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Writing updates for minor releases
by Karoly Negyesi 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi, I closed http://drupal.org/node/64212 for good. To sum up, if you are writing a core patch which adds an update to a minor release, then you need to duplicate that in the HEAD section (which has a different numbering) and do it in such a way that the second update won't generate an error. To achieve this, use DROP IF EXSITS for indexes (both databases), in the unlikely case you are adding a field, check for its existence first through SELECT * FROM, db_fetch_array, isset. ALTERs need no special taking care of. I do not think there will be a very complex update in a minor revision ever but if there will be, we can solve that when the need arrives. Note that the above did not divulge into introspection which is available for complex cases. Regards NK

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Re: [development] Fwd: [website] declaratieformulier
by Bèr Kessels 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Op woensdag 4 oktober 2006 10:02, schreef u: > Hoi Ber, > ik had Mick al een formulier gestuurd. komt er binnenkort een > declaratieformulier op de site? > groet > Femke Dat kan, dat is alleen nog niet met Onne besproken. Ten eerste moeten we nog even iets belangrijkere zaken afronden voor de site, maar het kan zeker op de todolijst erbij. En ten tweede moet ik dan weten /wat/ voor declaratieformulier, waar het heengaat, hoe het daarheen gaat etc. Over dat laatste, een voorbeeldje: Je kunt wel een webwinkel op je site zetten, maar een webwinkel betekent veel meer dan een paar pagina"s op je site: je moet de spullen die je verkoopt ook (in voorraad) hebben, je moet een logistiek plan hebben (hoe stuur ik het op), je moet het geld kunnen afhandelen, etc. Dit om aan te geven dat "een declaratieformulier online zetten" de moeite niet is, maar dat alles "eromheen" ook moet kloppen! Bèr -- [ End-user Drupal services and hosting | Sympal.nl ] Nieuwsartikelen, of weblog.: http://help.sympal.nl/nieuwsartikelen_of_weblog

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Re: [development] Any way to get a poll? Drupal 5.0 Default theme.
by Steven Peck 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

No. The originating theme base is here: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/2634 It was mentioned in a much earlier post. -sp ________________________________ From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Kieran Lal Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:22 PM To: development(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Any way to get a poll? Drupal 5.0 Default theme. On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Trae McCombs wrote: While the theme @ http://themes.net/ <http://themes.net/> isn't finished yet [Waiting to find out if Dries thinks we are on the right track], I would like to find out what people think about the current direction of the two themes: Is this a copy of http://www.themespress.com/ ? Kieran

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How long a CVS update will be applied to project download
by Drupal Indonesia 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

I have submit my revision of Blogger module. I know that the drupal.orf/project will run on a cron task to take this new module revision. Can one tell me how long the drupal/project will be update? I need this info to make sure that my SmartCVS succesfully uploaded and received by drupal project. Regards.

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CCK type duplication issue needs review
by Sammy Spets 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hi all, A patch needs review! It fixes a long standing problem with CCK being unable to duplicate types properly. Please surf over to the issue and review the patch so we can see it committed: http://drupal.org/node/78444 I've also had troubles with CCK's views support in that it doesn't support the multiple instances of a duplicated type's columns. I can't file an issue (or patch) for that yet because the behaviour only exists after the patch above is committed! :) Cheers, -- Sammy Spets Synerger Pty Ltd http://synerger.com

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Drupal 5.0 Theme - v2
by Trae McCombs 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

First things first, Farsheed has done OUTSTANDING work on trying to incorporate a whole bunch of peoples ideas of what should or shouldn't be in the theme. Below isn't meant to be "open for discussion" per se. It is My Take[tm] on the direction I think the theme should go. If Dries likes it, cool, I hope everyone does too, but I know there will be those who absolutely hate my proposal. My "code" is based off of the 14.zip version that Farsheed put up. I still feel he's the best person to pull these changes together once everything is all settled, I hope I've not made too much of a mess for him. ;) I don't know how to use diff and all that stuff as he does. I just make things pretty[tm]. "My" Theme: http://themes.net/ WHILE you look at the theme above, keep in mind I've only worked on the Fixed version. That isn't to say that I won't work on the fluid version too. Also note that It is NOT a finished version. Below are the tweaks I want to implement of which I feel will push this theme over the edge and make it worth of Drupal 5.0 default theme: * Rounded Corners Yes, we love them don't we? I would like to have rounded corners on the following areas [current colors kept in tact]. 1. Search area 2. Mission 3. Footer If you have Inkscape [ http://inkscape.org ] create a rectangle and click the rectangle select and set Rx and Ry to either 8 or 13. Those are the corner radii I'm thinking of using. I know how to implement a "pure html" way to do rounded corners with no images { as can be seen on my bands site -- yes, it's crappy looking -- http://theinterference.com/ } But wanted to discuss this implementation with maybe Ted, Farsheed, others as to what would be the best way technically to implement the rounded corners. My way I think is smooth and clean, and works on all browsers, but does put a lot of extra mark-up. Do we want that much extra mark-up going into a core theme? * Search bar and Footer bar Texture... these areas will have a nice clean texture in the background (of course, depending on the method we use for rounded corners) But the texture will really make those areas pop. I'll work on this tomorrow. I might simply repeat the "Glassy" feel from the Primary links to those areas. * Secondary Links I'd say we should have a place for Secondary links built into the top search bar, much like the Primary links. These are probably just small font links left aligned. * Logo on Right Not sure which logo to use... There are several Drupal Icon's laying around and wanted to know which is the "official one". This could tie into the "change the logo" discussion we had earlier. Would be nice to at least get the ability to change the logo easily with AJAX goodness into Drupal 5.0 That's about it... If everyone hates this and loves Farsheeds better, my feelings won't be hurt. I figured I'd spend some time, and put up instead of shutting up. :) The way that Farsheeds theme worked, still works, 2col(l/r) and 3col as is displayed. Again, I haven't touched fluid, so I'd have to go back in and fix those things. I can dedicate the rest of this week to this project should everyone (read: Dries) approve of my work thus far, and possibly a wee bit more time after that. Peace love and Bananas, Trae "The Artist Formerly Known as Occy" PS. I hope I didn't forget anything that should have gone in this PS area. :) -- Trae McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com

