Module development and code questions

I had been assured that developing a module which would send new users the mailman confirmation email was easy. And it was.

I had also been told that writing a module which would add a email form for the user profile page would be easy. It was, after figuring out what the global variables are.

Really, its two different modules, but I didn't see much point splitting them for my own purposes. Maybe it'll be useful for someone else. Developed on 4.5.

 function mailmanbasic_user($op, &$edit, &$user, $category)
{

 if($op=='insert')
  {
   mail("list-join@democracyformo.com", " ", " ","From: {$user->mail}\r\n");
  }

$user_profile = $user;
global $user; //user looking at page
 if ($op == 'view' && $user->uid > 0)
  {
        global $edit;

/*      dprint("<pre>");
        dprint_r($user);
        dprint('\n');
//      dprint_r($edit);
        dprint("</pre>"); */

        if($edit['subject'] && $edit['message'])
        {
          mail($user_profile->mail, $edit['subject'], $edit['message'], "From: {$user->name} <{$user->mail}>\r\n");
         return array(t('Email Sent') => t("Your email with the subject <strong>{$edit['subject']}</strong> was sent to {$user_profile->name}."));
        }
        else {
        $output = form_textfield("Subject", "subject", '', 25, 100);
        $output .= form_textarea("Message", "message", '', 80,8);
        $output .= form_submit("Submit");
        $output = form($output);
        return array(t('Send Email') => $output);
        }
  }

}

Some of the lines have been word-wrapped, I'm not sure if this will have any effect.

I'm making a module that will make a few blocks. I want the content of the blocks to very based on what the category of the current focused item is. For instance, if there is a story about cats on the main page, i want the auxillary blocks to have information about cats. How do I tell in the sidebar if the main main item has changed?

help!

thanks!

I just needed a simple field which streams an existing mp3 file.

Fill in the absolute location of the audio file.

I only cared for quicktime plugin streaming for now.

You can find it here.

Hope this is not just me, but I can't seem to get the "Image" module to work at all on my shared hosting installation of Drupal. The shared hosting is Linux hosting and I do not have shell access, FYI.

-I was able to upload the module folder.

-I was able to run the SQL file to create the new table using phpmyadmin.

-I created the three directories needed by the module. For good measure, I used Windows Command Prompt's FTP to set the permissions of the folders to 777, i.e.:
literal site chmod tmp 777

Hi,

I'm curious about the implementation of the taxonomy module. It seems that every node that wants to have the taxonomy form information has to explicitly call taxonomy_node_form -- what is the advantage to this approach, instead of having taxonomy_nodeapi implement the 'form pre' case?

Thanks!
-Nate

I hope I posted this in the right place.

I am looking for a similar funcionality as what the Nuke CMS's have in the form of a Download Module. A Module to manage or share files.... I.E a place to upload a file so that someone else can simply download. I don't want to create a web site or a link for this, I would prefer a Download manager, in loose terms. Is there something like that in drupal?? Have I just over looked it?