The new locale module provides every functionality on the web interface, so you don't need to edit the configuration files or add columns, when you add a new language. This module is an integration of the old locale and localegettext modules, plus a bunch of logic to parse Gettext Portable Object files (opposed to Machine Object files, as supported by localegettext).
Note: I made some minor changes to the context-sensitive help texts and to some of the status messages.
Here's an overview of the changes:
1) Multiple Input formats: they are complete filter configurations (what filters to use, in what order and with which settings). Input formats are admin-definable, and usage of them is role-dependant. For example, you can set it up so that regular users can only use limited HTML, while admins can free HTML without any tag limitations.
The input format can be chosen per content item (nodes, comments, blocks, ...) when you add/edit them. If only a single format is available, there is no choice, and nothing changes with before.
The default install (and the upgrade) contains a basic set of formats which should satisfy the average user's needs.
2) Filters have toggles
Because now you might want to enable a filter only on some input formats, an explicit toggle is provided by the filter system. Modules do not need to worry about it and filters that still have their own on/off switch should get rid of it.
3) Multiple filters per module
This was necessary to accomodate the next change, and it's also a logical extension of the filter system.
4) Embedded PHP is now a filter
Thanks to the multiple input formats, I was able to move the 'embedded PHP' feature from block.module, page.module and book.module into a simple filter which executes PHP code. This filter is part of filter.module, and by default there is an input format 'PHP', restricted to the administrator only, which contains this filter.
This change means that block.module now passes custom block contents through the filter system.
As well as from reducing code duplication and avoiding two type selectors for page/book nodes, you can now combine PHP code with other filters.
5) User-supplied PHP code now requires <?php ?> tags.
This is required for teasers to work with PHP code. Because PHP evaluation is now just another step in the filter process, we can't do this. Also, because teasers are generated before filtering, this would result in errors when the teaser generation would cut off a piece of PHP code.
Also, regular PHP syntax explicitly includes the <?php ?> tags for PHP files, so it makes sense to use the same convention for embedded PHP in Drupal.
6) Filter caching was added.
Benchmarking shows that even for a simple setup (basic html filtering + legacy URL rewriting), filtercache can offer speedups. Unlike the old filtercache, this uses the normal cache table.
7) Filtertips were moved from help into a hook_filter_tips(). This was required to accomodate the fact that there are multiple filters per module, and that filter settings are format dependant. Shoehorning filter tips into _help was ugly and silly. The display of the filter tips is done through the input format selector, so filter_tips_short() no longer exists.
8) A more intelligent linebreak convertor was added, which doesn't stop working if you use block-level tags and which adds <p> tags.
- Users who have not edited their account yet would be reset to GMT rather than the sitewide timezone.
- Users who chose GMT (zero timezone) on a site with a non-zero timezone as default would have incorrect timezone.
The headers stored for cached pages ended in a newline, which caused header("") to get called when serving the page.
On some PHP versions (happens on 4.3.3 at least, but not in 5.0), PHP adds a blank header to the HTTP request (i.e. just \r\n) which ends HTTP headers prematurely and adds a newline at the beginning of the page.
This was not an issue before because we output HTML. Now that we have GZip compression, this bug caused corruption of the output. :P
*phew*
* The _validate hook and the _nodeapi('validate') hook of the node API (1) no longer take an 'error' parameter and (2) should no longer return an error array. To set an error, call form_set_error().
* The _form hook of the node module no longer takes a form hook and should not worry about displaying errors. Ditto for _nodeapi('form_post') and _nodeapi('form_pre').
CHANGES
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+ Introduced tabs. First, we extended the menu system to support tabs. Next, a tab was added for every link that was (1) an administrative action other than the implicit 'view' (2) relevant to that particular page only. This is illustrated by the fact that all tabs are verbs and that clicking a page's tab leads you to a subpage of that page.
+ Flattened the administration menu. The tabs helped simplify the navigation menu as I could separate 'actions' from 'navigation'. In addition, I removed the 'administer > configuration'-menu, renamed 'blocks' to 'sidebars' which I hope is a bit more descriptive, and made a couple more changes. Earlier, we already renamed 'taxonomy' to 'categorization' and we move 'statistics' under 'logs'.
+ Grouped settings. All settings have been grouped under 'administer > settings'.
TODO
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+ Update core themes: only Xtemplate default supports tabs and even those look ugly. Need help.
+ Update contributed modules. The menu() hook changed drastically. Updating your code adhere the new menu() function should be 90% of the work. Moreover, ensure that your modue's admin links are still valid and that URLs to node get updated to the new scheme ('node/view/x' -> 'node/x').
+ Introduced two new functions:
1. form_set_error($name, $message): files an error against the form
element with the specified $name.
2. form_has_errors(): returns true if errors has been filed against
form elements.
+ Updated the form handling:
1. The form_ functions will add 'class="error"' when a form field
has been found to be erroneous.
2. The error message is passed to theme_form_element() when the
particular form field has been found to be erroneous.
+ I updated the user and profile module to take advantage of these new
functions.
