July 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

use drupal as a backend?
by bryan rasmussen 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Hi, Not sure if this is the right group to ask this in, but it seemed like the other drupal groups were even less relevant: a friend of mine recently wanted me to help him do some stuff for his new website. Basically it was clear what he needed was a blogging tool (he has the content managing needs of a normal blogger and the Website desires of a Fortune 500 CEO) one of the things he wants are very specific design requirements that I do not think is implementable in any blogging tool currently. The display requirements are as follows: The first page of the site is a single column menu, pages aside from the initial single column start page can have up to four columns: Column types are: 1 - always menu 2 - documents of a particular type or a submenu 3 - documents of a particular type or a submenu 4. documents of a particular type so one scenario could be that there are four columns on a single page consisting of | menu | submenu1 | submenu2 | document considered to be under submenu2 another scenario could be |menu| submenu1| document or |menu | document| The content handling requirements are as follows: 1. calendar manipulation - add, delete, read events 2. Forms to send contact email 3. serving of various streaming media 4. easy to maintain without needing to be technical after quite a bit of work got the display working in xhtml / css but now need a way to maintain this. I have the idea that the data of the documents in the non-menu columns could be gotten just by reading in data from some blog installation on the server. I think the best solution would involve a blogging tool that could output content as just XML and that I could then read to build up the exact display he wants. I figure, given his server restrictions (php, MySQL), that drupal is probably the most likely solution to this. Any suggestions on things to look at with Drupal to maybe do this? If not drupal other tools suggested in the blogging world?

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Add image node with PHP Curl?
by James Tunick 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

I have read a lot about about the topic. But I'm still a newbie and I'm having serious trouble. After using PHP/Curl to login, I move to the node/add/image page and get the token no problem. But I'm having trouble posting a new image node. I can get everything working when posting a new page node with Curl. It's just posting a new image node that's giving me trouble. Here is the code that should add the new image node. Curl fills out most of the image form fields such as title, body etc. All fields are populated by Curl *EXCEPT* the image file upload. And this seems to be what's stopping curl from creating the new image node. What am I doing wrong? How can I get Curl to fill in the file upload field? Any suggestions much appreciated! $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.example.com/?q=node/add/image/"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $postarray = array( 'files[image]' =>'@$file', 'taxonomy[3]'=>'2', 'title' => $file, 'body' => 'xxxx', 'status' => '1', 'revision' => '1', 'comment' => '2', 'name' => 'mov', 'moderate' => '0', 'form_id' => 'image_node_form', 'form_token' => $token, 'op' => 'Submit' ); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postarray); $buf2 = curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); I have reviewed the tutorials and snippets on the Drupal site (http://drupal.org/node/87711) and on other sites (http://www.voidberg.org/blog/using_php_and_curl_to_automate_drupal_tasks_su…)

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how to right AJAX enabled module?
by Ahmad Al-Obaidy 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Hi, I need to display a value given in the database.... the value is modified regularly by other programs.... the value should be refreshed regularly .... but not the entire page... I tried JSON ... but didnt find a useful docs.. from where should i start?

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seen Druplicon?
by Augustin (Beginner) 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Where is the appropriate place to report funny bugs like this: [18:15:31] <beginner2005> seen killes? [18:15:32] <Druplicon> killes was last seen in #drupal 2 days 17 hours ago saying 'you should even be able to only enable it for specific domains.'. [18:16:23] <beginner2005> seen Druplicon? [18:16:23] <Druplicon> I'm right here! [18:16:24] <Druplicon> Sorry, I haven't seen Druplicon. [18:16:36] <beginner2005> :) which one is it, then? augustin. -- http://www.wechange.org/ Because we and the world need to change. http://www.reuniting.info/ Intimate Relationships, peace and harmony in the couple.

