Module development and code questions

hi

i'd like to add additional variables to my pages. i'd like to be able to add additonal tags like

<?php print $mytestvar1 ?>

how is this possible? any example available?

Regards
Marc

I'm trying to add the name property to a form. For example, I want to generate a form statement like:

[form action="/funstuff" name="handy" id="junk" method="post"]

But using #name doesn't seem to do anything:

$form['#action'] = '/funstuff';
$form['#id'] = 'junk';
$form['#name'] = 'handy';

Any clues?

--J

Is anyone aware of a plugin or modified upload plugin that allows an admin to manualy attach files to a node? As in the file is to large to upload with php, and needs to be uploaded with ftp. I have many files to attach, and dont want to have to manualy add the entries to the database.

I've already started to code the plugin, however I'd like to know if something like this already exists before I dig in to deep!

Thanks!

Hey,

I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what Active Select accomplishes. I've got the Category Module up and running, but how can I use Active Select? Does anyone use it on their site?

Thanks,
Geoff

I'm using story module for latest news items and would like to have a news page. I thought this would be easy with views.module, but I'm a little lost.

I found this page - http://drupal.org/node/47419 - and it seems to be what I want to do, but I've no idea what to do with it.

Can anyone help?

Here are some ideas, thanks for listening.

This concerns SAML, open distributed authentication, having to jot down usernames & passwords for a billion websites, etc. I've nicknamed my perfect protocol Comunall, because I think it sounds neat.

Can someone please direct me to whoever is making this kindof thing a reality:
(typical login screen for any website)

USERNAME:__________
PASSWORD:_________
or COMUNALL URL:_________

Essentially, I see this situation. You want to make a post of Joe Smith's blog saying what a dweeb he is. What you don't want to do is register with his blog website, I mean, who wants yet another username and password? So you go to a site that you do have an account with. Log in, and click "create one-time use Communall URL". It gives you a URL like "www.drupal.org/blahblah/231498721938jqwhe982349821hwqsdio". You then can paste that URL into any blog/forum/wiki website that accepts Comunall login's. Your home website, when asked by Joe SMith's website, sends your Username, Avatar Picture, and Signature. And that's it.

So let's say you make a Drupal Website that accepts MySpace and Yahoo Comunalls, any user from MySpace or Yahoo can post a comment on your blog. Or, you could try making a white/blacklist of domains you would accpet Communals from.

Is anyone out there of like mind, I wish to collaborate! Let's make a standard that doesn't involve some psuedo-central ID holding server like Yaris/OpenID (Microsoft Passport = bad, lets not ressurrect it!)