Module development and code questions

I want to create a group via another php application that I'm using and would like to know if there'a an easy way to do this? I ask because I have og_groups all setup to create a forum and a calendar for my groups and would like to create a new group when another event takes place on my website.

thanks in advance

All,

Hi,

I am working now on a module which is responsible for presenting some content of my web page.

I would like to create a settings page for each user to let him customise displayed content.

For example one user would like to see only 5 links, but the other prefer to see 10 links instead.

Each one of them can acces their own settings of this module.

I presume I should create additional table for storing these setting..

Is this functionality achievable through existing modules or is it already imlemented?

what is the correct format for inputting a users geographic location into the location module for display onto google maps? i.e. lat/long co-ordinates?

Any help is appreciated

I am trying to create a way that users can create their page but I want certain restrictions. I want to be able to enter required feilds for their page like I would be able to control their prfiles. I want them to have to fill out the forms and it post to the top of their page.

I know how to let users create a specific type of page, but I don't know where to go to put those feilds in.

I've got a user-defined module that works just the way it was intended... except for two small things:

1) If I create a 'page' node, for example, there is a nice 'Categories' field where I can supply a list of topical keywords. In my user-defined module, this is not present. How does one add such predefined fields? I can't seem to find a list of them anywhere. Some of them seem to appear by default (such as Authoring Info., Publishing Options, Comment settings, and Menu Settings) while others do not (such as Categories and Input Format).