Module development and code questions

I tried to modify search module in order to make it runs in a particular node type that i created by flexinode module, but i couldn't find where the appropriate data stores in the database, i have read through entire database, but there is not any separate table to store the article details, doesn't anyone know how to find out those details?

1. How to enable non node content to show in a search results of Drupal's keyword search (in the same tab with blog posts, flexinodes ets.) without creating additional dummy nodes?

2. How to put advanced search form (with additional fields) for my content type on a tab under /search?

I rised this questions before at http://drupal.org/node/38474#comment-81646 but nobody answered.

I solved 1 and 2 long ago. Now want to share my solution with community cause seems like not only I interested.

I'm developing a catalog system, and so far, Views is working beautifully. However, it's a pain that every node entry in the catalog is automatically displayed on every view. I'd like to know if there's a way to get views to not display every node, just the filters. Then, once the user enters filter terms, the nodes are displayed.

Thanks!

Hello there,

I have been trying for several days now, with discouragingly little success, to make the tables for my custom node types available to the Views module (using Drupal 4.7, mysql 4.0 on debian and the lates version of Views). The fruitlessness of my attepmts to make this work have led me to believe that I may be missing out something major. I will be grateful if anyone could show me if I am on the right path.

Let us say I have a custom node that has its own table (custom_table) with two columns: "nid" and "custom_name". I want to make the "custom_name" column available in the fileds selection list for views. For a start, I want to get the simplest functionality working - without adding filters or special handlers (the field will be rendered in plain text). So I add the following code to my custom_module.module:

If I want to have some elements have same name like below:

<input name="id[]" type="text" />

how to generate this type element with drupal form API?

Hi,
I am running the latest Drupal 4.7.3 on my site http://www.citizensreview.org

I recently installed the following modules. image, image assist, image publish, image exact size and image watermark.