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Sample Drupal 6 FAPI form
Posted September 30th, 2007 by shunting
Many thanks to the developers for meeting the requirements, big time for making it easier to iterate through different states of the same form. The two-stage #multistep thing was making me tear out what little hair I have left. This covers some of the easier aspects of the new FAPI; maybe it will help others get up to speed. Click to read more »
RDF engine for PHP
Posted June 15th, 2007 by shunting
The ARC engine:
ARC works around the PHP performance bottleneck by pushing as much of the processing as possible to MySQL. Although ARC uses mainly object-oriented code, the processed data (result set rows, resource descriptions, triples, etc.) are kept close to native PHP objects (in other words: ARC uses low-memory arrays instead of custom object instances). The impact of using PHP is not too huge, ARC’s scalability can be increased to a large extent by tuning MySQL and adjusting a number of configuration parameters (e.g. buffers for bulk loading) in ARC. Click to read more »
Miscellaneous Drupal questions
Posted March 16th, 2007 by shunting
1. Project, workflow, and case tracking modules need PostGres *.install files? Check.
2. Is there a standard for the ordering of filters and if so what is it?
How to make Drupal blogs more conversational
Posted March 16th, 2007 by shunting
From the site (author’s comments in italic):
- Comments threads should make it easy to include links and other html (Radio Userland of late has been sending 403 messages to commenters using html).
Drupals excellent filter system allows many more then this. which is its downside too: for Co Commentor this wayy to geeky and huge page, babbling about filter formats and HTML is too much.
- Bloggers and commenters should be able to note their Skype address and/or IM address and invite others to sign up for scheduled real-time chats on the entire article or some aspect or comment thread stemming from it. The recorded archives of such real-time sidebar conversations should be embedded in, or at least linked to, the applicable thread.
Drupal has the comment fields hardcoded as far as its very core. This is not only impossible, even with contributions, it is technically not possible with the current architecture. Click to read more »
Machine tags
Posted March 7th, 2007 by shunting
Machine tags in Drupal:
Everything of interest in OpenStreetMap is either tagged (e.g., a point of interest or a whole road) or helps build up other structures that are themselves tagged (such as junctions, or vertices, in roads). The tags aren’t simple ‘tags’ as are commonly used in Flickr, del.icio.us, or any other Web-2.0ey site you may be familiar with, but are instead key-value pairs consisting of, for example, key=amenity, value=cinema (often simply written as amenity=cinema for brevity).
These tags are similar in style to some advanced tags that have been used by a growing number of people on Flickr and other sites for a while, notably those such as geo:lat=54.2, geo:lon=-4.4 to denote the location of a photo. Nothing had ever been formalised though, so those tags were listed amongst the other simple tags, looking a little out of place. That is, until recently, with the launch of machine tags on Flickr, announcing that they will be supporting this more advanced usecase even better. You can read more about all this over on Dan Catt’s blog. Click to read more »
