CCK

The issue is at: http://drupal.org/node/20295

It's the most awaited one after flat forums(coming soon!), and posting this one so that we can move on to flat forum one asap! Now, for this one, imagine you want polls to appear in your forums, this patch gets any content type in there, and likewise the possibilities to push any content into forums by choosing related category. Hopefully this much makes enough sense what the patch does. Will also post a port for Drupal 5.x, as requested by Michelle.

Issue link again: http://drupal.org/node/20295

EDIT: Don't use Video CCK, as it's been deprecated. Use Embedded Media Field instead. And for local videos, I suggest the File Field and jQuery Media combo, though there are other solutions as well.

I hate to double post, but I posted the following in the Drupal forum and got no responses. Perhaps this is a better place. Then again, maybe my post didn't make any sense. At that risk I'm posting here...

Moshe Weitzman's fantastic description of the New York Observer was a real eye-opener for me. In particular, his description of using a CCK node type to build home and channel pages got me to think about how I could use that method in a project I'm about to start.

I had been looking for a way to have a two-way reference between 2 nodes. You would need this for basic CRM functionality e.g. to be able to link a person to a company or an action to a project. This way you can go to a person and see what company he is part of or go to that company and see all the people that are working in that company.

Just a quick pointer to the jQuery Interface Sortable module that we added last week. In 5.x, it depends on the excellent jQuery Update and jQuery Interface modules. In 6.x (or HEAD -- I'm still trying to figure out how I got that 6.x release node in there), it only requires jQuery Interface.

¿Qué pasa cuando hacemos un content type de unos 20 campos en CCK y se hace tediosa la carga ? Podriamos crear grupos de campos pero... por qué no un "Wizard" ?. Con unas pocas lineas de jQuery y algo de PHP podemos armar algo realmente vistoso.

(Please see the attached 4 sketches)

The basic idea of cck_emailer is to create a cck field type that lets you define an email address to which to mail any new node created that implements the specific cck_emailer field type.

How could CCK replace webform, and would you want to even do this? The purpose of this post is to vet an idea. There is no working code yet. This is also not an attack of any kind on the webform module, I'm just using it for comparison of what this would recreate and in order to tell if this would be any better than what the webform module already does.

One thing that becomes possible when Drupal can access its own database schema is that queries which currently are performed separately can instead be performed together. In particularly, I think it might be possible to load an entire node with a single SELECT query or, at least, in far fewer than Drupal currently uses. Working proof of concept code is already in the Schema module; it loads all CCK fields, comments, and author info in one query. Loading more things only requires adding a join entry to the schema data structure (see below).

Since the Date+Calendar session at OS-CMS there has been a lot of speculation about the future of the event module. I'm fairly vested in the Event module and have plans to become even more invested in it. I like to discuss the evolution of "Date+Calendar" CCK type vs. the use of the Event module. Personally I love the event module and would love to see it progress.

So my questions are:

Where is the Event module going and where would people like to see it go?
Date+Calendar (CCK) is this an eventual replacement for the event module?