[drupal-devel] [feature] Replace core archive.module w/ codemonkeyx
archive.module
Junyor
drupal-devel at drupal.org
Wed Aug 31 05:53:54 UTC 2005
Issue status update for
http://drupal.org/node/29676
Post a follow up:
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/29676
Project: Drupal
Version: cvs
Component: archive.module
Category: feature requests
Priority: normal
Assigned to: Morbus Iff
Reported by: Morbus Iff
Updated by: Junyor
Status: patch (code needs review)
Since that is also a problem with the old archive.module, I don't see
why it should stop this from getting into core.
Junyor
Previous comments:
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Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:08:49 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Over at http://drupal.org/node/8287, Berkes mentions that the core
archive.module was considered being removed, per a discussion at the
Drupal Sprint. Kjartan also mentions he would "love to have the archive
module improved in general." In chatting with chx about this, he
mentioned codemonkeyx's rewrite sitting in contrib/modules/archive/.
I'll be doing some work with the archive.module over the next few days,
and will be basing my changes around codemonkeyx's version, and making
it compatible with HEAD. This general Issue is to move codemonkeyx's
version into HEAD as a replacement to the existing archive.module. An
unknown version of his replacement can be seen at
http://www.codemonkeyx.net/archive. I'll be running a live HEAD version
soon as well.
These patches were made during the customization of Drupal by
http://www.NHPR.org. In loving support of open source software,
http://www.NHPR.org will continue to contribute patches they feel the
community will benefit from. Questions about this patch should be
directed to morbus at disobey.com.
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:45:59 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues_2 (9.56 KB)
As an example of a very early revision, see the attached, with the
following changes from the current contrib CVS:
* removed the year offset from theme_archive_navigation_years, which
controlled how many year links to show at once in the top nav. For
those with sites with more than five years, they'll WANT people to
notice that they have five years, not to have to click on the earliest
date and then have their expectations changed.
* made the "created > $date" in archive_buildQuery "created >= $date"
instead, to allow posts that were created at exactly midnight that day
(like me, by design).
* since there's no block, I made the menu item visible upon first load.
this menu item is given "access content" permissions.
More to come, including doxygen and gmt considerations.
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:47:41 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Might as well start getting a review of it so I can fix 'em as they come
in.
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:56:49 +0000 : Tobias Maier
cant you provide a patch file?
thanks for your work
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:04:01 +0000 : Morbus Iff
The codemonkeyx version is a complete rewrite of the core
archive.module. If I were to create a patch file against core, every
line would be deleted, and every line would be new. Once I finish my
revisions to codemonkey's version, I'll post the final version here, as
well as a patch against his current CVS.
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:09:13 +0000 : Tobias Maier
ok, thanks again :D
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:41:43 +0000 : Junyor
+1 for this change. The archive.module in core is dead.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:14:30 +0000 : adrian
What is the progress on this morbus ?
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:29:13 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Adrian - I'll be attaching a new version either later today or tomorrow,
with a CHANGELOG. I'll also be running a live version of it over on
NHPR.org for people to play with. The three major things I'm worried
about right now are a) doxygen, b) variable/function naming, c) GMT
considerations. After those, I'll be exploring a patch for my own
needs: the ability to get archives for particular term.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:53:34 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/archive.module (9.93 KB)
Here's the latest, with the following changelog:
* reordered some routines to be a little more workflowish.
* renamed archive_buildQuery to archive_build_query.
* general whitespace and formatting cleanup.
* HEADish update: returning $output, not page templating it.
* removed the reference of &$ad in archive_build_query.
* test for the existence of arg(#)'s before validating them.
* archive_validSomething changed to archive_valid_something.
* removed unused vars: cur_date, cur_date_end.
* renamed archive_buildURL to archive_build_url.
* removed the HTML whitespace from the theming.
* twiddled a lot of quotes and apostraphes.
* removed 'future' CSS class. ill-defined.
* reordered/renamed the CSS classes.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:54:08 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/_p_29676_archive_css.patch (1.56 KB)
And the drupal.css patch.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:56:29 +0000 : Morbus Iff
This version of the module is currently running live at
http://www.nhpr.org/archive/.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:59:57 +0000 : Tobias Maier
if i click for example on 2003 it would be good if this would go to
january or december
and marks them that this one will be shown now
as you can see it if you click on january 2003.
it has to select
* on the first:
the first month of writing
* on the last:
the last month of writing
* on every else:
january
I hope you can understand what I mean...
greets tobias
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:17:40 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/archive_0.module (11.28 KB)
Alright. I've attached another new version that adds a new feature that
wasn't part of the original codemonkeyx CVS, but was chatted about on
the devel list back in April. If this particular feature has bad code
or needs heavy refactoring, certainly consider ONLY the version in
comment #9 (and the matching drupal.css patch in #10).
