[drupal-devel] [feature] Multiple simple nodes
Jose A Reyero
drupal-devel at drupal.org
Sun Sep 11 15:18:03 UTC 2005
Issue status update for
http://drupal.org/node/29794
Post a follow up:
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/29794
Project: Drupal
Version: cvs
Component: node system
Category: feature requests
Priority: normal
Assigned to: chx
Reported by: chx
Updated by: Jose A Reyero
Status: patch (code needs review)
A big +1 for this new module.
chx, why dont you extend it a little bit, with some blocks (latest,
active for each type) and custom pages (listing by type), so it could
be a core replacement for blog, story and page ?? -- and maybe for
forum, with some other small extensions..
We could provide this extended module and some pre-configured node
types for that.
However, I think we better let this in into core, and then study that
possible replacements, case by case.....
Jose A Reyero
Previous comments:
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:34:39 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/simplenode.module (9.09 KB)
Instead of page, story etc let's have a module with which you can add
simple body only nodes. At least moshe and I frequently copy
story.module to have a new simple module. For example, event needs
this. For permissions it's great to have multiple node types. So I
downloaded a copy of content.module from CCK, pressed delete a lot,
copied hook_form from story and then rename the stuff to
simplenode.module. Then I reviewed the thing but it was really not
much, so credit goes to JonBob and jvandyk.
MySQL is:
CREATE TABLE node_type (
type_name varchar(31) NOT NULL default '',
label varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
description mediumtext NOT NULL,
help mediumtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (type_name)
) TYPE=MyISAM;
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:44:09 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/simplenode_0.module (8.81 KB)
To save a couple hundred bytes of code and also a lot in DB I removed
hard caching of node types. It's surely needed for CCK, not for us.
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:02:49 +0000 : kbahey
+1.
This is something needed a lot and will save a lot of code duplication,
and tricks like two stub event sumodules.
since CCK will not make it to 4.7, this is the way to go.
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:03:24 +0000 : Cvbge
Please change the file name extension, as now it's hard to download.
Maybe we could make type_name longer? 64 or even 128 seems practical
(hell, it's VARCHAR, there should be no difference between 31 and 255).
I've skimmed sql part of module, you do INSERT INTO {node_type}
(type_name, label, description) VALUES ('%s', '%s', '%s'), what about
help column? It's NOT NULL, has no DEFAULT and you don't provide any
value for it.
The SELECT * FROM {node_type} nt WHERE 1 ORDER BY nt.type_name ASC
won't work in postgres, you need to change WHERE 1 to for example WHERE
1=1. Why do you need WHERE anyway?
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:04:31 +0000 : Eaton
+1 I'm very much in favor of it. Already using it in a site I'm mocking
up.
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:16:08 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/simplenode.module.txt (8.84 KB)
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:21:14 +0000 : jvandyk
Cvbge, no need to make type_name longer. We just changed this [1] to go
from 8 to 32 chars.
Maybe you're thinking of the label field, which is already 255.
Please keep this as compatible as possible with CCK. Download CCK from
CVS, add a new content type and see how it works.
[1] http://drupal.org/node/27985
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:39:18 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/simplenode.module_0.txt (8.85 KB)
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:47:15 +0000 : Cvbge
@#6:
I was thinking about type_name (as posted in the first issue post). I
assume that it's displayed somewhere on the page. If it is shown to
normal user, one who browses the web page, it contains/can contain
informative content. As such, I think we should not limit the admin to
31 characters.
If it is not shown to users, then 31 characters is probably enough.
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:04:01 +0000 : jvandyk
type_name is the internal name. It is used in urls like node/add/foo
where type_name is foo. The foo content type also has a friendly name
called label. Note the second column in the table. The label is used
when displaying to the user.
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:48:26 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/content.module.txt (8.59 KB)
Upon Dries word, this module is called content. I have fiddled with
field names and such to be more in line with current node.module.
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:50:55 +0000 : chx
Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/content.module_0.txt (8.57 KB)
Also, Dries said that he'd like to see "create $type content" instad of
'create '. $type .' content'. Who am I disagree with easier to read and
shorter code?
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:51:44 +0000 : kbahey
But isn't the name "content" going to be used by the CCK module?
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:56:26 +0000 : chx
I think I told Dries that CCK is already called content....
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:07:29 +0000 : m3avrck
Getting this error:
user error: Unknown column 'nt.type' in 'order clause'
query: SELECT * FROM node_type nt ORDER BY nt.type ASC
Seems line 266 should be type_name and not type. Or is the SQL create
wrong?
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:11:11 +0000 : m3avrck
Also getting this error which is related:
user error: Unknown column 'type' in 'field list'
query: INSERT INTO node_type (type, name, description, help) VALUES
('story_asdfad', 'new_story', '', '')
Line 185. What is the correct SQL create code? Or is the module code
wrong? Please clarify!
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:13:17 +0000 : m3avrck
Also, the settings is a bit confusing because Drupal already has
Settings > Content-Types ... and now there is Content > Content-Types
... confusing as to what the difference is for each. Also, should the
settings for this module go under Settings or be part of the main
Administer menu?
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:51:26 +0000 : chx
CREATE TABLE node_type (
type varchar(31) NOT NULL default '',
name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
description mediumtext NOT NULL,
help mediumtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (type_name)
) TYPE=MyISAM;
We can talk about the menu placement when it's in. That's something
that can tweaked after the freeze.
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:39:27 +0000 : m3avrck
error in that SQL, should the primary key be (type,name) I'm assuming?
CREATE TABLE node_type (
type varchar(31) NOT NULL default '',
name varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
description mediumtext NOT NULL,
help mediumtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (type,name)
) TYPE=MyISAM;
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:55:49 +0000 : m3avrck
I've tried this module but having some problems. I've created a content
type but when I goto Create Content, I don't see this new type listed.
Also, on the content page, shouldn't this be listed in the drop downs
for "show content as..." since this is a new type as well?
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