Module development and code questions

HI Guys,

I keep getting errors when trying to upload an updated module to the CONTRIBUTIONS folder in the CVS Respositories.

I have been using TortoiseCVS which has been working very well....up to now. I tried comitting the updated module to my sandbox folder..but was unable to upload it to the correct /contributions/ folder.

(I was trying to upload an updated version of the FRONT_PAGE.MODULE that works with the new forms api and Drupal CVS)

Has anyone here tried the ecommerce package? I'm trying to install it on 4.6.3 but anytime I drop the folder in to the modules folder, the modules menu item ceases to work.

Hey all (again)

Last question I swear ;o) After this I'm sorted and can finish the module myself, promise!

Here's my code: (I've included the $row variable to show a test INSERT although in my module it's gained from a user entered form)

$row = 'a:5:{i:0;s:5:"test2";i:1;s:4:"rtyr";i:2;s:3:"hgh";i:3;s:5:"fghfg";i:4;s:3:"ghf";}';
db_query("INSERT INTO {tablemanager_data} (id, tid, data) VALUES ('', '$tid', '$row')");

However when I look at whats created, its missing the curly brackets:

Hello,

I am in the progress of writing my own type of nodes, so i checked out the node_example.module from the API.
Even though it is very well documented, i can't seem to get it working.
I uploaded the whole file to my /modules directory, inserted the database table and activated the module in administer > modules.

Hey all

I'm writing a VERY useful module (for me anyway!) And so I'd appreciate some help with my problems so I can get it finisheed asap (and concentrate more on finishing my main module contribution).

Anyways... My function is this (obviously unfinished!):

function tablemanager_add() {
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
$count = $_POST['edit']['cols'];
$name = $_POST['edit']['item1'];
$output = "hello " . $name . " bugger don't work" . $count;
print theme('page', $output);
return;
}
$tid = variable_get('tablemanager_table', '1');
$count = 0;
$fetch = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT * FROM {tablemanager} tm WHERE tm.tid = '$tid'"));
foreach ((unserialize($fetch->header)) as $a) {
$count++;
$output .= form_textfield($a, 'item' . $count, '', 60, 255, t("Enter your data for '$a' here"), NULL, FALSE);
}
$output .= form_hidden('cols', $count);
$output .= form(form_submit(t('Submit'), 'submit'));
$output .= l(t('Cancel'), 'admin/tablemanager');
print theme ('page', $output);
}

What I can't work out is why none of my elements are being returned? Now bear in mind that I'm NOT a programmer, I'm just tacking this all together as best I can so maybe I'm assuming that I can do things in php which are not actually possible? I'm wondering whether my passing an incrementing variable to the 'name' is invalid? When I view the source on the created page it does seem to work though? It's only after clicking submit that I can't retrieve any of the POST variables. I can't understand why this doesn't work, I've done similiar in other projects before - I think I must just be doing something stupid.

Hi all,
I'm focusing on event managment because I'm setting up a site that will advertise events.
In the previous versions of event.module the structure of the module was fixed, and so it was simple to create a newsletter that will print out the title, teaser, date and location informations.
With the new version, event is more and more flexible, so any flexinode-type node can become an event.
This is REALLY powerful, so I can create several flexinode-based node types (with different informations, based on the type of event you need).

Now, the problem.

Suppose I have different event types (everyone with its location and teaser field); how can I write a GENERALIZED newsletter module that will recognize that in 'flexinode-1' based events (suppose a stage), location field is named 'flexinode_15' and teaser field is named 'flexinode_16' while in 'flexinode-2' based events (let's say a concert) location field is named 'flexinode_24' and teaser field is named 'flexinode_23' ??

I wouldn't like to write everytime a specific module that everytime must be tailored in order to print out the right fields, and I'm thinking of a universal solution.

The only simple way I found would be to put location informations and the teaser into event table, so that data structure would become fixed, and every other module could benefit of it.

What is your opinion on this matter ?? Does it sound interesting ?? Is anyother working or thinking of something similar ???