June 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

form with confirmation (sometimes)
by Lluís 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I have a form to allow deleting some variables. If the deleted item is 'empty' it should be possible to delete it without any problem; but full items should have a 'confirmation' step before deleting them. I have read http://drupal.org/node/387674 and http://drupal.org/node/385640; but in my case I need to pass an array to the confirmation form, and I think it has to be an easier way to allow a "Are you sure you want to do this?". Any hint is welcome. -- *La vida és com una taronja, què esperes a exprimir-la? *Si creus que l'educació és cara, prova la ignorància. *La vida és com una moneda, la pots gastar en el que vulguis però només una vegada. *Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge, pensa en el medi ambient.

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problem with hook_menu
by Hans Langouche 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Hi, I'm running into a problem with the menu system. I have a 'project' content type that has a couple of child links to show either some cck field of that node or some embedded views with related content (but I think what happens on those child paths is not relevant). The problem I have is that these child paths often show the content of the parent (node) path instead of the content it's supposed to show (this will go away after clearing cache, but comes back again). Below is how I add the paths to the system, nodeapi then also adds aliases for each of those links (based on the alias of the parent link). Note that this problem also occurs when I visit the link with the real path (e.g. node/x/more, so I guess the alias system is also not the cause). Originally I didn't add in the file and file path (as the hook_menu call is in the same module as the page callback's), I added it in to try to solve this cache (?) problem. Any suggestions or tips are appreciated :-) Hans if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && !arg(3)) { $_node = node_load(arg(1)); if ($_node->type == 'project') { $items = array(); $items['node/%node/more'] = array( 'title callback' => 'projecttabs_title', 'title arguments' => array(1, t('more')), 'page callback' => 'projecttabs_tabs_more', 'page arguments' => array(1), 'file' => 'projecttabs.module', 'file path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'projecttabs'), 'access arguments' => array('access content'), 'type' => MENU_CALLBACK, );

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Taxonomy path OG aware
by Paolo Mainardi 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Dear All, I need your opinion and suggestions on a (for me) complicated task. I have OG + Taxonomy (views on taxonomy/term) + Pathauto + Some content types Now, i need to achieve this task, when you are in a node (og context) taxonomy links must be have something relative to og, for example: "/taxonomy/term/$tid/$og->nid" (for example passing last argument to views for fitering only og nodes with this taxonomy term) (consider that i'm using Pathauto, so taxonomy/term it's aliased for example on "category/$category_name"). I tried with custom_url_rewrite but it's not a so simple task and with hook_menu trying to create on the fly all this path (but it's a little bit strong in terms of cpu cycles...). I'm using D5. Please, someone could suggest me the right way ? :) Thank you very much!!! :) -- Paolo Mainardi CTO Twinbit Blog: http://www.paolomainardi.com -- Please consider the environment before printing this email --

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[Job Poster] -Drupal Theme Developer
by Neetu 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Location: Schaumburg, IL Duration: 6 months Job title: Drupal Theme Developer Description This is a position for a Drupal Theme Developer. - Deep understanding of Drupal template system with the ability to write php-based template override functions for menus, pages, panels, feeds, views etc. - Strong experience writing W3C valid XHTML/CSS code in a cross browser environment - Extensive jQuery and AJAX experience - knowledge of Yahoo YUI library is a plus - Intense attention to detail - Proven track record and portfolio - PHP experience required - Experience creating theme templates in Drupal 6 - flash redevelopment a plus but is not required Thank you for your time. Neetu ----------------------- neetu(a)valiantica.com YahooIM: neetuvaliantica

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D7-UX: Complete nightmare
by Stefan Nagtegaal 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

After a long time, I'm finally back and up to speed with Drupal CVS again. The last couple of weeks, I was trying to get into the "Drupal 7 User Experience"-improvements the community is planning to make before releasing Drupal 7. Unfortunatly, I lost track between all the different websites (drupalusability.org / drupal.org / d7ux.org / groups.org/microproject and so on), the enormous amount of issues and the ongoing talk of wireframes, suggestions and idea's. Now, concretely what I would like to know to get started *somwhere* is the following: - Where do we have the exact guidelines and examples of how we are going to work to complete this (horror)job and immense task? Is there any at all? - Do we have a roadmap to complete and guide the community, and the order we should work things out? - What is the place to look at, if I want to work on it structurely and to not lost track on all the things spread around on the different groups / websites and issues? - Is there anyone taking a lead in this, who I can talk to and dicuss things with? As I'm getting up with Drupal CVS again I didn't found anything related to the "new" (seperated again) administration section. I couldn't find any code to rely on, or even to get an overlay-sort-of- thing working to build upon. (perhaps I'm wrong, but I had the feeling that this would be there as *a lot* of people are wireframing, making sketches of possible and new UI's and discussing things that IMO doesn't even matter as long as the groundwork isn't done yet.. So, to make such a long story short: Is there anyone, or any place where I could find things (structurely ordered, preferably by task) to start on at least some things of the groundwork? I hope there are some people willing, who could help me to get going. Yours sincerely, Stefan Nagtegaal

