June 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Need consensus on what "activity" means
by David Strauss 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I'm working on a patch that refactors node_comment_statistics into node and performs many other query optimizations. One is that I'm tracking node "activity" as a combined timestamp for the node and the node's comments. Does activity include: 1. The node creation timestamp or the latest comment timestamp 2. #1 plus the node update timestamp Normally, I wouldn't email the dev list about a specific patch, but I need broad feedback because the combined "activity" timestamp will order forum topic and tracker results. The patch: http://drupal.org/node/148849

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3 Languages in one drupal site - common forum
by Srimal Jayawardena 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi I need to have a drupal site which supports 3 languages where all pages must have versions representing each of the 3 languages. However the discussion forum should be common to all 3 languages. How is this possible in drupal? Is there a specific module to handle this? Thanks in advance. Srimal.

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New story submit fails on table prefix
by Tim Beelen 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I'm not quite sure if this is the correct mailing list, but, I've ran into a bit of a problem: When submitting a new story in the 6 beta (checked out about 30 minutes ago) it returns: user warning: Table 'test.node' doesn't exist query: UPDATE node SET vid = 2 WHERE nid = 2 in /var/www/html/drupal/includes/database.mysqli.inc on line 154. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm using a table prefix and that test.node should actually be test.os_node. But I could be mistaking. Tim

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Re: [development] Go PHP 5, Go!
by Michelle Cox 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

On 6/6/2007 12:25:02 AM, Larry Garfield (larry(a)garfieldtech.com) wrote: > It is our believe that this will allow web hosts a reason to upgrade and > the I don't know if you're looking for feedback as mundane as typos, but that should be "belief". While I'm on the sentence, "allow web hosts" sounds kind of funny. I think "give" would be a better word. Michelle

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Problems making a proper patch with new failes and new directory
by Stefan Nagtegaal 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

First of all, I'm not sure I wrote this message to the proper list. Perhaps it should be on the support list, but as there are *a lot* of really good developers on this list, I think my question is more in place here than there. If not, I apoligize for that.. the main reason for my question is that I'm trying to make a proper patch for the following issue: http://drupal.org/node/140932 - Improve image-api: Image toolkits should be implemented as modules The problem is that the patch should add a directory 'gd', and place the new files (gd.info and gd.module) inside it. According to http://drupal.org/patch/create (Creating patches) it is possible to add new files by having the '-N' flag in your cvs diff command and adding the /newfile.inc/0/New file// lines in the 'CVS/ Entries' file. Is this possible with new to add directories? And how should I do that? Thank you for your time and help! Kind regards, Stefan Nagtegaal

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Re: [development] Should I submit a new module?
by Karen Stevenson 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I think something like this should really be in core because: 1) It's not really a big enough item to justify an entire module as a solution 2) It's desired/needed in nearly any setup I submitted an issue on that a while back at http://drupal.org/node/128635. Since I didn't provide a patch it has not gotten any attention and I don't have time to create a patch right now because of my father's illness, but perhaps someone else would like to follow up on it? Karen ----- Original Message ---- From: Michelle Cox <mcox(a)charter.net> To: development(a)drupal.org Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 9:23:56 PM Subject: Re: [development] Should I submit a new module? I like the snippit idea. I don't want to install another module but a snippit would be nice. I currently go in the db and empty the table manually because I've had too many problems with keeping devel installed and only install it when I really need it. Michelle On 6/5/2007 1:58:03 PM, Peter Wolanin (pwolanin(a)gmail.com) wrote: > For such "mini" modules, I created a section of the snippets handbook > a while back: > > http://drupal.org/node/70903 > > To me, > it's not worth cluttering the download page and maintaining > something that's > only a few lines of code. However, they are about as > useful as a page snippet and can provide a basis for others to > customize. > > -Peter

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movable type repositions
by Gabor Hojtsy 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi, Seems like Movabletype (a Perl based blogging platform that was king before Wordpress) tries to get back the momentum which was lost when some licensing issues arised a few years back and many people migrated to Wordpress. They have a good looking redesign of the admin interface and a GPL based open source model for the code, as well as a new plugin architecture. They are aiming to get through the "blogging app" limitation (which many customizers cut through anyway) and become a more versatile CMS with social features (starting with OpenID of course :) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/movable_type_40.php http://www.movabletype.com/mt4/ Gabor

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Re: [development] Should I submit a new module?
by Michelle Cox 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

I like the snippit idea. I don't want to install another module but a snippit would be nice. I currently go in the db and empty the table manually because I've had too many problems with keeping devel installed and only install it when I really need it. Michelle On 6/5/2007 1:58:03 PM, Peter Wolanin (pwolanin(a)gmail.com) wrote: > For such "mini" modules, I created a section of the snippets handbook > a while back: > > http://drupal.org/node/70903 > > To me, > it's not worth cluttering the download page and maintaining > something that's > only a few lines of code. However, they are about as > useful as a page snippet and can provide a basis for others to > customize. > > -Peter

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Backport/Performance patch repository?
by Jim Li 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hello, first off I apologize if this is inappropriate for this list. I just leaned that custom logging (by Kahlid) and JS aggregation (by M3avrck) has been backported to 5.x. So I was thinking does it make sense to have a central repository for all these fine backport/performance patches, which may never land in the official 5.x release? (Or does it already exist?) Another high profile patch I am aware of is the tracker query patch (by David Strauss). There gotta be more, including some of the locally applied to d.o. ones that never got released. All these patches (at least the above 3 I mentioned) would be great to have on my existing 5.x sites. But they are buried deep in the issue queue or comment thread, thus easy to miss. My guess is most ppl aren't even aware of them unless they follow issue queue and dev list closely. Can we somehow organize them in a central place, Group, Document page or even a Project? Does it make sense and worth the efforts? Any comments? Thanks.

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comments as nodes
by Robert Douglass 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Since it came up, I'll draw everyone's attention to the nodecomment module which makes comments into nodes. Rather, it uses one node type to be the comment type of another node type. To me (and the other Lullabots) this makes a lot of sense. All that is needed is a 1:n mapping between a parent and its children and some special display. What makes the nodecomment module really special, however, is that the rendering of the "comments" is handed off to the views module (which is a requirement), so you could display your comments in totally non-traditional ways, such as in a table or in a calendar. One of the most useful applications that this module has found is also the impetus for its creation: voting widgets in the comments that vote on the parent node. I'm creating a site, for example, where the comments are all ratings of the parent node, and each comment needs to have four separate fivestar widgets. To do this, the comment node type has four CCK fields from the fivestar module where the target of the voting is set as arg(1)... meaning the fields belong to the comment nodes but the votes belong to the parent node. Very cool. We've had clients who have requests like wanting to promote comments to the front page, or rate comments, or categorize comments etc. This module fills those needs. The release says it is beta, and I stick by that, but it is worth noting that this beta code probably serves 5 million page views a day or more on live (rockstar) websites. -Robert http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment

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