Module development and code questions

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!)

Hallo,

I would like to know is there any way to users can see how many users are in chat room or who is in chat room from index(start) page?

Thanks!

Below is a link to a text file which contains an exported view for a "Recommended Diaries" feature I put together. It's not perfect but to the best of my knowledge (a contradiction in terms, perhaps) it's the only "recommended content" feature which uses "number of votes to rank content within an x-specficied amount of time" out there for Drupal right now.

Of course, the views.module and a working voting module which uses the voting API is a prerequesite.

The way it works is:

1. User's vote on content (you can choose which node type you want it to track) and then a block is displayed (no block is displayed if there is not content which has been voted on within an x-specified time period).

2. The block lists the the title of the node, the author of the node and the number of comments on the node in the order of most voted upon nodes to least voted on (nodes with no votes are not listed).

3. In cases of equal amounts of votes between two nodes the most recently posted node gets listed first.

4. You can specify how many nodes you want to appear in the block. A "more" link to a new page will appear on the block if there are more voted upon nodes than you choose to show in the block. The new page is a full listing of voted upon nodes within the x-specified amount of time.

What is hacktackular about it right now:

1. It calculates based on whether a node was voted on or not, instead of a vote total. Normally this is ok, except in the case where a single person votes, the node will be displayed as it should - but if that one person un-votes - the node will still show up in the recommended diaries block because it still shows as having been voted on (which according to the voting api seems is unrelated to whether it actually has a score or not).

Does anyone have any experiance with customizing the skin on flo player?
It mentions to use some external file for skinning, but how exactly does it work??

Any help?
TMAS

http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/howto.html