Module development and code questions

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!

I'm a very newbie to drupal and very interested in creating drupals module. As a learning process i embarked on project to create an entry module for my site. I'm having problems with menus and permissions.

i want anonymous users to have a menu so that when they click on it, they get an interface for adding and viewing entries. then a menu for logged in users where by when they click on it they get the view interface as the anonymous user but has the ability to comment on the entry. Based on the online tutorials that i followed, i managed to come up with something. when i installed the module and enabled it and granted the neccessary permission to right users, the menu never showed up, can anybody please help me out. This is the code for generation of the menu.

/**
* Implementing hook help
*/
function kentry_help( $section ) {
switch( $section ){
case "admin/modules#description":
$output = t( 'entry module' );
break;
}
return $output;
}

/**
* Implementing hook perm
*/
function kentry_perm() {
return array( 'view entry',
'suggest entry',
'review entry'
);
}

/**
* Implementing hook menu
*/
function kentry_menu( $may_cache ) {

$items = array();

$view = user_access('view entry');

//$anonymous = user_access( 'suggest entry' );

Hello,

Can anyone help me to make the bookreview-mobulde show images instead of numbers when rating a book? For instance: Rating 1 shows rating1.png; Rating 2 shows rating2.png and so forth.

I hope that any of you can help me.

Thanks

JonasB

Greetings,

I carefully read all threads about flexinode and found them very interesting. I also looked through flexinode 4.7 and noticed that my ideas may be usefull for it also. I recently implemented another theming idea for flexinode and would like to ask your opinion about it. Shortly, the idea - is to create a theme_ procedure for each content type. It will be very easy then to make a specific output for every content type. Since, flexinode is very good for e-commerce sites to create different product types with various fields (to cover the lack of attributes in e-com package), I found very convinient to have an ability to simply customize product pages and listing layouts.
I would like to share my ideas with community.

The idea is the following:
1. I patched flexinode_view with the following code:

$ctype = flexinode_load_content_type($node->ctype_id);
$node->body = theme('flexinode_'.$ctype->name, $node, $ctype->fields, $teaser, $page);

If theme_flexinode_{content type name} exists it will return the custom theming.

2. I am using content type name as an 'internal name', description - for 'visible name' (for menus and links), help text - for detailed description.

3. I also added an internal name column for flexinode fields to be able to refer them by name instead of ID.

Here is an example of such procedure created to display content type 'book_product':