Module development and code questions

I am trying to get the term extensions for flexinode to work with Drupal 4.7. The only trouble I'm having is that the code will only list nodes for the parent term, and not for its children. I need a way to modify this code so that selecting a parent term in the URL will also list the nodes of child terms. Thanks for any help on this: the module is quite small and seems simple enough.


/**
* Implementation of hook_help().
*/
function flexinode_terms_extension_help($section) {
switch ($section) {
case 'admin/modules#description':
return t('An extension to the flexinode module allowing table views by taxonomy term as well as by type.');
}
}

function flexinode_terms_extension_menu($may_cache) {
$items = array();

if ($may_cache) {
$items[] = array('path' => 'flexinode/termstable', 'title' => t('tabular view'),
'callback' => 'flexinode_terms_extension_page_table', 'access' => user_access('access content'),
'type' => MENU_CALLBACK);
}

return $items;
}

function flexinode_terms_extension_page_table($ctype_id = 0) {

// badness:
$term_id = arg(3);
if (!$ctype_id || !$term_id) {
drupal_not_found();
exit;
}

$output = '';
$ctype = flexinode_load_content_type($ctype_id);

// Build the query.
$fields_to_select = array();

I've already tried to resurrect the module for 4.7. I have detailed my efforts to convert the module to the new forms API here:

http://drupal.org/node/19061

However, there are problems and I'm no coder. I'm guessing, however, that the fixes for this somewhat simple module would be a walk in the park for someone. I can create the patch, if someone wants to post the changes to the code. Thanks again for any help on this one...

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