Submitted by AMS on Thu, 18/01/2007 - 14:07.
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Alaa, When will you plan to port bidi.module to Drupal 5.0 API, do you still maintain it ? and why it's still in the development stage.


I'm maintaining a "forked"

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I'm maintaining a "forked" version of the module in my drupal sandbox

I've just ported it to the 5.0 API (Which is mainly adding a bidi.info file).

We are really thinking about releasing it as a contrib module but the problem is that the code is a big mess and it seems that both of us don't have time to fix it.


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Thanks MSameer you always

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Thanks MSameer you always the best :), Now I can run a fully functional Drupal 5.0 site ;). and about the messy unclean code I think I'm eager now to learn PHP cause I found it very useful to us " RTL wirters" and it deserves to be a contrib one.

I've been thinking of

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I've been thinking of cleaner ways to do it for a while now, mostly assuming correct html input though.

I'll make some release soon I promise.

also planning an arabic text normalizer for drupal search.

cheers,
Alaa


husband of the Grand Waragi Master

http://www.manalaa.net

did not work

i uploaded the 3 bidi files on my local site, I am using drupal 5.1 i installed the module, update.php ran, input format checked..

still does not work what do i miss

You need to place the bidi

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You need to place the bidi module after the HTML filter.


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did not work

u mean the order of filters? yes it is at the bottom of filters..still does not work check it at i-bloggers.com

It's working

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well check

well check this

http://i-bloggers.com/purple_apple

thank u very much will it work on old posts, or should i resubmit

i am using tinymice module too

i uploaded the 3 files in the bidi module folder right ?

You don't need the bidi

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You don't need the bidi module with tinymce. You can set the direction with tinymce so why do you need bidi ?

I don't personally support the bidi+tinymce combination. Sorry. Maybe alaa can support them.


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in 4.7 it used to

in 4.7 it used to work..

i need tinymice to create styled text other then alignment

is it correct to upload the 3 files in sites/all/modules/bidi

the css and the info and the module

and make the filter of the bidi the last one ?

Yup. It's correct. The

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Yup. It's correct.

The problem is that the bidi parser is crap and it can easily fail with the HTML from tinymce.

I'm not also welling to debug problems with a not-so-good parser parsing HTML produced from some javascript code.


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