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Doing a random news module for international students was going to be a pain in the butt if I extended the existing news_random class, so I made a new news2_mini…

A common front-end pattern is a small module which lists a few items from another page. We've done this in a pretty ad-hoc way so far, but I figured we've…

I added a news2-based module called news_one_at_a_time. This module presents news item teasers one at a time, with the option to read more or go to the next. It also…

Created a new allowable relationship beween News items and Images called news_to_teaser_image. This is a one to many relationship which allows any news item to be associated with a single…

The create_relationship function in admin_actions.php3 provides no indication of whether it succeeded or not, and is perfectly willing to create relationships where entity_a, entity_b, and relationship_type are values such as…

E-mails generated by the form module have previously had the subject line "Response to form" - this was causing organizational problems for sites that used multiple online contact forms. As…

I've created a custom previewer for Forms because the a) the thor xml is not valid xhtml, b) the tags mimic xhtml, so the browser gets barfy, and c) it's hard to debug a thor form without being able to easily inspect the xml.

The asset content manager will now assign an extension of .unk to uploaded files that do not have an extension or mime type we are able to map to an…

the Master Admin is qualitatively different from all other sites, and I found myself constantly searching for it in the list. So it is now at the top of the…

The script that moves entities from one site to another only changes the ownership of the entity itself, and not its archives. This is dumb and we should fix it.…

The entity selector functions add_right_relationship_field and add_left_relationship_field take the name of an allowable relationship as a parameter, but not the id. I added a utility function to get the name…

Mike Tie noted that the Math dept. listing did not display Russ Petricka, whose title contains Math but not Mathematics. The module was using the name of the site and…