January 2011 - Development - lists.drupal.org

create comment via drupal_form_submit() - possible?
by David Cohen 29 Jan '11

29 Jan '11

In D6, creating content via drupal_execute() was difficult. In D7 using drupal_form_submit() seems even more so. Thanks to fields, I can't tell how to pass in the body of a comment or node. Does anyone have an example snippet that creates a comment via drupal_form_submit(). Or any other programmatic way? I'm building my comment during a cron job. I want the automatically generated comment to be attributed to the Anonymous user. But, anonymous does not have permission to "post comments", and comment_form_submit() refuses to save the new comment unless user_access('post comments'). I consider that a bug - that check is made before showing the form and should not be made during submit. What do you think? http://drupal.org/node/1044212 -Dave

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Re: [development] development Digest, Vol 97, Issue 70
by Karl Giesing 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

> You might like both > > http://drupalcontrib.org/api/drupal > > and > > http://api.lullabot.com I didn't know about the Drupalcontrib API docs, but I did know about the Lullabot API site. I had checked the Lullabot site, and found nothing. I just now checked the Drupalcontrib site, and it's not there, either. The problem is, that the hooks are not defined by Drupal, and they are not themselves functions (so have no doxygen comments). So, if you search for "hook_content_extra_fields," you will find nothing at either site. This is not a knock at either site (both of which are excellent), it's something that really should have been a tutorial from the CCK authors themselves. I'm surprised it's not in the handbook. I'm also really surprised it's not in the node_example module. It really should be. Maybe I'll raise this as an issue in the queue? -Karl.

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Re: [development] How can I refer to the shopping cart using
by Karl Giesing 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

> How can I refer to the shopping cart using document.getElementById if it > does not have an id? You can't. This is where jQuery is your friend: $(".pane-uc-cart-0").val() ...will get the value of the FIRST element with the pane-uc-cart-0 class. jQuery ships with Drupal, and is automatically added whenever there is JavaScript, so you don't need to add the jQuery library using drupal_add_js(). FYI, class names in Drupal are usually added left-to-right, from least-specific to most-specific. So, the last class is the one that is the most specific to that particular element. -Karl.

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Re: [development] Making custom fields available to CCK
by Karl Giesing 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

> function mymodule_content_extra_fields($type_name) This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you very much! Is there some API documentation on this? The only thing I've found is this article on Lullabot: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/great-pretender-making-your-data-act-field > You can use hook_field_extra_weights() to reorder fields via the cck manage > fields screen like the flag module. You should be able to hook_form_alter a > link to your own, custom settings page into that interface as a convenience. I will definitely look into that. If hook_content_extra_fields() works, then that may not be necessary, but it doesn't hurt to give users more options. > In short, developpers list is for technical discussion, not "basic" questions. How is that a basic question? -Karl.

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Is their another way that I can refresh the shopping cart block after an ubercart "add to cart" link is clicked?
by John Mitchell 28 Jan '11

28 Jan '11

I have not been able to find a hook that occurs after an ubercart "add to cart" link is clicked so that I can refresh the shopping cart block. Is their another way that I can refresh the shopping cart block after an ubercart "add to cart" link is clicked? Thanks, John -- John J. Mitchell

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D6 Cleaning up on module uninstall
by jeff＠ayendesigns.com 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

I have my module -install- working fine...creating the needed vocabulary, cck content type with fields, adding the content type to the vocabulary. Now I'm working on the uninstall, and the seemingly infinite cleanup that's needed, not that anyone would ever want to remove my module, once installed! I believe I have the vocabulary and its data, and the cck content type and its data accounted for with: taxonomy_del_vocabulary($vid); drupal_load('module', 'content'); content_notify('uninstall', 'my_module'); and that brings me to nodes et al. There will be nodes (and node revisions) to be removed, and each node can have multiple field instances (cck image field). I don't seem to see a magic function that, given a node type, will remove all associated node data for that type. Also, I think I should remove the files that were uploaded as cck image content. Any tips on a good example of a complete "undo"? :) -- Ayen Designs 388 Bullsboro Drive #105 · Newnan, Georgia 30263 404-271-9734 Web:ayendesigns.com <http://ayendesigns.com> Blog: theAccidentalCoder.com <http://theaccidentalcoder.com> Drupal: j. ayen green <http://drupal.org/user/367108> IRQ: j_ayen_green 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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Re: [development] Making custom fields available to CCK
by Karl Giesing 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

> Please see http://drupal.org/node/101742 I did, many times, and could not find an answer there. Should I not ask CCK questions here, but only use the Drupal group? -Karl.

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Making custom fields available to CCK administration menus
by Karl Giesing 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Hi, this is Karl Giesing, aka Karlheinz. I'm the developer of the Discogs module: http://drupal.org/project/discogs I have a user who uses CCK, and would like to administer the fields I created, using CCK's "Manage Fields" and "Display Fields" menus. I did NOT create the fields using CCK, and was wondering if this is possible. Any ideas? I haven't found any documentation on how to do this. -Karl.

