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Need help to build module to create content and user at the same time
by james rubinstein 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello all, I'm a bit new to this whole development thing, so please forgive me if I screw this up :) What I'd like to do is create a module that would allow the creation of content and a user at the same time. Basically, the reason for this module is for an operator to take a classified ad listing over the phone. The operator would then enter the User's email address. The System would look up the email and if the email exists, then the authorship would be assigned to the User with that email address. If there is not already a user with that email address, the User will be created, and the login instructions will be emailed to him. I hope that is clear. I created a support request that has a bit more detail here: http://drupal.org/node/391188 I was really hoping that something like this already existed, but I have not found anything that does this yet. If there is something already available, please let me know. Otherwise, would anyone be interested in partnering with me to form this module. I have 0 Drupal module coding experience; I am a usability guy by training. So if I can contribute in that way.... Thank you very much. Please let me know if you are interested in helping. James

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Update.php re-design
by Nabil Alsharif 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

There seems to be a couple of projects that are trying to make update.php command line friendly, non of which seem to be going that well: http://drupal.org/node/194107 http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-cli-utils The issue that I see is that update.php is tightly coupled with the UI. What I would like to do is pull the functions that preform the updates out of update.php so that it would be possible to have a different UIs to modules (Web interface, cli). There are two main reasons I would like to do this: 1. It would make the projects mentioned above much easier to implement. 2. The projects mentioned above have there own implementation of update.php that is independent of that way drupal updates the modules. I hope to endup with something along the lines of update.inc that holds the function for preforming the updates (i.e get_updates, do_update, db_add_column.. etc) and update.php that has the current UI for updates. Is there any reason that this hasn't been done before? More importantly does any one have any good reason to not separate preforming the updates from the UI? -- ---------------------------------- Nabil Alsharif Bright Tree 573-499-1244 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email or its attachment(s).

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Re: [development] confirm_form from submit hook
by Ron Parker 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Thank you. This helped. What I did was to create my confirm_form function as a menu callback: <?php $items['og/regcode/confirm/%'] = array( 'title' => 'Confirm registration code', 'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form', 'page arguments' => array('og_user_roles_register_confirm'), 'access callback' => 'user_access', 'access arguments' => array('use registration codes'), 'weight' => 10, 'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK, ); ?> So, in my submit hook, I do a "drupal_goto" (as opposed to drupal_execute or drupal_get_form) and put the key variable in the argument as part of the url. This works. But, seems to me that it would be much easier to be able to call another form and pass form variables from a submit hook (as I was attempting to do). -ron Earl Miles wrote: Yes, drupal_execute() submits a form. it does not render the form. The idea there is that it happens completely independently. To do what you want to do, you are going to need to cache the values from your first form somewhere (possibly via values on the confirm form) and do your work in the confirm form submit. In addition, you have the problem that there is no communication between FAPI and whatever called drupal_get_form; your submit cannot actually render a form (it returns a value to redirect to, not output) so the only way you can do this without hacking fapi like I did is to set a global variable. You could also install CTools and use the form wizard tool which this is a nice example of, and in fact might make a lovely example of how to do a more complex confirm form than the ones that currently exist.

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confirm_form from submit hook
by Ron Parker 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

I submitted this issue here: http://drupal.org/node/387674, but I really need a response. I think this may be a bug, but I can't be sure right now. Need some advice. I have created a form. I want to submit the form values, validate them, then confirm that the user wishes to proceed. I place a drupal_execute('confirmation_form', $form_values) in my submit hook, and in the 'confirmation_form' I execute "confirm_form". But, it doesn't work. I don't get a confirmation form: the code execution cycles through to conformation_form_submit. form() Input values form_validate() validate values form_submit() Now, I want to confirm that the user wants to continue. If I call a form from within this submit hook that executes a confirm_form, the confirm_form() function doesn't work form_confirm() Execute confirm_form() doesn't work. Code example: <?php function og_user_roles_register_submit ( $form , & $form_state ) { global $user ; if ( $user -> uid ) { $regcode = $form_state [ 'values' ][ 'og_user_roles_regcode' ]; $gid = og_user_roles_gid_from_regcode ( $regcode ); if ( $gid > 0 ) { $node = node_load ( $gid ); drupal_execute ( 'og_user_roles_register_confirm' , $form_state , $node , $regcode ); } } else { drupal_access_denied (); } } /** * Form builder; Builds the confirmation form for adding user to group using regcode. * * @ingroup forms * @see og_user_roles_register_confirm_submit() */ function og_user_roles_register_confirm (& $form_state , $node , $regcode ) { $form = array(); $form [ '#node' ] = $node ; $form [ '#regcode' ] = $regcode ; return confirm_form ( $form , t ( 'Are you sure you want to join this group %title?' , array( '%title' => $node -> title )), 'node/' . $node -> nid , t ( 'This action can only be undone by unsubscribing from the group once joined.' ), t ( 'Delete' ), t ( 'Cancel' ), 'og_user_roles_register_confirm' ); } // Confirmation form does NOT display. Code continues to successfully execute // og_user_roles_register_confirm_submit() // // It's like if a form is called from a successful submit, then it's subsequent submit hook is // automatically successful as well. ?> In all the working examples of confirm_form() I've seen in Drupal 6.x, I do not see an example where it is called from a form submit hook. Usually, it is called in some delete function where the key value is passed along in the url. I want to enter values, validate those values, then confirm that the user wishes to proceed. How do I do that using confirm_form() (if that's even possible)? Thanks for any assistance. -ron

