- Simplified field_set() API.
- Made UnConeD's cool common timestamp format conform with the
general coding style. Sorry to be so picky about this but I
really can't help it. ;)
this information to the "users"-field in both nodes and comments.
This database/table change reduces the number of SQL queries and
makes Drupal scale better where a lot of voting/moderation takes
place. Last but not least it can be considered a new and better
foundation for future moderation metrics / algorithms. In other
words: it is plain better.
--> oops, all voting/moderation results will be lost!
--> requires database update, see "2.00-to-x.xx.sql"!
- Updated database/database.mysql
node-forms more secure. Updated "node.module" and "queue.module"
to work with the new API.
The upgrade script, 2.00-to-x.xx.php, is still broken and needs
fixing.
+ path_uri(): returns the fully-qualified URI of your drupal site.
+ path_img(): returns the image directory or http://image-server.com/
in case you prefer to load-balance bandwidth usage.
Replaced all occurences of the variable "site_url" with path_uri()
and removed "site_url" from "setting.module".
- Drastically simplified the node_save() API, which should make the
node-forms more secure. Updated "story.module", "book.module",
"forum.module", "page.module" and "node.module" to reflect this
change. This is needs more testing so hit it, beat it, tease it.
- Fixed an occasional glitch in the configuration file loading logic.
- Made "queue.module" display an informative notice when an anonymous
user tries accessing the moderation queue.
- Updated the hard-coded information in drupal.module a bit.
I updated the theme a bit, changed some variables and the drop down menu... I hope it works because frankly I haven't tested it... I mean, I tested it but not that toroughly. Hope with me :)
I'll write a short story about it.
Jeroen.
The result is an incredible loss of size, especially on larger pages.... on a typical drupal page (header/footer, 1 story box, 1 comment mod box, 4 comments and 1 side box) the difference was 23K vs 15K, which I find quite good. You should also notice how big some pages were in the old version, which are still tiny in the new version.
There are a few problems though:
- You can't use it in some parts of the admin section (preview a story), since admin.php leaves out the header(), so the html-generating functions are not included there.
- Because drop can occasionally insert HTML directly, without going through themes, I have to wrap each box in its own <script> tag. The optimization would benefit even more if i could group all function calls in one <script> tag, but it's not possible at the moment.
I suggest you take a snapshot of an original goofy-page (drop.org) and compare it with the output of this one (cvs-version) to see how it works exactly. And finally, it works on both IE5 and NS4, so I assume it does on most browsers.
Note that - when upgrading - you have to rename all your existing
configuration files to reflect this change:
yourdomain.com.conf -> yourdomain.com.php
By default, i.e. if no configuration file is found, setting.php
will be used instead. Using the ".php"-extension will fix most
configuration/security issues with .htaccess-files ...
- Removed some dead code from forum.module.
- Added edit capabilities (allows you to view the backend-file url as well, wasn't possible before)
- Docs: replaced "http://yourname.com/export/headlines.rdf" with the correct URL (using the site_url setting).
is selected.
- Made theme_link() less "hard coded", we still have to make
it fully configurable though.
- Fixed glitch in story submission: the warning messages were
not displayed.
- Tidied up block.module a bit.
overhead, and a lot better (simpler) module API. I had to edit a
LOT of files to get this refactored but I'm sure it was worth the
effort.
For module writers / maintainers:
None of the hooks changed, so 95% of the old modules should still
work. You can remove some code instead as "$module = array(...)"
just became obsolete. Also - and let's thank God for this - the
global variable "$repository" has been eliminated to avoid modules
relying on, and poking in drupal's internal data structures. Take
a look at include/module.inc to investigate the details/changes.
- Improved design of the content modules "story", "book" and "node"
(to aid smooth integration of permisions + moderate.module). I'm
still working on the permissions but I got side tracked for which
I "Oops!".
- Added moderator information to forum.module.
- Simplified story.module, page.module, forum.module and book.module
by removing redundant code, and by doing other small house-keeping
tasks.
Kjartan Mannes
Dries Buytaert
Steven Wittens
natrak
Jeroen Bensch