Module development and code questions

Hi guys,
I found video mudule so great that I'd like to duplicate it in my website.
I mean, I've a video section, my admin uploads videos and everything goes ok, I've got my video summary in the ?node/video page.
Now I'd like to add one more video section, with different rules and different summary page, how can I achieve it in the cleanest way?
I was thinkin about, installing two video mudules, with different names (e.g.: video and video_two), different table names and menu voices.
Let me know if it can go ok or if you suggest some better way.

I have one node on my site that displays different content depending upon a variable that is provided. I also need comments to track to that variable and not just the node itself. I was able to edit the comment_form function in the comment module to add the appropriate line to the form, but I can't figure out where to go next. Here is the line I added.

$form['package'] = array('#type' => 'value', '#value' => $package);

$package is the variable I am trying to pass. I used a type of hidden instead of value initially to confirm that it was being determined correctly.

As far as I can tell, there are two pieces I am missing. The first is that I need the page to refresh with $package intact as part of the URL. This would be the same as the page that a comment is actually entered on. Right now the action points to /comment/reply/5 with 5 being the node id. I need that page to access the $package value from the form before loading /node/5 so it can go to the right page.

For example:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package is the alias of /node/5, but it needs to have a form of http://linuxappfinder.com/package/drupal (where drupal is the app being displayed) in order to display correctly. Current behavior returns me to http://linuxappfinder.com/package#comment-xx after a comment is posted.

I also need the comment_save function to be able to determine the $package value because it updates a table to associate the comment id (cid) with the appropriate package so only the appropriate comments are displayed later.

Does anyone know where I should look to solve this? I back-tracked from the comment_save function to the comment_form_submit function, but I can't tell where the latter gets called from.

Hello- I love drupal, but I simply don't understand why the ping module is so difficult.

I would really like to ping technorati.com. I am a php n00b, so could someone please just post the ENTIRE ping module that will do this?

Thank you!

the comment of this function is:
/**
* Creates an HTTP GET request and sends the response to the callback function.
*
* Note that dynamic arguments in the URI should be escaped with encodeURIComponent().
*/

I want to know what is the second line meaning? thanks

hi

i must set a $node->myvar on a node preview. I haven't found a way to do this until many many hours, but i must change the variable for getting preview working correctly and displays the page how it looks after a save. i'm reading my $node->myvar variable in templates.php from the $vars scope...

how can this be done?

Regards
Marc

The img filter is a simple img filter module.

It is a modification of the inline module.
The 'show original' and 'show as link' features are removed. Instead of 'maxwidth' and 'maxheight' only the 'thumbnail width' is used. [img: x] tags are accepted.

It always displays the images but they are smaller in previews (resized to thumbnail width) and larger (the original image size) in the full views.