As you can read from the issue it was quite confusing. That was frustrating. Then today someone figured out that their WYSIWYG editor was inserting an   into the textarea. That was the cause of the bug. Chx suggested we handle this in the following manner: Can't we have a warning on he WYSIWYG editor project pages that if "you use this module, you are not entitled to support on core, any other module and also, security is your problem now, not ours?" Thoughts on other solutions? I'm thinking about going through all the WYSIWYG editors and adding a critical issue that they disable themselves on all textareas in the admin/* url-space. I post this here because I want to 1) get some collective ideas on brainstorming 2) warn other users from using WYSIWYG editors on admin/ pages 3) alert module maintainers that if your settings page has a textarea input you should be aware of this as a possible cause of problems Regards, Greg

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Deletion API
by Chad Phillips -- Apartment Lines 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

normally i wouldn't post request for feedback on an issue here, but this is a sweeping change, and it needs eyes on it! Deletion API for core: The deletion API will provide a standardized method through which deletions from the database can be managed more completely. It offers several hooks, both prior to deletion, which allow outside modules to display messages on a confirmation screen, process the data prior to deletion, or abort deletion altogether. the issue: http://drupal.org/node/126300 a very kick ass demo site, with theory, workflow, links to the code that makes it work, and it also serves as a test site for checking out what it can do as of today: http://deleteapi.xcarnated.com hunmonk

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WYSIWYG editors
by Karoly Negyesi 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, I would like to put a note on fckeditor and tinymce (and offspring) and any other WYSIWYG project pages minus WYMeditor: If you use this module, then please do not ask for support on any other module or core and please note that you might or might not face security problems. Reason: http://drupal.org/node/84797 http://drupal.org/node/121276 Regarding the latter, Greg agreed with me regarding the note above. Regarding security, those who use such a module, might be inclined to relax the tight security of filtered HTML to allow fancy features of the editor and there it goes. Indeed what you see is what you get even if it's XSS. Regards, NK

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by Dozor 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

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UI review from Portland UI-SIG
by Neil Drumm 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Thanks to the Portland UI-SIG, http://www.portlandusability.com/, we have some ideas for how to improve the initial usage of Drupal, things like setting up the theme and posting content. The notes are at http://drupal.org/node/126143. Skip straight to the "Creating the first account" heading to see some suggestions that could be built into patches. -- Neil Drumm http://delocalizedham.com

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Menu tasks
by Karoly Negyesi 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, After quite some delays, community voting down a major roadblock and Steven lending a hand yesterday, menu phase two nears completeness. By the time you read this letter, http://drupal.org/node/126128 is likely committed -- or if not, I think it'll be very soon. Once that patch is in, I am moving to phase three, editing menu. However, there are problems that needs to be addressed (only after that patch is in): -- http://drupal.org/node/115847 this is a nice issue. Most default tabs indeed link to parent like the View tab needs to point to user/1 and not user/1/view . However, the Search default tab after you searched for something does not point to search/content but to search/content/whatever/you/searched/for. Either one can figure a way for the code to determine what to do based on the present database structure or we need to amend the database and likely manually mark search/content . -- the by modules admin page is not coded for the new system. It's very likely to blatant easy the other pages were. -- localization. Introduce title callback, default to t, make 'title' the first argument of title callback, and introduce title arguments, I guess it will not be used too widely. Remove t() from all menu title definitions. Reason, the titles will be stored in the database in the language of the user who happens to run menu_callback. You will want to run t() in _menu_translate. Make a special case for t(), no call_user_func_array, not even unserializing title argument is necessary in 99.9% of cases. Storing descriptions without t() is also heartily recommended but I think there is no need for a callback or an argument for that one. Once this is done, I think most (all?) loops can be removed from menu definitions and replaced by nice object paths (object path: node/%node). -- inspect _menu_translate for caching possibilites -- is the same item translated twice? I do not think it happens too often, but maybe on task pages. Any takers? As you can see, it's laid out what needs to be done, it's just a matter of plunging in and typing. Regards, NK

