Module development and code questions

Hi All,

I have a Drupal site I use to showcase poetry. I would like to have the home page display a random node each time a user comes to it, or to randomly change the nodes appearing on the homepage each day. The idea is to make aure that older poems still get an 'airing' every now and then.

Does anyone have an idea of how I might achieve this? Maybe via a special 'home page' module? I have searched this site but can't find anything which helps me much.

Thanks

I uploaded the most recent version and am running 4.3.0 RC. Getting the following error after I try to do a fast directory upload and then click on a file name.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatefrom() in /home/virtual/site5/fst/var/www/html/modules/image.module on line 923

Additionally, when I just try to create an image, there is no way to upload the image in the form. Right under the Images taxonomy term drop down, is the word error. I am also using htmlarea.

Hello all,
I am new to Drupal, and am quite enjoying discovering the ways in which it does things, often differently to other CMSs I've come across. One thing which I am missing is the ability to layout the site in a hierarchical manner, creating pages (or nodes) as children of other nodes. I have been using EZPublish for a little while, which is a fantastic, if overcomplicated CMS (actually it's more of an application development environment, but that's getting a little off-topic) and it does the herarchical thing really well.

I am inpressed by the taxonomy and the ways in which it can create complex relationships between nodes in a drupal site. I was mulling over the idea of creating a module which, given a hierarchical taxonomy, could 'attach' nodes to the terms of the taxonomy, thus creating the site structure. I realise that this suggestion has it's complexities, but I have a feeling that this could be a really useful feature.

This only really makes sense when using the new 'clean URLs' feature as the URL will represent the site structure. With clean URLs there is almost the facility to hierarchise pages, but this is only through the url, and there is no way of automatically creating a menu to represent these relationships. But if we were to define the path by the attachment to the hierarchy, then we can make a more sensible relationship between the documents.

For example, if I have a taxonomy as follows:

The modules available for Drupal are extensive and greatly appreciated. I am wondering if anyone is in the process of developing a newsletter module. This is the one glaring absence I see from the modules available. Ideally it would be one that allows a user to choose from multple newsletter types, while registering or editing their account and would also let them unsubscribe there. It would need all the other basic newsletter features like Html and text choices for sending as well as list management on the backend.

i see that members.module is posting e-mails of my users.
i think this`s not good, cause i promise users not post their e-mails anywhere on a site.

Who can i change this situation?

Thanks in advance!

Is anyone working on the upload of video or swfs?

Where there might be someway to have a media library of these files (including images, and thumbnails poss), meta-tagged, searchable, and also a way to embed them or link to them from other nodes?

What would that entail? Ideas?

~h