Module development and code questions

Why are there 3 modules for adding Flickr Support to a site? (See: Flickr module, Flickr, flickrhood)

AFAIK, they all seem to do the same thing. Why can't these three quit duplicating their effort, and work together?

I'm writing a module that take various nodes and outputs them based on criteria such as taxonomy.

The nodes are themed according to page.tpl.php but I want the user to be able to override that at the module level so that the user can have a corresponding mymodule_page.tpl.php file supercede the page.tpl.php file when it exists. That way the user can have those nodes display normally most places on the site (page.tpl.php) but when they are listed by my module they use the alternate template file (mymodule_page.tpl.php).

I'm not sure if I need a module or a custom php block, but here's what I'm looking for:

I want to rotate and display some images and feature a specific one each day.

|-------------------------------|
|                               |
| Featured Image     [A]        |
|                               |
|-------------------------------|
Discription of featured image.


|-------------------------------|
| Image              [B]        |
|-------------------------------|

|-------------------------------|
| Image              [C]        |
|-------------------------------|

|-------------------------------|
| Image              [D]        |
|-------------------------------|

So today, image [A] is the featured image. Image [B], [C] and [D] are smaller thumbnailed listed below or elsewhere. Then I want it to rotate so that image [B] is featured tomorrow (in the position [A] was in). And image [A] thumbnail is placed on the bottom of the list. Then the next day [C] moves to the top, [B] moves to the bottom of the list, and so on. I thought that maybe I could use some sort of banner rotating script, but everything I find is to rotate random, and I want to highlight an image for a full day, then rotate to the next image in the list. I also want to easily add an image to the bottom of the location when I have another image(s) to add.

I hope my qu

I'm using the Views module with a CCK content type to display both a block and page view (list type views on both).

First Issue: I have some exposed filters on the page view and I have to also display them in the block view. I got the filters to display in the block by overriding the theme_views_view_[VIEWNAME] function. I just changed the condition for whether or not to display the filters to not check for the view type. So now the filters display on my block. However, when I pick stuff and hit submit, it refreshes the page, the filter form data is in the URL, but the block view does not display at all. If anyone else has done this and can give me some tips on where to look next to get the filters functioning on my block view, I am all ears.

Second Issue: Along with the filters in my block and page view, I have to provide a search box that will search my custom content type. I found this: http://drupal.org/node/68571 which I got to work properly from within generic nodes. But, when I add the bit to display the search box in my customized theme_views_filters_[VIEWNAME] function, the search box doesn't work at all. It displays, but hitting the search button doesn't do anything.

I hope I will not have to write a custom module to do all of this...but if that is what is needed I would like to know sooner rather than later so I can get started doing that and stop messing around with these little hacks.

Hi, I want to make the forum display story nodes which have an specific taxonomy term (the subforum should be named after the taxonomy term). But I have no clue how to do that, is it better to write a new module or modify the forum module?

I thought that using the default_taxonomy_terms module, and asigning a taxonomy to the story node that matches a forum category should work, but the forum doesn't show me the nodes (probably because they must be 'forum' type, and these are 'story' type). Anyone can give me a clue? Thanks!

Sorry about my english :S

hi to all,
i new to drupal...i developing..one site..using drupal..
In that project..i want to upload a flash file...using TinyMce texteditor..i m not able to upload my flash..file..i got a error ......only .jpg,gif..files able to upload...uploaded failed...
how to possible this....

using IIS server...i m try to run drupal...but i got.....php mysql support not enabled...through..forum..i got some hint...but it doesn't working...... plzzzzzz..help for this..
Thanks in Advance