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A streamlined way to develop core patches
by David Timothy Strauss 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

I've made a post on the Four Kitchens blog about a new repository we're hosting to support streamlined core development. The post is here: http://www.fourkitchens.com/blog/2008/12/07/using-bazaar-work-drupal-core-p… And here it is in plain text: As anyone who's developed core patches knows, it's not the writing of initial patch that takes the work, it's the combination of revising the patch and keeping up to date with HEAD. With Drupal.org's CVS, this is difficult because you cannot commit your core changes to checkpoint your work. CVS's merge algorithms are also relatively poor for maintaining large divergence from CVS HEAD. One option -- which several community members used to create the huge DB-TNG patch -- was to create a Subversion repository. This is far too much overhead for smaller core patches, and it still required person-by-person approval to commit to the Subversion repository. Four Kitchens is now hosting a much more flexible system for users of Bazaar. Every hour, we synchronize core changes from CVS HEAD into our Drupal 7 branch, which is available for anonymous branching by anyone. Simply download and install Bazaar, which has packages or installers for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and BSD. We're using a repository format that should work with Bazaar 1.0 and newer, at a minimum. Then, where you're ready to develop, run this: bzr branch bzr://vcs.fourkitchens.com/drupal/7 [optional-working-copy-directory] You'll have a fresh working copy with a number of benefits over a CVS checkout: You can commit to your local branch to checkpoint your work: bzr commit You can integrate in changes to HEAD using Bazaar's superior merge algorithms: bzr merge You can branch from your own branch: bzr branch [existing] [new] If you're working with others and they have Bazaar branches, too, you can merge from their branches to collaborate. And when you're ready to post a patch, run bzr diff --old bzr://vcs.fourkitchens.com/drupal/7 to create a patch reflecting all of your changes relative to CVS HEAD. It will be a while before Drupal.org moves to anything other than CVS. Until then, we can foster decentralized development quite effectively using something like the Four Kitchens repository.

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IGNORE this msg[Fwd: Multiple sites with different database and different contents]
by rsw-ml＠silverarc.biz 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [development] Multiple sites with different database and different contents From: rsw-ml(a)silverarc.biz Date: Tue, January 6, 2009 1:39 am To: development(a)drupal.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am sorry to post this message here... This was out of mistake.. Ignore Hi... I have installed drupal 6.8 and its working fine with no problems at all. However, now I am into a scenario where I want to host multiple sites with different databases, different content but the same codebase. I know i can do it by juts extracting a drupal tar file and re-installing stuff again..But this would be my worst case situation. I want to do it using the multiple site flexibility. I am a newbie when it comes to setting up virtual hosts. I am using openSUSE 11.1 thanks in advance! Radhika

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Multiple sites with different database and different contents
by rsw-ml＠silverarc.biz 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi... I have installed drupal 6.8 and its working fine with no problems at all. However, now I am into a scenario where I want to host multiple sites with different databases, different content but the same codebase. I know i can do it by juts extracting a drupal tar file and re-installing stuff again..But this would be my worst case situation. I want to do it using the multiple site flexibility. I am a newbie when it comes to setting up virtual hosts. I am using openSUSE 11.1 thanks in advance! Radhika

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read-only / remote CCK field
by Chris Johnson 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I'm building (or at least, trying to) a module which will provide a CCK field which will display data acquired from a remote web service. I was able to make it work, but only by horribly abusing the CCK interface and field/widget distinction. I have a read-only field, which has no form widget, and hence is only displayed when a node is viewed, not edited. I'm having difficulties doing it the right way because of 2 hurdles: 1. The content of $element as passed into theme_XXX_formatter_YYY() as the only argument. This variable is a huge array containing all kinds of stuff, including the complete node. My content type fields are in the node, but since they have user-specified names, I don't have any way to reference them without lots of ugly SQL. My fields are also there with numbered keys in the top-level array, but those numbers have no guaranteed correlation, so again, I can't reference them reliably. Is there some better way of coding hook_field() (or other hook) so that the resultant $element array has more easily referenced values? Or am I going about this all wrong? 2. Getting the value into the database. What's the best way to do this? I need to have a local copy in Drupal's CCK tables so that Views can function and as a caching mechanism, so that the remote web service does not need to be hit (and waited for) with each node view. (Perhaps I'll add a hook_cron() to update it periodically.) Any suggestions on how to do this, where to better ask or where to look for documentation and code that might help would be a appreciated. I'm well aware of the drupal.org docs -- I'm editing them as I go along learning how to make this work. -- ..chris

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Per-Field format permissions - new addon module
by Arancaytar Ilyaran 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

The ability to assign input formats to specific fields instead of allowing or forbidding them globally is a feature that I've long missed (and not justme). See, for example, this issue for CCK: http://drupal.org/node/81981 Rather than continuing to try to get this feature into core for node bodies and comments, or into CCK for text fields, I realized it would be far easier to provide it via an addon. The module would just need to add some extra settings to the node type form, the CCK text field widgets, and elsewhere; it would then have to override the filter_form()-generated format selector with its own. The most simple and flexible way would be to allow admins to override normal format permissions with "allow" and "deny", or leaving permissions as they are. So this is what I came up with in an afternoon of experimenting (only node bodies so far, no CCK or comments): http://svn.ermarian.net/drupal/modules/fieldformat/trunk/ Screenshot: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8QHlLIsscAGo4FFW8CeBkA?authkey=FNEPe1y… Before I clean it up for d.o contrib, I'd like some feedback: Is this needed, has it been done, does it hit the spot or require some additional functionality? Cheers, -Aran -- Arancaytar ---------------------- Nothing beside remains: Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away... ---------------------- PGP: http://ermarian.net/downloads/0x27CA5C74 XMPP: arancaytar.ilyaran(a)gmail.com AOL: 282026638 / RealArancaytar URL: http://ermarian.net

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Repeating events using Date and Calendar
by Neil Goodman 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

I am currently working on a project that needs to have the option to create repeating events on a calendar in a Drupal 5 site. Currently we are using the Event module and the Event Repeat module and we are happy with the options the Event Repeat module gives us. However, we have found that it is riddled with bugs. When going to the Event Repeat module's project page ( http://drupal.org/project/eventrepeat ) it has this message: "UPDATE: This modules has some issues related to time zones, performance on high traffic sites and advanced repeat patterns. You may want to use the date/calendar soultion instead, which is currently further along." However I can not find any documentation on how to setup repeating event behavior using just the date module and the calendar module. Has anyone had to do something similar to this? If so, can you recommend a solution? Neil

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by citizenofgnu 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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citizenofgnu wants to keep up with you on Twitter
by citizenofgnu 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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by citizenofgnu 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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by citizenofgnu 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

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