November 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Drupal way of doing onchange
by Jeff Greenberg 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Haven't delved into AHAH yet, this might force the issue. Using an easy (=less typing) example. A credit card form. When the credit card type is selected from a select, the selection needs to fire a javascript function that will disable fields that don't apply to that card type (such as CVV). Normally, I would have an onchange event for the select, and noticed that in the form api, while there is an attribute section to add miscellaneous attributes, the doc doesn't mention events as examples. And if putting an event there is legitimate, there isn't a mention of how to include the responding js function in the form. If AHAH is the way I'm supposed to handle this, I'd appreciate being pointed to a good similar example, because I'm a bit unclear from the AHAH entries in the form reference docs, for example, how to relate the myhandler/js entry to a physical location of the function, and how the function gets there. Thanks!

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Drupal, SimpleTest and Continuous Integration
by Yannick Warnier 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi there, I'm the lead developer of a GPL e-learning system called Dokeos, and occasional contributor to the Dokeos-Drupal module [1]. A few (12) months ago, we (Dokeos team) had to choose between PHPUnit and SimpleTest to cover our system with unit tests. As the Drupal community was in the same situation at that time, only a few weeks ahead, we decided to follow and chose SimpleTest. Unit Testing is not our final goal, and we want to implement something like Xinc [2] or PHPUnderControl [3] to have Continuous Integration, as it's called (a way to check when new code introduces regressions, basically). However, both seem to support better PHPUnit (I haven't tried PHPUnderControl, but I have broken a few teeth on SimpleTest + Phing + Xinc already, mainly because of conflicting versions of SimpleTest and complexity of the configuration files for Xinc). To get to the point, I would like to know if anybody has already configured that type of combination in the context of Drupal and would be so kind as to give me a link to some kind of report, examples or plain documentation about this. In any case, I will be looking at the problem myself (so far it's been only team members) and report here if it works, so it can be used with Drupal too (but the question is more like if Drupal has a few weeks in advance on our investigation there as well). Cheers, Yannick [1] http://drupal.org/project/Dokeos [2] http://code.google.com/p/xinc/ (LGPL) [3] http://www.phpundercontrol.org/about.html (not OSI license)

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Possible to create nodereference field in Form API?
by Steve Edwards 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I'm creating a form via Forms API in a module, and I need to create a nodereference field. Is there a way to do that, or can nodereference only be used as part of a CCK form? Thanks. Steve

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FW: Unsubscribing
by Kipper Timmins 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Dear list, How do I unsubscribe to the development emails? Regards Kevin

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admin
by Jeff Greenberg 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Having an interesting problem, which I'm thinking is related to some internal security feature regarding the invoking of admin pages. A site I'm working on can have two different incoming URL's. If one, a certain banner should be used, if another, then another. The initial problem was that there's a cart, and certain pages are SSL, and the securepages module can't handle two possible SSL URL's. There's a SSL certificate for both. But when switching to https:, the correct one needs to be requested, otherwise the browser reports a problem with the certificate. So, the way I handled it was to hook_init before securepages becomes involved, and check the requested URL, and if it's the second, I simply overwrite securepage's variable entry with a variable_set with the new url. Works like a charm. Except... admin. I have securepages set to work with admin as well, but when I request an admin page, the logic in hook_init that should variable_set the url back to the normal domain doesn't seem to fire, because I'll have put http://mydomain.com/admin and it will invoke https://mydomain.com/admin but the variable setting will still be https://myotherdomain.com, so I get the certificate message.

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re admin
by Jeff Greenberg 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Never mind. It turned out to be a dual problem with two ssl certificates not being allowed on one IP (so they turned one off without mentioning it), and a bug in securepages.

