Hi, There's quite a few modules in Drupal which provide similar but different functionality. I maintain the lightbox2 module and frequently get asked "what's the difference between lightbox2 and module X?" So I've finally created a doc comparing the various "lightbox" type modules available in Drupal (lightbox2, thickbox, shadowbox, .....). The doc is available at http://drupal.org/node/266126 for anyone who may be interested. I'd really like to see more comparisons done on modules which share similar functionality. I think it would be quite useful to see such a comparison before downloading all the modules and trying them out one by one, especially for newbies in the Drupal community. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Stella
I've done one on the two glossary modules I'm aware of (glossary.module and g2.module), it's on the g2 project page. Maybe there are more, though ? This being said, you might have something: module duplication and module voting being recurrent themes, it might make sense to formalize a rule like: "if you're doing a module that resembles other modules, create a comparison page, that will go in the <to be determined> section of the handbook", in the dev manual. What do you think of it ? FGM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stella Power" <stella@stellapower.net> To: "Drupal Dev" <development@drupal.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:12 PM Subject: [development] lightbox module comparison Hi, There's quite a few modules in Drupal which provide similar but different functionality. I maintain the lightbox2 module and frequently get asked "what's the difference between lightbox2 and module X?" So I've finally created a doc comparing the various "lightbox" type modules available in Drupal (lightbox2, thickbox, shadowbox, .....). The doc is available at http://drupal.org/node/266126 for anyone who may be interested. I'd really like to see more comparisons done on modules which share similar functionality. I think it would be quite useful to see such a comparison before downloading all the modules and trying them out one by one, especially for newbies in the Drupal community. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Stella
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM, FGM <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote:
This being said, you might have something: module duplication and module voting being recurrent themes, it might make sense to formalize a rule like: "if you're doing a module that resembles other modules, create a comparison page, that will go in the <to be determined> section of the handbook", in the dev manual.
What do you think of it ?
I've been submitting issues in the queue requesting that the author of the second module updates their page to include a link to the original one and clarifies what the differences are in their module from the original one. Most folks have been willing to do this. If there are more duplicates than an original and a new...definitely having a page to compare seems like a good policy. Regards, Greg -- Greg Knaddison Denver, CO | http://knaddison.com World Spanish Tour | http://wanderlusting.org/user/greg
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Stella Power wrote:
Hi,
There's quite a few modules in Drupal which provide similar but different functionality. I maintain the lightbox2 module and frequently get asked "what's the difference between lightbox2 and module X?" So I've finally created a doc comparing the various "lightbox" type modules available in Drupal (lightbox2, thickbox, shadowbox, .....). The doc is available at http://drupal.org/node/266126 for anyone who may be interested.
I'd really like to see more comparisons done on modules which share similar functionality. I think it would be quite useful to see such a comparison before downloading all the modules and trying them out one by one, especially for newbies in the Drupal community. Just my 2 cents.
Very nice write-up. There was a similar one done for Drupal 5 wysiwyg editors as part of GHOP, and it'd be great to see more. I took the liberty of adding a new book page at http://drupal.org/node/266179 for 'Module Comparisons' and adding both as child pages so we can list them together in one place. Also cross-posting to the documentation list. Nat
Nathaniel Catchpole wrote:
I took the liberty of adding a new book page at http://drupal.org/node/266179 for 'Module Comparisons' and adding both as child pages so we can list them together in one place. Also cross-posting to the documentation list.
Thanks! Before seeing your post, I happened to notice and use the new node (coincidentally), and thought to myself how helpful it was that there was such a grouping. I didn't realize it was new....good idea! Syscrusher
I have a CCK content type and it has a bunch of entries in it. When I show it in a view two of the entries are duplicated multiple times. I suspect something is screwed up in the data structure. Experiment number one. There were three copies of one entry so I decide to clone that entry so as to not lose the data and then delete the original. Doing so created three copies called Clone of ... and deleting the original got rid of all three. Next step is create a new entry and copy the fields from the clone into it. When that is submitted, I now have two copies (one less than before). What is going on? Pathauto is turned on in case that has something to do with the problem. There is only one entry in the alias table.
Walt Daniels wrote:
I have a CCK content type and it has a bunch of entries in it. When I show it in a view two of the entries are duplicated multiple times. I suspect something is screwed up in the data structure.
