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Field UI effort
by Yves Chedemois 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

While Field API has been in core for a couple months now, the UI currently remains in contrib (CCK HEAD) There is a strong demand to have a Field UI shipped with core. - better experience with an out of the box drupal setup - makes it easier to unify features to 'X as field' (node body, file uploads...) without having to keep the existing core UI in parallel with the contrib Field UI. - quoted from Dries' blogpost in http://buytaert.net/drupal-7-fields-in-core-status-update-and-next-steps: it's "a strategic necessity because it enables more people to test, benchmark and experiment with what we have built so far" (true for field API, but also for the UI itself) This will not happen without a design and coding community effort. The current CCK HEAD, albeit "globally working", is more or less a direct port of the D6 CCK UI, which is frankly not on par with the coolness expected from the D7UX work. The Field UI, whether in core or contrib, will end up as a fair part of the 'drupal experience'. I clearly won't have the bandwidth to lead that effort myself, but I will of course provide help and feedback. To get the ball rolling, I posted an UI-oriented summary of the Field API at http://groups.drupal.org/node/23545 Discussion takes place in http://groups.drupal.org/node/23282 - or is there any other place more inline with the D7UX habits ? Yched

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Set the CCK field value the the node is created
by David Hautbois 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hi I'm developping a custom CCK field for Drupal 6. I'm don't want the user set the value himself. So, this field has no widget. I'm looking for how to set the value when the node is saved. (the value is set when the node is created et not updated) In hook_field, I tried to use 'presave' ou 'validate' for $op, but I've some problems to work with it : - 'presave' seems to be called when the node is displayed... - when the node is created, the field has no value ($items[0]['value'] does not exists) - ... I 've look in some others CCK fields, but no one work like this. I copied the text_field CCK field, renamed all 'text_field' references, simplified it and removed the widget. Can someone help me or point me to a good web page ? (not the CCK dev documentation !, I read it many times!) Thanks. David

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need help with my gsoc quiz module
by sivaji j.g 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

I am a GSoC student and co-maintainer of quiz module. Quiz users are expecting for a new feature that lets the quiz attendees to enter some input (eg age, sex, qualification etc) either at the beginning or end of the quiz. Each site may have different requirement so the input form need be dynamic (not everybody will expect to have age with list select, sex with radio button). My thought on achieving this is to have a dummy node type (quiz_feedback) as a part of quiz module and an user defined node type(custom_quiz_feedback) with fields defined using CCK. custom_quiz_feedback node form will be attached to quiz_feedback 's body. When the quiz attendees view the quiz_feedback node they will have a form to get the desired input. Is it possible to do this ? or is there any other better ways to achieve this ? [sorry for my bad English. I tried to ask the same in IRC but there was no response]

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PHP standards?
by Larry Garfield 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

There's an interesting development in the PHP world that may be of interest to folks here: http://www.leftontheweb.com/message/The_PHP_standards_initiative http://www.travisswicegood.com/index.php/2009/06/02/my-goals-for-the-php- standards-group http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/96-PHP-standards-discussion-group-opens- to-the-world.html The mailing list in question is archived here: http://news.php.net/php.standards/ The initial "standard" is here: http://news.php.net/php.standards/2 I've already replied from a Drupal perspective here: http://news.php.net/php.standards/40 As a supporter of inter-project cooperation and the use of industry standard approaches, I figured it was relevant. :-) Just want to make sure everyone is kept in the loop. -- Larry Garfield larry(a)garfieldtech.com

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displaying all menus regardless of access
by Ashraf Amayreh 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hello all, I guess my question is pretty simple. I've run into a scenario where a site wants all primary menu items to show up regardless of access rights. When a user clicks on the menu item, he would get a message saying he needs to register to see this page. Is this possible at all? I know that the primary menu items disappear when they're inaccessible. Thoughts? I guess the 2nd part of the question is, my module for 5.x used to render the complete menu (honoring menu access rights) to create a DHTML menu. But now in Drupal 6 it seems there's no way to get inside collapsed menu items. Am I missing something? How can I get the full tree rendered regardless of its state (collapsed or not)? Thanks! -- Ashraf Amayreh http://aamayreh.org

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Email on error
by Steven Surowiec 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

I've looked around drupal.org and couldn't find any modules that do what I'm looking for so I just figured I'd ask here before just writing my own. But I'm looking for a module that will allow me to have Drupal send me an email any time an error occurs and also has the ability to let me trigger my own errors (I know I could use trigger_error() but often times for these custom errors I want to be notified but don't want the error showing up on screen). I know I can do this relatively easily but was trying to see if something was already written that allows for this before committing myself to it.

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adding a delete tab on some content types
by Lluís 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

I need to add a "delete" tab for some content types, but I can't figure out what 'file' should be; if I use "drupal_get_path('module', 'node').'/node.pages.inc'" I get 'sites/all/modules/my_module/node/node.pages.inc' $items['node/%/delete_tab'] = array( 'title' => t('delete'), 'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form', 'page arguments' => array('node_delete_confirm', 1), 'access callback' => TRUE, // 'node_access', 'access arguments' => array('delete', 1), 'file' => drupal_get_path('module', 'node').'/node.pages.inc', 'weight' => 1, 'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK, ); -- *La vida és com una taronja, què esperes a exprimir-la? *Si creus que l'educació és cara, prova la ignorància. *La vida és com una moneda, la pots gastar en el que vulguis però només una vegada. *Abans d'imprimir aquest missatge, pensa en el medi ambient.

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a Drupal site installer like the a2ensite script for Debian systems?
by Dennis Iversen 09 Jun '09

09 Jun '09

I recently started to look into Drupal and into the Drush project. I have made a Drush extension for enabling websites on a Debian based server. Both enabling standalone sites and sites that uses a shared drupal base. It can also list the sites you already have installed. The 'densite' script creates virtual host configuration for drupal-5.x and drupal-6.x sites and reloads Apache. The script sets good permissions for your file folder (e.g. 770) and your settings.php (e.g. 740) file. I was thinking about making a project out of it and commit it. Opinions, suggestions, about this? If you need more info before saying anything, you can find more info on the following link, and also download a version of the script. http://www.os-cms.net/node/46 Gettings from Dennis

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Coding standards question
by Jennifer Hodgdon 07 Jun '09

07 Jun '09

Comments are requested regarding coding standards in this issue: http://drupal.org/node/358824 Please comment there rather than replying to this email message, so we can track opinions on the issue; I've sent this message to the Dev list because the issue is in the Doc issue queue, and might not have been noticed by developers. For your reference, the question is on PHP coding style, primarily for themes: <?php print $foo; ?> vs. <?php print $foo ?> (i.e. should one-liners have a trailing semi-colon?) There's nothing in the coding style guidelines (for plugins or themes) that currently addresses this question. Thanks! Jennifer (jhodgdon)

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behaviors context
by David Cohen 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

I'm trying to implement a Drupal.behavior. I realize my behavior function is passed a "context". But it's unclear to me what that context will be. If I understand correctly, when the behavior is first invoked, it is passed document, a variable built into javascript. Later, when some module's javascript adds content to the page, my behavior will be invoked again. This time, context could be anything. The module which added the content can pass whatever. So for example in ahah.js, Drupal.attachBehaviors() is passed a jquery object representing the new content. While in modules/views/js/ajax.js, Drupal.attachBehaviors() is passed a string or id, either of which could be used in a jquery selector. Do I have this right? What I need is the javascript element (not jquery object) that is the added content. Does anyone have a snippet of code which returns this, given a context? Thanks, -Dave

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