June 2010 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Drupal 7 API Change notification: field_attach_query() removed
by Randy Fay 17 Jun '10

17 Jun '10

*In trying to find a way to notify developers of D7 API changes, the best solution we've come up with is to formally publish to the Drupal Development Mailing List. API change notifications will occasionally be posted here with a title starting with "Drupal 7 API Change notification"* Recently *field_attach_query()* was *removed* (issue<http://drupal.org/node/780154>). Instructions on how to replace its functionality with the EntityFieldQuery are provided in #152 <http://drupal.org/node/780154#comment-3100410> and #113/120 <http://drupal.org/node/780154#comment-3047520> Thanks, -Randy -- Randy Fay Drupal Module and Site Development randy(a)randyfay.com +1 970.462.7450

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php4
by Domenic Santangelo 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hypothetically, if a client wanted you to build a Drupal site (complexity of say, 2, where 10 is economist.com) and they insisted on a specific host -- and this host only supports php4, what would you tell them? So far I've got, -Core will work but many contribs will not (filefield, date, ubercart, etc) -Prepare for added development time that you wouldn't have to otherwise pay for -??? What would you say, hypothetically? Any official stance on php4 from d.o? Thanks, -D

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[Seeking Comaintainer] BlogAPI needs help
by Cameron Eagans 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

Hi everyone, I was planning on getting Blog API updated for Drupal 7 in contrib and adding some new features. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of a huge project for my day job, and I'm concerned that I may not be able to spend time on Blog API before Drupal 7 is released....whenever that happens. Anyways, I'm looking for somebody that is interested in being a comaintainer for Blog API. If you're interested, please email me off-list and we can discuss. The relevant issue is here: http://drupal.org/node/828260 Thanks! Cameron

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Upload problems in D7
by Bob Hutchinson 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

I am upgrading a module from D6 to D7 and have stumbled over a problem with uploading files. I am using a java applet to collect the filenames and upload them. The applet requires a full URL (eg http://example.com/my/path/to/callback) as it is running on its own so it cannot *know* what FQDN to prepend to a relative path. The apache logs show a 404 file not found error and watchdog also logs the error like so: http://example.com/http://example.com/my/path/to/callback All this works well in D6 and I have been very careful in the upgrade. The callback never arrives. It looks like D7 assumes or even requires a relative path and is prepending http://example.com/ automatically. Any pointers would be much appreciated ;-) TIA -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------

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Strip_tags and JS
by nan wich 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

It appears that javascripts are not stripped by strip-tags because they are actually between tags, not part of a tag. Does anyone have any magic to strip the scripts out too? Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

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Chapter 2 in Batch issues - @total
by Jeff Greenberg 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Now that the batch operation is firing, I notice an issue with the progress message. I've been looking through the code, but am defeated so far by the levels of abstraction. Before resorting to stepping through in debug, it makes sense to just ask! I'm processing 200 records. The progress message (@current out of @total) gives me 1 out of 1, 2 out of 1, 3 out of 1, etc. $batch['sandbox']['max'] is set to the number of records being processed, though I don't know whether it's used or not. I can't seem to find in the docs or the code what is driving the @total value. I do see that it comes from $current_set['total'], but not where that comes from. Jeff -- Ayen Designs 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263 404-271-9734 ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com> IM (Yahoo) baalwww (MSN) baalwww(a)yahoo.com Skype: ayendesigns Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of

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Having different content at the same alias for different domains in Domain Access
by David Hart 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I'm using Domain Access with two sites, foo.com and bar.com to allow content and users to be shared between the different URLs. They share most pages with one or two different. Where the pages are different, I've created different aliases (foo.com/contact and bar.com/contact-us) One of the pages they share in common (foo.com/baz and bar.com/baz) has had some minor text changes so that it now has to be different on both sites. While the original is still at foo.com/baz there's a new page bar.com/baz-new and baz is no published on bar.com. The problem now is that bar.com/baz gives an access denied for any incoming links (from Google/bookmarks/printed material). I can't use URL Alias or URL Redirect to change bar.com/baz to bar.com/baz-new as neither of these are Domain Access aware. Almost as problematic, it also means having to manually add back in all the submenu items under baz to go under baz-new (50+ child items) and keeping them in sync in the future if I ever add/move/delete any more children to the baz menu. Potential ways I can see to solve it are: 1. In a custom module check the URL and, if it's bar.com/baz, issue a drupal_goto 2. Leave baz on bar.com, create baz-new and then in a custom module swap the contents of baz for baz-new when it's output on the page (in hook_nodeapi?) 1. is a simple way to solve the broken url issue but doesn't help with the menu problem 2. seems to do both as long as whoever maintains the site knows that all future copy changes to bar.com/baz have to be done a different way to every other page on the site. I guess I could try and intercept things if baz is edited from bar.com. Are these my only options or am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to set baz-new as being the same menu-wise as baz. Looking in {menu_links} I guess it would mean somehow changing baz-new to have the same mlid as baz whenever it's called?