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Release critical bugs for March 11, 2007
by drupal-devel＠drupal.org 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Archive / bug reports Module is invisible - no block, no settings. age: 2 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/120849 Article / bug reports Rss feeds issue assigned: hitboy age: 2 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/122106 Multiple Pages Do Not Work age: 5 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/114595 4.7 Beta/ CVS Errors assigned: msameer age: 50 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55533 Atom / bug reports Not Respecting Node Access age: 44 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61791 Bluemarine / bug reports my themes cutting my content short FIREFOX assigned: hitboy age: 2 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/121893 CVS management/tracker / feature requests enforce sequential release tags in xcvs-taginfo assigned: dww age: 19 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/90968 Devel / bug reports anonymous user getting error age: 1 day 12 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/126419 Devel + PHP5 = dead site with HTTP 500 errors age: 2 days 15 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/126098 Event / bug reports [php5, clone] end-start-ongoing attribute does not ripple through age: 23 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85972 Major timezone bug in event module age: 29 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/78572 event_start not being set age: 41 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/65609 Fatal Error After activating "Browse Scheduled Events" in modules age: 44 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/61920 INSTALL.txt incorrect age: 46 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/59019 event calendars off by day/not respecting timezones - fix? age: 49 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/56189 Flexinode generates an error age: 50 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/55135 Calendar subscribing not working age: 51 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/54036 Problem Selecting Event by Type age: 1 year 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/52883 Event start and end times not getting saved in database age: 1 year 12 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/41300 Issues with list view for events age: 1 year 13 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39943 Database error keeps popping up age: 1 year 14 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39396 Date problem on calendar, off by GMT offset age: 1 year 14 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/39193 Event / feature requests all day event module not branched age: 42 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/64490 Event / support requests Site broken after installation age: 4 days 5 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/125532 How to display small calendar on homepage? assigned: dada78 age: 7 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/109630 Help!!! Site Broken!! age: 9 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/107239 Blank Page After Submit age: 47 weeks 21 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/58918 Can't Administer Event Module age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/43509 displaying event start info in flexinode tabular view? age: 1 year 22 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/33019 Event block missing content of many fields age: 1 year 24 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: 44 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/62119 Gallery / support requests Configuring Apache mod_rewrite age: 3 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/118582 Im having trouble with setting the G2 of URI variable of Gallery module assigned: k.tang age: 3 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/118073 Gallery2 grants access without proper permission age: 10 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/105418 Glossary / feature requests po files and other language support age: 1 year 6 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/46313 Goofy / feature requests Goofy Forum UI age: 1 year 23 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/32294 Htmlarea / support requests HTMLarea editor not displaying age: 1 week 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/123855 Listhandler / bug reports user lookup on name only assigned: zeroj age: 49 weeks 8 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/56936 Link to mailhandler does not use l() function age: 1 year 8 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/44599 Listhandler caused error in "comment.module on line 996" ? age: 1 year 18 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/36244 Listhandler 4.6.0 fails to send emails at all age: 1 year 33 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/27095 Listhandler / tasks Correct/Complete Documentation age: 1 year 19 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/34909 Mailhandler / bug reports mailhandler requiring mailbox domain field despite using folder view age: 5 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/115472 Mailhandler / support requests Creating a page using mailhandler age: 38 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/68947 Mail Body not downloaded age: 1 year 9 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/43374 Members / bug reports foreach() assigned: neablo age: 1 year 10 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/42350 Meta tags / bug reports index,follow on 404 and 403 pages age: 3 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/119371 Database structure age: 5 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/113833 can't use php functions in body of nodes assigned: Robrecht Jacques age: 29 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/79315 Meta tags / feature requests Include custom Meta tags fields age: 9 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/107302 Enable nodewords for node type? age: 1 year 4 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/48869 Path / bug reports aliases that start with same string as other aliases age: 6 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/111775 Login as an alias gets cached age: 1 year 24 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/31699 Path / feature requests Admin created list of URL's to ignore age: 7 weeks 23 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/111171 Pdfview / bug reports Shows | Array instead of some "show content in pdf" age: 2 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/121234 custom fields not displayed age: 7 weeks 7 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/111340 Poormanscron / bug reports poormans cron hoses web server age: 2 weeks 4 days url: http://drupal.org/node/121143 cron somehow interrupts MySql connection age: 8 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/108676 Recipe / bug reports Ingredients are not displayed after saving the content editing form age: 6 days 17 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/124748 Remindme / bug reports Argument #1 is not an array age: 38 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/69286 Cron job creates SQL error age: 40 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/66202 Subscriptions / bug reports Subscribe/Unsubscribe does not work on node form update age: 8 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/107907 Subscriptions remain active when access control maintain subscriptions is disabled age: 22 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/87625 Taxonomy Browser / feature requests need port to 5.1 age: 2 days 16 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/126082 Taxonomy dhtml / bug reports doesn't work with taxonomy_access? age: 24 weeks 3 days url: http://drupal.org/node/85355 Taxonomy DHTML's cache ignores user privileges age: 42 weeks 1 day url: http://drupal.org/node/64532 User experience / bug reports Drupal 5.1 Fancy theme hangs on IE browser age: 1 day 10 hours url: http://drupal.org/node/126434 Is Drupal Out Of Its Freakin' Mind? age: 1 week 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/122852 password keeps getting lost for logins requiring me to request a new password age: 5 weeks 2 days url: http://drupal.org/node/115055 Verification Active assigned: maverickvarun age: 13 weeks 5 days url: http://drupal.org/node/101384 User experience / support requests 403 Forbidden error age: 4 weeks 6 days url: http://drupal.org/node/116090 Wiki / bug reports the wiki module can't work with HTML age: 1 year 5 weeks url: http://drupal.org/node/47124

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