Experiment number one. There were three copies of one entry so I decide to clone that entry so as to not lose the data and then delete the original. Doing so created three copies called Clone of ... and deleting the original got rid of all three. Next step is create a new entry and copy the fields from the clone into it. When that is submitted, I now have two copies (one less than before). What is going on?
Pathauto is turned on in case that has something to do with the problem. There is only one entry in the alias table.
There's no way to answer this question without knowing every field, filter, sort criteria and argument in your query. It's really really easy to produce 'dups' in SQL and thus in Views; many things could be doing it. Often it's taxonomy related, but any field that can have multiple values can easily do it if not configured appropriately.
Earl Miles wrote:
Walt Daniels wrote:
I have a CCK content type and it has a bunch of entries in it. When I show it in a view two of the entries are duplicated multiple times. I suspect something is screwed up in the data structure. Experiment number one. There were three copies of one entry so I decide to clone that entry so as to not lose the data and then delete the original. Doing so created three copies called Clone of ... and deleting the original got rid of all three. Next step is create a new entry and copy the fields from the clone into it. When that is submitted, I now have two copies (one less than before). What is going on?
Pathauto is turned on in case that has something to do with the problem. There is only one entry in the alias table.
There's no way to answer this question without knowing every field, filter, sort criteria and argument in your query.
It's really really easy to produce 'dups' in SQL and thus in Views; many things could be doing it. Often it's taxonomy related, but any field that can have multiple values can easily do it if not configured appropriately.
I should amend: It's highly unlikely that the data structures are messed up.
If it says "Clone of", Walt, you must be using the Node clone module (which I happen to use frequently, and as I recall, it simply makes another node). So I would say that views is answering logically, it is finding three nodes and saying it found three nodes. Of course, if this is not the case, disregard. Victor On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Earl Miles <merlin@logrus.com> wrote:
Earl Miles wrote:
Walt Daniels wrote:
I have a CCK content type and it has a bunch of entries in it. When I show it in a view two of the entries are duplicated multiple times. I suspect something is screwed up in the data structure. Experiment number one. There were three copies of one entry so I decide to clone that entry so as to not lose the data and then delete the original. Doing so created three copies called Clone of ... and deleting the original got rid of all three. Next step is create a new entry and copy the fields from the clone into it. When that is submitted, I now have two copies (one less than before). What is going on?
Pathauto is turned on in case that has something to do with the problem. There is only one entry in the alias table.
There's no way to answer this question without knowing every field, filter, sort criteria and argument in your query.
It's really really easy to produce 'dups' in SQL and thus in Views; many things could be doing it. Often it's taxonomy related, but any field that can have multiple values can easily do it if not configured appropriately.
I should amend: It's highly unlikely that the data structures are messed up.
Your support request successfully reached thousands of developers now. 99.9% of all recipients need to hit delete once again. And the one or more developers that are actually able to answer this question prefer to reply on drupal.org issues. Did you already search the issue queue or similar reports? http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/views Did you create an issue? http://drupal.org/project/issues/views Thanks, Daniel
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Walt Daniels Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:34 PM To: development@drupal.org Subject: [development] CCK and Views data structures screwed up
I have a CCK content type and it has a bunch of entries in it. When I show it in a view two of the entries are duplicated multiple times. I suspect something is screwed up in the data structure.
Experiment number one. There were three copies of one entry so I decide to clone that entry so as to not lose the data and then delete the original. Doing so created three copies called Clone of ... and deleting the original got rid of all three. Next step is create a new entry and copy the fields from the clone into it. When that is submitted, I now have two copies (one less than before). What is going on?
Pathauto is turned on in case that has something to do with the problem. There is only one entry in the alias table.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:12:54 +0100 "Stella Power" <stella@stellapower.net> wrote:
Hi,
module X?" So I've finally created a doc comparing the various "lightbox" type modules available in Drupal (lightbox2, thickbox, shadowbox, .....). The doc is available at
thanks, very appreciated.
http://drupal.org/node/266126 for anyone who may be interested.
I'd really like to see more comparisons done on modules which share similar functionality. I think it would be quite useful to
Me too. -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it
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Walt Daniels