October 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

new features in D6 core?
by Andrew Schulman 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Are new features still being considered for Drupal 6 core? I've coded a new "Set language" option for the bulk node update form at admin/content/node. I filed an issue report with a patch and screenshot, at http://drupal.org/node/609262 . But from my reading of other issue reports, it seems that the 6.x API is considered to be frozen at this point. If I understand correctly, that would rule out including my patch, which adds some hooks to the locale module. Can someone please tell me if this is true, or even better, point me to a definitive statement? Thanks, Andrew.

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CVS Outage For Upgrade
by Narayan Newton 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

There will be a 30 min CVS outage at 1PM Pacific Time Today. After which CVS will be on a much more powerful server. I apologize for any inconvenience. 30 Min Outage 1PM Pacific/2000 UTC -- Narayan Newton GA Member Drupal Association Tag1Consulting

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Distributed Pairprogramming for Drupal
by Eike Starkmann 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Dear Drupal Team, My name is Eike Starkmann and I'm working working as part of the Saros Team at the Freie University in Berlin. Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby, SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses on programming in Eclipse. It is my master thesis to figure out whether Saros is useful when developing Free/Open Source Software. I already was in contact with to other projects, for example Typo3 and got some good response. In my opinion Drupal can benefit from Saros because I think it brings many advantages to Open Source Software development: * Distributed Pair Programming is like a live peer review. This should help with finding good design, get rid of bugs, increase readability, etc. * Transferring knowledge should be easier to do when more than one person look at and work with the same code. This should also help to give new developers an introduction to the code. * In contrast to screen sharing, Saros only shares your actions inside of Eclipse with regards to the project you are both working on (think privacy) and you are still independent to explore the project on your own. Saros can be useful in the following contexts: * Working on complicated problems in the code * Performing code reviews * Debugging * Code presentation * Code sprints * Introducing new developers to the project * ... What do you think? Could you and Drupal benefit from doing pair programming using Saros? If you are interested in Saros but still curious about how it works please visit our website or feel free to contact me. I hope you will find Saros useful and give me feedback. Kind regards, Eike Starkmann Website: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update Saros @ SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/ Programming Languages Supported by Saros : https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPPCompatiblePlugin -- Eike Starkmann This message is part of my Master thesis research. Feel free to contact my advisors in case of inappropriate behavior on my side: christopher.oezbek(a)fu-berlin.de and stephan.salinger(a)fu-berlin.de

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_preprocess_ issues
by Matt Funk 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, I tried the support forum first, but no one seems to answer there, so forgive me if this is thread is misplaced. I am trying a simple thing: I declare (straight from pro drupal development): function phptemplate_preprocess_breadcrumb(&$variables) { drupal_set_message(print_r("some message,true)); } After clearing the cache, i also check the theme-registry (via the developer module) and it is listed under breadcrumb->phptemplate_preprocess_breadcrumb as: 2 (String, 33 characters ) phptemplate_preprocess_breadcrumb | (Callback) phptemplate_preprocess_breadcrumb(); However, it is NEVER called as far as i can tell. Variables set in there are always empty and message set as shown above never show either. I am sorry to bother the list with this, but WHAT am i doing wrong? thanks matt

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Block php snippet not failing
by Jeff Greenberg 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

In D6, I have the page url of mypage.com/catalog/16?page=0%2C1 I have the following snipped in the pages section of a block, with the PHP snippet option chosen: <?php if ($_GET['q']) { $my_drupal_path = $_GET['q']; } else { $my_drupal_path = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1); } if ( stristr($my_drupal_path, 'catalog/16?page=0%2C0') || ((stristr($my_drupal_path, 'catalog/16')) && (stristr($my_drupal_path, 'catalog/16?page')===false)) ) return true; else return false; ?> So the idea is that it will be TRUE for /catalog/16 and for /catalog/16?page=02C0 but not for page=02C1 or greater When I put the three parts of the if statement (separating both sides of the && into two statements) in a separate php file and test each, based on the given URL, the result is FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, which is what it should be. That said, the block continues to show on every page. If I force it to FALSE (comment the IF and just leave return false) the block does not show. I need another pair of eyes...mine are crossed at this point.

