Module development and code questions

I want to use popup windows in some of the module development I'm beginning to work on, but I can't figure out how to take advantage of the Drupal system itself in a popup window...

For example, I have an image gallery page that opens a popup window when a user clicks a picture, but the content of the window is generated by a separate, standalone PHP file (popup.php) not by the Drupal system (index.php). If I want to add features to the popup, like a rating system, a title from the database, etc, it would be a lot easier to have the popup page integrated with Drupal.

There are times when I want a module to display nodes in alphabetical order by ascending title rather than by created date descending. So I hacked my taxonomy.module to let me send sort field and sort order paramaters to my taxonomy_select_nodes function calls. I've blogged it on urlgreyhot.

So I want to know if this is a bad thing? If not, can CVS HEAD be modified to include this change?

Does anyone have a module for creating OPML file of your import module feeds? I'm thinking of creating one so I can export my feeds to NetNewsWire and share with others on my site, but don't want to re-create work if anyone else has done it.

I have an idea for a block modification that I think others might find useful. The best way for me to describe it is via a description of what I would like to see. Here goes:

My web host allows me to configure up to X mailboxes associated with my domain name. I want to assign these mailboxes to a subset of my site's registered users (e.g., username@mydomain.com, where "username" is the same as the user's registered name on my website --BTW, I expect to manually create these email accounts using the webhost email admin tools). I then want to allow these select users to access my webhost's webmail login page from a link within the navigation block (preferrably directly above the "administer" link).

I don't wan't anything fancy like auto-login; I just want the user to be taken:

(a) to a static page with a frame that displays the webmail login form. Or,

(b) directly to the webmail login page.

So far, I have created a special role for individuals that I want to assign a username@mydomain.com email to. However, I don't know where to start to implement the desired changes to the Navigation block, or creation of the associated static page/frameset, and linking it to the Navigation block code (Perhaps because I am an absolute newbie, with no business even thinking about these kinds of changes).

So, what do you all think? Does this functionality exist somewhere already? If not, how difficult is it to implement, and where should I start? Thx,

Has anyone tried to alter the ping module so drupal would be able to update Yahoo!?

See for an MT "GUI" desciption jeremy and dinki.

hi

after installing the weblink module, the sitecloud module has become redundant to me. except for the fact that all my sites are currently in the later module.

anyone migrated from the cloud to the link module and wants to share the mysql code?