Module development and code questions

I followed the directions at http://drupal.org/node/18429 but I get table not found errors. Clearly, Drupal is not seeing the database I set in db_set_active();

Does that page still apply to 4.7?

has anyone gotten aggregator2 working on 4.7?

Hello

I have a customer who wants to use Macromedia Contribute to maintain content. The site structure is predefined, it's really just existing pages they might want to change, and the staff know and use Contribute.

A couple of features of Contribute are: you can secure a single folder for users to access and the user can be limited to the css files referred to by these document they are editing. FWIW, it also hides head/php/javascript from the user,

Can someone help me debug a module I'm writing? The check_output() calls in the function that formats the output (starting on line 263) doesn't seem to be doing anything. I don't get urls autoconverted or linebreaks, just plain text.

http://lug.wsu.edu/~ben/jobposting.module

Thanks a bunch.

What is a module and how do you make one?
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At the ad-hoc code sprint in Vancouver a few days ago, Dries committed a patch which adds an _install hook to drupal modules.
This is a significant improvement over the current system, as (apart from installing drupal core) you will no longer need to go to the shell,
or phpmyadmin to install a module scheme. This means that modules can now create their own database tables when they are initialised for the first time.
To avoid all this from being loaded all the time , you create a mymodule.install file in your module directory, which