Module development and code questions

I know I saw a discussion somewhere on creating a review widget for CCK. I've now searched the site dozens of ways to find it and it seems to have disapeared. Anyone know what I'm talking about who can point me in the right direction?

Thanks!
--Ian

I'm modifying the guestbook module to integrate more completely with a custom user profile. I've got it about 90% to where I need it, but I'm stymied by guestbook authors having their user names link back to their guestbooks (the default setting) instead of to their own user profiles (my preferred setting).

Anyone familiar with the inner workings of guestbook and can point me in the right direction?

I can locate the part of the code that FORMATS the author name, but I can't seem to locate where it's deciding what to make the a href. The format code is:

Line 541+

I am trying to find a few modules for our Intranet that I am working on. The first is a contact list that will generate an HTML page with a users name, extension and email address. If possible, a dynamic list that you can click a link to change it from just name and email (For people that are updating their group email listings) to name, email, phone and extension (For when you need somebody's cell phone number). Is there anything like this for modules right now?

I want to expose attached images to the views module... To do so, I need to associate the current node with the image_attach table, then with the file table. I've gotten as far as adding both tables and the necessary fields in the views_tables method (see below).

I can already display the attached image's nid in the view. Can anyone explain how I connect the two joins and get the filepath from the current node id? Do I need to modify the query in a handler?

I intend to use this in conjunction with an attached image filter that i've added to the image_filter module.

Hi,

I was going through the code of affiliate.module and affilate.install and had some queries.. regarding the table design and working logic

table: affiliate_details
aid - affiliate id (same as drupal user id) ??
enabled - is this affiliate enabled at the moment ??

I have a callback function which is called using the path 'http://mysite.com/module/function' in the normal way. I want to pass a url to this function from outside of my site, so I have tried the standard approach of sending arguments eg. 'http://mysite.com/module/function/url'.

However, the url contains characters that have special meaning within drupal (eg. : / ? & etc.).