Module development and code questions

Is there a reason why so many people go to such lengths trying to make a README.txt look decent when text files are never going to look decent? We're working with a web development tool here, so we must all have browsers. So why not have the README files be HTML?

Hi, I've got this teaser view that displays the following fields as a list, one on each line. I'm trying to make it more compact -- so that the 3 fields are displayed on just 1 single line. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

I've defined a CCK node type that anybody can create.

But I want to check against the DB before I let someone create that kind of a node. Basically, I'd like to have a condition, which if not met, would stop the creation of the node.

Is there an appropriate hook for this? Also, is there any way of storing the draft node even if the condition is not met? Can I mark it as dormant or something?

Hi everyone.. I would like to ask how can i get the value inputted by the user in a textarea, textfield and if its a select box what value is selected..

i have this select box where the user selects how many successful work his done for the day and with that selection made i will output the number of textarea needed for each work..

Example: by default is 1. if the user chooses 2 then there will be two textareas.

does anybody know the javascript for this or ajax maybe..

i would really appreciate your help...

thanks

I don't know whether this would be the best place to seek help...

I have been trying to set up a 5.1 installation profile that automatically inserts several base pages into the new Drupal site. I started by copying the MySQL dump commands into db_query() calls, but I soon found that didn't really work, since I didn't understand how all the 52 MySQL tables interacted, and which commands I needed to run, and which not.

I guess I could take a complete dump of the Drupal database and cycle through every line and wrap it in db_query, but I wonder whether there is a better way?

Hi everyone..

I am having a problem on my select box display. im trying to create a module that has a date started field and a date finish field. i want to display the select box side by side..

example: "box" month / "box" day / "box" year

but when it displays.. it goes like this.. "box"
month

"box"
day