April 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Re: [development] development Digest, Vol 52, Issue 3
by Ken Rickard 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Rob- The question is: "So do you think extending MySite to have a friends' recent activity would make sense? I haven't used MySite at all so don't really know if this would fit or not as I'll want to track other actions like friendships, donations, etc." The answer is yes, but it's the How that we'd need to explore. You might want to send me a note off-list, or open an issue against the MySite module. Relevant questions: - How are you tracking "friendship" now? - What friend actions need to be reported back to the MySite panel? If you go down the wathdog_user, path, MySite integration might actually become easier, since we'd simply write an include to handle the reporting of that data. - Ken Rickard agentrickard

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module announcement: og_sites, providing multisite features
by Nedjo Rogers 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

An early preview release of a module that may be of interest to developers and to anyone using multisites. OG Sites enables a multisite configuration in which a central 'hub' site has a number of associated sites. The hub site features content and users from all sites, while each associated site can access only its own data (plus content explicitly shared from the hub site). This is accomplished through organic groups. Each associated site gets an organic group on the hub site. When content is created on an associated site, it gets assigned to that site's organic group on the hub site (and ditto for users). This association is the basis for determining access. Some features that may interest developers, and may be applicable/adaptible elsewhere: * The code is structured to have plugins by module. For example, node support is in node.inc, user support in user.inc. New module support can be added through a new plugin, which will be automatically detected and loaded if the module it implements is available. * Tables are shared dynamically (using hook_init()) rather than through configuration in the settings.php file. * The install functions automate node type and node creation. The og_sites_hub install function creates a new content type, assigns it as an organic group type, and then creates a node for the group. The og_sites install function creates an organic group node on the hub site. * Access is limited through various means: hook_menu() for menu item overrides, hook_db_rewrite_sql() for node access, hook_form_alter() to reset the rows in admin tables. For more information, see the README: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/og_sites/README.… Any reviews or feedback through the issue queue or privately by email would also be greatly appreciated. OG Sites is produced by CivicSpace and development is sponsored by Alpha, alpha.org.

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Re: [development] Overlap / Sharing work
by Ken Rickard 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

Rob- <ego trip> As for tracking friends' content, the MySite module has methods for this, and an API for adding new functionality. http://drupal.org/project/mysite And I'm looking for co-developers.... </ego trip> - Ken Rickard agentrickard

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Theme registry - templates
by Dries Buytaert 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hello world, at hackfest, Earl wrote a patch to make it easier to theme Drupal: http://drupal.org/node/130987 I'd like to see this patch committed so we can start taking advantages of it. Could we all take a close look at it? Thanks, -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Overlap / Sharing work
by Rob Barreca 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Here are some current things I am working on for a project. Wanted to post here to see if anyone is working on something similar and was interested in working together: * Amazon Wishlist integration * Friends' activity block like Facebook: I'm still thinking about this. We can easily get node and comment Views with Buddylist like "My Friends' Recent Nodes", but we want an aggregated watchdog-like list that has other stuff too "Your friend Joe made friends with some user Rachel", "Some user Steve posted a comment on some node of yours", "Your friend Joe posted a comment on some other node", Voting, etc. I want to build this as flexible as possible so it can be contributed back. A new module that maybe uses Actions to perform a logging action on certain user operations. Not sure if that makes sense. But it's definitely like a watchdog log per user. * Pulling facebook profile info in from the Facebook API * Probably work on the Community Tags module for 5.x that was a clean up of my huge Tagadelic patch a while back so users can tag other users' nodes * Doing some invite stuff, so extending or cleaning up invite.module may be in order * Maybe some ACL-Buddylist integration to allow friends to have extra privileges (low priority) * Want to do some FOAF stuff like LinkedIn to see how far removed someone is from you (low priority) -- Rob Roy Barreca Founder and COO Electronic Insight Corporation http://www.electronicinsight.com rob(a)electronicinsight.com

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Plan of attack for 6.x core forum module
by Angela Byron 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Earl Miles and I had a discussion this afternoon about what might be a realistic set of goals for improving Drupal's core forums during the 6.x code thaw. Here's the result: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3466 It's a wiki page, so feel free to sign yourself up for any of those items if you're interested in helping! -Angie

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[GSoC] Feeback request
by Markus Lanthaler 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

Hello, I just wanted to ask if it's possible to get some feedback for my application because from Wednesday I'm offline for a week. Have you any questions? Do you like it? How are my chances to be chosen? Thank you very much Best regards, Markus Lanthaler

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One other teensy FAPI question
by Syscrusher 01 Apr '07

01 Apr '07

Using the 'date' field type, how does one cause the field to allow a "not specified" date? Is this not supported? I want to use dates in a search form as an optional parameter, not a required one. Right now I am detecting a "null" date by looking for 1900-01-01, but in this particular application (a genealogy research module), that happens to be a perfectly legitimate value. Probably nobody else has needed this yet, and it isn't supported, but I thought it didn't hurt to ask. At worst case, I may have to just reserve that value. I don't want to burden the user with a checkbox for each of the *four* available date search parameters. Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Syscrusher (Scott Courtney) Drupal page: http://drupal.org/user/9184 syscrusher at 4th dot com Home page: http://4th.com/

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