July 2010 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Drupal 7 API Change notification: $db_prefix removed, results
by Randy Fay 03 Jul '10

03 Jul '10

*We try to notify this list when API changes are made in Drupal 7, so contrib and custom developers have a chance to fix their code before they have the pain of figuring out why it's broken. *Two API changes to report today. The first probably affects any site or module which makes use of $db_prefix, and the second probably affects nobody: 1. All handling of *database prefixes *was changed (issue<http://drupal.org/node/195416>). global $*db_prefix has been removed*, which affects settings.php in any existing Drupal installation which uses it. Also, any module which uses the APIs surrounding database prefixes (think Table Wizard, Data, Views 3, etc.) then you will be affected and need to study the API changes. 2. An obscure FAPI change (issue <http://drupal.org/node/736298>): If any contrib module is setting #*access=FALSE *or #*disabled=TRUE *of a clicked button within a #*process function *it will need to change that into either a proper multi-step form or move that code into a #pre_render function. Thanks, -Randy -- Randy Fay Drupal Module and Site Development randy(a)randyfay.com +1 970.462.7450

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Multiple drupal Installations using Single Database
by satish vignan 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

My Host-provider provided only 2 Mysql databases for me! I want to install 3 or more Drupal websites for each department in my university. i.e. each website in subdomain1.domain.com, subdomain2.domain.com, etc. Each website should be independent with other as webmasters for each site will be different. I tried out with sites/default/default.settings.php also but i got struck somewhere in coding there! please help me in this regard! I'll make sure that Drupal has good Development community! -- M.Venkata Satish, IT Administrator, Vignan University

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Short downtime for CVS and mail services
by Gerhard Killesreiter 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, there will be an operating system upgrade for util.drupal.org on Monday, June 14th, 23 UTC. This means there will be a short outage for our CVS and mail services that run on that box. Downtime should be less than half an hour. Cheers, Gerhard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwQMAUACgkQfg6TFvELooSVbwCgw7NL/VO1nUo4qsgwFfwcsw+S iLYAoMAa70bz9vGDFiQ95dPi8SuLVLew =DmGD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Map a webservice object with dynamic fields to a Drupal node
by Sven Decabooter 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Hi, I am working on a module that will integrate an external opensource project with Drupal. The idea is that the other project manages the data, while Drupal is responsible for the visualisation. I am retrieving the data through webservices (SOAP or REST). The fields that are coming in from the external system are not fixed (i.e. the person setting up an instance of the system defines the fields), and I want to make the integration module generic enough to be able to deal with different configurations of fields. The aim is to make a Drupal node for each object that is coming in through the webservice. However I'm not sure what the best way would be to link / map the incoming data to the Drupal node. The fields will be fixed per installation of the Drupal module Right now I have spotted a few possible roads: - attach the data object to the $node object via nodeapi. This will however limit the flexibility for visualisation a lot (apart from having a theme function for it) - use the http://drupal.org/project/data module. Haven't delved a lot into it, and I'm not sure if it will do everything I want - Use / create a system that can map the incoming fields with cck fields. Not sure if anything like that exists. Feeds module does something in that direction if i recall correctly. Does anyone have any ideas or pointers on how I could go about tackling this problem? Thanks i advance. Sven

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