December 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Proposal: Drupal University
by James Benstead 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

I've spent sizeable chunks of the last year or so trying to learn Drupal. To start with, I had a problem understanding the documentation. Now I've overcome that hurdle, I'm experiencing issues with the *structure* of documentation. I am usually able to solve individual problems for individual projects, but if I want to learn something in a more abstract fashion - for example, learning how Drupal works with Javascript so that I can understand a JavaScript-based module - I come a bit unstuck. I also hit problems if I want to sit down and just learn something new about Drupal. Sure, I can (and do) go onto IRC and ask a question along the lines of "I can do x, y and z with Drupal; what should I learn to do next?", but this doesn't always work and the quality of the answers I get just isn't consistent. So, what I'm proposing is something along the lines of Wikiversity ( http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page) for Drupal: a set of structured (but informal) courses that bring together different pieces of documentation from both within and without d.o. Has anything like this been tried before? What do you think of the idea? --J. -- Google Talk/Windows Live Messenger/AIM: james.benstead(a)gmail.com Yahoo! Messenger/Twitter/IRC (Freenode): jim0203 Jabber: jim0203(a)jabber.org // ICQ: 7088050 Skype: jimbenstead

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Taxonomy Menu Version 3
by Neil Hastings 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

Hello fellow developers. This is an exciting time for Taxonomy Menu<http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu>. I have just released the new UI that will be the base for creating menus in version 3. The plan for the new API will allow for any module to use the UI to create the menu structure, but give them the ability to create the menu in their own method. No longer will you be restircted to only menu links. As of version 3, Taxonomy Blocks <http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_blocks>and Taxonomy Navigator <http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_navigator> will be mergin with Taxonomy Menu. Please join in the dicussion. <http://groups.drupal.org/node/42014> You can see a screencast of the new UI here<http://code-dreamers.com/taxonomy_menu_ui.mov> . I hope to here from all of you! Thanks, Neil

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Deploying content from master site to subsites
by Brian Vuyk 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

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Field name in view template woes
by Jeff Greenberg 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

I have a view row template, and one of the fields in the row is an imagecache version of a cck image. If I elect for the field settings of it to allow it to be shown, the image appears. It does not, however, appear in a dump of the $rows object, whether the field is excluded from being displayed or not. In following the naming convention of other content, and going by a dump of $view where the table name for the field is node_data_field_image_cache and the field name is field_image_cache_fid, I have tried setting the field in the view settings to be excluded from display, and then print it manually in the template. I've tried both $row->node_data_field_image_cache_field_image_cache_fid and $row->node_data_field_image_cache_field_image_cache with neither working.

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Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1: Coming soon to a downloads page near you!
by Angela Byron 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hm. Trying this again. I sent this Wednesday night but apparently it didn't make it? --- Drupal 7 first opened for development back in February 2008. At Drupalcon Boston a month later, we brainstormed on how to tackle some of Drupal's toughest challenges: our usability was not up to par, we were burning time fixing the same bugs over and over, our database abstraction layer suffered many limitations, upgrades were a nightmare, and critical modules such as CCK not being ported were harming our adoption rates of Drupal 6. Drupal 7 has made tremendous strides since then to solve each of these problems, as well as many others. Among the improvements are a revamped UI, a testing framework, a new database abstraction layer, a browser-based upgrade system for contributed modules and themes, and CCK in core. Now it's time to head into the final stretch: stomping down the list of critical bugs, so that we can release Drupal 7.0 out into the world! :D To help this along, Dries and I will create the first alpha release of Drupal 7 on January 15, 2010, Drupal's ninth birthday. For developers working on Drupal 7 clean-ups, particularly around anything that is touching APIs or the UI in a fundamental way, your changes will need to be completed by then. Once the alpha is released, we will start to treat Drupal 7 as an actual stable release, which means nothing but non-API-breaking bug fixes. The initial brainstorming at Drupalcon just a few weeks after development opened for Drupal 7 was <strong>instrumental</strong> in laying a strong foundation for the entire release, I would love to see Drupal 8 get the same opportunity. However, this means releasing Drupal 7 <em>before</em> Drupalcon SF (mid-April), so that our attention is not divided between getting our past efforts out into the world, and deciding what our future efforts will be. And when does Drupal 7 come out? When the list of critical issues [1] hits zero (currently at 340, though this will fluctuate all over the place for awhile as non-critical issues are marked such as and new critical issues are found). To spook you with a little math, if we want to see a Drupal 7.0 release by the end of March, at the current total we need to solve roughly 120 issues per month, or 30 issues per week, or 5 per day. Yipes! :) Obviously, the more people we have helping out with fixing critical issues, the faster this number will go down. So if you haven't yet played around with Drupal 7, now's a great time to start! Pick a critical bug that looks interesting/achievable, and take the opportunity to learn a bit about the changes in Drupal 7 at the same time while you solve it. There are always folks in #drupal and #drupal- contribute on irc.freenode.net to help you, and there are a variety of bugs for all skill levels and areas of expertise. Let's rock! [1] http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal? version [0 ]= 156281 &status [0 ]= 1 &status [1 ]= 8 &status [2]=13&status[3]=14&priorities[0]=1&categories[0]=bug&categories[1]=task

