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02/11/06
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First stab at Views integration with VotingAPI. Configuring it is a little
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ugly -- mainly useful for custom modules that want to expose a vote-based
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default_view without coding all the table/field/filter stuff for Views.
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04/21/06
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Expose public votingapi_add_vote and votingapi_delete_vote functions to allow
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modules to override normal behavior. This makes it possible to implement
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anonymous voting, though future explicit support is coming.
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04/22/06
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There is now a working infrastructure for modules to expose their own
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'voting actions' without requiring user customization.
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04/23/06
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Major enhancements to the actions subsystem, the addition of an experimental
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widgets library, and the (beginnings) of major enhancements to Views
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integration. Using the latest CVS version of the Views module, it's now possible
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to display a particular vote result (say, the number of people who've voted)
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without using esoteric combinations of filters.
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04/29/06
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A new setting has been introduced -- vote result calculation can be deferred
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until cron-time. This can be useful on heavy-load sites where MANY votes are
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being cast and complex, db-intensive calculations are used to weight the results.
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05/01/06
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The action loading and caching infrastructure has been made much more robust,
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and CRUD functions are in place for reading and writing actions. The
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voting_actions module has now been added to facilitate direct user manipulation
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of action criteria, etc. It's the part that's still heavily under development.
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In many installations, it'll be unnecessary. The votingapi_delete_vote()
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function no longer automatically recalculates. Modules using it should call
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recalculate manually after explicitly removing a vote. Those needing a
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consistent, stable VotingAPI should probably still stick with the 4.7 branch.
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This version will be branched as soon as the issues are ironed out.
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06/07/06
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Foundation laid for a move to discrete hooks rather than a single _votingapi
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function. Because each of the $ops for the function needed a wildly different
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set of parameters, implementing a single function was an exercise in frustration
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for module developers. Right now, each location that called *_votingapi() ALSO
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calls hook_votingapi_*(). the raw *_votingapi() function will be deprecated, and
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likely removed from a future version.
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07/05/07
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First run at a Drupal 6 compatible version (after an ill-fated accidental
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check-in on the D5 branch). Once this works, work will start on v2.0. The plan
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is to add anonymous voting support and cleaner function signatures by passing in
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full vote objects rather than long param lists. It's uncertain whether 1.x will
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be released for Drupal 6 directly, or whether I'll just get the 2.0 version out
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for it, since modules will already need to be updated.
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04/09/08
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Several important bug fixes for the D6 version of VotingAPI. #223517, #232233,
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#232236, and #235174 fixed thanks to patches posted by quicksketch and sammys.
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Also checked in an initial stub file for Views 2 integration, removing the old
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hook_init() code since Views2 handles pulling the .inc files in itself.
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06/05/08
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Views integration rewritten from scratch - many old limitations and snafus are
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now gone, thankfully. Several default Views will be included in the final
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release.
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Calculation of vote results no longer loads all votes into memory: modules that
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implement custom result algorithms must do their own SQL. This saves tremendous
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amounts of RAM on sites with large numbers of votes on a single content object.
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06/24/08
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Views integration code seriously reworked (again) to use Views 2 'relationships'
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rather than custom field handlers. Downside: for the VotingAPI fields, sorts,
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and filters to appear, a relationship must first be added to it. Upside: using
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hook_votingapi_views_content_types(), modules that cast votes on non-node
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content can tell VotingAPI to add its relationship to other tables too (like
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users, comments, etc). This should make it much, much easier to build displays
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of vote-aware content that lives in non-node base tables.
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09/19/08
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Updated for compatibility with Views RC2, added the ability to filter Views
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relationships to votes cast by the current user, and added three default Views
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to demonstrate the Views integration. Also added basic Simpletests, fixed a bug
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that manifested when modules cast votes with minimal information (nothing but a
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content id and a value, for example). Finally, added the ability to
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auto-generate dummy votes for testing purposes. This feature is only visible if
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Devel Generate module is installed and activated.
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06/20/09
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Changed hook_votingapi_content_types() to hook_votingapi_relationships(), since
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it only deals with Views relationships. Added extra documentation to API.txt and
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fixed assorted ugly bugs. Moved a bunch of API docs to votingapi.api.php so
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API.module can generate pretty docs for the hooks. Nodes and comments now have
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pre-configured relationships available, any other entity types need a
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hook_votingapi_relationships() implementation.
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Added votingapi_metadata() to gather metadata about defined value_types, tags,
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and aggregate functions. Modified the Views relationship handler to use that
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function rather than querying the tables directly.
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01/26/10
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Drupal 7 port approaches completion. Changed the content_type and content_id
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indicators to entity_type and entity_id, to avoid confusion between VotingAPI
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'content types' and Drupal 'node types'. Added Drush support for generating,
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flushing, and recalculating voting data.
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