Module development and code questions

hi

Does anyone have a HotOrNot Module that works with 5.x that they can contribute to Drupal?

Thanks
drupalian

I used to have this working in 4.7. I can tell what it is supposed to be doing by looking at it, but it now looks like this function is just ignored when viewing a parcel product. Should it be a different name?

Here it is on the ecommerce site: http://ecommerce.heydon.com.au/api/function/theme_product_parcel_view/E-...

guys and gals. This wonderful module needs saving in my opinion: http://drupal.org/project/dependantDropdown

the idea lf the functionality is great so we need to contribute to it. ofcourse if this is a duplicate of an already existing functionality then please point us all to a resource that would explain us how to achieve this DD functionality.

Is there any way to call a region in a module and not in page.tpl.php or any other template file?
What i want to achive is this. I have a module. I have the main content area divided in 3 parts (but just for that module). Now for the top and bottom parts I have the output I want. For the middle region I want to define a region (call that region, I have it defined in template.php, so it appears in block page), so I can add blocks from the admin/build/blocks page. Any way I can achieve this?

I am a seasoned php developer, but a total Drupal n00b. I'm tripping over myself and the online documentation trying to find out how to get started developing for drupal.

Can someone point me to something "Hello, World!" simple so that I can get my feet wet?

Thanks to all in advance.

Steve

Hi,

Some modules display a box at the top of the page providing the user with info, such as warnings. I frequently get this when my mysql statements are wrong.

What is the function that allows me to throw my own errors, or just present some boxes to give the user some information that is not part of the rendered page?

Thanks,

fcmisc.