While still working on D8MI Let Symfony Translation component handle language messages I needed to code for Symfony to on the Translation component. So how does that work writing and testing Symfony code?

Download Symfony

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/symfony/symfony.git 
cd symfony
ls

Dependency management

One of the goals of Drupal 8 Multilingual Inititive is to refactor Gettext file handling by a component. The first effort was Make gettext .po generation its own abstracted functionality by Gábor Hojtsy, Sutharsan, fubhy, sun and clemens.tolboom While I (clemens.tolboom) was working on that issue I skimmed over the Translation component delivered by Symfony to see whether we could match their architecture (why reinvent components?) or even take over their components.

Can you tell the field display weights of all your entities with one command? Or edit a node through the command-line?

drush --yaml entity-type-read node --fields=**/display/**/weight --include-fieldapi
drush entity-update node 12 --json

Watch the video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVGZzWjdDh8 and get convinced you want to know more of these entity internals.

Following along the git migration and project cannot be grepped anymore I brewed the following code.

It assumes the gits are already cloned and placed is one common directory.

After running the script all repositories with a $major == 7 branch are set into the highest version.

I'm puzzling how to 'empty' the non $major compatible repos.

The fun part is now doing analysis on the tree

Sooo ... I've finally upgraded my own site. I thought it would be easy. A simple drupal site only using images. And yes I'm not reading READMEs that often. I trust drush somehow to handle this for me. But drush only sooth the 'pain'. This blog contains my bash script which does some staging from production onto my laptop where I update the site to the latest D6 then upgrade to D7. The script is generic enough to adapt for other upgrades.

On http://drupal.org/node/686938 people are reporting a lot sloppy reports of error lines. The issue is about
Undefined index: [xyz] in line ...

But what are the names of the failing indexes?

jQuery has a nice grep so lets use it.

Make sure you have your drush aliases file setup properly. Below a snippet from my b2b.aliases.drushrc.php

$aliases['dev'] = array(
  'uri' => 'http://build2be.dev',  'root' => '/Users/clemens/Sites/build2be.dev/www/',
  'path-aliases' => array(
    '%dump-dir' => '/Users/clemens/Sites/build2be.dev/store',
    '%files' => '/Users/clemens/Sites/build2be.dev/www/sites/build2be.dev/files',
  ),
);

Now we can run

drush rsync @b2b.prd @b2b.dev

I'm working on a patch to implement issue triage for Dreditor

But for ease of use and teasing in testers git issue branches would be great which are underways.

So in the mean time I use a sandbox for this. But how to get dreditor code into my repo?

1. First create a sandbox on d.o. This gives to access to a new git repo.
2. Ignore the initial git instructions
3. Clone dreditor according the git instructions
   
git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/dreditor.git

For a drupal 6 site I needed a node edit overlay. This is what I did.

Define the urls ajax/node/%node/edit and nojs/node/%node/edit. The idea is to use path similar to the normal drupal paths just prepended with what ctools modal needs. It needs are minor in that the url path must contain a string nojs and in this case a class attribute ctools-use-modal.

<?php
function annotate_ym_menu() {
$items['nojs/node/%node/%'] = array(
'page callback' => 'annotate_ym_ajax_node',
'page arguments' => array(0, 2, 3),

I recently discovered the site http://universalsubtitles.org which is a gateway to online video material and allows us to subtitle online videos. In the past I tried to do something similar with http://mycaptions.org (offline) with an arcane editor using BUedit. With that system I managed to add subtitles to this video of which I like the animal.