September 2008 - Development - lists.drupal.org

creating new cck field
by Ámon Tamás 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hello, I like to make a new cck field type, but I am very confused with it. I do not get back the field in the form. I try to see the example_field and simple_field and optionwidgets module but do not find the solution. I like to make a number_integer field with an autocomplete feature. This is my code now. What is missing? I use drupal 6. Thanks for help! function atletafield_atleta_process($element, $edit, &$form_state, $form) { $field_name = $element['#field_name']; $field = $form['#field_info'][$field_name]; $field_key = $element['#columns'][0]; $element[$field_key] = array( '#type' => 'textfield', '#maxlength' => 60, '#title' => $element['#title'], '#description' => $element['#description'], '#required' => $field['required'], '#autocomplete_path' => 'atleta/autocomplete_athlete', '#default_value' => isset($element['#value'][$field_key]) ? $element['#value'][$field_key] : NULL, '#attributes' => array('class' => 'atletafield') ); return $element; } function atletafield_elements() { $elements['atletafield_atleta'] = array( '#input' => TRUE, '#columns' => array('value'), '#delta' => 0, '#process' => array('atletafield_atleta_process'), ); return $elements; } /* I think this part is good */ function atletafield_widget_info() { return array( 'atletafield_atleta' => array( 'label' => t('Atleta selector'), 'field types' => array('number_integer'), 'multiple values' => CONTENT_HANDLE_CORE, 'callbacks' => array( 'default value' => CONTENT_CALLBACK_DEFAULT, ), )); } function atletafield_theme() { return array( 'atletafield_atleta' => array( 'arguments' => array('element' => NULL), ), ); } function theme_atletafield_atleta($element) { return $element['#children']; } function atletafield_content_is_empty($item, $field) { if (empty($item['value'])) { return TRUE; } return FALSE; } function atletafield_widget(&$form, &$form_state, $field, $items, $delta = 0) { $element = array( '#type' => $field['widget']['type'], '#default_value' => !empty($items) ? $items : array(), ); return $element; } Ámon Tamás Sitefejlesztő és programozó -- 5NET Informatikai Kft. 1062 Budapest, Aradi utca 38. A 3/11 telefon: (1) 461-0205 | fax: (1) 461-0206 e-mail: amont(a)5net.hu | web: http://www.5net.hu

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lightbox2 module - co-maintainer needed!
by Stella Power 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Hi all, The lightbox2 <http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2> module's issue queue is just getting too large and busy for me to cope with all by myself. This is going to become increasingly difficult when I start a part-time course next month - I just won't have as many free hours to devote to lightbox2. So I'm looking for a co-maintainer! You don't need to be a PHP or JavaScript wizz kid - though if you are, great! Experience with JavaScript and Firebug would help, however as long as you have some time to help out with the issue queue by investigating support issues, etc, then send me a mail. Cheers, Stella

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CCK Field Indexing
by Aaron Winborn 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

At DrupalCampNYC, a small group of us have been discussing a common performance issue we've experienced with Views/CCK, and have come up with a possible solution. Often, Views will create difficult queries that sometimes require examining a slow query log and tweaking field column indexing. It might be good for developers to be able to easily tweak indexing before it gets to that place. For instance, a library might have a node type with book title, author, summary, isbn, and not want indexing on isbn (as a hypothetical). When scaling, some indexes are unnecessary and grow exponentially. In other cases with obscure queries, there are not indexes where you really need them. A possible solution, probably using a contrib module, would be to add a field set for 'advanced settings' or 'advanced indexing settings', with a big red warning for people, telling them not to touch it unless they absolutely know what they're doing. Inside would be a check-box or selector for primary key, key index, and no index. With indexing on by default. Firstly, is there already something like this? Secondly, although we could certainly use this functionality, is there a preferred way to handle this? Thirdly, if we created this module, what's a good name? CCK Field Indexing? It would need to plugin at the very least with the core cck fields, maybe with .inc files for other types. Related, I think that Views 2 should have an 'explain query' built in when building the view, maybe as part of the 'analyze' button, or as part of the query displayed, which would help tweak your queries well before it gets to production. Thoughts? Thanks, Aaron Winborn

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Codeathon for Non-profits in Austin from Nov 21-23
by David Timothy Strauss 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Drupalers: I'd like to invite Drupal developers interested in supporting non-profit causes to come to Austin for a Codeathon this November. Email me personally if you need a place to stay or would like consideration for flight sponsorship. Many of the NPOs we work with will be interested in Drupal-based and other open-source solutions. While I know there's a seemingly endless stream of paying Drupal work, it's sometimes nice to take a bit of time to just give back. People with the skills of the Drupal development community are hard to find at any price. Let's give non-profits a shot as some top-notch talent, if only for a few days. Thanks, David == The official invitation == Supercomputing 2008 is coming to Austin Texas Nov 15-21. As soon as Supercomputing ends we will be begin coding like rabid monkeys from 1pm on Friday Nov 21 til 1pm Nov 23. By ending at 1pm our travelers can fly home that Sunday afternoon. We promise entertainment, food, fame, places to crash and time spent on some very worthwhile causes. There are only 3 rules for a codeathon: 1) must be Open Source 2) must be sponsored by a NonProfit ( not a 501c3 but an NPO or NGO) 3) must be a universal solution Last time we worked on a number of modules. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccDORj0syyE ) This year we are gonna kick it up a notch and try to at least match up the team leads with the NPO's beforehand to work on design online. We are talking to some pretty well known ones but don't want to write them until we get official confirmation. We are putting together a new website at http://code-a-thon.org soon. But for now you can see the old wiki at http://codeathon.pbwiki.com Programming committee: Erica O'Grady- fundraising goddess David Strauss - geek wrangler Silona Bonewald - NPO wrangler Joshua Gay - geek and NPO wrangler Michelle DeFrance - finance mistress Randy Zagar - infrastructure guru Doryan Rice - food and entertainment planner J Robinson Wheeler - video and streamcast crew lead

