What Would Drupal Do?

After having taken a few unexpected months off from most Drupal activities, I've been dipping my toes back into the water this week.

It's great to see that Drupal 5.0 has been officially let loose into the world. I'd played with and tested some of the pre-release dev versions, so it isn't entirely new territory for me, but I've still got a bit of catching up to do. I'm working on the first production site with 5.0, and I'm loving it. Cheers to everyone who has worked so hard to make it happen.

So that's the good.

The "not so good" is the spam on this pre-5.0 era blog. Lots of it!

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(