Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.Why does this module require the Fields UI module? I like to disable that when its not in use to reduce the amount of PHP needed to compile each page (think "disable developer modules"). Can you remove that dependency?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6 | field-ui-1114136-6.patch | 235 bytes | joelstein |
Comments
Comment #1
KarenS CreditAttribution: KarenS commentedThe only module that requires Fields UI is the CCK module that alters the fields UI. Without Fields UI that module does nothing.
Comment #2
joelstein CreditAttribution: joelstein commentedThat's not entirely true. For instance, suppose I use CCK to add some allowed values via PHP. I only need Fields UI when I'm configuring these additions, but not when the allowed values are actually being evaluated in a node form.
Fields UI adds a large amount of unnecessary code to compile, and it should only be installed when actually configuring fields, a task which takes up around 1% of the lifetime of the site. Many people will install CCK on D7 (even if they don't really need to), so you'd reduce a fair amount of Drupal 7 slowness on the web by lifting this dependency.
Comment #3
joelstein CreditAttribution: joelstein commentedPS, other modules are also doing this:
Field Permissions: http://drupal.org/node/1114134
Meta tags quick: http://drupal.org/node/1114120
And, Admin Menu has added Fields UI to its list of developer modules: http://drupal.org/node/1114132#comment-4432890.
Comment #5
joelstein CreditAttribution: joelstein commentedSorry to pester this issue, but Field UI adds lots of code that doesn't need to be compiled for most requests. CCK will certainly get installed by LOTS of installations... will you please give this more consideration?
Comment #6
joelstein CreditAttribution: joelstein commentedHere's a patch. I still think this idea has a lot of merit, and would like to see it committed.
Comment #7
geerlingguy CreditAttribution: geerlingguy commentedI'd like to support this too, as I have been disabling Fields UI on all the sites I can lately - it does add some overhead (and uses a bit more memory - every byte counts!).
Comment #8
DamienMcKenna