August 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Defining static variables
by E.J. Zufelt 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

Good afternoon, I need to define three static variables (essentially an enum) for use by system_elements() and theme_form_element(). Where is the best place to define these variables? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt

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Looking for module co-maintainers
by Justin Freeman 21 Aug '09

21 Aug '09

G'day All, We need some help with maintaining a few Drupal projects. So I'm seeking Drupal co-maintainers for: Computed Field, http://drupal.org/project/computed_field Taxonomy Redirect, http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_redirect Editview, http://drupal.org/project/editview Interests, http://drupal.org/project/interests User Titles, http://drupal.org/project/user_titles Taxonomy Lineage, http://drupal.org/project/lineage Signwriter, http://drupal.org/project/signwriter If you are interested please respond to me directly and we'll get things moving. All the best Justin

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Remove q=node from required modules
by Robert Douglass 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Drupal became popular because it made a lot of assumptions. It assumed, for example, that you want a page on your website that displays all promoted and published content in reverse chronological order with teasers. This is the path q=node. There are other paths that display content listings (taxonomy module is full of them), but most (all?) of the others can be turned off. q=node stands out as the shining example of a content listing path that is _required_ by core, and can't be turned off. This has consequences: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43545096@N00/3287922589/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertdouglass/3238757628/ I would like to argue that the required bits of core should not offer any paths that display content listings, and that the behavior of q=node in the case that no content is published/promoted is particularly damaging and should be removed. The issue: http://drupal.org/node/545758 -Robert

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Request for volunteer
by Rob Milne 20 Aug '09

20 Aug '09

Hi, I'm looking for a volunteer to take over maintenance and development of the Web File Manager contrib module. I have too many projects and something has to drop - unfortunately I'm not working in the open source world now and it has become too difficult to stay current with Drupal except as a user. I've mentioned my desire to quit to andremolnar (the official maintainer who has even less time to work on the module than me judging by cvs messages and issue list reponses) and he will surely pass over the reins to anyone who really cares about this module and who has time/ability to improve it. I will definitely make myself available for questions to anyone interested in taking this on. -robmilne

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Simplest Gallery
by martijn cielen 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

Hello to all, a while ago, I released Simplest Gallery ( http://drupal.org/project/simplestgallery) as I really believe this could become a good module. Unfortunately I don't have enough time anymore to further develop, nor to support this module, so I send this mail, to look for a maintainer and a (few) developer(s). If you feel this module should be developed further, please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you might have. Kindest regards, Martijn Cielen

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Fonts in drupal
by Gastón Pablo Pérez 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Hi! The cuestion is, how can i include fonts in drupal 6? I created a theme with Artistier and I created my theme including a special ttf font, when I view the page in my PC which has the font instaled, I can see the page well, but when I try to see the page from other machine, Drupal changes the fonts. can you help me? 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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Any script that tries to convert bad code-style modules to good one (as code_style.pl suggests?)
by Doq Doques 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

Is there any available? Sincerely, Doq Doques

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MENU_NOT_FOUND with every theme pages
by Ankur Jain 18 Aug '09

18 Aug '09

i am very new to drupal. I have recently migrated my code from drupal 5 to drupal 6.13 ... after migration in all the pages i am getting error The requested page could not be found all the admin pages are working nicely only the pages blogs to my theme are not working .. when i debug this i found that the error is MENU_NOT_FOUND with every page .. i am using a my own theme .. i think after migration this theme is not working properly ... when i did more debug i found that in the function menu_get_item() .. query is retuning false . i am assuming that there is some basic function has been change so only my theme pages is not displaying... plz suggests something may be this information is not sufficient for the problem .. but i don't know what i need to provide for this .. so plz let me know if anything else is required

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theming local tasks (a.k.a. tabs)
by David Cohen 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Two issues on d.o that have received very little traction: http://drupal.org/node/371453 http://drupal.org/node/521852 The problem is that theme_menu_local_task($link, $active=FALSE) is passed very little information, making it impossible to mark up a secondary link any differently from a primary link. So is there some secret way to do this? Or do these issues have little traction because so few of us ever run into this? Note that I realize there are wrappers which surround links, and these may have primary or secondary class associated with them. But for my purposes that's not sufficient. I need to change the actual markup of the links, the wrapper classes just don't do it for me. -Dave

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Call to developers, Yet another migration module / how to choose a module name?
by Pierre Rineau 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

Hello all, Working on some custom project for my company, I developed a module to do massive migration between sites. This module uses a full OO layer. Its internal mechanism is based on abstracting objects to migrate from a master site to clients. This abstraction defines how to construct object dependency tree and how to serialize objects. Object implementation (node, user, taxonomy, whatever) is really simple to use, it's only 3 methods classes (register dependencies, save, and update) using some kind of custom registry for developer to save/get back data before and after serialization. All error handling is exception oriented, and lower software layers won't fail on higher layers unrecoverable errors. Object fetching is based on a push/pull mechanism. Server push the sync order, client responds OK or not. If OK, it creates a job using DataSync module which allow it to run as CLI thread (which won't hurt the web server, and allow us a larger memory limit at run time). DataSync module uses MySQL transactions (shame it's only MySQL compliant, but I hope it will evolve, I'm thinking about PostgreSQL). During the DataSync job execution, client will pull an original set of content, and browsing it will do incremental dependencies fetching (by pulling again server), based on xmlrpc (fetching component is also abstracted, and could be any other communication method than xmlrpc). To be unobtrusive on the system, smart unset() is done after building a dependencies subtree, and there is a recursion breaker in case of circular dependencies. This module was created because the deploy module seems to be so unstable, I did not want to risk client's production sites to run with it. I started implementation of some sort of "deploy plan", using profile based on views, you construct a set of views, saved them in a profile, then all objects that these views reference will be synchronized. Right now, the module fully synchronize taxonomy and content types, partially synchronize users (including core account information and passwords), and I have a small bug left to handle with nodes (revision problem I think). There might be a performance or overhead problem with this conception with a very large amount of data, it could break easily. The only way to be sure it won't break is I think to migrate stuff with a numerous small set of data. But the problem doing this is that it will be really hard to keep the transactional context of DataSync module. There is a lot of other custom goodies coming. First thing is, what do you think about such module, should I commit it on drupal.org? Is there people interested? And, now that I described the module, what name should I give him, considering the fact I'll probably commit it on drupal.org, if people are interested. I though about "YAMM" (Yet Another Migration Module), or YADM (Yet Another Deployment Module). The fact is there is *a lot* of modules which want to do the same thing as this one, I just want a simple an expressive name. Pierre.

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