Module development and code questions

For my purposes (and those of an agency or organization with a hierarchy) it would be most useful to have a contact directory with "parent/department" contact information.

I'm thinking about hacking the contact directory module to allow for this, but I'm looking for ideas, since I haven't messed with PHP much.

The functionality (just initial ideas of how to achieve my goals):

I'm trying to develop a recipe module, using taxonomy to categorise each recipe. The following page shows roughly what I want to achieve:

http://brandedthoughts.co.uk/drupal/node/6

The taxonomy is displayed in a custom format down the right, as a summary about the recipe. I'd like this to be the only display of the taxonomy for the node (as opposed to being duplicated below the title). How would I go about doing this?

I notice that the event.module is no longer listed in the downloads section. From bits and pieces I've read on a search, it is apparently being replaced by a flexinode version. But I can't find out any other information. How do I get an event module feature working on a 4.6 site? And if it's going to flexinode, it seems to me the event.module would lose a lot of functionality, like the ability to show an event calendar.

Where can I find out what's going on with the event.module?

Hi,

This modules http://drupal.org/node/20877 and http://drupal.org/node/20648 I created for Drupal. Plese test it.
For submit to http://drupal.org/project/Modules I need a CVS account or not?
But I can not create a CVS account.

Can you help me?

Thanks

Chris

Hi all,

which book would you suggest for learning PHP ? I want to develop modules for Drupal/WP/Mambo in my free time. Should I start with PHP 4.x and then go to PHP 5 or should i start straightaway with PHP5 ? I am an intermediate level PERL and J2EE developer.

Regards
Nitin

For a customer I needed to add some functionality to the event.module for Drupal 4.5. I have put a patch for v 1.96.2.6 and a complete module file in my sandbox if anyone want to check it out.

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