Module development and code questions

I've worked up a Google Maps module that interfaces with Drupal's built-in RSS functions and the locative data that is added to those RSS feeds by location.module.

http://choirgeek.com/gmap

It's a work in progress, and there is obviously room for much more functionality, including content filtering, usability improvements, plotting nodes from other RSS sources, etc....

Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.

-Bjorn

I'm working to hack together a module that will take locative data assigned to nodes with location.module and plot those nodes on a map using the Google Maps API.

I have created a module that has a few pages, the menu callback kind. The content on one of these pages needs to be searchable. Is there any way to do this?

Hey y'all.

I have been itching to use a Story (and Blog) to Forum workflow with Drupal for the longest time. In my dream version, this is how it would work:

• a user visits a story node (in this example, but this could be extended to any non-forum node).
• instead of seeing the "add a comment" link, user is asked to "discuss this item."
• clicking this link takes user to the "create content -> forum topic" page.
• the category for this new forum topic is locked to the particular forum designated for story discussions in the admin screens.
• when created, this post has a special "in reference to" link back to the story node.
• on the original story page, a reverse list of links to all the forum topics discussing this page is displayed.
• on index pages (home, category, etc.), a link that anchors to the reverse list is displayed as "1 discussion" as part of the node's listing (in the same way it would say "1 comment" if it had been commented on).

The problem I have with comments is that they are displayed in line with the story (and vice versa). Most sites that run comments directly under posts usually only generate discussions that should be branched into separate topics. Usually this is because the immediate response is to simply type into the first textbox you can find and hit submit. With this workflow, a user has the option not only to break any story-reply activity across pages, but also to expose the site's forums in general, utilize block layouts/contents that are different than the story's layout and encourage people to post beyond simply replying to front-page stories.

hi everybody,
Any idea how to add a snippet to show only the feed sources?
Thanks

Just looking for some feedback about the best way to approach this problem.

I am using the image.module to keep groups of photos together. In essence (if my understanding of Drupal is correct) this attaches a specific taxonomy (admin defined) to all nodes of type image. Then a specific term from that list is chosen for each photo. In my case, the terms are the names of the "album" that the picture belongs to. What I am trying to tackle is this: