Module development and code questions

Here's the deal... two months ago, I contacted a developer who was willing to build a custom filebrowser that could create accounts for a Drupal installation so that my users could host their own websites on it. Problem.. the filebrowser is built, but a month ago, the developer vanished. I haven't heard from him since at all. No payment given either, though there was one planned. I still retain the original module files, which is coded with AJAX and PHP.. however it's seriously bugged and it's database requires a complete rewrite.

I want to write a module which can send a message to server periodically after user login, e.g. 30 seconds. It also can retrieve a return value from server. How to write this module? My puzzle is how to start this after login and stop it after logout.

I was in a coding mood tonight so I made a module that implements facebook-style pokes between users, currently displayed on their account pages. Right now you can do regular pokes, return pokes, and hide em. The code's not too pretty at the moment but it appears to work and is pretty fun.

Any comments are appreciated: poke.module.

Hello,

Sorry if someone reads this twice (posted in wrong forum earlier).

I Have Drupal 4.6 and Gallery 2.1.2 installed. They work fine independently. They work together embedded, except for the site admin menu items. In drupal I get a page not found screen and a log entry that says main.php not found.

Since this is a multisite gallery 2 build I can't figure out how to work with the url mod rewrite stuff. In Gallery admin I can force it to pass rewrite test but no automatic test, so I don't know if it is working right or if this is an .htaccess in drupal fix. I know I could probably install multiple gallery 2 full installs to accomplish what I need but I am being stubborn about configuring it multisite.

So I believe I need help with the .htaccess lines in Drupal

Here is the info about URL and Path -

I Host on 1and1 with no root access

Gallery 2 Codebase

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/gallery2/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/gallery2/

Gallery 2 Site

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/drupal/maha/gallery2/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/drupal/maha/gallery2/

Drupal 4.6 is here (multisite, so I have a sites folder within Drupal)

Base URL: http://myuniquenumbershere.onlinehome.us/drupal/
Path relative to root: /kunden/homepages/8/myuniquenumbershere/htdocs/drupal/

A lot of people have been asking for a genuine pay-per-listing classified ads module for a long time. The good news is that a beta version has just been released as part of the lm paypal suite.

http://drupal.org/node/78002

please help test!

I am curious how the timestamp is created for Drupal. I am trying to create a query that will 1) Create a new entry with a timestamp and 2) convert the timestamp to a standard date. Any help would be great! Thanks.