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ANN: module 'PyBridge'
by David McNab 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi Drupal hackers, As someone who loves, admires and respects the fine framework that Drupal is, yet much prefers Python over PHP as a programming language, I suspect I may not be alone. So as an experiment, I've created a module called 'PyBridge', which allows simple Drupal page modules to be written in Python. Module and doco are available from: http://www.freenet.org.nz/pybridge The basic idea is that after installing the module, you can place python modules (say, 'hdlr_fred.py') in a directory, and these will be available via the path 'pybridge/fred'. Within the python module, you can access nearly all the drupal API and globals; I've exploited some Python OO voodoo to make this easy and transparent. The Python module gets spawned via popen, and function calls, variable gets/sets etc are done as a flow of serialised command packets to/from the python process' stdio. You can: - get/set PHP locals/globals - arrays, numbers, strings - call PHP functions - PHP builtins and Drupal API funcs - execute arbitrary PHP expressions and code (and yes, folks, I've included a whole section of security precautions to help people mitigate the risks of this) - return a string, which will be taken as the page content You can't: - retrieve PHP objects - but you can retrieve their attributes and invoke their methods Performance penalty is moderate but not over the top. URL aliases can be used to render the ugly 'pybridge/fred' URIs into something nicer. If this interests anyone, I'd love to hear from you. For someone with good PHP and Drupal API knowledge, this could be spruced up into something quite nice. For example, adding configuration options. Cheers David

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GoPHP5.org - Drupal 7 and PHP 5.2
by Robert Douglass 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi all, after coordinating with Dries I am happy to announce that Drupal 7 will be able to accept PHP 5.2 features into core! To celebrate Larry Garfield, Ken Rickard and myself have launched http://gophp5.org. Please check it out and spread the word. <begin rejoicing> -Robert

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Documentation proposal: Forms
by Earl Miles 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

I would like propose that Drupal 6 (and forward) adopts the following documentation standard: For all functions that are meant to be used in as an argument for drupal_get_form, we document them with @ingroup forms (note that actual form code is documented via @ingroup form) and we put a description of what the form is meant to be used for. That will make it a little easier to for users to discover what forms are available and find their way to the code that generates the forms. (Could also use volunteers to help apply documentation patches to get this done).

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update.php for D6
by Barry Jaspan 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

This week I have put a lot of hours into fixing all the problems with update.php from D5 to D6 (I've been on the road giving a week-long Drupal training, with nothing to do in the evenings ;-). The fruits of my labors are at http://drupal.org/node/157682. It is still in code-needs-work status. I am announcing the issue here for two reasons: 1. I want to avoid someone else duplicating this work and either wasting their time or causing my time to be wasted. 2. The patch contains a large number of small changes, mostly all over system.install. I'd like to get the review process going ASAP. The "needs-work" parts are things I haven't gotten to yet, but the things I have gotten to are "done" and ready for review. If some people familiarized themselves now with all the issues involved, once it hits CNR it won't take forever to get committed. This is also a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with the contrib schema.module and its database inspection and comparison capability. Thanks, Barry

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5 minutes of your time - Test a short script on unusual server setups.
by Heine Deelstra 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Dear developers, I'm looking for people with certain server configurations to supply some information for me. The work, which consist of running a short script and emailing the results, could be done in 5 minutes. I need test results of - Apache + PHP as cgi (not fastcgi) - Lighttpd with PHP via fastcgi - IIS + PHP as cgi - IIS + PHP ISAPI - Xitami + PHP in whatever configuration supported I believe anyone with Windows XP Pro has a copy of IIS. Feel free to participate if you have other 'esotheric' server setups that still run Drupal. Please contact me directly at hdeelstra(a)gmail.com if you have one of the above server configurations and are willing to lend me a hand improving Drupal. Regards, Heine Deelstra

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FYI: Plesk 8.2 offers Drupal as a site application
by Karthik 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

Page 5 on http://www.swsoft.com/r/pdfs/Plesk/plesk82_whatsnew.pdf Joomla and Xoops are also listed as new additions. -K

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