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Content Type - wiki
by Earnie Boyd 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

In discussion of using Drupal for CMS elsewhere, I had a brainy idea as someone objected that Drupal didn't supply a wiki. Thinking out the idea I suggested that perhaps a content type named wiki could be created where revisions are set and the content is published but not promoted where any authenticated user could edit the content. A menu block named Wiki could be created to associate the nodes to. A taxonomy list could be created to help find the wiki content. Let's see I would need a wiki content filter to apply to WikiWiki words. What am I missing? Perhaps a theme to separate the main content from the comments in a tabbed display similar to MediaWiki. What else? Earnie P.S.: I know I can use third party software with Drupal, I'm trying to think through this simplistic idea.

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Re: [development] Drupal 6 release schedule
by Raven Brooks 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote: > You are probably wrong there. My apologies, I gave you the benefit of the doubt - won't happen again. >What do you want? I even wrote "please". (Which was the part which I really didn't mean, if you want to know.) >Sorry, but if he can't operate google, then he's on the wrong mailing list. Well for starters it might be a nice general rule to just not send anything if you are only going to write something that is not only unproductive but also rude and condescending. Just *try* to put yourself in the shoes of a new developer to the Drupal project for a second. Is it better to be completely condescending when someone asks a question thereby giving them a bad impression of the developer community or would it be better to either a) not say anything or b) be polite and helpful? Option b shows leadership because you've potentially won a new developer to work on the project. Option a is available if you really don't care or can't do option b. Now if someone is being clearly annoying a personal message to that person may be in order, but it certainly isn't out of line for someone new to the list to ask a question like that and if your standard is that they should be aware of every conversation that has ever taken place since drupal began, well that's just ridiculous and insane. People get interested in things topically, and the first impulse isn't--and shouldn't be--maybe I should consult google to see if that was discussed before because that indicates some kind of final decision when that isn't what this is. I've seen long standing things change at the drop of a hat when someone makes a case for them, and that should be encouraged.

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mysql merge tables and partitioning
by Moshe Weitzman 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

nice article at http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/655-Partitioning-with-Dates-in-MySQL-…. it describes mysql's new partitioning feature which seems like a good idea for our accesslog table. seems like drupal doesn't even have to know about the partitions, apart from system.install. if you haven't looked into it, access logging is a bad performance bottleneck in drupal. if you want a fast site, i recommend disabling statistics.module entirely. if your DBMS isn't mysql 5.1+ this would not apply to your site. thats obvious, but i'm quite certain someone will complain that this is mysql only and 5.1_ only and all that. yeah, we know. move on.

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How do I send a file to the user?
by Ernst Plüss 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hi I want to do the following: The users fills out a form and depending on that data an excel export is generated. The user should be prompted to store/open the file. The code to create the excel data is working fine. But I don't know how to do the file sending stuff? Is hook_file_download the right way to go? If yes, after I have the excel file content stored in a variable how does it get to the implementation of hook_file_download? TIA Ernst

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How do I send a file to the user?
by Peter Wolanin 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Having been sorting this out myself recently, i'll also add that you can look at the locale module for an example of this in core, and importexport module (and probably several others) for contrib examples that export CSV or similar files. http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/_locale_export_po -Peter ----- From: Moshe Weitzman <weitzman(a)tejasa.com> To: development(a)drupal.org Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:26:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [development] How do I send a file to the user? Ernst Plüss wrote: > Hi > > I want to do the following: The users fills out a form and depending > on that data an excel export is generated. The user should be prompted > to store/open the file. > > The code to create the excel data is working fine. > > But I don't know how to do the file sending stuff? > Is hook_file_download the right way to go? If yes, after I have the > excel file content stored in a variable how does it get to the > implementation of hook_file_download? > > TIA > Ernst no, thats not the right function. you just need to send the right http headers and then print out your excel data. see http://us2.php.net/header. you can use that function directly. no benefit to going through drupal here.

