Module development and code questions

Hello everyone,

My question is in regards to my current installation of Drupal 4.7.4, views.module, cck package (specifically the node reference module) and the viewfield.module

My objective is to create a small movie database that lists movies and crew as separate node types and to have each type be referenced within each other. For example, A 'movie' will list the crew when viewing a movie node. You can click on any of the crew and you will be directed to a 'crew' node type where all of the movies this person has been a part of will be displayed and referenced.

I'd like to do this with CCK and views as they can be customised to exactly what I require. I did stumble upon the 'Movie Database' module however, it did not suit my needs.

I currently have two cck node types (for simplicity of describing the issue, I have used the names):
1. 'movie'
2. 'crew'

The fields in 'crew' are:
'name' (textfield)
'bio' (textfield)
'credits' (viewfield)

The fileds in 'movie' are:
'title' (textfield)
'year' (textfield)
'director' (nodereference > crew)
'producer' (nodereference > crew)
'editor' (nodereference > crew)
etc...

User's passwords are stored in an encoded value in the database (so it appears). If I want to test any login code, via something like PhpMyAdmin ( I am making alterations) I am not successful because even though I might enter a truthful statement ie :

SELECT count(*) AS COUNT FROM users WHERE name = 'drupal' AND pass = 'wanderer'

the data value for pass is NOT 'wanderer' it looks more like this '8d9f63ff43ss2275a7jtg667s218a8f60489'

I KNOW I can login with these creds... how can I mimic what drupal does to obtain the correct value?

Thanks

Does anyone know of a module that allows automatic paging of stories?

I'm using the "paging" module and manually inserting "

" tags works, but I'd like an automatic alternative that would eliminate the step of having to go through and insert these tags.

Cheers,
Mike

I have just been told that I need to add a product catalog to a site. They don't want to sell anything, just search and display products based on certain classifications, i.e. manufacturer, industry, product category/sub-category, etc. Drupal would appear to be ideal for this but, I have searched all over and I can't seem to find a module or an example of this being done before. Is there an established catalog module, or has anyone done anything like this before?

Hi Drupalers,

I am brand new to Drupal and have a couple of questions regarding the event module.

Basically what I want to accomplish is to have a small calendar on the home page that indicates events that registered users have added. Users can click on the day and then see a detailed view of the event.

As I understood I needed the event and views modules to accomplish this.
Do I also need a calendar module to display the events in that calendar or how does this work?

How/where does Drupal convert special characters (umlauts, accents, etc..) that come with Spanish text into something useable and storable in the db? From what I can see, it happens before the node is saved, but where I do not know.

Thanks in advance,

Mike