September 2009 - Development - lists.drupal.org

estimating execution time left and hook_cron
by nitin gupta 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hello, I am maintaining the module feedapi imagegrabber, which pulls the images from the original url of the feed items (just like google reader). It is implemented on the top of feedapi and hence implements the feedapi_after_refresh() hook, which is basically fired by the feedapi after it has refreshed the feed. Now, as my module download images from an external website, I can never be sure about the time it will take to complete the job of downloading images for all the feed items. Therefore, sometimes I get a 'fatal execution time exceeded error'. How can I know how much execution time is left, so that I can return on time by saving the rest of the work as a cron job? I have gone through the source code of FeedAPI which implements hook_cron(). It uses a variable called 'cron_semaphore', which I am guessing is some way to share execution time but am unable to get how. I will really appreciate if someone can explain the above to me or provide some tutorial links on writing a good hook_cron implementation. -- Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog/

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Re: [development] including an image in the module directory
by nitin gupta 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

I am sorry for that the last link I posted isn't working. Please look here: http://publicmind.in/test/feedapi-imagegrabber-new-interface.jpg I will be thankful for any suggestions for changes in it. As I am releasing the next version soon, any changes will be highly appreciated. Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog

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Re: [development] including an image in the module directory
by nitin gupta 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi, Sure, I would prefer the #description as well. Please have a look here http://publicmind.in/test/feedapi-imagegrabber-new-interface Do you think that this description is sufficient? If No, Please suggest what changes can I do to make it more clear to the end-user. Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog > > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:45:32 +0530 > From: nitin gupta <nitingupta.iitg(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [development] including an image in the module directory. > To: development(a)drupal.org > Message-ID: > <4f59ac610909170315x5b32a97fib0715e216ed9312(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > I want to include a small image in my module to provide a small tutorial > for > the module's input field. Is anyone aware if we are allowed to commit an > image into the module repository or not? > > Regards, > Nitin Kumar Gupta > http://publicmind.in/blog/ >

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including an image in the module directory.
by nitin gupta 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi, I want to include a small image in my module to provide a small tutorial for the module's input field. Is anyone aware if we are allowed to commit an image into the module repository or not? Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog/

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Making your data act like a field
by Nancy Wichmann 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

After reading Eaton's well-written article http://www.lullabot.com/articles/great-pretender-making-your-data-act-field, I tried this in a module I work on. The fields are definitely showing on "Manage fields" in CCK. However, those added fields do not seem to be available to Views. One of the reasons why I am really interested in making this change is so that something like Node Export can see these fields automatically. What more needs to be done to the suggested code to have CCK reflect these fields to other modules? Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

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form_markup
by Jeff Greenberg 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

I've opened an issue, but meanwhile, has anyone used form_markup - d6? I enabled it, the prefix/suffix fields appear when I edit a cck field. I put markup in. Save. Clear cache (just in case). And the node/add and edit forms don't change at all. I need to plant a line of textual instruction prior to the start of a series of groups on the form, and was hoping not to have to theme just to do that. Unfortunately, there's no cck markup type field.

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Re: [development] Shortening file names downloaded from webpage
by nitin gupta 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hello, Thanks a lot to all, for such great suggestions. I hope this will solve my problem. Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in

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Get all node fields?
by Chris Johnson 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Can someone suggest a way to get get a list of user-editable* fields in a node of a given content type? I'm trying to write a module which will set field defaults in nodes being created by Feed API -- including fields which do not exist in the feed, hence I need to know what's in the node, not what's in the feed. It also has to be different _per feed_, hence I can't just go by content type -- not that that is any easier. *By user-editable, I mean the actual data fields, not the meta-data fields. I don't want to mess with things like nid, vid, type, uid, status, etc. Rather, just any field which any module (e.g. CCK) might have added to a basic node to create a new content type. Obviously, I can look at the node object, but it's very flat; there's no way to tell user data from meta-data attributes. Calling content_fields() will get me the CCK-added fields, I think (I worry about the date module...). And I can hard-code the basic core node fields, if I have to. But I'd prefer a general solution. Advice? Ideas? Thanks, ..chris

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Shortening file names downloaded from webpage
by nitin gupta 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Hello, I am maintaining a module FeedAPI ImageGrabber. It downloads a relevant image from a webpage of the feed-item and stores it along with the node. I found that the module sometimes gave the 'filename too long error' ( http://drupal.org/node/505964) It happens because I was saving the image file with the name as basename($image_url). But to solve the issue, I am now trying this code to shorten the filename. $arr = parse_url($image_url); $filename = basename($arr['path']); This code solves the problem by removing the query and fragments of the url. Does anyone know of any better way to handle this? Can anyone point out any issues with this code? Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog

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Re: [development] Shortening file names downloaded from webpage
by nitin gupta 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Hi, Any webpage contains a lot of images, I am not aware of the time complexity of the function implementation, but won't it will be an overkill to generate so many md5 hashes? Looking forward. Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:16:12 +0530 From: nitin gupta <nitingupta.iitg(a)gmail.com> Subject: [development] Shortening file names downloaded from webpage To: development(a)drupal.org Message-ID: <4f59ac610909140846x5efff3bai3bc4a5deb5054b37(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I am maintaining a module FeedAPI ImageGrabber. It downloads a relevant image from a webpage of the feed-item and stores it along with the node. I found that the module sometimes gave the 'filename too long error' ( http://drupal.org/node/505964) It happens because I was saving the image file with the name as basename($image_url). But to solve the issue, I am now trying this code to shorten the filename. $arr = parse_url($image_url); $filename = basename($arr['path']); This code solves the problem by removing the query and fragments of the url. Does anyone know of any better way to handle this? Can anyone point out any issues with this code? Regards, Nitin Kumar Gupta http://publicmind.in/blog

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