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Page-flip Module?
by Emma Irwin 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, I am looking at a way to convert PDF documents to a page-flip style of display. I've spent a bunch of time looking at this. * I found an open source sample :* http://www.codebox.es/pdf-to-flash-page-flip *A Drupal conversation on page-flip *that seemed to indicate developers are talking about this but that we aren't there yet... http://groups.drupal.org/node/18326 *And then a paid piece of software currently with a WordPress plugin.*(this one is beautiful, and I want to write a module for it ) http://page-flip.com/products/ I am leaning towards writing a Drupal module with #1 (open source), but wondering if there were any other mummerings in the community about page flip ? Any advice or pointers that might help me focus on what has been done and what needs to be done. Thanks, -Emma

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About existing explanation of avoiding using classes in OOP coding for Drupal
by lapurd＠gmail.com 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Greetings Everyone, Is anybody care to collaborate on this (see below)? <http://drupal.org/node/547518> location contain this: > > > Why Not to Use Classes > > The above hopefully clarifies the ways in which Drupal embodies > various OOP concepts. Why, then, doesn't Drupal move in the direction > of using classes to solve these problems in the future? Some of the > reasons are historical, and were discussed earlier. Others, though, > become clearer now that we have stepped through some of the design > patterns used in Drupal. > > A good example is the extensibility of the theme system. A theme > defines functions for each of the interface elements it wants to > display in a special way. As noted earlier, this makes themes seem > like a good candidate to inherit from an abstract base class that > defines the default rendering of the elements. > > What happens, though, when a module is added that adds a new interface > element? The theme should be able to override the rendering of this > element as well, but if a base class is defined, the new module has no > way of adding another method to that class. Complicated patterns could > be set up to emulate this behavior, but Drupal's theme architecture > quite elegantly handles the situation using its own function dispatch > system. In this case and others like it, the classes that on the > surface would seem to simplify the system would end up making it more > cumbersome and difficult to extend. > Question is what about using already existing in PHP 5 overloading feature <http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php>? Does authors of article on <http://drupal.org/node/547518> know about overloading feature? Could authors or anybody explain this misconception? Or point me out to already existed discussion on OOP subject. Thanks in advance

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Core bug-fixing advice & a roadblock
by Matt Chapman 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi all, I've got a new project with a flexible timeline and I've got approval to develop on Drupal 7, and launch on a beta release, if necessary. So, I'm basically being paid to spend as much time as I want fixing bugs in D7. This is pretty exciting for me; something I've wanted for a while. If any one has advice on how to maximize this window of opportunity, let me know. So I've spent the last 2 days finding and fixing some low hanging fruit. ( http://drupal.org/project/issues/user/143172?text=&projects=Drupal&status=8…) I've also been studying the Field API, and I've run into a bug with field_access() that has me stumped. http://drupal.org/node/619230 Can someone with Field API expertise take a look and give me a little more guidance on how to make some progress here? Thanks, Matt

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Need some Drupal FAPI/AJAX advice
by Josh Miller 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

I'm trying to figure out how best to make the following happen, any pointers/documentation/example modules would be awesome: 1) Click a button on the webpage 2) Jquery fires off a request for a unique form that is not a node or menu or anything else 3) Somehow drupal understands the url that I use and fires the appropriate function 4) mymodule_send_form() will invoke drupal_get_form() (maybe?) 5) Jquery recieves the rendered form, adds stuff to it via hidden inputs like x & y, $_Get['q'], $user->id, etc. 6) user can fill it out 7) Jquery sends data back to be saved/verified 8) Jquery recieves a final themed output of content 9) Repeat as many times as user wants on the same page by clicking the button mentioned in #1 What has me very confused is that I need to send and receive themed output, but without the entire site. Simply need chunks of final output to be sent back and forth. After a discussion on #drupal the other night I determined that AHAH is not exactly designed to do entire forms. If anyone is interested (I know from a tweet discussion that bangpound is) I've got a working javascript framework for adding comments to entire pages. I'm going to call this module "critique" and it's main use will be turning it on and having clients add comments to pages (like you would for PDFs or Word Documents). The problem is I can't decide how to architect the backend as it will have to be very AJAX-y. I think I know more about Drupal 7 (having spent the most time in D7 issue que), but I'd like a working version in Drupal 6 first. Josh _____________________________________ Josh Miller Web / Technology Director Haan Marketing + Communications http://www.haanmc.com/ 123 N. 8th Street, Lafayette, IN 47902-0350 T. 765.423.5470 F. 765-742-2881

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what's the best way to create nodes from code?
by Zhang Xiao 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, I have a batch of nodes need to be created from code, which function should i use as an entry? thanks!

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