I have been playing with the new version of drupal from CVS. I really like the new menu system. It just makes somethings little more logical.

I also got sick of the phplayersmenu not working in IE for some reason. I know that I use Firefox all the time, but I do have some IE users who visit my site. I found that I was including something that I didn't need too. I have removed that and upgraded to 3.1.5 which has a couple of changes in it. such as where the images are stored.

However I still need to modify phplayersmenu to remove the icons from the tree menu that I dislike.

This module is a drop in replacement for the standard drupal navigation menu.

To make sure that this menu was completely cross-browser compatible and because I couldn't be bothered writting my own, I use phplayermenu to handle all the menu processing.

Also to speed things up I used drupals built in caching system to cache the building of the menu on a per role basis, so that you can quickly just from the create content menu right to the configuration with only a single page load.

as the cvs version of the filters have changed I have also had to update phpsrc so that it would work with it. You can download it from the files.

As you may have noticed laterly I have been doing some changes to the image module. I have

• externalised all the image processing backend stuff it much easier to add new image backend.
• added the ability to use the super fast imlib2 library which allow very fast image manipulation. This is e same libary that does all the image processing in enlightenment.
• added the ability to automatically create different size versions of images when they are uploaded

If you want to take a look, go to my photo gallery.

This is a small hack that allows my to do the my projects section.

This is a filter I quickly wrote for so that I can have any php source that I put into content highlighted.

[?php
echo "hello world\n";
?]

Not only can you hilight code that is typed in but instead you can get the filter to include directly from another php source node.

This works much the same as how the project module does it, but I wanted it work with all modules, thus a filter would work alot better than how they have added it to the project module.

I have added a new area "my projects" which is just information about projects that I am playing with in my spare time.

For this area I wrote a new module for drupal called taxonomy_fm which creates the menu and then allows the user to browse the taxonomy tree and see all the information based upon where in the tree you are.

I haven't uploaded this little module to drupal contributions yet, and I don't know if I will. If their is any interest just email me gordon@heydon.com.au or comment here and I will put it into my sandbox.