$ diffstat user.patch
database/database.mysql | 4
database/database.pgsql | 2
database/updates.inc | 10 -
modules/block.module | 20 +-
modules/locale.module | 9
modules/profile.module | 108 +++++++----
modules/system.module | 8
modules/user.module | 456 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
8 files changed, 289 insertions(+), 328 deletions(-)
More functionality, less code. Here is a list of the changes:
- Some user API changes:
+ When $type is 'form', you have to return an associative array of groups. In turn, each group is an array with a 'title', 'data' and 'weight'.
+ A new $type has been added, namely 'categories'. User settings can be organized in categories. Categories can be sorted, as can the groups within a category. (Ordering 'categories' is somewhat broken due to a bug in the menu system.)
- The 'my account > edit' page will use subtabs for each 'category'. Read: you can break down the account settings into multiple subpages.
- Profile module improvements:
+ Added support for private fields to the profile module!
+ Improved workflow of profile administration pages.
+ Improved the form descriptions.
- Code improvements:
+ Unified user_edit() and user_admin_edit().
+ Unified and cleaned up the validation code. Fixed some validation glitches too.
Specifically, it lets you edit more than one node's taxonomy within
the same form.
This patch also removes the behavior where taxonomy remembers your
last choice for a given vocab and automatically selects it for you.
That is poor behavior. If someone changes a date or author in a
node, he is likely to inadvertently add taxo terms using with this
'feature'.
+ Changed menu.inc to generate two separate lists instead of nested lists:
that seems to be the only alternative to get rid of absolute positioning.
+ Changed the tabs code to be more sexy and put the code in misc/drupal.css
so all themes are automagically updated.
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().
anonymous usernames in comments. It does not solve all my problems, but
others claim it works as advertised. I'm committing this because it does
fix some pending issues (even though that might not be the end of it).
made it possible to enforce a username/e-mail address. Based on
James Seng's work there are now 3 radio buttons:
( ) Anonymous users may not enter contact information
( ) Anonymous users may leave contact information
( ) Anonymous users must leave contact information
- Fixed a bug in the default theme_comment_view() function.
- Added permalinks for comments. Requested by Michael and Christina.
Maintainers of contributed themes might want to add permalinks too.
TODO:
- Fix the interaction design of the submission form: the page you are
directed to and the validation of the contact information.
- Changing the comment viewing options appears to be broken?
module.
+ Usages of to print titles have been replaced by proper drupal_set_title()
calls.
+ Many arg() usages dropped in favor of meaningful parameters.
+ Doxygen comments standardized and expanded.
+ Some grammatical corrections to help text.
+ Broken /statistics page linked from page navigation restored.
+ Fixed small bug in menu.inc pertaining to menu callbacks without
arguments.
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.
configurable! Menu items can be disabled, repositioned, added and
so on.
Upgrading to requires you to run update.php.
This functionality depricates some of the 'navigation modules' in the
contributions repository. Furthermore, modules can now 'suggest'
menu items and site adminstrators can choose to enable them. Modules
in the contributions repository should try to take advantage of this.
- Strips the leading / from URLs to match with block paths. The reason is that everywhere else in Drupal, we use URLs without leading slash (e.g. URL aliasing). For consistency we should keep this behaviour everywhere. The replacement uses ereg_replace instead of str_replace, but the expression now only match the beginning of the URI so in fact it's faster, esp. for longer URIs.
- Updates the block docs about path matching: gets rid of leading slash, adds initial matching operator '^' and emphasises the slash behaviour (which was not mentioned anywhere before)
- Replaces the example expression for a negative match. It was horribly broken and odd, the replacement in this patch is correct and simpler.
+ Updated the _user() hook's "$type == 'view'" case to match the
"$type == 'edit'" case. That is, both have to return an associtive
array of the format array('category' => 'fields').
+ Updated the profile pages to group fields by category. Made possible
thanks to the above change.
+ Moved logic out of the theme_ functions.
+ Made it possible to define the page title of the user listing pages.
+ Used form_group()s for the profile administration page.
+ Fixed bug in database/updates.inc.
+ Added a 'created' field to the users table and renamed the 'timestamp'
fied to 'changed' (cfr. node table). Update.php will try to determine
a 'created' timestamp for existing users.
+ The profile module no longer uses serialized data but has its own set
of tables. Known existing profile data is migrated by these new tables.
TODO: migrate the birthday field.
+ The profile fields can be grouped, and within each group, profile fields
can be sorted using weights.
+ The profile pages can be themed.
+ The profiles can be browsed based on certain properties/settings.
+ Change the _user hook: (i) 'private_view' and 'public_view' are merged
into 'view' as there are no private fields and (ii) 'edit_form' has
been renamed to 'edit'.
+ Avatar handling has been refactored and is now part of the user module.
The users table has a dedicted 'picture' field.
+ Simplified the way themes should use display/visualize pictures or
avatars.
+ Made it possible for administrators to replace or delete avatars.
+ ...
I hope this make for a good base to build on collectively.
a select statement. Even though PEAR supports this functionality, it fails
silently when using PostgreSQL. We use the db_num_rows() function instead
to return the amount of rows returned. (According to Killes, the MySQL
manual also states that it should not return affected rows on a 'select'
statement.)
* Code cleaning: simpler structures, removed some old leftovers, ...
* Clean URLs everywhere (the old mechanism was broken anyway). Had to get rid of 'inline voting' (i.e. voting with the sideblock and ending up on the same page), but that was a bit confusing anyway.
* Simplified submission form with form_group and streamlined choice mechanism.
* Improved bar rendering in pollresults for themes with avatars, like xtemplate.
expected) and gives proper class names to the long and short tip list, so if
someone would like to reproduce the 'br' tagged version, he can do that with
some CSS styles easily. Assigned a dedicated class to the more-tips link, so it
can be differently stlyed (with a different bullet, different link color or
anyhow, as the theme designer desires).
- System: the 404 setting instructions advise using 'node', this should be '' (redirecting the user to the front page without any message whatsoever is confusing)
+ 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
Dries Buytaert
Steven Wittens
Kjartan Mannes