Module development and code questions

Image assist 5.x is required for development in drupal 5.0. If I know that image_assist 5.x is development statge. But it is very required for development purpose in drupal 5.0. how can i solve this probelm

I'm developing a module that displays a list of members that each have things that need to be changed frequently. Nesting a text field or two within a table is easy enough, but i'd like to be using the forms api to do it. Is there a way to somehow do this?

I just need advice on something I'm trying to create. Right now I have a Intranet kinda website for my company and on the main page I'll have news in a box format. Now I don't want to show the same new for more then 10 days. So I want to know is there a module that let me create a content with a day limit?? If no how can I make that happen ??

I am trying to create my own module for that but right now I'm stuck at wether, which is probably going to be the case, I create a new table that will containt the day limit of that content.

Thank you all for your advices.

Hi everyone,

It seems to me as if a lot of contributed module that were existing for drupal version 4.7.x are not present for version 5.1.

Some hosting companies do not provide many options on which drupal to install, for example webhostfreaks.com.

Example modules are nice_menus and flexinode... But I'm sure that there are also more to add to the list..
Would I for example need to use the CCK module to replace my flexinode one??

Has anyone encountered this problem? suggestions ? solutions?

cheers

Is it posible to use stored procedure with drupal? And if so, How should I go about doing this?

My module provides a hook for other modules, and I would like to display which module provided what data. Currently I can only display the internal system name of the modules.

Is there a function that returns the full name as it appears on /admin/build/modules and as it's written in the .info file?