Module development and code questions

Hello,

I am making a module for a simple e-commerce solution (nothing fancy, just starting off as an inventory manager at first). My problem is that I want to be able to display certain items on the home-page (like a news story, only not...). I was wondering how do I control what goes on the main page? I already figured out how to make the part of the module to submit a new item, and edit a current one, but I can't figure out this one detail.

Hello
I'm willing to use Drupal, but I'll need to hack some modules so it works with my current authentication system (qmail/vmailmgr). The main things I need to change are:
-> When you register, an account on my other system must be created
-> When you login, the account must be checked on my other system

the instructions for installing the image module are pretty sketchy with regard with what to do with imagemagick. can anyone help?

i'm developing on mac os x 10.3, so with the unix FreeBSD core i've got full access there to install imagemagick. the trouble is, what do i do when i want to deploy a site on my ISPs servers... i won't have access to install imagemagick there, so what do i do about that?

please help.

joe

Has anyone considered writing a module or modifying a theme to access the Waypoint.com API? With this, blog entries could show similar blog entries from other sites. I've visited a couple of Moveable Type based sites that use this, and I've found it to be a nice feature (here's an example: http://www.nonliteral.com/archives/2003/04/19/tivo_longevity.html

You can see after the blog entry the "Related Posts from Waypath" box.

I have implemented personal file management system for drupal.
The system only works for image files. I don't know where to
submit source codes.

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I have created the beginnings of my first module, called books.module. It shows in the list of modules in the admin/configuration/modules screen, but only the description shows, the module name ("books") is empty. :(

Here is my code:

<?php
function books_help($section) {
        $output = t("Enables display of a list of books, including affiliate links 
                     to purchase those books.");
        return $output;
}
?>

It's about the simplest module I can create. But why doesn't the title show up in the modules list? Any help is appreciated. I'd like to write several modules for my project but need to get a simple one working first.

Thanks!

Kevin White
kevin@kevinsworld.com