Module development and code questions

I recently downloaded the banner module and did read the install and readme files; however, it is not very detailed for the NON-Knowledgable database editors.

The files required that are suppose to be created be banner itself did not move to the root itself so...
I copied the files that were mentioned to the root directory of druapl; however, nothing happes.
My webserver doesn't have a specific 'terminal' or command area like place to input the commands mentioned.

I tried it in the cron job area but nothing, I still get 1017 error and that db not found.

I'm trying to use my own database to save the data because there are other applications access this DB.

But as my page content is a Drupal node, every time I submit my form, it will add something(node id, title, body..) to the Drupal default database, and this is not what I want, because I don't want a connection between the two databases.

I tried to write my dependent page, it won't touch the Drupal database, but at the same time, I can NOT use the Drupal node hooks, which the 'view'/'edit' tabs are no longer there.

I want to generate primary links from a different php file (a directory script) so that I could have some level of integration.

I could include theme.inc and call theme('links', $primary_links) but where can I get the primary_links value from?

The whole point of this is to prevent the need of hardcoding the navigation bar from within this other script.

Jay

Hey all

Here's the latest cvs release of my logotool module:

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/modules/lo...

Don't download it off the module page as it hasn't been updated yet. Anyways, I *really* want to implement a wildcard feature so that you can enter, say:

admin/*|admin.png

Hi, did anyone try this javascript in Drupal 4.6.3? For me It works great on firefox but not in IE 6.0....it happens the same?

Thanks.

here is the script:
http://valid.tjp.hu/zoom/index_en.html

this may be more of a php question than a drupal question, but is there a quick and dirty way to cache a db query so that it doesn't slow down page execution? I'm querying a separate db (from a directory script) from inside a php snippet.

can someone point me in the right direction?

Jay