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Drupal developers in local government or with transparency/participation projects
by Steven Clift 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

We are gathering software developers interested in local government transparency and community participation here: http://e-democracy.org/locallabs It is a new e-list/online group. It would be great to have a healthy Drupal contingent among us. Steven Clift E-Democracy.org

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db_select problem
by Bob Hutchinson 28 Dec '09

28 Dec '09

Working on a port of imagepicker module from D6 to D7 I'm having problems getting some db_select statements to work, in particular a db_or() that will not accept more than one 'LIKE' condition. It will accept multiple '=' conditions but not 'LIKE'. Here is the error it throws: #### PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ':db_condition_placeholder_2 ESCAPE '\\') )' at line 1: SELECT i.img_id AS img_id, i.uid AS uid, i.img_name AS img_name, i.img_title AS img_title, i.img_description AS img_description, i.img_date AS img_date FROM {imagepicker} i WHERE (uid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND( (img_description LIKE :db_condition_placeholder_1 ESCAPE '\\') OR (img_title LIKE :db_condition_placeholder_2 ESCAPE '\\') ); Array ( [:db_condition_placeholder_0] => 2 [:db_condition_placeholder_1] => %testword% [:db_condition_placeholder_2] => %testword% ) in _imagepicker_browse() (line 965 of /mnt/sdb1/www/drupal-7.x-dev/sites/all/modules/imagepicker/imagepicker.module). #### If I rewrite the above SQL to work in phpmyadmin: #### SELECT i.img_id AS img_id, i.uid AS uid, i.img_name AS img_name, i.img_title AS img_title, i.img_description AS img_description, i.img_date AS img_date FROM imagepicker i WHERE (uid = 2) AND( (img_description LIKE '%testword%') OR (img_title LIKE '%testword%') ) #### It works fine. I have tried various combinations of 'LIKE' and '=' with and without wildcards and the result is the same, only one 'LIKE' condition allowed. Here is a snip of the code: #### return db_or() ->condition('img_description', '%testword%', 'LIKE') ->condition('img_title', '%testword%', 'LIKE'); #### This one fails If I hardwire '=' #### return db_or() ->condition('img_description', '%testword%', 'LIKE') ->condition('img_title', 'testword', '='); #### It works I have tried 3 conditions, changed the order but nothing will let more than one 'LIKE' condition through Looks like a bug to me, but perhaps I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas would be most welcome ;-) -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------

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Abwesenheitsnotiz
by maerz＠jamdesign.de 27 Dec '09

27 Dec '09

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, derzeit laden wir unsere Akku`s wieder auf, um mit frischer Energie in das Jahr 2010 zu starten. Wir sind ab dem 11. Januar 2010 wieder wie gewohnt für Sie da! Besinnliche Feiertage und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr wünscht Ihnen Ihr Team der jAmdesiGn | werbeagentur Eserwallstrasse 17 86150 Augsburg fon. +49-[0]821- 450 76 –36 fax. +49-[0]821- 450 76 –37 email. niederreither(a)jamdesign.de Inet. www.jamdesign.de

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Abwesenheitsnotiz
by maerz＠jamdesign.de 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, derzeit laden wir unsere Akku`s wieder auf, um mit frischer Energie in das Jahr 2010 zu starten. Wir sind ab dem 11. Januar 2010 wieder wie gewohnt für Sie da! Besinnliche Feiertage und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr wünscht Ihnen Ihr Team der jAmdesiGn | werbeagentur Eserwallstrasse 17 86150 Augsburg fon. +49-[0]821- 450 76 –36 fax. +49-[0]821- 450 76 –37 email. niederreither(a)jamdesign.de Inet. www.jamdesign.de

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Is ftp.drupal.org down?
by Ryan Letulle 24 Dec '09

24 Dec '09

Is it just me or is ftp.drupal.org down? -- Ryan LeTulle

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