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Developer preview: GoJoinGo a group events service based on Drupal
by Kieran Lal 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hello, some of you may have noticed that we have begun checking code into a new Drupal-based project called GoJoinGo that is intended to provide a "group events" type of service. The project includes a simple bash script that allows you to check out all the necessary modules using CVS and you can then populate the database. You will also notice that there are some significant patches for 4.6 modules. It is our intention to remove these patches in a Drupal 4.7 release as most of these patches are already included in Drupal head. We are now taking the step of providing a developer preview of GoJoinGo. We are providing this preview in the hope of attracting developers to who want to partner with us in delivering sites based on this code base. We are currently in the process of deploying GoJoinGo as a stand-alone group events service, as well as deploying it to be integrated into two existing commercial websites that are themselves based on Drupal. This site is very much in active development, with design improvements pending. We are reaching out to the Drupal developer community, but we are not declaring a public beta. We reserve the right to lock the site down if it starts getting blogged as an official launch. We will not be answering business questions, service questions, or feature request questions at this time. We will answer questions that fit between <?php and ?>. Programmers and site developers who are looking for support should expect to reciprocate with documentation and patches. CivicSpace Labs

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NULL testing and isset
by Karoly Negyesi 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi! instead of === NULL use isset, please. Three times faster. If you are using !$foo for NULL testing (checking whether a static is set), then use isset, too. I have not checked how many times isset faster here but that's a language construct and it's a hell lot faster. Regards Karoly Negyesi

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Module to Track RSS Subscribers
by Nick Lewis 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi folks, I'm in the early stages of building a set of scripts that parse out info about hits to a site's RSS feed. The goal is to trasmogrify what is now only viewable as thousands of anonymous hits to node/feed to a list of total hits to node/feed by ip address. My hope is that this will be the foundation for a module/feature that gives me a ballpark idea of how many RSS subscribers I actually have. Anyone working on something similar? Or should I consider building this as a new feature to submit for review in the statistics.module? Finally, the statistics.module dropped a lot of functionality that would have allowed this anyway after the port to 4.6 -- was there a good reason for this? Best, Nick Lewis http://nicklewis.smartcampaigns.com

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[lazyweb] Drupal Configurator
by Arnab Nandi 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, Just wanted to float this idea to the devel group. The Drupal Configurator will be an OFFLINE app (Java / .NET|Mono?) that allows you to perform most admin functions in an offline mode. Even with a decently fast connection, it is quite frustrating if you have to set up * flexinode * taxonomy * profiles via the browser... so many page views / iterations!. So, why not have a small forms driven app that allows us to do all of this in one shot, and then upload the combined preferences to the website? This can be done by setting up a special module for the configurator, which uses XML-RPC to read in and configure Drupal using this tool. I'm never going to have the time to do this, but it would be awesome if someone actually writes this. Let's see if the Drupal Lazyweb works! -Arnab -- http://www.arnab.org

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Activate/Deactivate hooks for modules
by David Reed 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I find my self longing for Activate and Deactivate hooks for modules. These hooks would run only when the module is activated or deactivated in the admin/modules form This would give module developers a convenient place to run on-time setup code (e.g. database setup) and a place to do cleanup once their module was deactivated. If there's interest I could create a patch for discussion. Is there another easy way to accomplish these types of setup and cleanup tasks?

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Re: [development] NULL testing and isset
by David K Norman 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

development-request(a)drupal.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:24:08 +0100 > From: "Karoly Negyesi" <karoly(a)negyesi.net> > Subject: [development] NULL testing and isset > > Hi! > > instead of === NULL use isset, please. Three times faster. If you are > using !$foo for NULL testing (checking whether a static is set), then use > isset, too. I have not checked how many times isset faster here but that's > a language construct and it's a hell lot faster. I tried it out. I looped through a check of === NULL and isset each 700000 times. The === NULL loop took an average of 1.57 secs, and == NULL was 1.68 secs. The !isset test was only 0.28 secs and empty at 0.25 secs on my Athlon 2400+. Using !$var was the fastest at 0.21 secs, though I think ! is sloppy and is the most difficult to tell what exactly is being tested. I'll keep my test script for a while if anyone wants to see (31 LOC).

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RE: [development] Severity levels
by Steven Peck 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

For now it should probably go as a child page here: http://drupal.org/node/10259 so it doesn't get lost. I am looking through the developers guide strucutre and trying to figure the best approach for it. We have some duplicate and even triplicate content that needs heavy editing and I want to do it it in one fell swoop. ________________________________ From: development-bounces(a)drupal.org on behalf of Bèr Kessels Sent: Mon 1/16/2006 8:29 AM To: development(a)drupal.org Cc: documentation(a)drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Severity levels This should (also) be discussed on the docs list. Where can we put it? IMO a simple bookpage with a link on the issue creation page should do, not? Op maandag 16 januari 2006 17:17, schreef Karoly Negyesi: > extreme critical: when a bug breaks all core , sessions, bootstrap one of > the form elements or something like that. These are to be fixed > immediately because Drupal HEAD is not usable at all. > > critical bugs render a whole (or most of a) module unusable. Example: you > can't post a forum topic. > > major bugs: a smaller part of a module. You can't add a menu with menu > module. > > -- below these are bugs that do not hold a release -- > > Normal bugs just bugs, we could even release with these. Just one > functionality, like the category filter not working on node admin screen. Can we release with these? Personally I don't really care, and woulod say 'yes'. But that is because I work for my cleints and can filter out therse bugs before a site goes live. But certainly Joe Schmoe will get a negative idea about a piece of software that 'has bogs all over the place' (I cannot find the comment IO refer to, anymore). I think this is up to Dries to decide, what and how many boogs are still alive when we go live? > And minor bugs are cosmetical stuff, notices etc Are those not 'tasks' instead. Or even features? -- PGP ber(a)webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels(a)gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc

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CSS for Bar Charts
by Chris Messina 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Worth a look: http://apples-to-oranges.com/blog/article.aspx?id=55 Maybe could be used with the poll module? Chris

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CiviCRM 1.3 Released (with CiviContribute)
by David Geilhufe 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

************************************************************* CiviCRM 1.3: A Free and Open Source eCRM Solution ************************************************************* We are pleased to announce the latest release of CiviCRM - version 1.3. CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable constituent relationship management solution. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. New to CiviCRM? Read more at http://www.openngo.org/aboutcivicrm ===================================================== What's new in 1.3? ===================================================== +- Joomla/Mambo front end. Profiles and online contribution pages can be displayed to and accessed by users. +- Introduces CiviContribute, a solution for accepting, tracking and managing online and offline contributions including cash and in-kind donations. Accept online donations and have them automatically recorded in your donor database. +- Custom fields available for activities and contributions. +- Improved website integration. Profiles allow users to maintain more of their own CRM records. +- Improved developer release of CiviMail, a mass mail solution with token replacement, open and click trough tracking. ===================================================== Get CiviCRM: Demo, Downloads & Documentation ===================================================== +- Test drive CiviCRM on our demo site. http://demo.openngo.org/civicrm/drupal-php5/ +- Download CiviCRM. http://downloads.openngo.org/civicrm/ +- Installation instructions. http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/Installation+Guide +- Documentation, including a Quick Start Guide and a detailed Administrator Guide. http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+Documentation +- Automated installer for 1.3 is available with the CivicSpace 0.8.3 release candidate. http://civicspacelabs.org/home/developers/download ===================================================== CiviCRM Community ===================================================== +- CiviCRM has been downloaded over 4,000 times and has been installed by almost 1,000 groups. +- Over 100 individuals and consultants have participated in the design and development of CiviCRM. +- Consulting firms from one-person shops to organizations with a staff of 18 offer CiviCRM-based services. +- Open visibility and community participation in bugs, features and product roadmaps. +- Active translation community with efforts complete or under way for Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Canadian French, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Khmer, Polish, Spanish, Thai and Traditional Chinese. ===================================================== New for 1.3: CiviContribute ===================================================== CiviContribute can be used to track virtually any contribution an organization receives with user-defined contribution types--in-kind, cash, and volunteer time, for example. You can add custom fields to track extra information about a contribution, information required by the FEC for campaign contributions, for example. +- Basic donor database solution that accepts online donations, records contributions, manages receipts and thank-you communications. +- Create an online donations page, pick a payment provider (PayPal and Moneris supported in 1.3) and start accepting online donations. +- Track receipts and thank you notes. +- User configurable contribution types allow tracking contributions of money, in-kind donations, time or anything else contributed to your organization. +- Easy import and export of contribution data to/from other systems like an accounting package. +- Search for contributions by type, amount, date, etc. ===================================================== Future Releases ===================================================== CiviCRM is in active development and constantly improving. Key upcoming features to look for are: +- Joomla integration. 1.4 will focus on improved Joomla/mambo integration. +- Ongoing CiviMail improvements in our high-capacity email broadcast tool, including user-friendlier interface. +- Voice your opinion on the 1.5 release by posting your ideas. http://objectledge.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+1.5 ===================================================== Technical Requirements: ===================================================== CiviCRM is a web-based solution that runs locally on a web server or on a hosting provider. Installs on local machines should consider using the XAMPP/WAMP stacks which almost painlessly install Apache/PHP/MySQL. +- Apache 1.3+ +- PHP 4.3.3+ +- MySQL 4.0, 4.1 or 5.0 +- Drupal 4.6.3+ or Joomla 1.0.3+ / Mambo 4.5.3+ ===================================================== About the Social Source Foundation ===================================================== The Social Source Foundation is a 501-c-3 nonprofit creating internationalized, open source software of uncompromising quality for the nonprofit and nongovernmental sectors. Social Source Foundation is one of many partners in the creation of the CiviCRM platform, providing primary engineering support for the software. ===================================================== How Do I Participate in the CiviCRM Project? ===================================================== Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the development of CiviCRM. This can take the form of providing use cases, feedback on existing functionality, feature suggestions, code contributions, documentation contributions and beta testing. -CiviCRM Team

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Let's wander back to topic: bug fixing and reviewing
by Karoly Negyesi 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi! I have not written my message about Drupal 4.7 to give you a perspective but to _*==*_ ask for help _*==*_ in bug fixing and reviewing. Some people already put his hand up. Come, come, there are loads of bugs to fix! Regards Karoly Negyesi

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