+ IMPORTANT: the _user() hook changed. The 'validate' case should no
longer retun an error message when something goes wrong but should
set it with form_set_error().
administrators will be able to define a custom 403 page, just as they
can define 404 pages now.
This needs to be documented in the "Changes since / migrating to ..."
pages.
+ only adds an optional parameter to url() and l(), so individual links
can be set to be absolute
+ modifies drupal_goto() to accept the parameters of url() without the
$absolute parameter, so cleaner invocations can be used
+ rework of some code in node_feed, making it much better to look at
(the current code uses foreach with an immediate brake to get the first
key of the associative array, geeeeez)
+ added xml:base to the rss tag generated by node_feed()
+ set all user mail URLs to be absolute
+ fix a small fragmented URL in user.module
they will be part of the same documentation group, as well as created a new
'formatting functions' group and added a lot of docs for them. Also fixed
some small errors reported by the doxygen parser.
containing two elements, the first being the requested title, and the second being
the result list. Advantages:
* Cleaner search code in common.inc
* Po extraction is possible and works fine
* No hardcoded exceptions for node and comment modules, since any module can
return results in order of relevance (or another order)
- Adds drupal_set_header() and drupal_get_headers().
- Cache now stores custom headers.
- Replace theme_head() with drupal_get_html_head(), added drupal_set_html_head().
- Added RSS autodiscover links to node, blog and taxonomy pages.
+ Added drupal_http_request().
+ Replaced rssfeeds with OPML feed subscription list.
+ Added support for pubDate.
+ Added support for conditional gets using ETag and Last-Modified.
/**
* Wrapper around xml_parser_create() which extracts the encoding from the XML
* data first and sets the output encoding to UTF-8. This function should be
* used instead of xml_parser_create(), because PHP's XML parser doesn't check
* the input encoding itself.
*
* This is also where unsupported encodings should be converted.
* Callers should take this into account: $data might have been changed after
* the call.
*
* @param $data The XML data which will be parsed later.
*/
To do this cleanly, I reorganised some bits of system.module: there is now a generic handler available for simple variable-get/set based configuration pages. Look at filter_admin() or system_view() for example usage.
(based on the patch by Goba)
tags.
To be discussed and investigated: when a form element has no title an empty
<label> tag will be emitted (eg. "remember me" checkbox). This doesn't make
sense but is our best option for now.
+ Simplified cache logic in drupal_get_path_map().
+ Added check to see if errors should be reported to error_handler().
+ Use proper db_query() syntax in throttle(), and use $_ENV instead of
getenv().
+ Changed fix_gpc_magic() to use array_walk (C functions will always be
faster), and renamed _fix_gpc_magic_array() to _fix_gpc_magic().
+ Renamed $node in array2object() to $array.
+ Renamed $node in object2array() to $object.
+ Minor other coding method tweaks.
Contributed themes and modules need to be updated:
- modules: status() is no more; use drupal_set_message() instead.
- themes: use drupal_get_message() to check for status messages and
visualize them.
* fixes all doxygen warnings [#]_ in the current code base
+ changes @param style from phpDocumentor (@param type $var desc) to doxygen (@param $var desc)
+ documents all undocumented parameters
+ escapes / fixes html warnings
+ fixes @defgroup in theme.inc
* adds more groupings [#]_
+ drupal_{set|get}_title, drupal_{set|get}_breadcrumb
+ pager.inc: pager_api (pager_query(), pager_display()), pager pieces
* adds a new group "themeable" which contains all themeable functions.
Patch by Stefan.
- Usability improvement: introduced a form_group() function and updated
the node and comment module to take advantage of it. Patch #149 by
Eric Farris.
- Improvement: removed a left-over from Drupal 4.2.0 (dead code).
- Improvement: replaced hard-coded XHTML around the XML icons with class="xml-icon".
- Improvement: removed the custom navigation menus shown at the top of the "user information page" and integrated them in the new navigation block. The "my account" link in the navigation menu will unfold. Also removed the "delete account" link/functionality (for now).
- Improvement: fix for "magic quotes" settings. Patch by Steven. I also removed check_php_settings().
- Improvement: block themability improvements. Modified patch from Ax and Steve/CodeMonkeyX.
- Fixed bug #2617: editing user information does not work. Patch by Kjartan.
a reserved SQL keyword. Required for both PostgreSQL and MSSQL. Patch by
Adrian.
- Bugfix: renamed the 'path' table to 'url_alias' as 'path' is a reserved SQL
keyword. Required for both PostgreSQL and MSSQL. Patch by Adrian.
- Fixed bug #3642: removed duplicate settings from user page. Patch #14 by Moshe.
- Fixed bug #3503: added 'forum topic' link to the 'create content' menu. Patch
by Gobar. I think this might be more intuitive and consistent code-wise; I don't
want to introduce small hacks.
- Cache improvement: small cache improvement to prevent SQL errors. Patch by
Jeremy.
- Updates database.pgsql and database.mysql to work with current cvs. Patch
by Adrian.
- Updates update.php to be able to update postgres from 4.2 to current.
Patch by Adrian.
- Small fixes by me.
Dries Buytaert
Steven Wittens
Kjartan Mannes