Module development and code questions

I want to add a "skip" flag to my menu items for use when I'm doing custom theming for them. I can alter the menu_edit_item_form, but there doesn't seem to be any way to save the data.

Am I going down the wrong path? If so, what's better, a separate module?
Is this even possible without modifying menu.module ("which is not an option")?

And no, disable/enable is not what I want. ;)

Thanks,
eric

Hi there,

I have just started playing with Drupal and I'm very impressed so far! But I have a question re photo gallerys. I want to have a thumbnail gallery in the right hand block (on certain pages only) and when the user clicks on a thumbnail, it will open a specified node in the center block. That node should contain the full size picture and some text. So essenitally the thumbnails become a way to navigate around some of the pages on the site.

I have installed the gallery module, but can not seem to get it to do the above. Is there a way to do it?

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i did some quick'n'dirty adjustments to the module to get german output. Details: http://www.besser-mit-anthroposophie.at/node/17 (german)

grtz,

I'm writing a new module. For the moment I'm working out the help of the module. Adding a description to the admin/module isn't a problem, but adding help - explanation to admin/help does. I can't add a link to admin/help for this. The code is:

Using Drupal 5.1. Is there a hook, or some other way I can grab control when the user login form is submitted?

There's a 'login' operation to hook_user(), but that gets called after the user has been logged in. I want to do a couple of checks on the username before the user login gets even that far.

I also found hook_form_alter() which allows me to change the login form before it's presented, but that's not quite what I want either.

I'm using this code: