VotingAPI for Drupal 5.0

eaton@drupal.org's picture
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eaton@drupal.org - Mon, 2006-10-16 03:48

There's now a branched CVS version of VotingAPI for Drupal 5. Module developers interested in getting a head start on porting their voting modules can begin using it now -- it's fully functional, though for now Views integration has been pulled out. In addition, the Actions integration is now in a separate module that's still bundled. I'm working (again) on the UI for it and that should be coming within the next few weeks if all goes well.

A number of serious technical hurdles have always made VotingAPI/Views integration wonky: maintaining the .inc file as it currently stands would only increase confusion. I'm working on a better solution, as well as a potential patch for Views module if necessary. Once it's in place, I'll add votingapi_views.module to the DRUPAL-5 branch.

I'd also like to add a smallish module for developers that just browses the votingapi cache and votes tables, and perhaps optionally logs the casting of votes in a watchdog table or drupal_set_message() calls. It could be activated during testing to help sniff out problems with custom calculation algorithms and so on.

Further updates as events warrant!


good idea

moshe weitzman's picture
moshe weitzman - Mon, 2006-10-16 16:16

i like the idea of a developers module. devel._node_access does the same thing for node_access table.