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Blocks and Regions rethink (concept needs feedback)
by Sam Tresler 10 Jul '07

10 Jul '07

I'm aware we just hit code freeze so this is waaayyyy into the future, but I have a few itches that need to be scratched soon and want to garner feedback (concept needs feedback) on some ideas. I constantly use and abuse the ability to add regions nearly anywhere in drupal and find it incredibly useful. That said, The blocks admin section has a few highly infuriating ui issues. Namely. * You can only assign a block to one region at a time. * Current inability to 'clone' blocks. * Block admin is at block-admin not inline. I want to start work on some features that would first create a 'blocks available' and a 'Regions Using Blocks' interface at the block admin page - In this manner you could take one block and print it in two separate regions. e.g. printing a menu in the footer and the left sidebar, or printing "Who's online" block on the left sidebar on one page and the right on another. Second feature: Ability to edit blocks per page. This, I would imagine would take the form of a 'block edit' tab for properly permissioned users. Clicking it would take you to a block configuration page for that URL - you could then specify if you want to wildcard the url per each block (user/*), and set placement for each block. I would envision this as adding form elements for weight, url, roles, user visibility and region per block -or- a jQuery drag and drop feature (or one degrades to the other) Third feature: Cloning Blocks. When you want a block 'just like this module generates only different' - cloning it would generate the appropriate code in a custom block. This is much less important to me, just wnat to know if others find it useful. So, is this a worthwhile thing to investigate - what do people think? Thank you in advance for your feedback. --samtresler

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GPLv3 is announced
by Erdem Köse 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Are there any thoughts about releasing Drupal 6 with GPLv3[1]? [1] http://gplv3.fsf.org/

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drupal.org down?
by webdevgirl＠comcast.net 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Does anyone know what's happened to drupal.org? I am only seeing "Unable to connect to database server" page. I hope it's back soon. Thanks! -- Tracy http://interstice.dyndns.org

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associate dates to nodes
by Alex Moreno 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

Good moorning, i´m newbie developing on drupal, so please beard with me. I need to know if this is possible to do and where should i read more documentation... the question is that i need to associate different dates to each node created. The working should be similar to a reservation system in a hotel. The administrator must be able to insert new houses or bedrooms and the annonymous users must be able to associate dates in nodes, having in mind that the same node cannot have the same date associated... Do i need to develop a module or is it possible to make it easier in any other way? Thanks in advance for your suggestions, best regards.

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Re: [development] associate dates to nodes
by Karen Stevenson 09 Jul '07

09 Jul '07

The Date module won't do this out of the box, but if you know enough about Drupal and PHP to write a custom module I don't think it would be hard to customize it rather than rewrite everything from scratch. You would only need to add a '#validate' item to the form via hook_form_alter(), and have it point to whatever validation function you want to run your dates through. That way your customization is only for the validation process and you can use all the built-in data storage, Views integration, and other goodness of CCK pretty much as-is. If you write a custom module you have to create tables, create forms, create validation routines, create Views integration (if you want an easy way to display all this), etc. etc. Lots more work that way, and you'd have to redo much of it each time you find new info you want to track or whenever the Drupal APIs change. I don't think anyone has any benchmarks about how far you can scale something like this, but I know we have some very large sites using CCK extensively or exclusively for things like this. Karen ----- Original Message ---- From: Alex Moreno <al3xmor3no(a)gmail.com> To: development(a)drupal.org Sent: Monday, July 9, 2007 10:47:18 AM Subject: Re: [development] associate dates to nodes Yes, but when you assign a date to the multiple date field, it should be validated to avoid the same room to be reserved twice. I suppose that this is too complex for the cck module. I´m wrong? This is why i was thinking in a custom module. On 7/9/07, Victor Kane <victorkane(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 7/9/07, Bèr Kessels <ber(a)webschuur.com> wrote: Op maandag 09 juli 2007, schreef Victor Kane: > The short answer is that you want to create special content types > (reservation), and then, using the content construction kit module (cck: > http://drupal.org/project/cck) add the appropriate fields, including the > date field, supported by the date field module ( > http://drupal.org/project/date) This won't work. A "room" will need an arbitrary amount of dates. So you will need either nodereference, wich won't scale, or some other relational module (wich won't scale either). It will work. You can use the date field as a multiple field, which can certainly give an arbitrary number of dates, or any other fields necessary for reservations. To go to the trouble of a custom module seems really overkill. Of course, there is more than one way to do it. -- Alejandro Moreno <a href="http://www.tdo.es">Consultoría de Publicidad y Marketing Online</a>

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Temp file conflicts
by Darren Oh 08 Jul '07

08 Jul '07

Has anyone worked on a way to prevent two Drupal sites on a single server from using the same temporary directory? Conflicts when multiple sites add the same files to /tmp affect Chat Room and XML Site Map.

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Who wants the glory of Notify module?
by Rob Barreca 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hello world, I cannot actively maintain Notify module any more (haven't for a while since my last call for support). Anyone out there want to maintain this bad boy? -Rob

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help needed to polish the new menu system
by Peter Wolanin 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Dear Developers, While Karoly took the lead and I have contributed (along with webernet, Shakur, and others), we still need help to polish things. I'm trying to maintain an accurate list of issues here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4850 Some are pretty easy, while others are more suited for those who want to learn in more detail (and help perfect) the D6 menu system. For most or all of these there is an existing patch (that needs work) or we have imagined already the outline of the change and can explain what's needed. So, please look at this list and see where you can help. Thanks, -Peter

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Maintainer needed for Flexiconvert (Flexinode to CCK converter)
by Tao Starbow 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hi Gang, There are still a fair number of poor souls trapped in the world of Flexinode and therefore stuck at Drupal 4.7. I wrote flexiconvert after I made the transition, but it is the nature of the beast that no really needs this module more than once. In the meantime, it has collected a fair number of patches as people work through their own particular edge cases. Which I have been neglecting. Any chance that someone (maybe someone connected with CCK or Flexinode) would be up for taking over maintainership, and help lead these people into the promised land of Drupal 5 and 6? thanks, -tao

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Code freeze reminder
by Dries Buytaert 05 Jul '07

05 Jul '07

Hello world, this is just a friendly note to let you know that it is less than 2 weeks until the code freeze (for real). I'm currently traveling, but I'll compile a detailed list of what I believe are important patches somewhere next week. In the mean time, the list mentioned in the last status update on drupal.org will do. At the top of my head are (no internet connection): 1. Various patches that improve performance and/or scalability. I'm specifically interested in (i) splitting SQL reads and writes and (ii) merging the node and node_comment_statistics tables. There are pending issues for both, spear-headed by David. There are other performance related patches too. 2. Various menu module fixes -- it's time to get these taken care of and to unleash teh chx and polowadin. ;) 3. Actions module patch that John is working on. I spent quite a bit of time reviewing this patch, as did Gabor and it is nearing completion. There is a couple of things we need to figure out still, but overall, it looks well on its way to get committed this week. 4. The module notification module that Derek and Earl are working on. 5. The node render patch that Eaton started work on a while ago. I don't think that is been committed yet, but Eaton recently reminded me about how important this is to further unify and clean-up the CCK and core. That should get us started! ;-) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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