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Batch operation function not firing
by Jeff Greenberg 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Have a module function hooking batch: $batch = array( 'operations' => array( array('mymodule_batch_task', array($var1, $var2)), ), 'finished' => 'mymodule_batch_finished', 'title' => t('batch process'), 'init_message' => t('starting.'), 'progress_message' => t('Processed @current out of @total.'), 'error_message' => t('encountered an error.'), 'file' => 'mymodule.admin.inc', ); batch_set($batch); The batch process messages appear on the screen as they should, but it seems that the operations function doesn't fire at all. I put a watchdog command before the above call, and it appears in the dblog report. I put a watchdog call at the beginning of mymodule_batch_task() and it doesn't show up, and neither does the watchdog call from the 'finished' function. Jeff -- Ayen Designs 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263 404-271-9734 ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com> IM (Yahoo) baalwww (MSN) baalwww(a)yahoo.com Skype: ayendesigns Ayen Designs is a tradename of the computer services division of

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New module
by nan wich 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I had a need for this with my current customer, so I drupalized it. Before I commit it, here is the readme file for your consideration: The Section Order module exists becuse I got tired of having to either create hooks to let CCK know how to reorder $content (theme variable), or $node->content['section name'], or adding settings to my admin forms to control the section weights. This module watches as the content is viewed and keeps track of the actual sections that are added to the content. You, the site administrator, are then able to use a simple drag-and-drop form to re-order these sections in any way you wish, regardless of the weights the other module creator specified. This gives you quite a bit of flexibility. Such a feature has been asked for from modules such as Image Attach and Taxonomy Image. Now it exists. Okay, so now a lot of people are asking, "Why not just have CCK do it?" There are several potential problems with that scenario: 1) Sacrelgious though may sound, there are sites that don't have CCK installed. 2) It seems that most contributed modules do not bother telling CCK about about their content sections, so they cannot be reordered with CCK. 3) Even when those developers do tell CCK, occasionally they do it incorrectly, again leaving CCK without the correct capability. The Section Order module works with or without CCK. Since it runs at the highest module weight, it will always be the last module to look at the content. This means that it will not get stomped on by other modules. If CCK is running, SO will simply alter CCK's weight values or provide section weights if CCK doesn't already know about them. If CCK is not available, then SO will alter the section weight directly. Either way, you get the desired order. Nancy E. Wichmann, PMP Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.

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menu_navigation_links: bug or feature?
by Matt Chapman 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hey all, I'm running into an issue in Drupal 6 and want to see if anyone else had experienced this before I dive too deep. Maybe it's a known issue. I'm using the following in my template.php to generate a third-level navigation menu: <?php $subpage_links = menu_navigation_links('primary-links',2); $vars['subpage_nav'] = theme('links', $subpage_links); ?> This works great in most cases, for example, when the menu tree looks like; node/1 |---node/2 |-------path/to/a |-------path/to/b |---node/5 So on node/2, I see links for 'a' and 'b'. But sometimes the 'landing page' for a section IS the first node in the section, for example: node/1 |---node/1 |-------path/to/a |-------path/to/b |---node/4 Notice node/1 appears twice in this tree, but in this case, the sub-items for node/1 do not get rendered. The problem is that menu_navigation_links() calls menu_tree_get_data() which does not ask for the appropriate menu item, but instead uses menu_get_item() and it's own logic (SQL queries) to decide which menu item to look at, and it does so incorrectly. I'm at a loss how to proceed... There is an evil hack that works: replace the top level node/1 with a new php-filter node that does a drupal_goto('node/1').Yuck. My other option seems to be to write a custom replacement for menu_navigation_link() that does the work of menu_tree_get_data() in a way that works here, but that feels equally wrong. I'm not even sure if this is a bug I should report, or just an inherent limitation of the menu system that can't be resolved until we get a real context system in core. Any insight? All the Best, Matt

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