Module development and code questions

I'd like to add 2 or 3 fields to the blocks form to be used for theming blocks. For instance, a "color" dropdown would be added and then that color selection could be used to set the color in the block theme template.

How hard would this be to do, and is there anyone who'd be interested in taking it on as a paid gig?

I'd like to start work on a module which I ultimately want to use for organising and reporting on an Online Gaming League although I want the module to be versatile so that it could be set up for various different sports. There is currently a module for php-nuke which does this kind of thing but I'm personally a big drupal fan and want to get a similar thing up and running for drupal. The php-nuke module is also very clunky (as is php-nuke...lol) from my experience.

I want the module to be used so that it can be used to input and record

+Players and there stats (although players will not necessary be 'users' on the site')

+Teams and which players belong in what teams

+When and where games are happening and what teams are participating

+a way of inputting post game information that will in turn then update team and player stats and produce a league table for teams (and also players) calculating the revelant points associated with a win/draw/loss etc.

+Possibly also a way of linking a match report node to a finished game.

I'm sure all this is possible but I have little or no experience with php and drupal module development, Just wanted to post to firstly make sure i'm not re-inventing the wheel (although I've searched and not found the wheel anywhere so I think I'm safe!) and secondly If anyone has any top tips on a starting point.

I am however worried that by even starting this I'd be biting off more than I can chew (being a non-developer), With this in mind if anyone knows of any tools that I could at least get some of these jobs done and import the results (standings) tables into drupal, please shout now!

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i am new to drupal and want to display 20-25 images in one page in tabular form if u have any idea please help

I have a project that will need full text searches over 1000s of document nodes within Drupal. I am worried that the core search in Drupal might not scale well for a large site with a lot of users, so I am looking in to xapian and getting it to work with Drupal.

Does anyone know of any existing work on this, or how to go about doing it? I’ve not installed it yet, so I don’t know how hard it is, but I’d rather work on someone else starting code than write from scratch.

Thanks

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Can I place every container in an other menu/block? I don´t want all the containers in a single menu block. I can change the default root menu in the settings, but can not overrule this setting for a single container. Or am I overlooking something? :D

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How to customized comment module where all the users can send a comments but cannot view from another users comment except his own comments...... Thanks for any help :)