Selling roles

Fri, 2008/03/14 - 6:28pm — clemens

When running a shop it can be useful to sell access to parts of your site.

Do accomplish this see http://www.ubercart.org/docs/user/3366/selling_site_access_role_promotions

Building a my groups block

Tue, 2008/03/11 - 11:44am — clemens

How does one build a 'my groups' block? I thought it would be an out of the box thingy. But it is not.

On the channel the answer was DIY. So this is what I build.

The code patterns below are the same. The use cases differently.

  1. Show my groups
  2. Add special node type immediately to a group. This is for speed
  3. Generate a node and redirect elsewhere. This is for speed and timeing usage.

My Groups

This is just looping through the group ids of the current user.

<?php
global $user;

$items= array();

Entity Relation Diagrams

Sun, 2008/03/09 - 6:43pm — clemens

What is the best way to translate a relational database into a drupal based site.

In looking for modules i ran into the next modules.

nodefamily looks promissing to navigate through nodes. It promisses to be a directed graph so it MUST BE cool ;-)

views_fusion makes it possible to create joined views "fuse multiple views into one" It looks unmaintained since may 2007.

nodehierarchy looks like nodefamily.

ip lookup

Sun, 2008/03/09 - 6:15pm — clemens

Have setup the statictics modules I note ip adres 66.249.73.205.

Using http://ip-lookup.net/index.php reveils it's a google bot. Thanks!

But how do I know the other ip's. It would be nice to have this lookup build into the statistics.

Just browsing the drupal 6 module list.

Fri, 2008/03/07 - 2:47pm — clemens

It's amazing to see so many modules being converted.

I definitely needs to start converting my modules too!

It take quite some time to upgrade my modules. I guess coder.module will help a lot with all hints.

Some references

Fri, 2008/03/07 - 11:18am — clemens

Writing an article without pointer is pointless. So here is a start.

Version dependencies are described here http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

For a functional dependency specification (Nix and NixOS) see

direct debit payment method for ubercart

Thu, 2008/03/06 - 3:45pm — clemens

Call me stupid but I thought it was easy. Building a new payment method.

I know drupal development a little. I read the core_systems and ubercart_hooks. No sweat developing this new payment method.

mysql cycle

Mon, 2008/03/03 - 1:18pm — clemens

I still forget how to do the database and user creation and drop goes. So why not make a note.

Creating

create database test;
create user 'test' identified by 'pwtest';
grant all on test.* to 'test'@'localhost' identified by 'pwtest';

Cleaning up

drop user test;
drop database;

Yeah ... call me stupid ;-)

ubercart documentation

Mon, 2008/03/03 - 12:21pm — clemens

In building my clieop3 module together with uc_payment_direct_debit I ran into the missing of documentation about the callback parameter $op of hook_payment.

That was a bummer. Because the drupal development process is still a lot of reverse engineering. Having read Pro Drupal Develpment eases the pain a little. Finding ones way studying other modules is ok if it's not on a daily basis. I must be doing something wrong.

The good side is that this $op gets documented now.

Conclusion

Mon, 2008/03/03 - 12:07pm — clemens

My conclusion would be to make module.inc the key module for module and project dependency management.

Changes to install.php, system.module, update.php are relative easy to do afaik.

What i haven't covered is schema update dependencies.

Steps to take:

  1. make drush_mm more robust as a showcase
  2. patch module.inc with lessons learned from drush_mm
  3. provide the project provides files same like status_update
  4. with this into place drush (D7) could have lean and mean drush_pm and drush_mm modules
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