Module development and code questions

I am completely new to drupal and this sort of website development. My boss told me to use drupal to redesign my fraternity's website which I had made and though looked pretty crappy. I got drupal up and working pretty well, but I am trying to get gallery to work, but I can't even get to the configuration wizard. When I try to access the gallery2/install folder it gives me the following error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting ')' in /home/tkefsuco/public_html/drupal/gallery2/modules/core/classes/GalleryUtilities.class on line 1113

I created an icon set for use with the excellent Control Panel module. I've submitted it as a feature request/patch, but I figured I'd post it here as well as any comments would be greatly appreciated.

http://johnhaller.com/jh/development/drupal/controlpanel/

Regards,
John

During the setup of the E-Publish module on my site, I may have borked a table prefix change. Now I get the following error when I attempt to use the module:

The correct table name would be "drupal_epublish_abstract", but the select statement is confused.

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Database error:

Hello drupal folks,

I read a lot of postings, but I didn't find an answer for my problem.
First of all: drupal and Gallery are a great piece of software. But as a Newbie there are a lot of quetsions.
I have installed drupal 4.6.3 and gallery2 some day ago. Standalone both works fine. I installed the gallery into a subdirectory of drupal.

My Problem:
In the integrated Gallery I didn't see any images.

Link to the Gallery (standalone)
http://www.mastermarx.de/drupal/gallery2

Hi,

I'm interested about this. I know there's the 'massmailer' module, but this apparently requires PHPList, which I looked at but didn't like.

I'm considering writing my own mailing list module but the chances of me being able to make head or tail of Drupal's code in order to do that is low.

Anyway, before I even begin I need to know why no one's already done this? Is there a fundamental reason it's bad? Are you open to some sort of anti-spam things on peoples' email servers?

Basically I wanted:

To those who were able to test Robert's enewsletter module, do you think it can already be used in a live site? Am planning to use it as soon as I'm confident it's stable enough for live use. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Would really want to use a newsletter at my site to increase traffic -- always had my eye on the enewsletter module since it has the batch send feature (my host limits the sending of mails to 200 per hour)which I need. Thanks in advance! :)