Module development and code questions

Hello all,

I`ve got problems with connecting via my own module with other than core database of drupal? When I connect with that database (other than core) I`ve got problems with getting back to core database of drupal.

Have anybody any solution for that problem?

greetings
sebastian

Content of generated PDF file in other then english languages just don't show correctly. Any ideas?

Hi there, I'm just getting used to drupal and it seems to cover all (and even more) needs for an upcoming project. There's just one point I'm not sure about existing implementations and/or possibilities for extending drupal up to this requirement:

Why is there still no slideshow module?
????
Can someone at least give me a hint as to how to filter out files with thumbnail in their name so that i can get the following script working for the mean time?

http://www.zinkwazi.com/wp/scripts

works but also shows the thumbnails....
could this serve as a start for a drupal module?

thanks
ryan.
thefractal.org

Hey,

One thing I've always been useless at is regular expressions. Basically I need a regex to parse out three elements of an anchor (a) tag: the url, the title attribute, and the link text inbetween the a tags. So:

<a href="/my/url" title="a description">link text</a>

becomes an array:

array( 'url' => 'my/url', 'title' => 'a description', 'text' => 'link text')

or somesuch. Any help is appreciated, thanks!