Module development and code questions

Hello, I recall seeing somehting on this forum about a year ago about ability to create new drupal install automatically (I presume using perl or other language). I don't mean fantastico. I don't want the standard install of drupal, but ability to quickly recreate install of MY VERSION of drupal with my own modified themes and css and database.

Has anyone done that yet? I'm trying to eliminate the repetition of going through all the steps over and over to get each new website exactly the way I want it.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance.

anybody knows how to create a simple upload form?? All I know type => 'file' only for browsing a file. But how to send the file to server??

$form['sponsor_add']['logo'] = array(
'#type' => 'file',
'#title' => t("Browse Logo")
);

Could anybody help me generate a list of teasers of the highest-rated nodes with NodeVote? Right now these nodes are displayed as a list of titles :( is there a way to show a teaser+voting result for each of them? thank you very much for any help!

I am not a php/module devloper but like to share an idea that comes to my mind each time i look to a module's code and try to understand inner workings

the idea is -and what would be pros and cons-

what if individual modules help' to be placed module's .info doc and clear the module core from 'helps'

-the same way with Drupal v5 styles hardcoded into .modules separated into a .css -i think it was wise choice and same can be done for module 'help's live in .info or a .help doc for each module as a default standard and referenced there witin .module

Hi,
I've just enabled the amazon tools module, all panels in admin seem present. I've checked phpinfo() to see if curls enabled, it is. I'm using php5x and drupal 5. I've also inserted my amazon associate id.

My problem is that when I try to use 'item import', as soon as I press search I just get a blank page, and it doesn't try to do much. Any ideas what's wrong?

I read on one forum topic something about letting amazon through on the firewall, so I dropped my firewall, still no joy!

I am trying to add group enrollment maximums to the OG groups module. Consider the following pseudocode: