Javascript

All you Javascript crazed developers out there, this is the group for you.

Drupal is in need of some usability improvements and after a few meetings and a lot of discussion, it is now time to take advantage of our new JQuery library in Drupal.

Keystrokes module: brainstorming

Posted by stefano73 on February 1, 2007 at 7:19pm

I'm working on a module that implements site-wide keystrokes. Keystrokes may execute specific actions on the site, like clear cache, show logs, etc... The reference is this project: http://rikrikrik.com/jquery/shortkeys/), and comments written here http://groups.drupal.org/node/1592#comment-5721 and below.

The initial release of this module simply shows javascript alert when you press specific keys on your keyboard. It sends an Ajax GET request and returns an output to the user.

jqselect demo

Posted by mixel on January 13, 2007 at 4:00pm

Hey,

I've been creating some javascript or jquery (mostly used for some safari compatibility). Its an advanced multi-select function, didn't find any js for it so made one myself. It's posted on my personal site.

Handling user access and Ajax

Posted by andreashaugstrup on December 19, 2006 at 5:17pm

How does one handle access control when doing Ajax requests? Take a completely hypothetical example: I have my Drupal install setup in a way where only authenticated users may attach comments. I also want to add comments using an Ajax call instead of a normal fom submission (I said this was hypothetical, not that it was practical).

How would I make this secure? The comments box is stripped automatically for anonymous users, but anyone who knows where the Ajax call submits to will be able to send along the usual arguments. How do I make sure it was a validated user who submitted?

I have read some general articles on security and Ajax.

Asynchronous node loading

Posted by alex_b on December 16, 2006 at 5:44pm

In the last couple of weeks we were working with Avi Mehta on a module that allows for asynchronously loading nodes. The module provides an interface to views as well as themable functions for the ones among us who love to tinker. An asynchronous pager like on http://www.searchmash.com/search/drupal is also in the works. There is a concept for asynchronously loading blocks.

January Lullabot Workshops in Providence, RI

Posted by jjeff on December 12, 2006 at 11:56pm

Start:

2007-01-15 10:00 - 2007-01-19 17:00 US/Eastern

Lullabot has another round of workshops coming up in January. We've got a great space in Providence, RI centrally located for people in both the Boston and New York areas -- and close to the airport for people coming from further away. Over the course of the week, we'll be building a single project – a Drupal-based CRM and attendees can sign up for individual workshops, or stay the whole week to see the project from beginning to end. Here's the rundown:

Right Click Admin Menus (Idea in progress)

Posted by verbal@drupal.org on December 8, 2006 at 12:33am

I was listening to the lullabot podcast interview with Konstantine
Kaefer
who was talking about his Summer of Code work. During his
discussion
of a module he referred to as "Live Editing", where text could be
clicked
and edited in place like on Flickr, He ran into a technical hurdle on
being able to edit button text by clicking on it. I had an idea of a
possible work around for this.

My general idea is to use javascript to create custom right-click menus
so
instead of the browser right click menus of copy/paste and all, an
administrator would see options like "edit" and "delete" or whatever

JQuery for front end editing

Posted by jasonwhat on November 22, 2006 at 7:32am

Today I saw a presentation on a site that had small icons next to each editable field on a website. It truly was "dummy proof" and got me to thinking about how this could be done in Drupal. Could the jquery editable plugin be integrated to update drupal nodes?

jQuery comes to Drupal 4.7

Posted by mfredrickson on November 6, 2006 at 10:19pm

There have been a few threads on jQuery in 4.7, mostly filled with disappointing tales of incompatibilities of Drupal's JS files and jQuery.

Not being a JS guru, and not wanting to be, I decided to use jQuery for a client project and created a jquery47 module to allow anyone else to use my hacked up jQuery.

You can find it here: http://drupal.org/project/jquery47

jQuery brakes gmap.module

Posted by ultraBoy on November 6, 2006 at 6:07pm

Hi folks.

I followed this advice http://groups.drupal.org/node/1008#comment-3690 and modified /misc/*.js files. Now I see gmap.module doesn't work after this modification. (the module works OK when I copy those files back). Well, I mean not the module itself, but google maps. They just don't appear :(

Can anybody help please?

Prototype v. jQuery - One blogger's conclusions

Posted by raspberryman-gdo on October 16, 2006 at 10:41pm

Hi all,

Here are a few sketchy to interpret, yet interesting tests results benchmarking Prototype v. jQuery, by Claudio Cicali. The blogger's conclusions: Despite rumors on the internet, jQuery is not slower than Prototype.

ajaxian.com has a few more comments on these tests.

New docs in the Handbook

Posted by sime on October 13, 2006 at 3:16am

I've done a couple of handbook pages regarding Drupal/jQuery etc. I've been doing some stuff with jQuery and thought it was useful to document it. If you see any major issues or mistakes, which I expect will be there, please add your comments to the pages.

Page of ongoing todo lists of jQuery stuff for Steve McKenzie

Posted by kkaefer on October 10, 2006 at 7:13pm

Post your suggestions here ;)

behaviors.module: docking JavaScript behaviors into Drupal

Posted by kkaefer on October 6, 2006 at 10:28am

Now that we have jQuery in Core, there are new JavaScript enhancements for Drupal popping up everywhere. Most of these enhancements are pretty small. To add them to a page, it usually requires a module. But those modules don't do much more than just adding the JavaScript file with drupal_add_js - the whole module system with all of its callbacks and so on is just overkill for that problem.

On #drupal we have discussed the need for a module that gathers all those JavaScript enhancements in just one module. In the rest of the proposal, I will use the word "behavior" for a JavaScript enhancement file.

jquery-tooltip

Posted by ica on October 6, 2006 at 8:30am

I just stumbled upon this jquery tooltip script thought someone might interested

http://codylindley.com/Javascript/264/jtip-a-jquery-tool-tip
demo
http://www.codylindley.com/blogstuff/js/jtip/

jQuery WYSWYG editor

Posted by ica on September 18, 2006 at 4:30am

I am not 'JS or 'Ajax' developer myself but I just spotted the 'JCE Utilities Mambot' jQuery integration of WYSWYG editor. I thought I should post here.

Since Drupal jQuery is in the core Drupal5, to integrate a 'simple' jQuery WYSWYG editor ~alternative to TinyMCE and HTMLarea (which reqires a 3rd party code) would be possible idea i presume.

'JCE Layout Manager'
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/

some screenshots
image browser and attachment
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/sort.jpg
http://www.cellardoor.za.net/images/stories/window2.jpg

JCE Joomla Content editor is overkill like the Joomla itself -imo- But I a WYSWYG editor with basic HTML tag marking + image/media/file browser&attachment functionality would greatly help to improve Drupal on that front.

seeking maintainer for the chatroom module

Posted by Anonymous on September 16, 2006 at 12:36pm

hi all,

due to developments in my personal and work life, i've decided to step away from drupal development (chatroom and otherwise), for the foreseeable future.

i won't have the time take the chatroom module to the next level, so i'm seeking a maintainer to take over the module.

if anyone is interested, please contact me off list.

cheers
justin

phpFreeChat module for 4.7 available for testing

Posted by owen barton on August 15, 2006 at 9:46am

I finally found a few days to work on this, and have made several improvements along the way - however this is still BETA, so I wouldn't recommend trying it on a production site (yet!). If you have time it would be great if you could help testing this out, so we can work out any major bugs before I tag it as a 4.7 release. The download is: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/drupal/files/projects/phpfreechat-cvs.tar.gz

Please add any bugs or support requests to the issue queue at: http://drupal.org/project/phpfreechat
If you have time to work on bug-fixes or feature patches that would be great - please post them to the issues queue!

Idea: General structure of the new drupal.js

Posted by kkaefer on August 2, 2006 at 3:24pm

Some of my ideas for the future drupal.js:

Note: This is demo/fake code, not actual, working code.

var Drupal = {
  jsEnabled: false,
  basePath: 'http://example.com/drupal',
  locales: {},
  settings: {},
  
  addLocales: function(translations) { ... },
  t: function(str, args) { ... },
  watchdog: function(type, message, severity, link) { ... },
  parseJson: function(data) { ... }
};

jQuery.dimensions = function() { ... };
jQuery.absolutePosition = function() { ... };
jQuery.freezeHeight = function() { ... };
jQuery.redirectFormButton = function() { ... };

SOC: Collaborative Editor

Posted by dikini on June 20, 2006 at 10:08am

I just want to draw your attention to SOC: collaborative editor. It is a summer of code project to create a (surprise, surprise) a collaborative editor for drupal. If you are interested, please consider giving feedback to Ernest. This will help him make better progress and bring an interesting and very useful functionality to Drupal.

What JavaScript library should we use? (Regardless of licencing issues)

Posted by kkaefer on June 4, 2006 at 7:29pm

jQuery

69% (86 votes)

Prototype

15% (19 votes)

Other library (specify in comment)

4% (5 votes)

Custom built library

12% (15 votes)

Total votes: 125

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