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Reusing elements in a compound CCK field
by Yuval Hager 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

I am writing an application in which I need a compound cck field - a nodereference and a numerical value. The underlying database table MUST keep both values in the same record (no "delta" based value matching, like CCK multigroup does), so I reverted to writing my own CCK compound field module. However, I am having a hard time understanding if I can reuse the elements declared by the nodereference and the number module for my case. I am trying, for example, to use '#type' => 'nodereference_autocomplete' in my element #process function, but maybe I do not need to define an element at all? Maybe I should just use it in hook_widget? Also, How can I convince nodereference and number to work on MY definition of #columns? This goes for validation, autocompletion and value (stripping out the "[nid:]"). I am not finding good documentation for this, and the code for other modules who do similar stuff is rather confusing (I looked at a few). Before I revert to voodoo or code duplication - can anybody shed some light on the subject? If needed, I can paste my (non working) code here. There are a few documentation points for this on the net - the best I've found is http://poplarware.com/cckfieldmodule.html by Jennifer Hodgdon. Thank you Jennifer, this is a great guide. However, this guide delegates a lot of functionality to filefield/imagefield, and my case is quite different. CCK documentation on these hooks is rather laconic, or not up to date with the latest version. This also makes me wonder if one can write a generic compound CCK field module, that will allow the user to reuse existing fields and build a new one using the UI only. But first things first - the specific case should work before the generic one :) Cheers, --yhager

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feed aggregator - drupal 6 - minor improvement
by Mathew Oakes 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

I found that the feed aggregator would link into my delicious bookmarks rss OK. Then I wanted to link it in to a feed of my most used tags, but the links did not appear correctly. The .module uses the generic link of the feed in if the item link is not present. On this feed, each item had the correct link value in the guid tag. I don't know how standard that is, but Firefox interprets it correctly. So I added a clause to the replacement algorithm, to use guid value (if it is a valid link) otherwise to revert to the feed link. Patch attached fro the aggregator.module file from version 6.1.2

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different terms depending on $user data
by Lluís 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

I need groups of users sharing a taxonomy, but not terms; the group is defined depending on their user profile; so I have been able to write a module using hook_node_grants and hook_node_write_perms to separate their content; but now I need them able to categorize it. So a user inside "one group" should be able to add terms (if their permissions allow him to do so) and that term should only be visible to his group. Any hint of how to achieve this is welcome. -- *La vida és com una taronja, què esperes a exprimir-la? *Si creus que l'educació és cara, prova la ignorància. *La vida és com una moneda, la pots gastar en el que vulguis però només una vegada. *Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge, pensa en el medi ambient.

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Field UI effort
by Yves Chedemois 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

While Field API has been in core for a couple months now, the UI currently remains in contrib (CCK HEAD) There is a strong demand to have a Field UI shipped with core. - better experience with an out of the box drupal setup - makes it easier to unify features to 'X as field' (node body, file uploads...) without having to keep the existing core UI in parallel with the contrib Field UI. - quoted from Dries' blogpost in http://buytaert.net/drupal-7-fields-in-core-status-update-and-next-steps: it's "a strategic necessity because it enables more people to test, benchmark and experiment with what we have built so far" (true for field API, but also for the UI itself) This will not happen without a design and coding community effort. The current CCK HEAD, albeit "globally working", is more or less a direct port of the D6 CCK UI, which is frankly not on par with the coolness expected from the D7UX work. The Field UI, whether in core or contrib, will end up as a fair part of the 'drupal experience'. I clearly won't have the bandwidth to lead that effort myself, but I will of course provide help and feedback. To get the ball rolling, I posted an UI-oriented summary of the Field API at http://groups.drupal.org/node/23545 Discussion takes place in http://groups.drupal.org/node/23282 - or is there any other place more inline with the D7UX habits ? Yched

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Set the CCK field value the the node is created
by David Hautbois 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hi I'm developping a custom CCK field for Drupal 6. I'm don't want the user set the value himself. So, this field has no widget. I'm looking for how to set the value when the node is saved. (the value is set when the node is created et not updated) In hook_field, I tried to use 'presave' ou 'validate' for $op, but I've some problems to work with it : - 'presave' seems to be called when the node is displayed... - when the node is created, the field has no value ($items[0]['value'] does not exists) - ... I 've look in some others CCK fields, but no one work like this. I copied the text_field CCK field, renamed all 'text_field' references, simplified it and removed the widget. Can someone help me or point me to a good web page ? (not the CCK dev documentation !, I read it many times!) Thanks. David

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