Module development and code questions

Hey all,

Drupal newb here. I'm working on the internal website for my company and I wanted to get some advice. I am trying to implement a "Current Jobs" page so that the company can track installation jobs and certain users can change the status of each job. I guess what I'm asking is what do you think would be the best way to implement this.

Is it possible to have a module that is installed multiple times on the same Drupal site? We are currently using a bibliography module and we would like to have two instances of the module. How would I go about this?

Thanks,
Kyle

Hello,

I am going through the examples in the new Pro Drupal Dev. book and can get the example Annotate module to show up, but I cannot get the annotate.install function to run. No table is being built. I have installed other modules and they worked fine, just not this one.

I also checked a few other small modules for reference and they seem to all follow the same flow and all haev the same permissions.

Any even tried this?

I am not even getting the error/status messages.

Here is the code I am using:

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<?php
// $Id$

function annotate_install() {
drupal_set_message(t('Beginning installation of annotate module.'));
switch ($GLOBALS['db_type']) {
case 'mysql':
case 'mysqli':
db_query("CREATE TABLE {annotations} (
uid int(21) NOT NULL default 0,
nid int(21) NOT NULL default 0,
note longtext NOT NULL,
timestamp int(11) NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (uid, nid)
) /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 */;");
$success = TRUE;
break;

default:
drupal_set_message(t('Unsupported database.'));
}

if ($success) {
drupal_set_message(t('The module installed tables successfully.'));
}
else {
drupal_set_message(t('The installation of the annotate module was unsuccessful.'),'error');

in the internet explorer only the popup blocker block the open the new window, in firefox will allow the link to a new window

so please help me to find the real solution to that problem

Hello

I would like to create a dynamic menu in function of values which are contain in the profile_values table. I'm searching a way to define the parent item in hook_menu where I would like to place this item. I cannot do this manually because I don't know which values will be in the Database. By default all item go into the default menu "Navigation" and I would like to place it in a custom menu "Application".

This code display the item in "Navigation":

I use excerpt module to create teaser for article.
When I create/edit article, tinymce is the editor for teaser and body of article.
But there is more lines showed in the tinymce edit area of the teaser than that of the body.
How to make the teaser edit erea small than body ?

thanks