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sessions problem
by Sheryl (Permutations Software) 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

My Web host disabled the admin account on my Drupal site for a while today because of extremely large updates to the sessions table that they said were threatening the stability of the shared server. I took a look at an example of these enormous queries (my Web host sent this) and saw more examples by browsing the sessions table. I think I see the problem, but I need to know more about Drupal sessions to fix it - specifically, how Drupal decides what to save as sessions data. I'm a co-maintainer of the phpFreeChat module, and it appears to be data from phpFreeChat that is causing the sessions data to expand so enormously. Drupal is saving vast amounts of extraneous phpFreeChat data that doesn't need to be there at all. The Drupal login name is used by phpFreeChat, but other than that, it has nothing to do with the user's session and nothing in phpFreeChat needs to be saved. To fix this problem, I need to know how Drupal decides what to save as sessions data, and in what source code file this is done (so I can modify it to ignore phpFreeChat). Could someone give me some insight and point me in the right direction? My community really likes phpFreeChat and I don't want to lose my hosting account. Thank you in advance. - Sheryl

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Re: [development] Kaltura Releases Version 1.0 of its Open Source Video Module for Drupal
by fintan＠io1.biz 24 Dec '08

24 Dec '08

So in short not only are they looking for sneaky links to there site without people knowing but also putting sites in danger of getting kicked our of Google for having hidden links. Nice christmas present !!!! Although, in kaltura.themeing.inc, there's this fun bit - $hidden_links is set to display:none so that you, as a user/installer, never notice. Pretty bad. <a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/application_gallery">video platform</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/about">open source video</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/">video tools</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/video_publishing">open source player</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/technology/editing_and_annotation">free video editor</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/overview">online video platform</a><a href="http://corp.kaltura.com/solutions/overview">free video player</a>'; -- Morbus Iff ( get on the floor. baby, lose control. ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Enjoy: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.videounderbelly.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus

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new module notifications
by Ashraf Amayreh 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hello all, Excuse me if the functionality I'm asking about already exists, but is there a way to get notifications or updates of new modules? I was talking today with a friend and he was telling me about this new module, he said that it was just added yesterday. I thought it would have been great if I got some notification (mailing list? subscription? etc) With the explosive number of modules that encompass all functionality, I sometimes feel sorry when I develop something and find that some module had already implemented it. Searching is not always an answer too, as some modules are just glue and utility modules and won't usually be something you'd intuitively search for. Is there something like this in place? -- Ashraf Amayreh http://aamayreh.org

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how to setup a default value in select object?
by Aldo Martinez Selleras 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

i'am creating a select object with drupal form api, and i want ti setup a defautl value from the array of options $net = drupal_map_assoc(array('Dial-up', 'Cable/dsl', 'Lan')); $form['meet_net'] = array( '#type' => 'select', '#options' => $net, '#title' => t('Network'), '#default_value' => $net['Lan'], ); i can do this with that variant, but i need to user numeric values from the array, by example '#default_value' => $net[2], for save data in database?? how can i do that them?? -- ---------------------- Aldo Martinez Selleras Administrador del Nodo CITMATEL GND Camaguey Tel: 32-291661 E-mail: aldo(a)caonao.cu Linux User #364356

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XML Sitemap 6.x-1.x-dev: Bugs, Typos & Quality
by Jens Reinemuth 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi everybody... since a couple of weeks i have permanent problems with the development snapshots of the XML Sitemap. O.K. i know these are dev-snapshots, but i don't really uderstand what happens here. if i would check out these files from CVS, i could live with the recent bugs (nearly all are typos, e.g. "columhn_exist" or forgotten semicolons, paranthesis, ...) but i really wonder how someone could package these broken files into a tar.gz and release it... This is very uncomfortable on my development servers as they nearly all run on lighttpd and you have to do some tricks to get it to work with drupals Clean-URLs, you allways have to change same line of code in settings-file, run the updates, get errors, fix all the stupid little typos, run updates again, add semikolon, ... I really would see the devs checking the code (or simply use something like eclipse and look for the underlined parts of their code...) before packaging it and releasing it to the website. On all my servers there are about 15 drupal-Sites and i never had these problems with any other modules. Jens -- Jens Reinemuth Ahornweg 23 51469 Bergisch Gladbach Germany

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CVS-Messages
by Eric-Alexander Schaefer 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hello List, is it possible to subscribe to the cvs messages of a certain module? Regards, Eric

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hook_node_info()
by Aldo Martinez Selleras 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

why, when i insert this code function module_name_node_info(){ return array ('module_name' => array( 'name' => t('Module Name'), 'module' => 'module_name', 'has_title' => TRUE, 'has_body' => TRUE, )); } drupal don't show de 'Module Name' in Content Types List ?? -- ---------------------- Aldo Martinez Selleras Administrador del Nodo CITMATEL GND Camaguey Tel: 32-291661 E-mail: aldo(a)caonao.cu Linux User #364356

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simpletest and #ahah?
by augustin (beginner) 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Hello, Is it possible to test #ahah form elements with simpletest? How to make the function $this->drupalPost() work when some of the elements have dynamically been added with an #ahah callback (e.g. when changing a select value)? Or is this a test scenario that is not yet covered by simpletest? thanks, Augustin.

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Re: [development] Testing SQLite on Linux
by David Timothy Strauss 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

We have one of the MyISAM databases symlinked to tmpfs in RAM. It's fast and somewhat unreliable, but I have no reason to believe that if it provides test results that the results are compromised in accuracy. ----- "Kieran Lal" <kieran(a)acquia.com> wrote: > Sorry, we mounted the MySQL server database files on a tmpfs in RAM. > > David Strauss can provide details. > > Kieran > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Dmitri Gaskin < dmitrig01(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > Wait, we're running SQLite on TDO? > Dmitri > > On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Kieran Lal wrote: > This is what we are doing on http://testing.drupal.org . > > Kieran > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM, John Morahan < john.morahan(a)gmail.com > wrote: > This may be obvious, but if you place the database file on a tmpfs, it > runs much faster. You can do this by specifying e.g. /dev/shm/drupal as > the database name when you install. Pointless for a real site, of > course, but useful for a once-off local install to run the simpletests. > > On my laptop (which admittedly runs dm-crypt, perhaps putting the HD at > an unfair disadvantage) the difference is on the scale of under 17 > minutes versus over two hours for running the full test suite. > > Just a heads up in case anyone else didn't realize this. > > -john > > > > -- David Strauss | david(a)fourkitchens.com | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] Four Kitchens | http://fourkitchens.com | +1 512 454 6659 [office] | +1 512 870 8453 [direct]

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Testing SQLite on Linux
by John Morahan 13 Dec '08

13 Dec '08

This may be obvious, but if you place the database file on a tmpfs, it runs much faster. You can do this by specifying e.g. /dev/shm/drupal as the database name when you install. Pointless for a real site, of course, but useful for a once-off local install to run the simpletests. On my laptop (which admittedly runs dm-crypt, perhaps putting the HD at an unfair disadvantage) the difference is on the scale of under 17 minutes versus over two hours for running the full test suite. Just a heads up in case anyone else didn't realize this. -john

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