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University of Sao Paulo
by Louis Suarez-Potts 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Mark Surman, now of Mozilla but previously of the Shuttleworth Foundation, sent me a note recently about the work that some instructors are doing at the University of Sao Paulo. They are Felipe Gomes and Marcio Galli. In a nutshell, they want a stronger Mozilla presence there, in the CS dept., and to work with Moz. to teach students Foss, programming. There are also contests, such as the wonderfully named, "Obscure Code Contest." (In Portuguese it may differ.) I'd like to see if Marcio and Felipe would be interested in Sun technology. It might also be worthwhile to collaborate with Mozilla in endeavours like this, rather than, as it would seem, competing for resources--instructors, that is. So: do we have a presence at this university? Do we already have a relationship with Felipe or Marcio? (And, I can send in more information on USP's events.) cheers, Louis

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Userscript for inserting issue links for use in comments
by Andrew Berry 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi all, I've created a greasemonkey script which does a few things which might be useful to those of us who spend a lot of time in issue queues: 1. Adds the issue number to the issue title, and sets the whole thing as a link for easy copying to other sites where rich text editors might be in use or other programs which understand links in a clipboard. 2. Adds a plain-text anchor tag to the issue suitable for copying into a comment, below the issue title. It's of the farily standard format <issue number>: <issue title>. 3. Adds a plain-text anchor tag below each comment in an issue, for linking to a specific comment. The format is <issue number>: <issue title> (<comment number). I've submitted the script on userscripts.org here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33565 While userscripts.org has a comments section, for feedback about this I'd appreciate using this thread for now. I'm open to suggestions / improvements; my javascript-fu is fairly rough. Also, assuming there are no major issues, where is a good place to host this on drupal.org? Enjoy! --Andrew

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Re: [development] 'OR' not multilingual in search module?
by Gábor Hojtsy 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

I never tried it, but what you could do is to use hook_form_alter() and add a submit handler before the standard search handler. Then just translate your special words in the query to Drupal's special words, and let the real submit function take on. I've never tried this, and you need some development experience to do it obviously. Gábor On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Edward Peters <edward.peters(a)uk.iofc.org> wrote: > As far as I can see, Drupal's search engine does not allow us to translate > the 'OR' separator offered in the instructions when no result is found. This > English word seems to be hard coded into the module. Does anyone have any > experience/solution on this issue? > > Many thanks, > > Edward Peters > Oxford, UK > www.iofc.org > > > >

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'OR' not multilingual in search module?
by Edward Peters 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

As far as I can see, Drupal's search engine does not allow us to translate the 'OR' separator offered in the instructions when no result is found. This English word seems to be hard coded into the module. Does anyone have any experience/solution on this issue? Many thanks, Edward Peters Oxford, UK www.iofc.org

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Local repository best practices
by Angela Byron 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

I've been doing some research for a client on best practices surrounding repository management, and wanted to take this discussion to the developer list and see if we could get some general consensus, and document it as a best practice in the handbooks. I found a bunch of discussion on this topic: * http://drupal.org/node/118936 * http://www.workhabit.com/labs/svn-repository-structure-drupal-projects * http://ceardach.com/blog/2008/06/development-environment-drupal * http://pingv.com/blog/cyberswat/200706/project-management-drupal * http://www.svntalk.com/node/6 * http://agaricdesign.com/agarics-svn-repository-structure-for-site-maintenan… * https://svn.bryght.com/dev/browser * http://www.advantagelabs.com/advantage_labs_svn_repository_structure * http://www.codegobbler.com/svn-repository-structure-drupal-projects Most of these discussions are around Drupal *shops* who setup SVN to manage the development of their clients' sites, or who host their clients' Drupal sites and manage updates via SVN. However, I'm curious what people generally use in terms of repository structure/deployment strategy *after* development is complete, and they hand the site over to the client so that they can be self-sustaining? It doesn't really seem like they need a vendor branch with various versions of Drupal and contributed modules. The repository is around just their own site. We typically do something like this: /branches: This is where "crazy" development happens that will break other stuff. - /drupal-6-port - /crazy-new-feature /tags: This is where deployments go. Whenever we move a deployment to prod, we tag it first so that we can see a historical record of things that were put 'live' - /2008-09-03-description-of-deployment - /2008-09-08-description-of-deployment /trunk: The latest development code in preparation of deployment. Should be kept stable at all times. Minor fixes can go in here, but major ones (particularly porting tasks) get a dedicated branch. Beneath each directory above is something like this: - /www: Drupal files, modules, etc. - /assets: Things like wireframes, TinyMCE .zip files, and anything else that shouldn't be web acessible. - /db: Database backup files What are other people doing for this use case? -Angie

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Views 1 maintainership?
by Earl Miles 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Would anyone be interested in taking on the role of maintaining Views 1? The fact that it is a completely different piece of software from Views 2 makes it very difficult for me to spend much time on it, and there are lots of patches and bugfixes that it could stand to have used. Please be aware that such a maintainership would be no small task, but you would have the interesting (and maybe terrifying) responsibility for a piece of software that is used across almost all of Drupal.

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