Module development and code questions

Hi,

I am completly new to drupal and try to understand the node_example.module . I copied the exact code from the node_example example and did run the necessary SQL. I can activate it but when I try to create content it shows up on the left hand navigation but nothing on the right side. I searched the forums and a few other people had the same problem but their solutions didnt seem to work for me.
As far as I understand things so far, the error should be in the node_example_form code ?

Also I noticed that node_example_form uses this code to create the forms:

It doesn't work. No errors, but no image either. I have missed out on a lot of possible new members to my website because of it. It seems to work intermitantly, even with GD2.

Is there something better? Or a newer version not posted here that someone has?

I would like some feedback on my service_links.module that adds Digg, del.icio.us and Technorati links to nodes.

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/frjo/service_...

First I want to have suggestion for a better name :-).

You can see the links "digg | bookmark | cosmos" in action on http://xdeb.org/drupaldev.

Hi.

I recently added a couple elements ($node->title and $node->body) to the email sent out by the forward module and for the most part it is working as expected.

However, there are instances where the db -> email conversion makes for some garbled punctuation or other characters.

For instance an apostrophe turns to "’" and a dash turns to "—".

Also, I'd like to construct or find a set of filters that change html tags to email-friendly characters.

Hi,

Does anyone else have a problem with taxonomy_dhtml and url aliases? When I add a url alias (using path.module) as instructed, the aliased url works fine, but it does not show up in the menu generated by taxonomy_dhtml. The menu still shows urls as taxonomy/term/14/9/ and not the alias.

However, when I include a trailing slash at the end of the relative url in the path alias form, the alias shows up in the menu generated by taxonomy_dhtml -- but the aliased link no longer works (a 'page not found' page is displayed).

When deleting a product, it disappears completely from users order histories and transactions. We would like to be able to hide a product from the product assortment, while keeping the product details and order history. Has this been thought of in the e-commerce package?