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[Press inquiry] Drupal Interview
by Dries Buytaert 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Anyone interested? :) Begin forwarded message: > From: allen074(a)yahoo.com > Date: Sun 1 Oct 2006 04:59:17 GMT+02:00 > To: info(a)drupal.org > Subject: [droppies] [Press inquiry] Drupal Interview > Reply-To: allen074(a)yahoo.com, droppies(a)drupal.org > > allen074 sent a message using the contact form at > http://drupal.org/contact. > > Hi - I love Drupal and use it on CenterNetworks - I have begun doing > podcasts or text interviews and have a bunch so far. I was thinking > that it > would be great to interview someone at Drupal. Please let me know > if you > are interested. > > You can check out my site here: > www.centernetworks.com > > Thanks, > Allen Stern > Editor, CenterNetworks > www.centernetworks.com -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Oracle Support
by Earnest Berry III 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

For those that have been trying to run an Oracle backend with Drupal, I have started a "draft handbook". Hopefully it will help those that have had trouble, and hopefully get some ridicule so that it can be polished and perahps oneday included in the drupal.org handbooks. When i get some more time, I shall do one for MS SQL also. (Note: this is a first rough draft) HB Link: http://eb3it.com/oracle_handbook - Souvent22

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The new menu system
by Karoly Negyesi 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi, Note: this post is very long. But it worths a reading. I dare to say that one of the biggest results of DrupalCon is that a new menu system is born. It all began almost a year ago: http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2005-10/msg00708.html [quote] There are three basic tasks to consider when talking about performance improvements: - displaying the visible menu (in general, this means all accessible items since we may need them for DHTML solutions) - displaying the breadcrumb trail - finding the active callback - checking access rights [/quote] OK that's four. I already have code for the last three in my sandbox and Adrian have outlined how the first will happen. My focus was finding the active callback. I simply followed JonBob's directions: "We could simplify menu declaration by allowing some sort of wildcards in menu paths. For example, if a module could declare the path "node/%d/edit", then we could dispense with the logic that defines the function only if we are in a node path. The code would certainly be cleaner in this case." I am using the percent sign as a wildcard. There is no %d or %s just %. So you define node/%/edit. Let's say someone navigates to node/12/edit/foo. Now, how do we find out that node/%/edit needs to be run? We generate all possible callbacks and check which one exists: 1111 node/12/edit/foo 1110 node/12/edit/% 1101 node/12/%/foo 1100 node/12/%/% 1011 node/%/edit/foo 1010 node/%/edit/% 1001 node/%/%/foo 1000 node/%/%/% 111 node/12/edit 110 node/12/% 101 node/%/edit 100 node/%/% 11 node/12 10 node/% 1 node The binary numbers are generated naturally: where you see a %, that's a 0, where you see a specific part, that's a 1. This will nicely indicate the the order in which they need to be checked (this is my idea and I am very proud of it -- nothing else in here is my idea). So, we have found node/%/edit. Can we access it? Instead of specifying 'access' => node_access('update', arg(1)) now we do 'access' => 'node_access', 'access arguments' => array('update', 1) . So we use Adrian's favorite: callbacks. I map 1 to arg(1) on runtime for both access and callback arguments. (Side note: I know currently node_access gets a node and not a node id. Adding node_load won't stop us.) Our life gets a bit complicated here, because we do not need to grab one menu item but three: one that defines the title, one that defines the (page) callback and one that defines access. Instead of running three queries against a huge table, I planned to retrieve all possible matches, and pick my three items. As a bonus, I will get the breadcrumb trail. Someone at the second menu meeting (Steven? Adrian?) pointed out that I could move this to the builder phase, and that's done. So we are back to retrieving one item which has title, callback and access inherited as needed. At mentioned in the third meeting, Steven pointed out that my system is vulnerable to a simple DoS attack so now menu item definitions are limited to 6 parts. I can hardly imagine this being a real limitation, I can consider raising it to seven but definitely not more. We are shooting at what's useable not all possible cases. Finally we need to display the navigation block. As said, I shoot at what's probable so instead of caching per user I will check every menu item's access on the fly. The probable case is that these are user_access calls. Maybe user_access needs to be changed to use a multi dimensional array if the repeated strpos calls are too slow. With that said, we need a mechanism to discover which menu items are possible. We will simply cache by parent id and unserialize that (credit goes to Adrian for this). Note that these structures are nowhere near the size of the current menu array. As a bonus feature, we will have hook_menu_alter. To make that usable, we moved the path to the menu item key. (Silly me was doing it in the builder but Adrian pointed out that I should simply define the menu items this way) Aside from Adrian and Steven, big kudos goes to Earl Milles (merlinofchaos). What's done? On the menu level, I need to write the navigation block, all else is done. I also need to convert modules -- node and user already done. All this took only a dozen hours or so, beginning with the first evening/night of DrupalCon first day ending on the train to Charleroi converting user and three meetings at DrupalCon / BarCamp. Regards NK

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Expressions of interest for paid community portal project
by caign 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

>> If you want to pursue consulting opportunities, then subscribe to the consulting mailing list, the feeds of the Paid Drupal forums, ...etc. Noted. Thanks for the tips.

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