July 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Vim for Drupal request
by Sam Tresler 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

I am working on a drupalcomplete.vim file and would like to generate an list of all of Drupal 6 (and eventually 5,7, etc) functions, objects, and anything else that might warrant code completion. I believe that api.drupal.org scrapes this automatically from core. I can manipulate the data to match the format I need no problem, but I thought I would ask here before I went about finding my own way to scrape the data from a cvs checkout. This was broached before here http://lists.drupal.org/pipermail/development/2009-February/032090.html but appears stalled. yes, I have too much time on my hands currently. Cheers. -Sam

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Query about new page
by Ankur Jain 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi , I am new to drupal and i want to create new page like abc.php but i don't want to create this page from admin section create content -> page / story ... bco'z it save the page into database ... i want to create new php page by my own and then let say call this from one of the menu item ( on click of the menu ) .. how can i do that ... and also wanted to know why drupal is saving all the page in database ... is for some optimization or achieve some functionality. ankur

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After form submit
by Salvador Benimeli 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello, I'm new to Drupal, and after looking FAPI documentation there are some kind of things that are not clear to me. Where go the data once the form has been submitted?? The data submitted on a form is stored as a node or other kind of content or have I to create a table on the database and storing post values inside that table??? How can I create a view where I can show all the data that has been submitted??? Thanks in advance

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Import data from excel into drupal
by Gastón Pablo Pérez 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Hi! I would like implement a functionality in a web site for able to upload an excel file, with a determined format, and then, I want to generate nodes with this information. Exists a module or a medium to do that? or how can i insert data into drupal database from an excel file? thanks a lot -- "La perseverancia es un árbol de raíces amargas, pero de frutos muy dulces." Gastón Pablo Perez Email:gpperez@gmail.com <Email%3Agpperez(a)gmail.com>

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upgrade d5 to d6 deletes themes and engines from system table
by David Cohen 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

I've seen loads of posts about trouble upgrading from D5 to D6, but no answers for my specific problem. That I know of, anyway. Apologies if this is answered elsewhere. I'm upgrading a site from Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x. After running the update.php script, I find the system table contains no owner values for any of my themes. I think I can hack these values, setting the owner column to "themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine" for most of the themes. But what's the deal? Why wasn't this done during update.php? It might have to with open basedir restrictions. Because I've updated a local copy of the site and it didn't have this problem. but running update on the live server has this problem. And more importantly, are there any other parts of the upgrade that failed, but I haven't discovered yet? thanks for any help, -Dave

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File Compression
by Bushidodeep 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi, I was wondering how the following article on file optimization<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/19/how-to-automate-optimization-and… > would be applied to DRUPAL. Is it necessary with or works in addition to throttling? CK

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new module ideas for localized content
by Shankar Dhanasekaran 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

Hi everybody, I have been reading development mail list for a few months now, found it great for people to discuss code but I have not written any thing here until now. I guess the time has come. I am wanting a feature addition to ip2local module or some other similar module. Brief explanation of the customization follows: 1. Admin interface to add or delete region and group regions. Much like hierarchy taxonomy. So that admin can add Region 'Asia' and sub regions like India, China etc. 2. There is an admin interface to set default language for each sub region and region. 3. Much like multi-lingual interface in each node where user can select the language, there is now an additional interface to select the region the node belongs. A node can belong to more than one region, however. 4. The module should output a block where the user can select the region of the website he wants to see. See ibm.com <http://ibm.com> <http://ibm.com> for example. There is a region on the header where user can select the country/language. 5. Logic for content display: a. detect the user ip and thereby the location and display that particular location's content alone. b. If the location is not present in one of the regions set in the website, use a default region. c. detect the browser language and render that identified region's content in that language. Say for example, the region is detected as China but the browser language is English, then display chinese region content in English language. Adminstrator will take care of all the translation work needed. I will really appreciate if you guys can give me some pointers on where to start, a possible hint on hooks that I may need etc., I wanting to become a good drupal module developer and a community supporter. I hope you guys will initiate me into this. I am not aware of any existing module that gives similar functionality after some good search in contrib space. If there is any, pls let me know. Thanks a lot, Shankar

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hook_form
by Ole Kerpel 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Hi all, not very familiar with Drupal development, but I'm working my way through Pro Drupal Development which helps a lot. I was wondering how I could implement the hook_form, in order to create a form within the Drupal generated form. Can I add php in the <mymodule>_form or does Drupal offer ways here? Here is my case. I am creating a module that stores nodes with several textfields. One of the fields is mandatory and should contain a url. The user must be able to search for the urls by posting keywords to an web service. When the result comes back the user must be able to select a url which is then stored in the right field. after that, the user is able to add some text and then submit the form the Drupal way. Any help is welcome, thanks advance for the trouble taken. Ole Kerpel Developer Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis Postbus 2169 1000 CD Amsterdam T: 0208500137 E: oke(a)iisg.nl www.iisg.nl

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Re: [development] Form Api - Passing arguments to a form
by Earnie Boyd 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Quoting Joop Sint Jago <j.sintjago(a)xs4all.nl>: > Hello, > > I have searched d.org but cannot find the answer. > > > > I'm converting a D5 module to D6, but cannot succeed into passing some > arguments when calling the form. > > > > $output = drupal_get_form('mymodule_form', $arguments_array); > > > > function mymodule_form($arguments_array) { > > // > > '#defualt_value' => $arguments_array['name'], > // > > } > > > > If I'm not mistaken nothing changed at this point with D6. > I did the following search where I found http://drupal.org/node/114774 which then leads you quickly to http://drupal.org/node/144132. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=convert+5.x+site%3Adrupal.org -- Earnie -- http://r-feed.com/ -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://www.4offer.biz/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/

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Re: [development] Form Api - Passing arguments to a form
by Jamie Holly 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Drupal passes a form_state variable to the function first, so you need: function mymodule_form($form_state, $arguments_array) { Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net Joop Sint Jago wrote: > > Hello, > > I have searched d.org but cannot find the answer. > > I’m converting a D5 module to D6, but cannot succeed into passing some > arguments when calling the form. > > $output = drupal_get_form(‘mymodule_form’, $arguments_array); > > function mymodule_form($arguments_array) { > > // > > ‘#defualt_value’ => $arguments_array[‘name’], > // > > } > > If I’m not mistaken nothing changed at this point with D6. > > Thanks. >

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