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I was building my own module and I noticed the Forms API returns date in the american format:
[Month] [Day] [Year] == Jan 30 2007

How can this be overridden to change the order, or limit the number of years to display to something else e.g:
[Day] [Month] [Year]
or
[Year] [Month] [Day]

I tried a few alternatives e.g. creating 3 selection lists but then I ran into another limitation in the Forms API. The lack of [INLINE] functionality so there's no way to stack these selects horizontally.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to go about creating a node which you can add multiple copies of another node to. Seems pretty simple but haven't found the answer yet...

simple example is i add an event (cck type) and want to attach 0-many classes (a 2nd cck type) to it.

my tests so far:

cck subform - close but confusing UI and too many bugs

pageroute - i mistakenly thought this created nodes as children of parent.. but i dont think it does

There is an issue (which i raised) with the cck subform module where it removes all the "required" field settings for its "new" subform addtion. It needs to do this or the form will never validate. If you arent familiar with the subform module - not likely that important to my question.

What i am trying to do is simply (test and then) drop the subform "new" fields before they are validated. But i am not completely sure where/how to do this.

Hi,
would it be possible to add sorting order by last added comment? If no comment exists, then sort it by by topic created date (as is default settings now).

Is this the right place to post this feature request?

I can use module_invoke if the block is created by a module, but what function should I call if the block is created by a view?

Thanks!

Greetings,

I found that existing localization mechanisms in Drupal are not yet good. I see the following disadvantages:

1. Different things are translated using different approaches (t() function, i18n variables and nodes, i18n_blocks, etc.) - there is no general translation engine.