This new version supports dated archives based on taxonomy tids. It was
a quick addition which NHPR.org needed (for the date nav; the normal tid
archive pager wasn't strong enough for our needs). Since it was a quick
addition, it supports only ONE tid at a time - the 'and/or' syntax for
the taxonomy.module was not brought over. If that syntax was desired,
it'd make more sense to create some sort of API for archive.module so
that other nodes can take advantage of the dated nav in their normal
pages (like node types, users, forums, etc.)
The added code supports term matches at any granularity:
# all node types that match tid 15000 ('The Front Porch')
http://www.nhpr.org/archive/term/15000
# all 2005 node types that match tid 20 ('Health')
http://www.nhpr.org/archive/2005/term/20
# all March, 2003 node types that match tid 9 ('Education')
http://www.nhpr.org/archive/2003/3/term/9
# all July 11, 2003 node types that match tid 49 ('Economy')
http://morbus.totalnetnh.net/nhpr/archive/2002/7/11/term/49
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:27:26 +0000 : Tobias Maier
what does this mean?
"Story Archives of 'archives'
"
on http://www.nhpr.org/archive/term/15000
should this maybe named?
"Archive of 'The Front Porch'"
if I go to http://www.nhpr.org/archive/term/20
I can only read "archives"...
why is there a difference?
- I never tested this module on my test site, because I'm not at home
-
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:29:34 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Tobias: that wouldn't be possible, at least not accurately. The new
archive.module supports browsing by year, month, and day, as you know.
archive/2005 loads up all the data from a particular year and starts
creating a pager out of it. Consider if you have 3 posts in December,
and 15 posts in November. It wouldn't be "right" to highlight December
because the pager display for the entire year would also include some
of November's entries (since 3 is less than the pager increment).
Likewise, if we ONLY showed the items from December, then we wouldn't
have a "pager by year" feature, only a "pager by month (defaulting to
December when none is selected)" feature.
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:30:41 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Tobias: regarding #14, that's an artifact of the templates that I'm
using for NHPR, and has nothing to do with archive.module itself (in
fact, once the anonymous cache expires, you'll see that little oopsie
go away).
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:31:47 +0000 : Tobias Maier
I can see your right :)
I hope it comes in HEAD before tomorrow :D
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:20:12 +0000 : dtan
I apologize if this is already a known issue.
http://www.nhpr.org/archive/2005/9 does not create a link for september
1st, even though there are 2 nodes listed
(http://www.nhpr.org/archive/2005/9/1)
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:11:21 +0000 : Morbus Iff
dtan: I'm pretty sure I know what this is - I'll address it either later
today or tomorrow.
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:49:58 +0000 : Morbus Iff
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/archive_1.module (11.53 KB)
Alright, I've attached a new archive.module - this is the version WITH
term filtering enabled. I can make one without terms if necessary -
otherwise, I'll just work from this one for now. This version fixes the
bug that dtan saw, as a well as a bunch of other off-by-one errors. Of
primary importance, however, is that all mktime's that mattered have
been switched to gmmktime, which was one of the oft-reported Issues
with the old archive.module. I want to eyeball them all again and make
sure they're right though.
The URLs from #13 are still operational and the CSS from #10 is still
required.
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Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:02:06 +0000 : Morbus Iff
In testing with a few people in #drupal, we've discovered a much bigger
problem, which affects this rewritten module as well as the current
core archive.module. In a nutshell, the node.created time is stored
with time(). PHP's time() bases itself on the server time, NOT on GMT.
Thus, for archive.module to work correctly, it must ALWAYS use mktime
(relative to server time) and never consider the $user->timezone
(relative to GMT). For archive.module, this would cause dates to always
be considered via server time, which isn't good, but is better than the
craziness going on now. Alternatively, we could try to convert server
time to GMT first, and then work with that.
The proper solution is to fix node.module to use gmmktime without any
arguments for node.created, then have an update path that modifies all
node .created and .modified values to GMT, not server time.
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