Open Data

Thanks Ed.

We probably would be best served by a backup of the MySQL database and
knowing which version of Moodle is running. We don't run Plesk (or any non
open source software) on our servers. As it's a control panel designed to
section off parts of a server from one another, perhaps we could be given
the login and export the database ourselves.

If you want, I can contact Chris Burbul about this directly.

I'm not sure I mentioned on the phone, though I meant to, that social change
is very much in our aim also-- specifically to help all people have the most
control possible over their own lives. This is to me a practical

I'd like to suggest we do a splash page like the one at www.bigmind.org. It doesn't need to look like that one of course, but the functional challenge we have right now in my opinion is we are failing to create proper context to diverse sets of people whom we want to attract to the site for very different reasons. They are: sponsors, members, contributors to specific projects and customers for courses and later certifications.

The result, in my opinion, is a home page in which there is too much happening and none of it can be tied together contextually. By analogy, we are like a book with many diverse chapters and we're trying to explain, highlight and attract readers to all these chapters at the same time. Instead, we need a title page so to speak. We need to flow people easily and quickly to the parts of the site that they'll be focused on.

CMT can also be used simply as "hierarchical free tagging"

And potentially as community-assigning, but not creating, terms.

For the community managed taxonomy node form user interface, I need either multiple forms one after another (probably best) or a crazy way to parse one form with multiple buttons that, by virtue of what button is pressed alone, do different things.

That plan would involve calling each form element's parent by what sort of submit I want, e.g. $form['endorse_placement']

and doing crazy stuff on the result to turn the array of variables in this into a bunch of strings with the variable names

Use the compact function

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.compact.php

no, no, no. Multiple forms on a page.

current existential crisis (actually this was a while ago)

1. which name to use -- how to make top-chosen name easily available for proposed term hierarchies

as an extra column in term_hierarchy? Done. For both name and weight, there's a "faked" table called cmt_term_data that does nothing but hold the top results from cmt_term_name and cmt_term_weight.

1. how/when do terms in a hierarchy get created? Immediately.

This currently slightly ugly code in the function cmt_get_hierarchies() is required because PHP4 can't handle references in a foreach:

<pre>
  reset($hierachies);
  while (list($key, $value) = each($hierarchies)) {
    $hierarchy =& $hierarchies[$key];
    array_reverse($hierarchy);
  }
</pre>

For PHP5 only it will be possible to do this-- so save this page for upgrading to Drupal 6!

<pre>
  foreach($hierarchies AS &$hierarchy) {
    array_reverse($hierarchy);
  }
</pre>

From http://us2.php.net/foreach

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blockquote>joaohbruni at yahoo dot com dot br

As taxonomy_get_parents_all does not preserve the relationships between parents -- it provides all parent terms in a flat array -- I need to create a new function for showing the hierarchy of chosen and suggested terms on community-managed taxonomy below-the-node forms.