December 2012 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Updating custom Views plugins for D8
by Christoph Burschka 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hey everyone, seeing as Views for D8 is now well on its way and appears to be mostly (or even fully) updated to the new core plugin system, it should theoretically be possible to update plugins written for Views 7.x-3.x to run on Views 8.x-3.x. The only problem is that I can find zero documentation on how to do that. This (http://blog.erdfisch.de/2012/09/hands-introduction-drupal-8-plugin-system) comes closest, but it only explains how to create an empty style plugin, not how to make it do the same stuff an existing D7 plugin does. Anything? Or am I way too early with this? Best regards, -Chris

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File upload and convert
by Chris Miller 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hi Folks, I have a content type with TWO file fields, in which I will designate TWO PDFs. On upload completion I want to run something like: "exec(pdftk f1.pdf background f2.pdf output f1.pdf)". This will "brand" f1.pdf. I don't see any standard mechanism and so I'm not sure how to go about this. I have a general understanding, but that doesn't answer the question. I am sure I don't want to intercept all possible uploads; just the uploads from this specific content type. So, can I define a file upload hook which is scoped to this specific content type? I haven't seen anything that makes me believe I can. Can I create a custom file field to use any time I need to perform a conversion? Can my custom file field "extend" the existing file field, so I don't have to port improvements/bugfixes to my custom file field version? So many questions... (-: Thanks for the help, Chris.

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Re: [development] development Digest, Vol 120, Issue 5
by Shamika Dharmasiri 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Hi Buddika ayya, Ok thanks. mm & can anyone suggest a small defect or feature or bug which can try out for get through in to drupal. Thanks and Regards !

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Hi
by Shamika Dharmasiri 27 Dec '12

27 Dec '12

Hi all, I am shamika from university of peradeniya faculty of Engineering Sri Lanka third year BSc computer engineering student.I would like to join with you and contribute to develop drupal.I know php and other web developmental languages.Nowadays I'm working with drupal. Thanks.

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A New Feature for Blogging Platforms
by Adam Sobieski 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

HTML Working Group, Drupal Developer Team, WordPress Developer Team, Greetings. I have a new feature idea for blogging platforms. The idea is for bloggers to be able to indicate, per article, organizations' websites and web services to ping with article events, in addition to pinging blog search engines with each articles' events. As envisioned, the feature would be configurable on blogging platforms and then for each blog article. Bloggers could indicate organizations, on a configuration page, by means of web service URL's. A web service function response could include organizational metadata for blogging platforms' user interfaces. Then, per article, bloggers could indicate which organizations that each blog article is pertinent to. Organizations could then receive pings for article events, from numerous bloggers, and link to or present the blog articles from numerous bloggers on their websites. A use case is consumer advocacy. Consumer advocacy groups, e.g. the Better Business Bureau, can each independently spider and index blog articles and tweets, where blog articles and tweets can have keywords or folksonomic tags, e.g. "bbb" or "#bbb", and can each utilize that data and make that data available on their websites. With the described feature of indicating organizations to ping, per article, consumers', parents', teachers', and scholars' commentary, feedback, and opinion, about digital textbooks and curriculum, for example, could be specifically routed, as indicated by each blogger, empowering bloggers and adding value to numerous organizations' websites including those of consumer advocacy groups, teachers' and education-related organizations. In addition to the use of hyperlinks for indicating discussed items, for example opening digital textbooks to specific pages and object configurations (http://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html, http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/) some bloggers might want to also utilize hypertext quotes or multimedia clips in their blog articles during fair use scenarios. The new blogging platform feature of pinging one or more organizations as indicated per article could additionally benefit scholarly and scientific communication. Scholars and scientists with blogs could utilize the new feature to indicate which scholarly and scientific organizations to ping for specific blog articles. The blog articles of many scholars and scientists could then be linked to or appear on a number of scholarly and scientific organizations' websites for Web users to discover, read, and interact with. Kind regards, Adam Sobieski

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Is it possible to upload FILE without a form ?
by Austin Einter 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Dear All I am struggling to upload word documents to our drupal 7 site without having a form. It is easy when you have a form (just can use file_save_upload api), but think of a situation you have excel sheet at server, where 100 file names are mentioned, and you want to get the files one by one. In that case, how do we upload a file, and after upload how do I get the FID. Is it really possible with existing framework? Best regards austin

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Connecting Members by Location, Neighbor Connecting
by Steven Clift 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

(Please cc: clift(a)e-democracy.org with your reply. Thanks.) The other week folks from the BeNeighbors.org initiative of my non-profit had a great discussion with the Twin Cities Drupal Users group. The focus was on how Drupal could be used to connect nearest neighbors for all sorts of community goodness (like 80% of them on a block or two including those not online at all or regularly). Anyway, three main approaches came out of the meeting: 1. Multi-tech Small Group (Leverage VOIP Drupal) 2. Dynamic Geo-Based Local Messaging/Alerts - Proximity Connecting 3. Map/Directory to Distributed Groups Near You So before we go too far down the road, I was interested in any connections with existing Drupal modules, projects, or developer communities. So: A. Are there any Drupal groups or projects that you know of who are developing tools for block level connections (like 100 households)? I haven't been able to find them so far. An example might be using Drupal to support neighborhood crime watch. B. Is there an existing module effort to support geo-coding of the street addresses (or mobile place for that matter) of Drupal site members? What about group messaging based on proximity? (What I like about this idea is that it would work on a global online community as well as something hyper local because enabling the X closest members with the topic initiator determining who gets the alert be it 10, 100 or 1000 closest members scales.) C. We are looking for examples of Drupal sites designed to be directories with both "select an area" and pin point options to tie an item to a map. Any suggestions? (Our goal here is to distribute the directory data collection and end up with a nice public-friendly map of where neighbors are connecting online and how to find them.) D. Who in the Drupal community do you know who might be interested in collaborating on these themes? (We are open to creating a Group on the Drupal site, but would rather not re-create the wheel if we do not need to do so.) Thanks, Steven Clift E-Democracy.org

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