Module development and code questions

This is a module I'd like to see happen because it would save me work and allow a sort of content sharing beyond news/blogs. I administer a lot of different local websites and many of them have similar audiences but it's a pain in the ass to go into each of them and add events. So I was thinking it would be really cool if there was a way to subscribe to events via an RSS feed or something like that so that it could automatically add events from each other the different sites to the calendar.

I have 2 Drupal sites. They are on the same machine, but use different databases. Given a user click on one site, I want to be able to create a new user (or delete an old one) on the other site.

Given the sites are based on different databases on the same machine I guess I should be able to write the SQL that selects the other site's database and issues the SQL that does the INSERT or DELETE. But I suspect there's a bit more to adding or deleting users in a Drupal DB than that.

I have over a hundred recipes that I would like to import to my Drupal site but I have no clue where to start.

Any advice would be nice. I would like to pay anyone for advice or any coding.

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Q

It would be very useful if the custom fields options in the user profile module could include an image upload field (Simular to the one in Flexinode)

Using this multiple images could be added to a users profile. This would be very useful for community applications dating and art websites e,t,c.

Unfourtunately I have no idea how to go about porgramming this, anyone got any ideas?

Add new field

Does anyone have a drupal 4.7 module skeleton the most basic module, like just printing "hello" on the screen? I would really appreciate getting a copy to get me started with a working base module.

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Norm

My question is related to a problem which is described here. I look after the Checkout module which uses the hook_nodeapi in several modes (including "form pre", "validate" and "update") to lock access to a node by other users. Apparently this causes problems with the Aggregator module running under cron such that all the nodes it updates are left "checked out" and so non-modifiable. I'm not sure how to deal with this: one way would be to detect whether the updating process is a cron job or not, but I have no idea how to do this.