[drupal-devel] [task] introduce node autofill

[Bèr Kessels]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/27530
Post a follow up: 
http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/27530

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    node system
 Category:     tasks
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Bèr Kessels
 Reported by:  Bèr Kessels
 Updated by:   Bèr Kessels
 Status:       patch (code needs work)

Me too. Yet ,there were people who disliked such an API-only function
(as in: not used in core, only providing a possible use). I have a new
and improved API for this in clipper.module.




Bèr Kessels



Previous comments:
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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:41:13 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/node_autocomplete.patch (1.25 KB)

This patch introduces an autofill for node titles.
It is not yet used anywhere, but at least we have the node/autofill url
available where contribs &c can query for node titles.




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:52:59 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/node_autocomplete_0.patch (1.26 KB)

this one adds rewrite sql :)




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:09:04 +0000 : chx

and so gets a +1 from me.




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:18:13 +0000 : moshe weitzman

How do you see this being used?


I wonder if developers will want further restrictions on returned nodes
like type=x, for example.




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:54:23 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

from the top of my head:
* a search.
* the book-parent selector
* clipper.module (node-node relations)
* anywhere else where you need to select a single node. 


About the types: I thought about that for a few seconds, but thought
it:
* OTT. this works perfectly fine. Whenever the need for a type
subselector appears, it can still be added.
* userunfriendly. users should not have to bother about node types.


So, it was intentional that I left out types. 


Oh, And i am aware of any restrictions when there are a /lot/ of nodes.
youwill get a lot of nodes with similar titles. But that is a general
problem, which occurs in freetagging and user autofill just the same.




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:18:35 +0000 : killes at www.drop.org

I don't think that Moshes wanted the user to make this the selection,
but the programmer that calls this function. Event.module would want to
only get titles for node types that are event enabled, etc.


I suggest an optional second argument to the function, that accepts a
comma delimited string. thus you could search in all node titles that
have node types that occur in that string.


function node_autocomplete($string, $node_types = NULL) {
  $matches = array();
  if ($node_types) {
    $result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT title FROM {node}
WHERE type IN ('%s') AND LOWER(title) LIKE LOWER("%%%s%%")'),
%node_types, $string, 0, 10);
  }
  else {
    $result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT title FROM {node}
WHERE LOWER(title) LIKE LOWER("%%%s%%")'), $string, 0, 10);
  }
  while ($node = db_fetch_object($result)) {
     $matches[$node->title] = check_plain($node->title);
   }
   print drupal_implode_autocomplete($matches);
   exit();
}




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Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:55:19 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

ah, then I misundersood. yes a big +1 for that feature.




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Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:49:46 +0000 : Bèr Kessels

needs work to putn in Gerhards idea.




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Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:04:35 +0000 : Uwe Hermann

Patch doesn't apply anymore. I like the idea, though.