Module development and code questions

I am not sure if this is the proper forum choice to be asking this question, but I have faith that the moderators will put it where it goes if not.

I am working on a drupal website and I need a US map block. where a person can click on a state and be brought to a page with updates about what is going on there.

IE you click on maine and you will see a copy of the Index page but stating that it is about maine and it will have its own event calender, forum etc....

Any ideas?

Thanks alot

Liam-

Hi,
i've already posted this as a bug/issue in the flexinode project area, but i was wondering if anyone else has had this probelm as well.

I have a flexinode image field, which works brilliantly when the image specifications are met. ie. it's the right width, height and filesize.

If the specifications are NOT met it correctly flags it up and produces the correct 'error' message.
ie. The uploaded image is too large; the maximum dimensions are 100x100 pixels.

Apologies if this is off topic for this forum, but it was either here or General Discussion, and here seemed more appropriate!

I have been using Drupal for a couple of years now. I love the ease of use, and the ability to plug in some of the fantastic modules that have been created to expand on the core functionality.

Something that I have never figured out, though, is whether there is an easy way to keep track of stable module releases and updates. I do manually check the module downloads pages regularly, but something more automated would be much easier to deal with.

I'm trying to upload a file using the new forms api. I am able to build the form, but when I call the variable up in my _submit function, it only has the text name of the file. Also, there $_FILES variable is totally empty. When I add a file upload form item in a module using node hooks, it uploads fine. Perhaps the files only attach when using node hooks? Here's my form:

I've spent some time lately updating swish-e to 4.7 and changing some parts to work on windows, this work is available in the 'issues' for swish-e. However, what I want to do now requires extensive changes and I'm not even sure they are possible. So before I start I'd like some confirmation that it can be done.

Currently the module adds an 'uploaded files' tab to the search page. So to search within the files you need to click on this. After using the frontpage search_box this means that you have an extra click after you get told that no results were found. This is not really what I want.

1. I want there to only be one search results page. Containing both the swish-e and standard search results.

If you do use the 'uploaded files' tab, the module themes it's search results so that you get an icon and a link to the file, along with some other misc. info.

2. I would like the search results to link to the node that the file is attached to. Not the file itself. Clicking the link will take you to the node as normal. So retaining the functionality that the users will be used to. This would also help with the results fitting in on the standard search page as per '1'.

3. This follows on from '2'. I would like the search result items to contain the snippits of highlighted text that a standard search returns. I can see how I can get text from these files using the programs that swish-e provides but I do not know how to then use that.

Im trying to put the "add to favorites" link on the "teaser" or front page, so i dont have to click on the story title to click the add to favorites link

anyone done that or know how???