Module development and code questions

Hi All,

I modified webform to solve two issues to support PostgreSQL.

The first was that there wasn't a PostgreSQL compatible SQL file to setup the DB for the webform module. Here's what I came up with for that:

BEGIN;
CREATE TABLE webform (
nid integer not null,
confirm text,
email varchar(50),
primary key(nid)

);

CREATE TABLE webform_component (
nid integer not null,
cid integer not null,
name varchar(128),
type varchar(16),
value varchar(128),
extra text,
mandatory integer,
weight integer,
PRIMARY KEY(nid, cid)
);

CREATE TABLE webform_role_node (
nid integer not null,
rid integer not null,
PRIMARY KEY(nid, rid)
);

CREATE TABLE webform_submited_data (
nid integer not null,
sid integer not null,
name varchar(255) not null,
data text,
PRIMARY KEY(nid, sid, name)
);

CREATE SEQUENCE webform_submissions_id_seq START 1 INCREMENT BY 1 CACHE 1 NO CYCLE;

-- Setting default variables
INSERT INTO variable VALUES ('webform_version', 'a:2:{s:4:"text";s:5:"4.5.1";s:5:"build";i:451;}');
COMMIT;

The second issue was that the _webform_save_submission function tried to insert multiple rows inside one db query. Either this wasn't formatted correctly or PostgreSQL doesn't support this feature so I modified it to insert each row individually. The function was modified as below:

Is it possible to call a banner function (series) from an HTML-command (expample: http://mysite.com/banner?=0 )
I'm curiuous because if you look at my testing-site drupal.heimp.nl you'll find a banner at the top, I've edited the theme (so it's a permanent one) and now I want it to show my managed banners.

Thanks for helping.

Christiaan

Hi,

We've looked hard for a filter that reduces repeated characters:

e.g. Read this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -> Read this!!
e.g. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha -> Haha

I.e. if a sequence of 1+ symbols is repeated more than 2x in a row, reduce it to only 2 repeats.

We have adapted the URLfilter.module to look like this:

Greetings,
My first post to this section. I made a Post in support regarding subject,

http://drupal.org/node/15246#comment-25355 pls read

But its such a Biggie, I thought I should Post it here as well. To see if it gets any feedback.

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Customer Points

If you wanted to take this one gaint step up. You could store the users points and reward them Privileges based on thier points.

Quick question on module development:

If I have a file something.module, and it contains a function something_format_date() does that mean it should be able to override the standard method of formatting dates?

I'm currently testing with the following code at the start of common.inc/format_date(), but it's not "modular". Should I be able to do this sort of thing without editing common.inc?

I'm integrating ilohamail ( http://www.ilohamail.org ) into drupal as a module for my ISP's homepage ( http://www.pioneer-net.com ).

The biggest catch (I hope) is implementing an alt auth method for drupal, so that users who have email accounts with us will get a drupal account automagically on login.

Here's what I want:
When the user posts a login attempt, check against a list of usernames stored in a db table. If the name matches, use the custom auth through ilohamail. If the name doesn't match (or auth fails, possibly indicating that mail is down), authenticate normally.

I recognize that for most deployments, it will be fine to just have a webmail login block that users see if they have webmail permission. That's fine, and I will implement it. For my deployment though, I need the above behavior.

I've been messing around with user.module and hook_auth a bit (this is a mod for 4.5 btw - if using HEAD is a good idea for some reason, let me know), and it seems that custom auth methods are only tried if there is an @ sign in the username. I don't want users to log in as user@host, just as user. So I will have to modify this function, I think.

The other tricky thing is that I want drupal to set the password for the user's account to her mail password on successful mail auth. If the mail server goes down, she should still be able to access the website.

The immediate reason for this post is to solicit sources of further info (aside from API) on auth methods, as I can't find much, and also advice on implementation details, as I am a drupal n00b (been hacking on it for a month tho, so learning).