Module development and code questions

Is it safe to remove core modules (e.g. blog, profile, forum, taxonomy, story, comment...) all together from the modules directory? I don't want any module I'm not using at the moment to be visible on the module administration page. Or are certain modules required to be present, even if they are not used?

I have installed the banner module, but when I add a banner I see it in the admin-panel. But the banner is not vissible on the top of the header....

This may sound stupid, but I can't figure out a way to have the module output at the top of each node, next to the title or something. Preferrably if it's possible I would like to call a theme_function() there.

I'm sure it's somewhere in the code, but I can't find it.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have a few heavily modified modules which I want to load first. How do I control the load order?

4.5 had module_load function..which could have been useful but is not there in 4.6. There doesnt seem to be a function that will let me load a specific module first.''

Also, this probably isnt the most efficient way to do it anyway, if I want 3 or 4 modules to be loaded first.

Specifically, a contributed module 'evaluation.module' tries to print a theme even before the taxonomy_theme, taxonomy_menu etc modules are invoked.

Regards,

V

Would someone please look into this issue? Thank you.

http://drupal.org/node/34310

I would like to write a routine to browse a directory on the server and return the name of a selected file.

Here is my attempt so far: