September 2008 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Questions for Drupal Multimedia
by Aaron Winborn 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

As you probably know by now, the book Drupal Multimedia is nearly ready for publication. Before it goes to press however, I want to acknowledge all the work Drupal developers have done towards making Drupal the choice for multimedia on the web. I want to include a final section, "In their words" kind of thing, and am posing some open questions here. I would love to include your words in the book, so please feel free to answer any or all of these questions with a paragraph or three. If you do answer them here, please also indicate a byline for attribution, such as "Alice Boyd (abc on Drupal), Co-maintainer of the Mega Multimedia Module," "Wile. E. Coyote, Developer for Acme, Inc.", or "Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the WWW." I know it's short notice, but I need these by Saturday. I figure this is the best time for these questions, as many contributed modules for media handling in Drupal 6 are just about ready for deployment, and there are many production sites already using Drupal 6. 1) What modules, tools and/or techniques do you use (and/or have you created) for multimedia handling in Drupal 6? 2) What advice do you have for new developers and/or themers? 3) What do you envision for the future of multimedia in Drupal, for Drupal 7, Drupal 8, and/or beyond? Feel free to respond to this thread or to e-mail me personally at winborn(a)advomatic.com. Thanks! Aaron -- Aaron Winborn Advomatic, LLC http://advomatic.com/ Drupal Multimedia available in September! http://www.packtpub.com/create-multimedia-website-with-drupal/book My blog: http://aaronwinborn.com/

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hook elements problem
by Ámon Tamás 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hello, I like to make some own form elements: function atleta_elements() { $type['meter'] = array('#input' => TRUE, '#size' => 60); return $type; } but when I like to use it: $form['meter2'] = array( '#title' => 'meter2', '#type' => 'meter', ); I do not see this element. What is the solution? 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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Full HTML output in profile fields of type textarea
by Jon Antoine 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi all, I am trying to crate profile fields that allow full HTML output. I have struggled with this for a long time and finally came up with a solution I am not happy with. After tracking it down, I found on line 560 in the profile.module file that the field value is being passed through check_markup function which is filtering out a lot of the HTML. I ended up replacing the check_markup call with a filter_xss_admin call, but I hate that I had to modify core to accomplish this. Can anyone suggest a better workaround to this problem? I would greatly appreciate it. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine www.antoinesolutions.com

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CCK field modules maintainers - D6 upgrade path
by Yves Chedemois 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

To all CCK field modules maintainers : please read http://drupal.org/node/304813 (also posted on g.d.o/cck) yched

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menu problem
by Ashraf Amayreh 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hello all, Really frustrated with this problem. When I'm logged out as anonymous, this call menu_get_active_nontask_item() returns -202 This is the first user's (admin's) blog page (blog/1) which I cannot begin to understand why it's being returned when I'm not even logged in. This is the result regardless of the page I'm on, so it's ruining the page titles, the breadcrumbs, the secondary tabs and many other things and I'd welcome any tips on where to begin to figure out why it's happening or how to fix it. -- Ashraf Amayreh http://aamayreh.org

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integrating oscommerce & drupal
by mangesh s 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

hi all, i want to sell some products on my website ,for tht i need some e-commerce solution. can u tell me how can i use oscommerce in my website(installation & congiguration).

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Module to create and populate CCK nodes from existing database table
by Pushyamitra Navare 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Hello all, I need a module which will create CCK nodes according to structure of an existing database table. More specifically, the idea is following: I have a few tables containing some data. I would like to represent them as Drupal content so that it becomes easier to add/modify/delete the entries. 1. So I am planning to create a new "content type" for each table looking at its columns. ( For e.g. if a database table called "db_table" contains columns called "column1", "column2", "column3", then I wish to create a new content type called say "db_table_node" with members as textfields called "column1", "column2" and "column3". ) 2. I am planning to import data in that table into drupal as nodes. I was not able to find any module to do this (I'm using D6). Seems like no choice but to write a new module for this. All suggestion welcome! - Pushya

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Attention Views API developers
by Earl Miles 05 Sep '08

05 Sep '08

http://www.angrydonuts.com/attention-views-api-developers I have just checked in a major change to the Views API. Details can be found in the advanced help under api.html (and the handlers and plugins) pages, but the short version is that all handlers and plugins are now separated into their own files in order to conserve memory and not loaded unneeded code. This required implementing an API versioning system, and the upshot of this is that a new hook must be implemented by all Views modules: hook_views_api(). Without the proper use of this hook, the *.views.inc files will not be included. If your module includes its *.views.inc files itself or keeps its handlers in the .module file, this is wrong and will cause sites to crash.

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CK-ERP (Open Source ERP / CRM / MRP) v.0.28.1 released (with Drupal 6.3 connector)
by C K Wu 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

Hi, folks, I have posted a new release, v.0.28.1, of CK-ERP, at SourceForge.Net, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp . New features include, Sample school chart of accounts, System upgrade script, menu choice for warehouse, retail store, tree view for BOM, inventory category, service category, import of eGroupWare addressbook, full (draft) Spanish translation [improvement suggestions most welcome], and, connector for CATS, php-residence, Open-Realty, phpScheduleIT, PSCafePOS, OpenBiblio, Centre/SIS, ClaSS, Care2X CK-ERP is an open source accounting/MRP/ERP/CRM system that runs on top of multiple middlewares. It comprises 23 modules - Administration, i18n, Data Import, Contact Management, Customer Relationship, Customer Self Service, Vendor Relationship, Ledger, Bank Reconciliation, MRP, Warehouse, Inventory, Service, AP, AR, PO, SO, Quotation, POS for Cashier, POS for Manager, HR, Staff Self Service and Payroll. It provides accounting and back office functionalities to SMEs and utilizes the underlying middleware to administer accounts/groups. Please report error and suggestion to the discussion group / mailing list, CK-ERP-en(at)googlegroups.com or CK-ERP-zh_CN(at)googlegroups.com . General history and expected development is available at the discussion group's Archive. Supported MiddleWares: Centre/SIS, ClaSS; OpenBiblio; CATS; php-residence, phpScheduleIT; AssetMan; Coppermine, Gallery2; phpMyTicket; phpMySport; PSCafePOS, MyHandyRestaurant; FreightFleetManagementSystem; OpenX, LandShop, Open-Realty, FreeRealty; IRM; LegalCase; ClearHealth, OpenEMR, Care2X; eGroupWare, Horde-GroupWare; Zencart, osCommerce; Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, e107, XOOPS, Xaraya; Moodle, Atutor; vTiger; WordPress, b2evolution; TikiWiki; phpBB. Information/Demo Websites: http://ck-erp.org http://ck-erp.net Download is available from, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ck-erp http://gro.clinux.org/projects/ck-ledger Cheers, Wu Chiu Kay, aka CK Wu, aka CK (CK is the preferred alias) Hong Kong

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Vote, vote, vote
by Dries Buytaert 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

http://drupal.org/Packt-2008-Open-Source-CMS-Award-Finalist-Drupal -- Dries Buytaert :: http://buytaert.net/

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