Module development and code questions

I've looked everywhere for someone who has had my problems with sIFR, but I can't find anything. Please help!

I've used sIFR to change the site-name, and also to change the titles on my site, http://www.grandtradition.net. Please see if you can figure out why the sIFR'd text links are so wide! Also, when I delete a sIFR rule, the visible text disappears completely, although it's present in the code!?

Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

grandtradition

If anyone has figured out how to make nod teaser work in 5.0 please let me know.

Hi folks,

I am diving head first into Drupal after just over a month of absorbing every little detail I can from the books here and the videos in the Dojo as well as in other places around the Web.

I am about to write a module which will write to the DB.

What should my strategy be as I write to the DB?
Should I make my own tables with identifying prefixes? I thought this would be easier to find my way around the DB between the core stuff and my stuff.

I'm working on a custom module but I need some advice on how to implement part of the business logic. The purpose of the module is to allow an admin to easily schedule particular pieces of content for specific regions. The part that makes this different from something like the block module is that the user would like the content to vary depending on the page. Specifically, the use case involves advertisements and choosing specific ads to run on specific pages.

Since the ads will differ depending on the category of the story, etc. it doesn't make sense to have dozens and dozens of blocks which point to the same region in the template. My idea is to allow the user to schedule a particular piece of HTML content for a particular region and then to specify which URL patterns to use to determine if that rule should be followed. Later I will be adding the ability to also schedule a date range but I'm keeping it simple for now.

I was wondering if anyone could give me some good advice on the "rendering" part of the process. The module will need to look through the possible URL matches and pick the "most relevant one." For example you have the url http://example.com/foo/bar/node16. One rule might have a pattern of foo, another foo/bar and another foo/bar/node16. We'd want the most specific match to show up.

I have a number of vocabs with associated terms but need different views for some of them.

i.e. I have views for vocabularies and then for the terms for some areas of the site but want different views for others. Yet the arguments make this difficult.

1. Is there a way to identify a view specific for a vocabulary that requires a vocab ID argument?

2. Is there a way to pass in the vocabulary for the taxonomy/term view such that I can present the node in a different way per vocabulary?

Any help is appreciated!

Hello Guys!

I making a new website that needs a cms. I 've chosen drupal for it, basically because normally - with other cms - I've spent to much time hacking custom functionality.

I didn't find any 5.0 version of the helpdesk module, in fact I don't even know if it meets my requirements because I didn't read the feature list. I don't like to see what I COULD have...

First I try to describe the HelpDesk aims and functionality I need for the website as briefly as possible. These are my basic HelpDesk requirements: