Module development and code questions

In the core search module, when you specify a node type in the advanced search, when the results are returned it shows the flexinode type such as 'flexinode-3' instead of the human name, say 'classifieds.' Obviously that looks terrible to users. Is there a fix out there for this? I may end up hacking the core module to pass the human name instead of the flexinode name and then convert it before it builds the query.

Jay

What's the drupal way of doing paging and sorting node lists? Here's the thing, I am not showing node teasers because they're flexinode types and so instead I'm putting them all into table rows. I don't know the best way to do paging and sorting. Thanks,

Jay

Just a quick question... Not sure if anyone is experiencing this.

When I place an order using the credit card option in paypalpro, the local checkout works, but when I use the "Fast, secure, checkout with Paypal" option, I get the error:

"

* Communication error. Failed to connect to the authentication server. Please try again later.
* (libcurl error #58: unable to set certificate file (wrong password?))

ANy thoughts??

Thanks,
~J

I think it is essential to have a updated profile mod that we can customize without "snippets" and "hacks." I used the user_profile.tpl.php file to overide the profile page, but all the other features went MIA, because DUH.. it was an overide! The "snippets" section is cool, but very hard to get them to work.

Anything being worked on for this?

Thanks!

Kris
www.cribfax.com

BTW-This is my only issue with Drupal... I truly do love what you guys have done!!

Hi everyone

I'm developing a module that allows users to make or fill in surveys, quite similar to the AJAX Form generator SoC project.
I'm not using the node system for this because:
1. The creation of a survey takes two steps: first: title, description, informed consent, second: designing the form of the survey.
2. The submission of the form is done with AJAX because the whole form is a javascript object which needs to be passed to PHP.

I'm using the two steps because otherwise the interface gets too cluttered and because my client wants to edit the surey description and informed consent with a WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE)

This works pretty good, but the problem is that the surveys need to be placed in several categories. Obviously I thought to use the taxonomy module for this but the problem is that it's made specifically for nodes.

So does someone know a way to use taxonomy in a module that doesn't use the node system? How would I go about adding a list of vocabulary/terms to the submission form of a survey?

PS. I won't release this module to the public since it's custom made for a university, but once it's finished I may make something based on it. The difference with the AJAX form generator is that it's specifically for surveys: "I agree page", multi-page forms, results downloadable in Excel format, form items such as "very bad x x x x x very good", tables a

Hi,

I was wondering how to develop a module (or mod the ecommerce module) to do a kind of auction or direct sale that would need the following fields:

1) Item description - and optional image;
2) item location: city and street;
3) item timestamp: date and hour;
4) the item could be bidded or selled with a 'buy now' link;
5) items could be searched based on the above criteria (city, street, date and hour)

Could the eCommerce module be modded this way? maybe to use the payment framework (or at least pay on delivery)