Module development and code questions

Drupal File Comparison Utility Version 1.0
© 2007 Developed by Sam Raheb
Released: January 9, 2007
Designed for all version of Drupal

Download: http://xlecom.com/downloads/Drupal_File_Comparison_Version_1_0.zip

System Requirements
Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, or 2007 with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) support

Instructions

This program provides a means for you visually to keep track of changes you made to any of the original core Drupal files. If a new file is released in the future, you can always compare the changes you made in your modified file and apply the changes to the new core file if needed.

For illustration purposes, this program comes loaded with 3 core modules and 1 CSS file from Drupal version 4.7.5. The changes you see in the Modified File (column D) were changes I made for my particular Drupal website. Column B contains the original code and column D contains the modified code.

To initially get your code or text into the spreadsheet, perform the following steps:

(1) Switch to any of the current spreadsheets and press the "Create a New Sheet" button to create a new sheet.

(2) Switch from Excel to your ASCII text editor and open the original unmodified file you want to transfer to Excel.

(3) Select all the text / code in the file and copy into memory, the clipboard.

I've been looking around quite a bit for a gallery module that would create a folder for each gallery you create plus upload photos into the folder that is related to that gallery. Is there something out there that could help or does anybody have any ideas what I can do to pull that off?
hope that all makes sense...

thanks in advance for any time spent on this.

Shane :)

Is there a way to make a creating an og simpler? I'd like to keep it very brief - just the group name and description, and have the rest of the choices be predetermined. For example, the admin would be picked up from $user->name, and so on. I can write some mid-level PHP, but so far I can't figure out if this is in the module level, a theme issue, or what. I can see how to write to the og db tables with a custom page, but can't see how to get the proper nid to self-generate for the og home page.

Please advise.

Thanks.

I can't access CVS for about a year now. Could someone please fix this for me?
After much searching I think I have finally found the problem:

http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-01/msg00063.html

I've tried searching the archive, but to no avail. How are the taxonomy synonyms expected to work? My first thought was that they're a sort of autocorrection mechanism (think of tags with umlauts). To my surprise, there are only two places in the core where synonyms are used at all: in the term edit form, and in the {term_data} updating code. This means synonyms are not used at all. Did I miss something? If so, should I write my own module for tag autocorrection, or is there a solution available already?

I'm using the video module, which works really well, except I need to add more than one embedded video to a node. So that rather than have one embedded (youtube) video in a node, I could have say 5.

I'm unfortunately not an expert in the development of modules, so I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to go about customising a module like video to do this.

thanks

thomas