What Would Drupal Do?

One of the hot new features for the upcoming release of Drupal 5.0 is that it includes and makes use of the jQuery library.

Well, if you are running 4.7, you need not feel left out. Steve McKenzie - with a bit of help from Ted Serbinski - has released a patch that updates all of Drupal 4.7's internal javascript to make use jQuery, and allows you to develop against the jQuery library.

I regularly find myself digging up the proper nodes to explain to someone how to apply a patch either from a shell command line or locally on a windows machine.

I also find myself always needing to dig up the information on the proper command line syntax for generating a patch for submission.

So here's the scoop, so I don't have to do all that oh-so-complicated searching everytime ;)

I was installing CCK here on WWDD, and got this error -

I remembered having the same error after installing on a different site, and having gone in manually to fix it. For my own future reference, or for anyone having the same problem, someone has submitted a patch here: http://drupal.org/node/81599

This is just to track the changes I've found necessary to get the voting module functioning correctly. (Hey, why is it that the Voting module doesn't have a proper drupal.org/project page?) I'm going to ping benshell to see if he's actively maintaining the module. I certainly hope so -- it's pretty slick.

It would be interesting to work on a similar module for Drupal 5.0 that would make use of the JQuery library rather than flash to achieve the same sort of functionality.

• drupal.org/node/76211:

Two settings are sharing the same variable in the function voting_settings(). The result of this is that the option to choose where - at the top or the bottom of a node - does not show up in the settings page. Patch not presently available.

Quick Fix: In function voting_settings(), change the second instance of
$form['general']['voting_location'] = array(
to
$form['general']['voting_show_in_teaser'] = array(