Ever have those times when you have to run a process and you have no clue how long it's taking and all you can do is just sit there waiting for the prompt to return?
Well, having had to sit through the same thing, I decided to get a little creative and build a function that will add a progress bar in the prompt while the script runs.
(All code examples pertain to a version of the Abuse module for Drupal that has not been released yet, as it is still being tested. A release version is in the works post testing by the community.)
Having links to comments via the anchor fragment of a url can be a great asset for users to share their content and for admins to quickly access questionable content needing to be moderated as I have found in my work revamping and improving the current Abuse module for Drupal.
I have just started researching and learning how to program apps for the Apple mobile devices, mainly, the iPhone. Why? Mostly for two main reasons. One, for my own need to learn and grow as a programmer and two, in response to a new initiative at Morris to develop apps as an extension of our larger Drupal-based websites.
I have officially released the the latest stable version of the CASAA module for Drupal.
This release contains many features, such as, a search feature to allow quick searching of existing mapping settings. Plus, mapping setting columns are now sortable to help admins more quickly find their settings.
For more info on the release, check out the release notes on Drupal.org: Release Notes
Thanks to all the users and developers that have contributed to making this module better and better!
Thanks to all of the feedback from the community and fellow team members, I have finally worked out and ringed the system of it's largest bugs plus, have been able to get the performance aspect of the module fine-tuned.
With all of that I'm am confident and ready to take the system out of beta status and into full release status.
There will be some major changes with the core framework module and the included plug-ins but, no changes to the db and data structure.
While integrating AHAH functionality into a compound CCK field that I'm currently working on, I ran into an issue to where my "checkboxes" FAPI type were not rendering when the form was rebuilt via AHAH.
For the lack of documentation available focused on building custom compound widgets/fields for CCK, I've decided to write some based on personal work on building one such for use in my current project.
The widget that i'm building is a field to generate and select search results via user provided keywords. The end result given to the user in the node edit form is a field containing three elements:
Ever since the release of the CASAA module it seems that I've fallen behind on updating the documentation on this site. Well, in a sense, I have but, at the same time I've been more focused on keeping the code itself for the framework module and the plug-ins as up-to-date as I possibly can.
As of yesterday, the CASAA beta module has been officially released on Drupal.org.
This release is only a Beta release to get the core module out into the world and allow the community to begin to use and develop for the framework itself.
The module is available here on this site as well as Drupal Project: CASAA.
Throughout this week I have been upgrading some of our currently site projects from the CMF module to the CASAA module. Although it was ahead of my scheduled release date, I decided that this would be a great opportunity to one, test the upgrade path that I built which takes the data model build by the CMF module and alter it to the data model for the CASAA module; and two, take advantage of being able to place the new software where it can be pummeled in a production environment wherein many usage and system bugs can be exposed.
