[drupal-devel] [task] Admin help in core modules

[Dries]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/26139

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      4.6.2
 Component:    other
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Robin Monks
 Reported by:  Robin Monks
 Updated by:   Dries
 Status:       patch

Quick review:


1. We don't glue words together: %administerprofile should be
%administer-profile, %administerwatchdogevents should be
%administer-watchdog-events, etc.


2. We try not to abbreviate words: %stats should be %statistics.


3. We don't use spaces in a href-tags!
Wrong:


<a href = "%foo" title = "my foo">Good:


<a href="%foo" title="my foo"%gt;
4. Why has this line been added: error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_PARSE);?


5. You can't write "administer >> menus >> add menu" without escaping
the >>'s.  In results in invalid XHTML.


6. Writing "administer >> menus >> add menu" is dangerous because these
paths are dynamic (eg. they can be changed using the menu module).  I
guess it is uncommon though.


7. You changed settings.php.


8. We should avoid using the word "node" in user-level documentation. 
We try to use "post" or "content".


9. Some title-attributes of the a href-tag start with a capital letter,
some with a small letter.  Most title-attribute are useless; they don't
add any value.  In fact, they are often less descriptive than the
content enclosed in the a href-tag.  At least *90%* of all
title-attributes can be *removed*! 


Examples:


<a href = "cron.php" title = "cron page">cron page</a> (redundant
title)
<a href = "%adminsettings" title = "">administer >> settings</a> (empty
title)
<a href = "%addavocabulary" title = "add a vocabulary">administer >>
taxonomy >> add vocabulary</a> (useless title)
<a href = "%administertaxonomy" title = "administer
taxonomy">administer >> taxonomy</a> (useless title)




Dries



Previous comments:
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July 1, 2005 - 02:02 : Robin Monks

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/4-6-2-helptext.patch (126.02 KB)

This patch adds help text to all core modules per the information at
http://drupal.org/node/24768.  This patch should be applied to 4.6.x
and CVS HEAD.


Robin


+1: No broken links.  Easy access to core module help is going to make
Drupal much more accessible / lower the learning curve.


Andrew