Module development and code questions

Looked through node module functions and can't find what I want, which is to be able to construct a node object from a nid.

THanks!
Doug

Ok, I'm new to CVS and can't seem to figure this out ...

How do you commit do HEAD, and have that commit go into a branch as well. For example, look at the latest version of the .htaccess file in Drupal core http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/.htaccess?view=log&only_with... . If you click on any of the 5.0 tags, the revision number stays the same - 1.81. Looking at the log, this was done in a single commit.

When a user attempts to create a node:

http://drupalsite.com/node/add

What permission function(s) are executed?

user_access?
node_access?

And, in which modules?

Thanks so much!

-ron

Is there any module that could block some content/posts from unregistered users/guests?

The module I am working on will provide a new node type that will be rendered in a certain way.

Now, I have my hook_view function ready with returning a structured content array, but I also want to pass this content to a custom theme fuction. How should I implement this?

- Should topic_view call theme_topic and return rendered html content?
- Should I just implement a theme_?? function and rely on it being appropriately called when a node of type "topic" should get displayed (and what should "??" be)?

Or is it something else?

Is it possible to have a link to the last most efficient wiki module for drupal 5???