Programming

Since shareyourmusic.com and worldbeatplanet.com now point to the same host and share the same installation of Drupal, the stand-alone script “feedback.php” on both hosts is the same. Since it isn’t part of Drupal, it didn’t know about the two different sites.

I just added a test (eregi("worldbeatplanet.com",$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) to set some display variables according to the host name, so it will look completely different (and send the feedback to a different address) depending on which hostname it’s run from.

I’m also using a variation of that same script (which I partially ripped off from PHP-Nuke’s feedback module) for the contact form at this site.

The Drupal version of WorldBeatPlanet is shaping up very nicely. Rather than using the song & review modules, I’m using a taxonomy to select song lyrics or reviews. I defined a required vocabulary with the terms story, lyrics, and review. To find all items of a specific type, I use the following SQL query:

SELECT n.nid, n.title
FROM node n
LEFT JOIN term_node t ON ( n.nid = t.nid )
LEFT JOIN term_data d ON ( t.tid = d.tid )
WHERE ( d.name = "lyrics" )

I just fixed a bug in my drupal tune module so registered users can now actually upload their tunes to shareyourmusic.com.

It turns out that I had the acccess hook declared as: function tune_access(), which is how it was in the original file module, when it should have been: function tune_access($op, $node)

The result of that was only an administrator could upload tunes, not a regular user, even though upload access was allowed.

For the past few days I learned how to write a Drupal module so I can support file uploads & downloads at shareyourmusic.com. I finally figured out why it wasn’t working.

The _form hook changed at some point. According to the documentation, it should be

function my_form(&$node, &$help, &$error)

After looking through the source code, I determined that it was actually being invoked as:

my_form(&$node, &$error, &$param)

In order to support file uploads, I had to add an option to $param specifying enctype=multipart/form-data. Once I got that straightened out, my module was able to properly locate the uploaded file. This was the biggest hurdle that kept me from opening the site.