Module development and code questions

I know how to pull nodes from a certain taxonomy and display various information of that node. I have kind of a php question. I need an easy way to sort the nodes by a field, actually the title because the title is the first and last name of the person.

Now if there is an easy mysql fix I'm all for that. Fail that I need to put the nodes into an array and maybe parse some strings so that I can spit them out in alphabetical order by last name.

Any ideas on the easiest way to do this?

Thanks

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I want to 301 rediect a url. I want this done:

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php 301 redirected to: http://www.mydomain.com

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks,
Joey.

Trying to use excerpt.module from CVS with tinyMCE.module from CVS. tinyMCE 2.0.4, drupal.4.7.0.rc1

On every "Submit" and also "Preview" I see <*><* /> </*> tags added to excerpt. No such tags added to body or title. I ended up adding str_replace in excerpt.module:

Hello,

I'm relatively new to drupal and am in the process of writing my first few modules.

I have a question about the differences between using the various hook_ functions (hook_insert, hook_delete, etc...) versus hook_nodeapi.

I downloaded disknode from 4.7.x but received a file named "disknode.4.6.0.tar".
Nevertheless, I tried to install and yes .. does not work.

Seems that disknode in this tarball still uses form_checkbox(). Thought that this function is eliminated.

I wonder whether there is a patch or update available?

It must be late at night. I'm stumped by what should be a really simple query. Here's the db schema and data:

mysql> select * from mms_node;
+-----+--------+-------+
| nid | mms_id | realm |
+-----+--------+-------+
|   1 |     20 |     2 |
|   1 |      4 |     1 |
|   6 |      7 |     2 |
|   6 |      1 |     1 |
|   7 |     10 |     2 |
|   7 |      2 |     1 |
|   5 |      8 |     2 |
|   5 |      1 |     1 |
+-----+--------+-------+
	
mysql> select * from manufacturer;
+----+------------+
| id | name       |
+----+------------+
|  1 | Alabama    |
|  2 | Arkansas   |
|  3 | Canada     |
|  4 | Delaware   |
|  5 | California |
+----+------------+

mysql> select * from model;
+----+--------+----------+
| id | man_id | name     |
+----+--------+----------+
|  6 |      1 | Aardvark |
|  7 |      1 | Anteater |
|  8 |      1 | Animal   |
|  9 |      2 | Albino   |
| 10 |      2 | Banana   |
| 11 |      2 | Book     |
| 12 |      5 | Cookie   |
| 13 |      5 | Dog      |
| 14 |      3 | Canoe    |
| 15 |      5 | Eagle    |
| 16 |      3 | Elefant  |
| 17 |      4 | Duck     |
| 18 |      4 | Dingo    |
| 19 |      4 | Dragon   |
| 20 |      4 | Dolphin  |
+----+--------+----------+

What I want is this:

+-----+-------------------+------------+
| nid | manufacturer_name | model_name |
+-----+-------------------+------------+