Drupal 4.7.x

Greetings!

I just started messing with 4.7 on a dev site to see what it would take to convert my current site from 4.6 and ran into a couple of minor issues.

1: the friendsElectric (This includes my own modified version and the stock one) Theme has a couple of compatibility issues that I was able to hack around. once I took a peek under the hood. This little adventure convinced me to take a stab at doing my own theme. I just have to say that the php theme engine is amazingly simple to use. Great JOB!

How do I go about submitting a theme. I've been working on one for a few months now and I'm almost finished. I'd like to have this one posted for the 4.7 release. I still have to write the JS for the cookie user-specified theme settings and finishing testing with 4.7 and adding a few extra styles. I've been working with Drupal for about a year now and I would really appreciate some help in how to go about a formal theme submission.

Thoughts feedback welcome.

I'm thinking it's time that we catch up with Ruby on Rails in the AJAX/DHTML department. Rails has integrated the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries into their distribution and there's no reason that Drupal couldn't do the same - either as part of core or as a contrib module.

I'm thinking about building a prototype.module which will essentially be a port of the Prototype functions in Rails. Themes and other modules could call these functions and form fields to access the AJAX functions in these libraries.

I've also looked at Dojo, but right now I'm leaning toward Prototype.

I realize that Drupal has been "rolling its own" AJAX up until now, but the pace has been slow and my feeling is that we've already got our hands full with the PHP functions of Drupal. These AJAX libraries will continue to develop and thrive in parallel and we can continue to benefit from those advances.

Some features I'd love to integrate:
- sortable lists
- in-line editing
- auto-validating form fields
- animated error/info messages

Has anyone else done any work in this direction? Does anyone want to help with this effort?

Got any tips, tricks, ideas, or cautions about this? I'd love to get some feedback before I launch into this project.

Thanks!

-Jeff Robbins

I am in the process of creating a new site with either 4.6 or 4.7 . The site is mainly to display photos taken by my friends and myself. This is the first time that I am going to properly use the Taxonomy in Drupal but I am running into a problem.

I want to be able to categorise my image nodes by date. I.E If a photo was taken on 1st December 2005 it would be displayed in a breadcrumb as:

2005 > December > 1st

Clicking on the 1st will return all Photos taken on the 1st December 2005.
Clicking on the December would return all photos taken in December 2005.
Clicking the 2005 will return all photos taken in 2005.

To create the breadcrumb I can use Taxonomy context module.

The problem arises that the Vocabulary will be huge. For example:

• 2005
  • Jan
    • All Days listed
  • Feb
    • All Days listed
  • Mar
    • All Days listed
  • Apr
    • All Days listed
  • May
    • All Days listed
  • June
    • All Days listed
  • July
    • All Days listed
  • Aug
    • All Days listed
  • Sep
    • All Days listed

drupal.org is so good. How can I make a website like drupal.org?

I don't know if this is posted in the correct forum, but anyway;

In a few days I'll start developing a new project / site using Drupal.

Now that the 4.7 betas are rolling, I'm wondering:

It would make sense to work with 4.7, since it is the soon-to-be official, current major version of Drupal.

However, many modules are not yet 4.7 compatible, so:

What is needed to make a given 4.6 module work with 4.7? Is it something that I can do myself relatively easy?