September 2007 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Call for Drupalcon Barcelona presentations/notes
by Angela Byron 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

I've created a section in the handbook for posting presentations and session notes: http://drupal.org/node/177855. Just add a child page to add your stuff. Please make an effort to get your stuff in here, so they're archived for all the poor folks who couldn't make it, and for Drupal generations of the future. Thanks! -Angie

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ANSI SQL <>
by Doug Green 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Yesterday I noticed that we use the SQL != syntax instead of the ANSI standard <> syntax. This seems like a cross-database compatability problem to me, and I've written a coder rule in the SQL review to check for it. It found about 20 uses of this in core. But I haven't committed it yet. I'd like to get feedback if others think that this is a problem. Thanks! -- Doug Green douggreen(a)douggreenconsulting.com 904-583-3342 Bringing Ideas to Life with Software Artistry and Invention...

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Drupalcon Barcelona attendees: post your wrap-ups
by Angela Byron 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

We need to collectively inform the people who weren't at Barcelona of all the awesome stuff that went down so that they feel they were there. :) I have a new front-page post to collate this material. Even if it's just "See my blog post over at <link>", that'd be fantastic. Please post 'em here: http://drupal.org/node/178258 Thanks!

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Core Search Performance - help needed
by add1sun 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hello folks, As a drupal.org site admin I wanted to ask for a bit of attention to a patch for improving search performance in Drupal (http://drupal.org/ node/146466). This isn't just about Drupal, but also drupal.org (all performance improvements are, aren't they? ;-)). There has been a lot of work on this patch by Doug Green and it was brought up at DrupalCon. Iit would be great if we could get some testing/review of his latest patch along with helping to clean up the remaining TODO list. This would be a really great improvement in Drupal 6 and I think we all agree that drupal.org would appreciate it as well. w00t! Addi (add1sun)

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Maintainer sought for embed filter module
by Robert Douglass 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi all, the embed filter module lets you allow <embed><object><script> tags from targeted domains. It is broken in some clearly defined ways (ie the path to being fixed is well known), and also poses a security threat if used in its current state. I don't have time or motivation to maintain the module and would gladly hand it over to someone else. I think it is a worthwhile module and does a specific task that many find useful, so it would be sad to declare end of life for this module. The maintainer should be prepared to deal with medium-complex regular expressions. The module is otherwise straight forward (as filter modules tend to be). http://drupal.org/project/issues/77306 http://drupal.org/node/177836 http://drupal.org/node/177853 Cheers Robert

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hackathon on Sunday
by Karoly Negyesi 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi, Sunday, Maria Aguilo 45, yellow line (L4) to Pobleneu, walk one block on Pujades turn right walk for like half a minute, there! I will be there all day long. We have wifi, power, about 14 chairs, the rest -- floor, beds, wherever :) Drop me a line if you are coming. See you, Karoly Negyesi

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A very old issue is almost fixed -- documentation help req
by Karoly Negyesi 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Hi, http://drupal.org/node/2946 and add fancy help text to the no cookie page. Thanks, ChX

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Preserving a dynamic form value without using $_SESSION.
by Rajan Agaskar 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

I'd like to avoid the use $_SESSIONs for storing 'temp' values, but I need a way to get a dynamic form value through the submit process without being regenerated. Right now, here's what is happening: 1. node form is built, $temp_dir value is created. 2. content is created via an AJAX request that is indexed with the $temp_dir 3. node form is submitted (and thus, rebuilt). $temp_dir value is re-created, now diff. than previous $temp_dir 4. node insert function has 'wrong' $temp_dir value for final processing of content from step #2. The following 'works', but doesn't use the drupal FAPI. I'd like to avoid that if possible: if ($_POST['temp_dir']) { $temp_dir=$_POST['temp_dir']; } else { $temp_dir = md5(time() . $user -> id); } I know there *must* be a way to do this, as seemingly, the form token has to be generated in this fashion. Any suggestions? FWIW, due to the manner in which the content is generated, using sessions is less than desirable (I spent a few days debugging what ended up being a session race condition, and so I'd prefer to avoid them altogether at this point). Thank you for your time Rajan Agaskar.

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applet requesting cache item - please help
by Tomas J. Fulopp 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

Hi, Can anybody help me please - I've reviewed tonnes of documentation for days but cannot find the answer. I'm developing a module that displays a Java applet and at the same time prepares data for the applet. This data is stored using cache_set(). The applet then requests this data using a separate call... and my problem is -- in the program that provides this data to the applet, I do not know how can I connect to the database. I assume I need to include bootstrap.inc and a couple of other scripts, but all my experiments failed. Can you please give me some hints as to what is the proper way to to this, or can you point me to a page or module that has employed this technique. I really would not bother you if I could find it myself. I hope somebody answers. Cheers, Tomas

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drupalcon videos
by mark burdett 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

hi, i am slowly uploading drupalcon session videos: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject:%22drupalconbarcelona2007%22 --mark B.

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