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Reproducing 'login does not stick' error - what does an expert want me to do?
by Scott McLewin 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Good evening all. I'm running the latest 4.7 code (cvs up as of tonight). I have finally managed to reproduce a problem that several of my users have reported, and one that I see chatter on in the d.o forums. It is the/a problem where you log in with a valid username/password, you appear in the list of users that are on-line, but the login does not 'take' and you are given an access denied screen when redirected to path user/##. I have riddled session.inc with watchdog statements and am willing to install whatever code a core developer may want me to run to gather evidence. This is running to the development version of my site, so I have a lot of leeway on what I can install. I can authenticate and create new sessions just fine in FF 2.0. IE7, running on the same physical box, will not complete the authentication. From my watchdog logs I see that the session is being regenerated as part of processing the login form. The new session id is written to the database, then sess_close() is called, then the page continues loading and creates a new session for an anonymous user. From reading the d.o forums I gather this problem may have continued into D5 RC 1, but it was not clear if it was fixed in the final version. If one of you is looking for information on this problem, I think I'm in a position to provide it. Scott

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drupal 5.1 or 5.0.1
by Robert Garrigós Castro 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

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Drupal 6 release schedule
by Dries Buytaert 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

Hello world, I'm mailing to talk a bit more about the Drupal 6 release schedule. Drupal 5 had a 3 month development period, followed by a 5 month code freeze. For Drupal 6, I'd like to propose a 4 month development period, followed by a code freeze. As with Drupal 5, the code freeze will be guaranteed to be at least 2 months to give module authors time to plan and catch up. In practice, and depending on the state of Drupal core at the code freeze date, it might take more than two months to get things stable. Sounds good? -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Forms API "Widgets", AJAX and non-JavaScript
by Rob Thorne 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

I've done a couple of projects that needed custom "widgets" to use within Forms API, something that you might write into code with something like.... $form['some_text'] = array('#type' => 'textfield', ....); $form['event_date'] = drupal_widget_date($title, $default, $options....); ... I've done stuff like this for CiviCRM objects like contacts and groups, but the idea of getting these kinds of things into reusable functions seems pretty attractive, since: * It makes it fairly simple to implement some kinds of custom JavaScript widgets transparently. * You could get consistent "fallback" behavior for non-JavaScript capable browsers. * The code is easier to understand, and probably more reliable if you're doing something unusual. Has anyone developed anything along this lines? I'm especially interested in finding easier ways to integrate jquery-type widgets for more flexible kinds of autocomplete (say, combo-boxes instead of the simple pop-up select that autocomplete does now), and integrating safer and saner non-JavaScript behavior to a form field that are more consistent. I'm not sure if I'm being clear enough here, but do any of you have ideas similar to this, and how have you implemented them? Thanks, Rob

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dww is away for february
by Derek Wright 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

hi folks, most of you know by now, but just in case... i'm going to be on vacation for basically all of february. to prepare for my absence, i've managed to complete a flurry of bug fixes and new features for project* and cvs.module in the past couple of weeks. so, i think we're in pretty good shape with the release system. thankfully, merlinofchaos has come on board as another maintainer for project* and cvs.module (not like he doesn't have too many other things to do already, but he volunteered, so how could i say 'no'?). also, walkah has agreed to help maintain signup.module while i'm gone (my "other" module -- sadly unloved due to project* taking priority)... diff.module also got some much-needed attention, and finally has 4.7.x support: http://drupal.org/node/114734 ;) i've unsubscribed from the other mailing lists (infra, webmasters, etc), and will unsub from this one as soon as this message goes through. i will check my drupal inbox (this email address) a few times while i'm gone, so if there's some kind of major disaster that only i know how to solve, all hope is not lost. ;) good luck with 6.x development, and thanks again to merlinofchaos and walkah! -derek (dww) p.s. if you happen to care: i'll be in recife, brazil, studying and playing maracatu for the weeks leading up to and including carnaval. a much needed break from hacking code. ;) there's some info about maracatu on my band's site, if you want to learn more: http://baterialucha.org/node/181 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maracatu

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