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Re: [development] Modules up for grabs to qualified individuals...
by Aaron Winborn 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

If it's so superior, I don't understand why OpenPackage hasn't moved that part of their package as a patch for an API so everyone could benefit. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Brown" <jbrown(a)openpackage.biz> To: development(a)drupal.org Sent: Monday, March 2, 2009 10:54:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [development] Modules up for grabs to qualified individuals... The ffmpeg implementation in openpackage video is vastly superior with further improvements to come. I don't know why people started duplicating it. On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 09:12 -0500, arthur wrote: > If anybody is thinking about taking FFmpeg, I'd love to chat about > combining FFmpeg Wrapper and FFmpeg- the modules aren't a direct > duplication of one another, but I think the functionality can be > merged to provide really solid FFmpeg support. > > a. > > > On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Darrel O'Pry wrote: > > > I'll be bowing out of Drupal development for a while. The following > > modules would like new maintainers. > > > > Daylife, Derivative, Fapilicious, FFMpeg, Filefield, GeoLocation, > > ImageAPI, Imagecache, Imagefield, MimeDetect, NodeReferrer, and > > Transformer. > > > > If you're interested in taking over one of the modules send me an > > email with your plans for the module, why you think you're > > qualified, and links to your other work. > > > > .darrel. > > --------------------------------------------------- > arthur(a)civicactions.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > arthur(a)24b6.net > > >

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Modules up for grabs to qualified individuals...
by Darrel O'Pry 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I'll be bowing out of Drupal development for a while. The following modules would like new maintainers. Daylife, Derivative, Fapilicious, FFMpeg, Filefield, GeoLocation, ImageAPI, Imagecache, Imagefield, MimeDetect, NodeReferrer, and Transformer. If you're interested in taking over one of the modules send me an email with your plans for the module, why you think you're qualified, and links to your other work. .darrel.

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Extra fields for file upload
by Ámon Tamás 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello, How can I add more attribute to a file upload field? I am using filefield module, and I like to add some extra attribute, like language, file-version etc. How can I make it? Ámon Tamás Sitefejlesztő és programozó -- 5NET Informatikai Kft. 1062 Budapest, Aradi utca 38. A 3/11 telefon: (1) 461-0205 | fax: (1) 461-0206 e-mail: amont(a)5net.hu | web: http://www.5net.hu

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What's the best way to close a project?
by Karim Ratib 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello all, I've been maintaining a module that I now feel would be better bundled with its parent module, which I also maintain. Specifically, the Workflow Graph (http://drupal.org/project/workflow_graph) module is tiny and depends totally on Graphviz Filter (http://drupal.org/project/graphviz_filter) I have added the Workflow Graph files to the latest release of Graphviz Filter, and I would now like to close the Workflow Graph project page (and CVS folder too if possible). My question is: what's the best practice to do so? How would that affect running instances of Workflow Graph (which in this case, are only a handful)? Thanks for your advice, K.

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[off topic] schema-less data
by Yuval Hager 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi, The following post discusses how FriendFeed uses MySQL in a schema-less data model: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql. They report an improvement both on speed, stability and flexibility. I find this very interesting, and actually quite troubling. Does one really benefit from moving *away* from RDBMS's? My natural way of thinking is totally different - whenever we can define the business logic in relational terms, we should let the database do the heavylifting, and push *more* logic onto it - cause that's what they do best. I marked this as off topic, cause it's not really Drupal related, but I'm curious about your insights about this approach. We've had our bunch of off-topics in this and the consulting list for this week, so my apologies if this is too much. Cheers, -- Yuval Hager [@] yuval(a)avramzon.net

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Object Caching in DRUPAL-7?
by Josh Koenig 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Greetings, I'd like to take the community's temperature on developing a global object caching strategy for drupal core 7.0. In effect, this would mean pulling the functionality of advcache module into core, though the code would doubtless be a bit different. This has been previously discussed by Robert Douglass and Steve Rude, and I think both the short-term and strategic value here is clear. As memcached permeates the collective consciousness of the web-development community, and as "cloud" computing becomes more and more prevalent, best practices in architecture increasingly point towards caching full objects whenever possible. This also fits well with Drupal's existing architecture. There are great functional points (e.g. node_load()) to mount this functionality. I'm certain I'm not the only one thinking along these lines. Anyone want to throw out their ideas? cheers -josh

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