Module development and code questions

am new to drupal,plz anybody solve my prob,i need to display some textfield,button,fieldset.....as the formated output what i need,but in drupal5 we have to pass everything as a form.how can i design the form using table,and how can i pass through the form ,for my new page in my module.

I've just written a simple input filter module called "absolute_urls.module" that translates relative paths into absolute paths within URLs, e.g., "node/1234" becomes "http://mysite.com/node/1234". I think it will be useful for two reasons:

(1) Our site is currently running Drupal 4.6, and we want to be able to repurpose some node content into an HTML-formatted email in a situation where using the BASE HREF tag is impractical.

I'm working on a module that will depend on a couple of content types created by CCK. I can create the nodes programmatically and save or update them, but I was thinking about the module installation process. I was hoping I could create the content type at module installation and not force the administrtor to do it. Seeing what the cck import/export module was doing I tried this:

I'm trying to figure out how (or if it's even possible) to create a new node with "suggested" values. That is, I want to have a custom "create new node" link with parameters supplied that would then show up as suggested starting values in the submit form that is generated. For instance, if i had a page with a link like this:

/node/add/page?suggest_title="fancy title"

I really like the simplicity of node handling, but if it as indulgence compared to a simple SQL query that gets me the same information (just an ID or something similar), then I'd use a query.

Is there a big difference in performance?

Hi,

I'd like to use the hook_nodeapi() with the view operation to add information form my database to the template I am using with contemplate.
I think I have the SQL down: