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.
Building Custom Compound Fields/Widgets for CCK Drupal 6.x
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:
- Textfield for Keywords.
- Submit Buttom to generate/refresh search results.
- Table of checkboxes for choosing individual search results.
Updated Documentation For The CASAA Module
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.
CASAA Module Has Been Officially Released
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.
First Official Upgrades of CMF to CASAA Successful!
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.
Deprecating The Issue Queue For The CMF Module
I'm deprecating the issue queue for the CMF module because all of the issues therein have been resolved with the upcoming release of the CASAA module that will replace the CMF.
Issues that deal directly with plug-ins for the system will be moved into their own specific issue queues so that they can still be viewed and reviewed for all pending work.
CASAA Development Is On Schedule
The development of the CASAA is on schedule for the proposed end of July release date.
CASAA Module Slated For Full Release At The End of July
The CASAA (Context Ad-Serving and Analytics) module is slated for full release at the end July. An exact date has not been determined as of yet.
Getting the Most Out of Your Drupal Site's Performance.
We, at Morris DigitalWorks, have been working like dogs to optimize our Drupal sites' performance by trying different caching modules and combinations of configurations and yet, we hadn't found the most optimal solution until earlier this week.
The CMF is to become the CASAA Framework.
The CMF (Context Management Framework) is about to make the transition to become the CASAA (Context Ad Serving and Analytics) framework.
Why the name change? Because of many context frameworks that are available for Drupal and other systems on the web, I decided to change the name to help give the system a stronger standpoint in terms of branding.
