Module development and code questions

Does any one know how to make it so that I can set settings in my module settings bit, and then have the setting commited to database?#

thanks

Mr Maggoo

Is there a list for the user->name and user->uid sort of varibles?

this is a more efficient version of archive_calendar_listing that is mysql-specific. it also displays the total post count for each month:

function archive_calendar_listing_mysql() {
  $cache = cache_get("archive:calendar:listing");
  if (!empty($cache)) {
    return $cache->data;
  }

  $months = array(1 => t("January"), 2 => t("February"), 3 => t("March"), 4 => t
("April"), 5 => t("May"), 6 => t("June"), 7 => t("July"), 8 => t("August"), 9 =>
 t("September"), 10 => t("October"), 11 => t("November"), 12 => t("December"));

  $sql = "
    SELECT SUBSTRING(FROM_UNIXTIME(created), 1, 7) as date, COUNT(*) as count
    FROM   {node}
    WHERE  status = 1
    GROUP  BY date DESC
  ";

  $count = variable_get("archive_months", 0);
  if ($count) {
    $sql .= " LIMIT $count";
  }

  $result = db_query($sql);

  while ($month = db_fetch_object($result)) { 
    list($y, $m) = explode('-', $month->date);
    $mname = $months[intval($m)];
    $items[] = l("$mname $y", "archive/$y/$m") . " (" . $month->count . ")";
  }
  $output = theme("item_list", $items); 

  cache_set("archive:calendar:listing", $output);

  return $output;
}

Hi All! I'm working on a new module intended for my Drupal 4.4.x system. So I thought I would follow the recommendations of using these hooks instead of _nodeapi. However, for some reason they are NOT being called. Any tips on how to diagnose / correct this problem are appreciated!

Radi

Our web site is based on drupal 4.3.1. I put regular updates into a set of manually updated static pages that are linked to from the main menu. My goal has always been to write / modify a module that will handle the updates section for me automatically so that i can delegate the task of adding updates to another department. Here is what I envision:

Utilizing the standard node creation method, when the node is created a copy of the node index number would be kept in a seperate "updates" table to identify which nodes are updates.

In the module that I'm developing, I have two select forms side by side. In between these forms are buttons which are used to move items in the second list.

I tried to base this off the admin page for the HTML AREA module (/admin/system/modules/htmlarea), but I was unsuccessful in hacking the code for my module. I then turned to the internet where I found this little example. I think that this example would have worked. But I'm running into syntax errors. The onclick commands don't like the drupal generated names for the select forms. Drupal kicks out form names like:

name="edit[node_list_options][]"

These names don't play nice with onclick javascript actions that are passing the form information. Example:

document.form.edit[node_list_options][].selectedIndex

To get around this, I tried to manipulate the select forms via Javascript by passing the id. Drupal does generate clean id names. I did this with:

document.getElementById("node_list_options").selectedIndex

This didn't seem to work either. Does anyone know of a good way to incorporate javascript into modules? I need to have two select boxes side by side, along with an add, remove, up, down and submit button. The first select box will pull a list of available nodes, the second will pull a list of assigned nodes.