Fixed portfolio for all users?

I have the same desire. I don't expect visitors to my blog to actually use the stock module, nor would I even want them to. What I really want it for is just to provide a block that I can use which shows my visitors what stocks I'm invested or interested in. I think that's what "albertc" is saying.

If all you want is to display a block for all users, then create a new module called custom.module,

function custom_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0, $edit = array()) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'list':
      $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Portfolio');
      return $blocks;

    case 'view':
      $block['subject'] = t('Portfolio');
      if (module_exists('stock')) {
        $data = stock_do_quote('short', 'IBM AAPL GOOG');
      }
      $block['content'] = $data;

      return $block;
  }
}

Create an custom.info file like this:

name = Custom
description = Customizations for this web site
package = Custom
core = 6.x

Put them all under a new directory sites/all/modules/custom

Enable the module, and then go to admin/build/blocks and place the block where you want it to show.

That should be it.

Other features can be added, arrows, ...etc.

Post them here when you do them.

I want to be able to do this on a page and not a block, I've tried setting default stocks but they just don't work. How would I take advantage of this modules great formatting on a page for all users that cannot be changed? I don't mind using PHP but I am a bit lost as to where to start.

I've found I can do this by modifying line stocks.module like so:

Change 173 to:

return db_result(db_query("SELECT symbols FROM {stock} WHERE uid = 1"));

Now it will always get the stocks saved into a specifc user. Of course now it lets anyone change them.

To prevent users from saving stock quotes you can simply gut the function stock_save_user_quotes($symbols) on line 178 to look like this:

function stock_save_user_quotes($symbols) {
  global $user;
}

For some reason this still does not work.

Found I could create a page manually through drupals normal interface, select a PHP input method and put lists of stocks like so, this also works in blog posts.

<?php

$dataLong = stock_do_quote('long', 'ARAY ULTI CPN GHDX OPEN SFLY APKT RAX');

print $dataLong;

?>