Deprecated - Drupal core

Hi,

It took me some time and reading before I understood how the weight concept works in Drupal. Part of my confusion was that the numbers go from -15 to +15. I also see this with clients; my conclusion is that regular users don't count in negative numbers.

My suggestion: make the numbers all positive, e.g. 1-30. That's easier to count and to understand. Is this a viable change on the short term? It seems like a relative small change to me (but then again, I'm no developer).

The new GoogleMaps api defines a function to be called onunload of a page in order to prevent memory leaks. At the moment, I think we cannot yet use this in Drupal because a "hook_onunload" function is missing. It seems easy to implement it, similar to how the "hook_onload" function is implemented.

Regards,
John.

Hello All

I would like to be able to give (all) my users an ability to create their own groups /add/invite their friends etc

as well as I want my users to have access to certain types of content based on some field in their profile

I want an ability to add new users to certain group programatically and not manually based on their profile fields

I have been reading about taxonomy/organic groups etc i can see that i can do it some how using all these flexible modules etc but i am still not quite sure which approach i should take ...

As I'm looking at the 4.7 critical issues page and rubbing my eyes...I see that there is no critical issues being reported for Drupal 4.7. Is this true or a fluke in the database at Drupal.org? If this is true, it looks like I'm going to lose my bet with a couple people that we wouldn't be seeing an RC before another Beta! It's a bet I'm willing to lose.

from the function : theme_forum_topic_list($tid, $topics, $sortby, $forum_per_page) in forum.module
i am trying to return 7 columns instead of 5, and break the "created" and "last reply" fields in 2, where i would have the date in one cell and the user name in the other for both fields (so 4 fields in total)
my php isnt thorough enough yet, but i assume i'd have to modify the following piece of code from within the function :

I've been using drupal for a few months but now getting into learning more about PHP and recently read a bit about the various PHP frameworks and I wonder whether Drupal could be cleaned up and development happen faster and made easier for new people to jump in if it built on top of a PHP framework like perhaps the Zend framework. I have looked through the drupal code a bit and I see it has its own logging, DB abstraction layer, and perhaps other pieces which frameworks could provide. Perhaps this could be done as part of a PHP 5 migration to take advantage of the OO features.