Posted by brmassa on March 29, 2008 at 1:47am
Guys,
Im launching today a ALPHA of my new module: Addresses. Its basically a fork from Location module. Its intended to focus on address only and let geocoding with other modules. Of course, integration is welcome.
Features:
- All countries of the world
- All states of all countries
- Node addresses thru CCK
- User address book
- Multiple addresses for nodes and users
- Phone and Fax fields as extras
- Generic API for developers: add more fields easily!
- XHTML, CSS, Drupal and PHP E_ALL valid code
Features (YET) missing:
- Fields validation: ie, check if the state is from the given country
- State field autocomplete: I did it for Drupal 5, but D6 autocomplete feature is more rigid and i yet couldnt make my hack work
- View integration: filter and sort (nodes or users) from a given country or state
- "Field plugins": allowing to integrate postal codes with extra data
- Extendable address display: change the address looking country to country. Might consider Token module
- Block integration?
- Clean code: naming consistency, end user and developer documentation
Notes:
- I had to fork the location module. If you see on here, im indented to do all these changes directly on location. Brandon (the new maintainer), however, thought my 800+ commits in 2 weeks were too fast and basically "divorced" me. :P
- I will publish new alphas/betas often until it becomes well integrated. But it will take at most a month to the final 1.0 version
- Its only for D6+.
- Want to propose more features, integrate with another module? I will be glad to get your help!
best regards,
massa
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I'm curious what the
I'm curious what the relationship between Location and Addresses will be? Will Addresses use Location for geocoding, or are these projects going to continue in parallel (i.e. is this a split of functionality or a true fork)?
Different projects, same goal
djorn,
sadly, it will be a parallel module. There is a simple reason for that: i needed the features that i implemented on Addresses for a project and i had no time to wait for Location 3 (and even less time for Location 3 Drupal 6). So i forked the code for my own use, at that moment.
I decided to publish it once it got a bit more stable and according to http://groups.drupal.org/node/8346, some features i did for Addresses, like CCK and Token integration, was a highly demanded. Addresses alpha is about the same as Location version 3.01 that i originally planned.
However, since Addresses has a very flexible API, i (or someone else) might take a look back to Location to see how to implement geocoding.
best regards,
massa