[development] Custom module, do you think I should add it to cvs.drupal.org ?

[Pierre Rineau]

In fact, empty text in form inputs is a really common feature! But it
won't be useful if there is no advertisement and if no people use it.

In my company, for each project, we have to write manually the snippet,
maybe for other people it wont help, but here, we are really going to
use it.

What I'm really looking for commiting it, is the community to help to
get some more cool features and more configurability around this stuff.

If anyone seems interested to help me evolving such module, tell me, and
I will commit it, else I won't.

Pierre.

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 12:16 -0400, David Rothstein wrote:
> I disagree.  I don't think the initial number of lines of code is a
> good indicator of anything (and also, it's not just 3 lines in this
> case, but rather 3 lines plus an entire file, right?).  In my opinion,
> a better measure is whether or not the code is written in a way that
> is generically useful.  If it can be meaningfully used by a variety of
> sites without them needing to edit the code, then posting it as a
> module makes sense.  Modules are accessible to a much broader audience
> than PHP snippets are.
> 
> However, in this case, if I understand the description correctly, it
> sounds like it might have a lot in common with an existing project
> (http://drupal.org/project/compact_forms)?  If so, then you should
> contribute your work to that project rather than starting a new one.
> 
> Good luck!
> David Rothstein
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Pierre Rineau
> <pierre.rineau at makina-corpus.com> wrote:
>         Ok, so I won't.
>         
>         Thanks for your answer.
>         
>         Le jeudi 30 avril 2009 à 10:29 -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin a
>         écrit :
>         
>         > No. A 3 line module is not worth its own project and issue
>         queue and
>         > such.
>         >
>         > This module is best posted in the snippets here
>         > http://drupal.org/node/23220
>         >
>         > See also here
>         http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/php-snippets
>         >
>         > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Pierre Rineau
>         > <pierre.rineau at makina-corpus.com> wrote:
>         >         Hi folks,
>         >
>         >         I made a really, really simple module (3 lines and a
>         JS file).
>         >
>         >         It uses the "title" HTML attribute on text and
>         textarea HTML
>         >         inputs to
>         >         display an empty value in the input, which disappear
>         on focus,
>         >         and
>         >         re-appear on focus out if input is still empty.
>         >
>         >         This is simple, I saw something like 10 or 20
>         different JS
>         >         implementations; I choosed one of them, (one I saw
>         on
>         >         Drupal.org's
>         >         forums), adapted it a bit the JS file to be more
>         coherent with
>         >         Drupal6.
>         >
>         >         The real module just does a "drupal_add_js()" in
>         hook_init()
>         >         (which
>         >         should be compatible with aggressive caching).
>         >
>         >         Do you think this is a good idea to commit it in the
>         Drupal
>         >         CVS, as a
>         >         new project?
>         >
>         >         Or do you known some modules which already does the
>         same
>         >         thing, in a
>         >         better way?
>         >
>         >         Regards,
>         >         Pierre.
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > --
>         > Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>         > 2bits.com, Inc.
>         > http://2bits.com
>         > Drupal optimization, development, customization and
>         consulting.
>         > Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger
>         W.Dijkstra
>         > Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da
>         Vinci
>         
>         
>