About the API of Drupal 6

I started a project "GECET" with the aim to get it done by using the API of DRUPAL 6. The project is still going on because recently I have been asked to add some new features.

About the project :
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The NGO Chaine de l'Espoir TOGO wants to have a better local managing system for children they are in charge of. They want to keep biography details about the children. There is a need to know how much is spent on children for their health the whole year. They have to better master the different 'packs' (food, clothes, etc.) the children receive.

Briefly :
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- 95 tables
- Drupal 6.15
- Custom theme based on whitejazz


Main Contributed Modules used :
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- CCK
- Views
- Filefield
- Backup_Migrate
- Backup_files
- Local
- Path
- PhpFilter
- Taxonomy
- Date
- Administration Menu
- (Devel) not in production instance

New modules coded (17)
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- Search module
- Medical information management, School fees management, Statistiques 'Special features' not well done with drupal contributed modules
- Budget management
- Custom Javascript effects (dynamic fields adding)


What can I say about using the API of Drupal and contributed modules for building a web application ?

= Pros ...
- Drupal Form_API made things very easy for the developper
- You can through the administration UI add some cool fun feature (an edit or delete link on a view for example) the user by your side :-)
- The hook system is really awesome

= Cons ...
- It's not easy for a beginner to get his hands quickly dirty but with a good teacher it's possible
- Trying to use CCK to create some content types cost a lot because useless tables/data are kept

More details will published from time to time

Some screenshots...

Bilan de projets

Je me suis dit qu'il serait bien de faire un bilan sommaire des principaux projets sur lesquels j'ai bossé entre la période Mars 2009 - Décembre 2010:

Bilan projets 2008-2010
1- [Drupal+PlusXML] Conception et maintenance du site de LMP LE LOGOS
2- [Drupal] Conception d'un site modèle pour des sociétés
3- [Drupal] Conception de la plateforme de publications des parutions de la revue des étudiants d'EAMAU
4- [Drupal] Conception du logiciel de gestion GECET des enfants pour Chaine de l'Espoir TOGO
5- [Drupal] Début de conception d'un portail de tourisme et annuaire professionnel avec ATAKSIA
6- [Drupal] Début de conception d'un portail de partage de souvenirs de mariage TOGOMARIAGE avec AGILUX
7- [Drupal] Début de conception d'une solution Hotspot avec AGILUX
8- [PHP] Assistance des utilisateurs de JASTUL
9- [Drupal] Coach 2 developpers for building a portal for 'jobs' and 'announcement' offer


Bilan projets 2011
1- [Drupal] Mis à jour du site de ACDT
2- [Drupal] Ajout de nouvelles fonctionnalités à GECET
3- [PlusXML] Maintenance du site de LMP


On verra d'ici la fin de l'année le nouveau bilan ...

New Users Groups

Hi folks,
Latest news are about two user groups created : one for Java and the other for PHP.

JAVA : http://groups.google.com/group/togojug
PHP : http://groups.google.com/group/togo-pug/about

Join these two communities to be aware of new upcoming events ...
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Deux nouveaux groupes créés pour faire bouger les choses au TOGO.
Le premier est pour Java et l'autre pour PHP.

JAVA : http://groups.google.com/group/togojug
PHP : http://groups.google.com/group/togo-pug/about

Rejoignez ces deux groupes pour être au courant des nouveautés ....

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[Drupal] Présentatino aux RMLL 2010

Une présentation très prochaine pour les Rencontres Mondiales des Logiciels http://2010.rmll.info qui auront lieu en France sur DRUPAL dans la section 'Education'. http://bit.ly/agBUke.

[drupal][Views] Display a view Total Rows

Using the views module is always a cool and funny experience but when you have to display the number of rows/results and a counter for each row then you stop smiling :-/.

I finally found how to do it in a simple way :-) Here we go ...
(I assume you know how to ovewrite a theme file and to display a view using the Table styling)
1- Enable the pagination (without this you won't get the $view->total_rows value)
2- Copy and the file 'views-view-table.tpl.php' in your theme folder (themes/garland or sites/all/themes/my_theme for example)3- Rebuild the theme registry to enable your new table_theme file
4- Adding the total by displaying the $view->total_rows variable

TOTAL : total_rows ; ?>

and that's it !!

PS: As far as the line number counter all you need is to define a variable ($counter) that you increment in the foreach loop.

[Drupal][Admin_menu] Missing argument system_clear_cache_submit

I was getting this warning message

warning: Missing argument 1 for system_clear_cache_submit(), called in My_website_path\sites\all\modules\admin_menu\admin_menu.inc on line 522 and defined in My_website_path\modules\system\system.admin.inc on line 1367.


since a while. I was feeling lazy to check the cause of it, all i have to do is to reload the home page of the drupal project.

Finally I fixed it by defining an empty array in the admin_menu.inc file:

$form_state = array();
$form_array = array();
system_clear_cache_submit($form_state, $form_array);

Firefox - Une présentation

Une présentation sur Firefox en cours de préparation http://atull.tg/?q=node/61 ;-)