Module development and code questions

Is something broken? If I stick this in a module (any module which doesn't already have an _init function);

function modulename_init() {
global $user;
if (!$user->uid) watchdog('modulename', 'test of hook_init');
}

Now I would expect seeing as the docs on Drupal API say;

Only use this hook if your code must run even for cached page views.

Is there a module where every registered user can add articles and when they submit it, there pending for administrator aproval? And also the option to choose the category to submit the article in? I've searched the modules database, but there is sooooo much. ;) Maybe someone could point me in the right direction

I'm wondering what the most convenient way (if there is a good way) for retrieving the results of a view AS simply an array of nodes. The node array doesn't need to have all the info in it as that is available using node_load. It seems that all of the 'out of the box' functionality only provides views as already themed, but not in a more raw format. Looking at views_build_view() it appears that in order to do this I may have to go about this by starting with constructing a query. Essentially starting from scratch.

Is there a better way?

TIA

Mike

In the following drupal table 'webform_submitted_data' of the webform module the date 12/8/2007 is specified via 3 records ie:

2 1176718828 0 12
2 1176718828 1 18
2 1176718828 2 2007

I need to be able to select a sid that value matches a certain date. In the above example the sid value would be '2' if I wanted to select with date '12/8/2007'. I was wondering if there was a mysql (4.1.21-standard) SQL statement I could use select all the distinct sid values that match a certain date. The following is an example of a 'webform_submitted_data' table:

hi
I downloaded the video module and very much impressed with its features.
But till I am stuck with some basic points. What I need is to display all the video blocks (like Top videos, Latest videos, Random video etc) with not only the video names and links but to show their thumbnail image view also.
I tried to find this answer in many places but nowhere it seems to be answered. I am running with Drupal 5 and hope my requirement is not out of scope of what drupal can serve.

So if anyone had faced this issue before please let me know the solutions.

I am using catagories mod to to structure my site. Now I had it good at one point where I had a container that was for the intro parts of the site. I had another container for diners showing list of diners broken down to menus. Now for some reason I am having a problem now creating and updating the catagories I already have. I cannot update any catagories cause there is now no text to select under container. This you would see when you are creating a container and its above where you choose the parent.