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ahah and dropdown list
by jayak kumar 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Dear all, i am developing drupal module with ahah for dropdown index change. when i want to get value from the dropdown list i am not able to get value. please see this code. for normal dropdownlist i am able to get the key of value which is behind the dropdown. *$form_state['values']['master_dropdown']; * But in ahah form, i am using *$form_state['values']['dependent_dropdown_holder']['dependent_dropdown']; * I am able to get the value which is visible in the front of dropdown. i want to get the key value which behind the dropdown so that i will be able to use for the country id etc. please help me. Thank you jayakumar

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Google Summer of Code is Back! Sign Up!
by Sumit Kataria 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Hi All, Google Summer of Code is back! It has been publicly announced<http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announc…>, and applications from mentoring organizations (that's us - Drupal) to participate will be due the last week of Feb (just in time for everyone to be distracted by Drupalcon!). No organization admin has been chosen yet. That will be decided in coming weeks. So let's start talking strategy about how to tackle managing SoC moving forward. We need people to help, preferably by a team of former mentors, students, and ardent summer of code fans. Know everything already? Don’t wanna read more! Want to help? Sign yourself up <http://groups.drupal.org/node/121634>! What happens during SoC? SoC is roughly broken up into 6 phases: 1. Pre-applications: There is a bunch of up-front work that needs to be done in order to submit an application to be a mentor organization in SoC. Among the tasks here include recruiting mentors, coming up with potential SoC projects for students to work on, and working out logistics about how the later steps are going to happen. Work should ideally start on this now, or very soon. 2. Submitting mentor application: Each organization that takes part (Eclipse, Drupal, Apache, etc.) needs to submit an application in order to be accepted into Summer of Code. There are a variety of questions, about motivation, about plans of attack for various problems that come up, etc. Here is our application from 2008 <http://groups.drupal.org/node/9487>, for reference. 3. Reviewing student applications: If we're accepted as a mentoring organization, about a week later applications will start coming in from students. These need to be reviewed and voted on by the mentoring team. Voting ranks the applications, and the number of slots we get from Google will give us the top N applicants. 4. "Community bonding" time: There is a 2-month period before Summer of Code officially starts that's intended to be a bit of 'dipping baby toes' into the water of a community. Things like getting a CVS account, setting up a wiki page / drupal.org project. 5. Summer of Code: Here's where the actual coding and mentoring happens, over the summer. The biggest thing to do here is to make sure students (and mentors!) are keeping on track and not falling off the face of the earth. Constant communication is key. Be aware that Google will require a mid-term and final report from all mentors and students, and the mentors never follow through, so you will need to beat them. 6. Post-Summer of Code: Here's an area where we've traditionally kind of failed miserably. Far too often, students get to the end of SoC and we never hear from them again. We should start envisioning ways we can entice students to stick around for the long-term. About Mentor Recruiting The more mentors we have in the more diverse areas, the more of a chance there is we can take more students. Mentors should be knowledgeable in their subject matter, kind and patient with new people, and available for at least 5-10 hours/week over the summer. You'll need gmail addresses from all of them, because they'll need to be added to the mentor panel on Google's side. If the timing works out, recruiting at Drupalcon would be ideal.Traditionally, Drupal has had a system where each student is assigned two mentors, in case one is unavailable. I believe there's some contention around how well this works in practice, so we could talk about changing this if we want. The downside of the two-mentor rule is that if we end up with 20 slots again, that means you're essentially managing 60+ people and making sure no one's slipping through the cracks. This is really challenging, and is worth putting some thought into from the outset on how to deal with this.Experience has shown that lots of people want to be mentors in theory, but can't actually hack it when the time comes (almost universally, due to unforseen unavailability). I recommend pairing a known experienced mentor with a new keen one. More often than not, the new keen one will be the superstar, but the old experienced one can lend guidance when required.About Project Proposals A good proposal is challenging. It needs to be specced out, but not too specced out. It needs to be do-able within a 2 month timeframe, bearing in mind that about half of these students are coming in with no Drupal experience. It needs to have community support. And, it needs a competent mentor (preferably more than one).Each year, we handled this by asking community members (and students!) to propose their projects on http://groups.drupal.org/google-summer-code-2011 This allowed them to be vetted, which was actually kind of nice because it weeded out a few that were never going to be accepted. It also helps when ranking the applications if something has a lot of people excited about it.Okay, so how are we going to do this? Want to help? Sign yourself up<http://groups.drupal.org/node/121634> ! *Sumit Kataria* (415) 830-6313 | Skype: sumit.kataria1 Google Voice: (510) 394-4339 <https://www.google.com/voice/#phones> LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sumitkataria> MyBlog<http://www.sumitk.net>

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