Module development and code questions

A great problem to have is that there are simply too many modules to keep track of in Drupal. Many other CMS systems allow users to update modules from within their sites admin interface. From a UI perspective it is obviously better to give admins the ability to install new modules and upate old ones from their admin interface, but this is probably not coming any time soon and would require extensive work.

Hi,

Iam trying to write a new module which basically searches the user profiles and displays the user names. The users have filled in some values and i want users to be able to search among themselves saying what content has each give.

for this i thought I should write a new search module. The search module (which should be in a block) should be able to search the data and display the users with the data on the search results page. I dont know how to link between the form in the block to the page results. Can someone give me some ideas how to go about?

Hi there!
I wanted to know what´s the difference between creating a page or a story, vs. creating an article.
I´ve read the article module documentation, and installed it, but still don´t get its usefulness, or let´s say the difference.
It seems useful, but in the very same way that a story or maybe a page could be.

Please, if someone could explain a bit more about that module I would be very grateful.

Thanks!!

Rosamunda

I know this is a long shot, but I just can't seem to figure it out on my own. I would like to modify the g2_filter that comes with the gallery module, so that the links to pictures have rel="lightbox" in them.

If you have heard of the lightbox.js script you know what I want to do. I was able to use this customization to use it in my albums section, but I would like to be able to use it on my blog pages.

Hey folks,

I'm not really able to write modules myself, but I could really do with a module which creates news clips.

I've learned enough to know that the concept is feasible and probably can be written really quickly, so I would appreciate if anyone can dish this out.

newsclip.module: Description

Pretty much the standard 'story.module' but with two extra fields which means that the clips would have to have their own DB entry.

extra field 1: Link to original article
extra field 2: Link to article's image (possibly an optional upload field?)

I need to manage a lot of files in a drupal website: every user registered in the site should have a personal page with his own private files. Those files should not be downloaded from different users than the owner.

First I've tried to use the "bookmarks" module for manage the file list, but in this way, there is no security: everyone can download all files. So I have tro find another way to resolv this problem... I've looked in the forums and in the drupal docs, but I've found nothing.

Who can help me?

Thanks a lot!