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D7: Fieldable Entities
by Josh Miller 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Did anyone know that blocks are not *yet* fieldable? http://drupal.org/node/430886 Catch said this should be a release blocker because of the dashboard. I think it would be a crime to ALMOST have a filefield work on a block just to find out it won't. I mean, come on, taxonomy terms are fieldable. 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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Color.module -- How do I find the CSS id's and classes used to dipslay the preview.png?
by Holly Ferree 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Please email answers/suggestions to hferree(a)gmail.com since I don't know the time required for the mailing list email to activate. Thanks, Holly ------------------------------------------------------ Hello all, I sent this to the themes group and didn't get any repsonses, so I'm sending it here hoping that someone might know the answer since it is more of a coding question. :) Does anyone know where I can find a list of the id's and classes used in preview.css to display the preview.png as an exact small replica? I need to find the classes for the top header and the bottom header. I have not found any documentation specifying the id's and classes that can be used when styling areas in the preview.png, and am out of possible names they could be. I've even looked at other themes that use the color module and have not had success. I've read the color.module and it's css file and no luck. The book page on drupal is helpful for creating the color.inc and the base.png but misses the preview.png information. If a solution does exist I plan on adding a comment to the page with the solution. My theme colorizes perfectly so the what I thought as the hard part works. Background: I decided to learn more and create my own theme that integrates the color.module. I have everything working and the colors switch to mercury, ash, etc. without any trouble. :o) (very happy that it works) But I am having difficulty with the preview.png showing correctly. It wants to combine the top header color and the bottom header color in a gradient, that is not used in my theme. And I figure that since the colors display properly when a different theme color set is chosen, it would be nice for the preview.png to show the user an exact preview before they select their new color set. My theme uses the top header (with brown) and the bottom header (with blue). There is no gradient used, so I want it to reflect that in the preview.png. Issue: Need the know the css tag for displaying the top header and the bottom header colors. I have it semi working for the top 16px -- it shows the base color if I use the css pasted below (but I want the top header color, since that is the actual color it will be). The bottom header area that is 48px high wants to display the gradient (top header and bottom header...all I want is the bottom header color). Does anyone know the correct css to insert so that it doesn't use the gradient but uses the bottom header color? Thanks in advance, Holly Ferree ---------------------- Preview.css: (the top:17px allows the top header color to display perfectly :D. However the height: 48px displays the gradient which I would like it to display the bottom header color but I don't know the correct css tag. I've tried changing #gradient to #bottom, #header, #headerbottom, and #header-bottom, but no luck for either) #preview #gradient { <-- what should I put here? #preview #_______? position: absolute; left: 0; right: 0; top: 17px; <-- this space gives the top header the base color height: 48px; <-- since the name is #gradient, this puts a gradient below the top header z-index: 2; } ******************************* Color.inc: fill' => array( 'base' => array(0, 74, 900, 426), 'top' => array(0, 0, 900, 17), 'bottom' => array(0, 17, 900, 48), ), Example of the preview.png layout using Belgian Chocolate theme: ------------------------------------------ Top header, dark brown, #6c420e, height: 17px ------------------------------------------ Bottom Header, red, #971702, height: 48px; ------------------------------------------ THIS AREA IS DISPLAYING PERFECTLY Content Area base color, tan #d5b048 height: auto; Link color: dark brown #6c420e Text color: dark red, #494949 ------------------------------------------

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GPL 2 violation by integrationservic.es
by Alex Barth 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

This may have come up before, but http://integrationservic.es/ drupal.php launched on Nov 12 and appears to be violating drupal's GPL2 by charging 33 $ for a module download: http://drupal.org/node/229996#comment-2210628 http://integrationservic.es/drupal.php http://twitter.com/cc_php/status/5654452582 Is this a) A violation of of drupal's GPL 2? (In my understanding very clearly so) b) What are the proper steps to be taken to get this code taken down or published? Alex Barth http://www.developmentseed.org/blog tel (202) 250-3633

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Drupal Folder Structure
by Josh Miller 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Is there anyone else worried that the Drupal folder structure encourages users to drop modules or themes into the wrong place? Wouldn't you like to have a folder structure that separates core from the rest of the customizable sites folder? As this issue could blow up in the issue que (http://drupal.org/node/22336) perhaps a short discourse on the mailing list is in order. It's weird that we all care so much about coding standards and yet we let our folder structure look so thrown together. Perhaps I'm wrong. I have feeling the real reason we are putting up with such a confusing structure is that moving files can introduce a big wtf and some might think we should leave it well enough alone. On the other hand, I believe it's broken and not at all grokable for 100% of the newbies. For fun, here is D7's folder structure as it stands from drupal.org project packager (not cvs) five minutes ago: includes/ misc/ modules/ profiles/ scripts/ sites/ themes/ .htaccess CHANGELOG.txt COPYRIGHT.txt INSTALL.mysql.txt INSTALL.pgsql.txt INSTALL.txt LICENSE.txt MAINTAINERS.txt UPGRADE.txt authorize.php cron.php index.php install.php robots.txt update.php xmlrpc.php Thoughts and comments are very much appreciated and encouraged. 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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