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Introduction and Webservice Token Discussion
by Benson Wong 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Hi, Boris @ Bryght recommend that I join this list. So hello all. I'm a little green to the drupal development process so I'm going to jump right in. I was working on Web service authentication token functionality for Drupal 4.7 (or 4.8). I wrote the code today and kept the implementation minimal. I tied it into the session.inc functions in Drupal. Which made the most sense. refer: http://drupal.org/node/46145 for the ongoing discussion. I've attached the patch to this email. Quick summary: 1. Uses the global $user 2. Tokens are passed in the GET string as: xmlrpc.php?token={big long string} 3. The tokens are just PHP session Ids 4. No modification to any current code to use. Code can use user_access(..) as normal to check privileges 5. xmlrpc.php modified so if a valid token exists, it will swap the anonymous sessionid with the authenticated one. Unrelated, but I figured this was useful. Every anonymous xmlrpc request creates a new anonymous session in the sessions table. I added a couple lines of code to get rid of anonymous sessions in xmlrpc_server() right before it send back the response. The same can probably be done for cron.php. Thanks. Ben. -- blog: http://www.mostlygeek.com

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core dev as a category
by ae2005 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Karoly, interesting. I personally put much more stock in a module developed by one of the trusted names (such as yourself). However, I can see your point about lacking the time to maintain it, as well as not wanting to "certify" people. any way, some rating of quality/stability would definitely be useful. ae

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module categories
by ae2005 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

categorizing modules -- this is a great project. another thought. modules by use. when you set up civicspace, it asks if you want to set up a site for 1) politics 2) artists etc. one category there would definitely 3) ecommerce and maybe 4) paid memberships. on another dimension, stability, we could have categories like 1) well documented 2) contributed by core developers on another dimension, ease of use 1) easy (only ftp necessary) 2) moderate (need to import mysql tables) 3) advanced since i'm developing an ecommerce site, i really think it'd be fabulous to have the list of ecommerce sites (which kieran pointed me to one day on civicspace, thank you kieran) along with evaluations of how well it's documented, how stable it is, and how easy to use. we should also indicate which modules conflict with each other. ae2005

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Issue with multisite url creation for edit forms action parameter...
by Tao Starbow 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

I tried posting this first to the support list, but it might be a little too deep geek for that list. This is the only multisite issue I have been stumped by. The problem has to do with the url in the action parameter for the edit forms being created incorrectly (Note: only tested in 4.6). This problem only shows up for multisite, and only when I use apache & $base_url to make a multisite site look like a single site. For example the main CITRIS site is really located at citrissrv2.berkeley.edu/citris. It sits behind an apache server that does a proxy pass from www.citris-uc.org to citrissrv2.berkeley.edu/citris. Then I set the site's $base_url to www.citris-uc.org , and 90% of the time this works fine. However, when Drupal generates a edit forms, it prepends "/citris" to the url in the form's action parameter. So where it should have action="/node/123/edit", instead it generates action="/citris/node/123/edit". This does not happen when the $base_url is citrissrv2.berkeley.edu/citris and proxy pass is not used. To deal with this issue, I set up a symbolic link so that $durpal_dir/citris just points back to $drupal_dir. This is an easy fix that works most of the time. However, modules such as webform and project have forms that use secondary pages as subforms, and as the pages pass the data back-and-forth, I end up with urls like action="/citris/citris/citris/citris/citris/node/123/edit" and so on, until the url finally gets too long for the browser to handle, the url gets clipped & the user is set to an error page. I suspect I am going to be diving into core to address this one, but I still hope it might just be a configuration error on my part. I am grateful for any tip & leads. Tao Starbow Web Architect, CITRIS

