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GZIP compression?

By teedog on

I was wondering why the dynamic PHP pages of Drupal are not compressed using the lowest gzip compression setting? The lowest level of gzip compression uses a tiny amount of CPU resources for a huge decrease in page size.

Would placing the code:

include "./polls/poll_cookie.php";
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");

at the top of all .php files in the root directory work?

Thanks in advance.

anyone considered porting Gallery to Drupal?

By shane on

I ran across Gallery, which is hands down the best image gallery system in existence:

http://gallery.menalto.com/

It can be a standalone site image gallery, or it can be used as a module to many other CMS platforms (XOOPS, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, phpWebSite, Geeklog, and phpBB2).

Anyone considered porting it to Drupal? I'd offer, but I suck at PHP, and have very little time to do so.

Shane

fixing the book.module

By shane on

How hard would it be to fix the book.module module to manage proper 'previous'/'next' links? Basically, I find it extremely painfull to read a book, because the "next" link doesn't always do what I think it should. Instead of descending down a chapter, and then having to click on "up" to go back up a level, it should just naturally flow so that the *next* page is always, well, the next page. When reading a book, one naturally turns the page, in order, one at a time. If

More flexible group based permission system

By shane on

I'm curious how much work/how feasible it would be to extend Drupal to have a more flexible based group permissions system. I understand that you can setup "user roles" and assign a user a role, then define that roles permissions. However, this is very very limited.

I'd like to see a system where multiple groups can be created, each group has it's own permission settings. Then a user can be a member of multiple groups.

A new admin section might be needed, where the site admins assign a user to a group. Or, each group might be able to have it's own administrator, who has authority to add or delete users from their own group.

In addition, the main site admin could juggle users around into/out of various groups as they saw fit.

In addition, I'd like to see the group permissions extended where users could create a group. Then, the users could define what nodes or content or calendar/events, etc... can be accessed by the public at large, or by the user assigned groups.

This would be basically extending drupal more towards the PHProjekt style of user/group permissions. Instead of dwelling in the land of CMS, moving more into the land of CMS/GroupWare based systems. A lot of the basics to Drupal would lend itself well to expanding into GroupWare, just none of the controls exist to manage this.

Any thoughts? Basically, I want to use PHProjekt for my use, but it's too GroupWare oriented, and Drupal is too CMS and not enough GroupWare oriented.

Avatars

By rector on

One of the core advantages of web-sites where users can place their posts and comments is the opportunity to create a community. And like in a real-world on-line communities are strong through the comunication of their members. In smaller (compared to slashdot) communities active members are quickly become recognisable, which is one of the most important features of a community. And avatars are a powerful tool to make members recognisable and to create a certain atmosphere in the community.

Document Management System

By mcrizer on

Hi Developers, Happy 2003

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