Module development and code questions

I know this an almost un-answerable question.

Would it be much more difficult to develop a drupal module, as opposed to a free standing php application?

For example, I would like to create a fairly simple contact management app. It would be a contacts table (address book), related to a history table. I would be able to look at a history of contacts for a particular contact entry, or a history for the all the contacts.

Another idea I had was IT assett management. A software table related to a hardware table related to a systems table.

I am using the similar entries module

problem is that punctuation mark shows up as raw html character code:
For example:
"Jane's list" shows up as Jane
ampersand
poundsign
039
semicolon
s
list

I assume this is a simple fix if someone can just tell me how to modify the code. (which phrase to look for and what to replace it with)

thank you very much

I just got a reply back from a module maintainer that the cvs version should only be used against Drupal cvs (which I believe is 4.8/5.0) right now.

I've had this trouble before using cvs versions. Usually I think of it as 4.7 enhanced/buggy. But once I got a 4.6 version, without any mention anywhere that it's 4.6. Apparently there was no way for me to find out until I got the old form functions errors.

It seems to be modules, when tagged as cvs, should indicate if it's cvs 4.7, 4.8/5.0, or 4.6

I've implemented a simple module that provides a new block, and provides configuration settings in the _block(..) hook's 'configure' op.

So, my question is, how does one validate the block configuration settings? The validation hook doesn't seem to fire for block configuration forms.

If there is an existing resource (handbook entry, etc.) on Drupal.org, please post the URL here.

Thanks!

Mike

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I have problem How to solve the problem of images that comes in one page There are 85 images that i put in one page but i have to display only 25 images in one page

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