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Categorizing modules-demonstrating the value of the Drupal platform
by Kieran Lal 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi, software platforms like Drupal are often evaluated by the additional components they have. Today Drupal's contributed modules are plentiful but the value of the modules is hard to discover because the modules are hard to understand. This can be fixed in 3 ways. First, we need to categorize modules so that they can be quickly discovered. Second, we need to evaluate modules to rate their quality. Third, we need to make it easier to understand contributed modules. CivicSpace Labs with a lot of personal contributions from Nedjo and Dries have extended the project module to allow modules to be categorized. This new categorization can be seen on the Drupal.org beta site: http://scratch.drupal.org/project/Modules We are looking for volunteers to help us discover what the logical categories for modules on the Drupal platform is. We are starting with the developer community who know the modules best. In the long run we are likely to conduct a card sort usability experiment to confirm that modules are well categorized for web site developers, and Drupal administrators. We know from recent surveys that installing new modules is one of the most common tasks and therefore represents one of the biggest usability improvements for Drupal. We are looking for volunteers to wade through the modules and attempt a first pass at categorization. There are 4 groups of modules we could evaluate with the total modules increasing in each category. The larger the group to categorize the more work. 1) Most downloaded modules about 40- http://drupal.org/node/46109 2) Modules with administration help documentation. http://drupal.org/ handbook/modules -about 80 3) Modules with project pages http://drupal.org/project/Modules- about 200? <-has the advantage of allowing us to categorize all the project modules 4) Modules checked into the CVS contributions directory http:// cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/- Several hundred? The goal is to get this categorization done for the upcoming Drupal.org upgrade. I'll moderate this thread to coordinate volunteers and help to come up with some top level categories. Please suggest some top level categories for module project pages. Cheers, Kieran

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Image module
by Chris Cook 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

The image.module is not included in 4.7.0 beta 3. Is this because it is too buggy to yet include or that it will not be included in the final release? I don't see it listed on the modules page either. Cheers, Chris

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Evil hack: admin/modules without memory restrictions
by Gerhard Killesreiter 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi there! There are quite a few people who'd like to run a lot of Drupal modules and have problems on admin/modules when they hit the php memory limit. Moshe pointed out that this has changed/ will change with the install files, but I needed something quick and dirty now. Attached is a patch that will make Drupal 1) read the module files 2) looking for help, init, exit hooks 3) write these hooks to a file 4) include that file 5) delete the file for all modules found. The patch makes a few assumptions about how a module file looks like (namely coding conventions). A few contrib modules do not respect these or they do call some other functions from their help hooks. These are: adsense contextlinks cursor g2 smartypants textile xstatic (all taken from contrib HEAD). I am surprised that the list is so short. The patch isn't proposed to be included in Drupal, also people who don't know PHP should not use it. I will not support it. It is intended to be run in development setups where you might want to test a lot of modules. Cheers, Gerhard

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Fwd: [infrastructure] [Drupal.org problem] drupal4.6.5 - file.inc
by Dries Buytaert 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Begin forwarded message: > From: candy(a)xz.cz > Date: Mon 23 Jan 2006 01:01:37 GMT+01:00 > To: infrastructure(a)drupal.org > Subject: [infrastructure] [Drupal.org problem] drupal4.6.5 - file.inc > Reply-To: candy(a)xz.cz, "A list for Drupal infrastructure > maintainers $eg. drupal.org, CVS, mailing lists$" > <infrastructure(a)drupal.org> > > CandySan sent a message using the contact form at > http://drupal.org/contact: > > HI! [solved problem] > > I had a problem with images (private downloads) and firefox on > linux. The images would not be printed; FF/Linux says "broken > image"; Opera/Linux > ok; Windows not tested. > > The problem was found in the includes/file.inc file in function > file_transfer. There is a line "ob_end_clean();" before sending data - > this is the problem; Comment out this line solves the problem. > > One more improvement is in the same function in the while loop: > after line > "print fread($fd, 1024);" it is better to add line "ob_flush(); > flush();" > to reduce memory consummation and some memory limits. > > thanks > CandySan > > P.S. sorry if it should be in some bug report, but it is solved... > > -- > [ infrastructure | http://lists.drupal.org/listinfo/infrastructure ] -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/

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Administration user experience survey TODO: Blocks for roles
by Kieran Lal 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi, according to the survey the 3rd hardest thing for administrators to do is to configure blocks for roles. It is possible to do this manually right now: http://drupal.org/node/ 27690, http://drupal.org/node/13266 with PHP. This issue http://drupal.org/node/12988 addressed this issue, but has lost traction. If someone could revive this I would appreciate it. Cheers, Kieran

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Integrating CiviCRM 1.3 With Organic Groups
by Rob Thorne 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

I'm trying to get up a version of an old application that used the old clubs module. We had discussed moving it to Organic Groups a year and a half ago, but it never happened. I'm now doing a lot of work with CiviCRM running under CivicSpace, and have heard that Moshe has a version of Organic Groups for Drupal 4.7 that will integrate with CiviCRM 1.3. I've done some tests on a 4.7 install, and it seems to do what I need, more or less. I also hear that at least some of the Organic Groups 4.7 feature set have been back ported to Drupal 4.6. Is this true, and where can I get a copy of those sources? Thanks, Rob Thorne Torenware Networks

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