I have been interviewed by Jeff Roberts of Lullabot about the E-Commerce Release and other things.

If has got a lot of good information, and it was a fun chat.
 

When I was watching Call for Help tonight, Leo showed off Bryght.com on the show as well as demonstrated the new twit.tv site which is being created by lullabot.

This was pretty cool, and I think we can really add the "seen on tv" tag.

This is shown on episode #377, which has not been put on the site yet. I will update in the next day or so.

Update: Added the link to the episode.

One of the biggest problems with allows people to post comments is that all this crap spam comes along with it. Now I moderate all my comments so none of this spam goes onto my site, but removing the spam from the approval queue is very time consuming, esp when you have 12+ pages.

I know what I could install the spam module, or the bad behaviour module, but I have not gotten to it.

Now with the forms api, you can re-theme any form, so I did a small amount of coding and added to the command page a toggle all link which switches checks all the check boxes. This is just a quick hack that speeds this up a lot for me.

<?php
function phptemplate_comment_admin_overview($form) {
  $js = <<<EOL
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
function toggle_checkboxes() {
  var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input');
  for (i = 0; input = inputs[i]; i++) {
    if (input && input.type == 'checkbox') {
      input.checked = (input.checked ? false : true);
    }
  }
  return false;
}
</script>
EOL;
  drupal_set_html_head($js);
  $form['options']['select all'] = array(
    '#value' => '<a href="#" onClick="return toggle_checkboxes()">Toggle Checkboxes</a>',
    '#weight' => 1,
  );
  // Call the real theme so if there are changes I don't need to worry about coping them over.
  return theme_comment_admin_overview($form);
}
?>

Now I have a little link which allows me to just click and check all the spams and then away they go.
 

I was doing some work on a hook_setting() page and needed to do some changes to the returned form before it was past to the default standard system_setting_form_submit() function to save the settings.

I didn't really want to duplicate the system_settings_form_submit(), but if I wanted to add my own _submit() hook the standard one would not be called, and the form would not be saved.

Formsapi is very powerful so I just added the following to the form, and it will now call both my function and the standard function.

<?php
$form['#submit'] = array(
    'example_settings_form_submit' => array(),
    'system_settings_form_submit' => array()
);
?> 

Now this will call my function first, and because in the submit() hook passes $form_values by reference, the changes that are made to it are past to the default function. 

Over the last weeks I have been doing a lot of experimenting with the new views module. I have actually been able to do some neat things with the headers like add an "A | B | C ..." to the heading to allow you to select on the nodes that begin with letter x, and allow a user to drill down on a list of terms.

But my latest has been I was able to turn a taxonomy into a set of tabs with only a single view. It actually works really well and is very good. Here is the code that does it.

Next Saturday at 2pm will be the first Drupal Melbourne meetup.

See you at Joe's Garage in Fitzroy.

For more information see http://groups.drupal.org/node/87 about the time an place.

Well I have finally done it and updated my site to Drupal 4.7. The main reason is the same as everyone elses and that is the formapi slowed everyone down.

Not only do have everything updated, but a lot of my custom stuff I have been able to get rid of and use standard Drupal, or my new favorite module views.

I have been able to instead of using my taxonomy_fm module that I wrote, I now use the views module with a few bits of custom php to do the job.

When I get a bit of time I am going to post the code I use for the heading.
 

I am thinking about having a Melbourne Drupal Meetup, I am not too sure where or when we are going to have this, but I thought that firstly I would try and find all the Melbourne Drupalers and see how many are interested.

If anyone is interested you can contact me at gordon@heydon.com.au and we can arrange a time and place. 

As we all know Leo Laporte uses Drupal for the site TWiT, and when I was flicking though the channels and Call for Help was on and Drupal got honourable mention in the Answers to your questions on looking good in all browsers.

It is only small, but if you can get a hold of #284, it is quite cool.