Module development and code questions

Hello everyone,

I have Image and Img_Assist installed on my 4.7 site and I am quite happy with the way they work together. However, I am concerned that the way Image files are currently being stored--all in the same directory--will become a major problem for me once we pass a threshold of several hundred images.

I did consider switching from Image to Acidfree, as it works with FileManager, but I'd rather not go this route as it does not work well with Img_Assist, and I don't really need the extra functionality it offers.

Has anyone added fields to the view module. I need to display the body of an event to the list view and would love to see an example if anyone has done this before.

THANKS!

Hello

I have been translating forums to finnish , i have manage to translate allmoust all of content, but now i have a little problem how can i translate on to of forums page http://127.0.0.1/?q=forum "Forums" text to another.

It dosen't translate with localization tool.

I'm creating a module to handle dynamic dns and bind administrative functions and I thought I'd put this out there in the hope that someone may have some ideas of the hurdles I'm going to come across. Here's a bit about the poject:

The goals are:
1) DNS Update Gateway Operation:
Allows the server running drupal to act as a gateway to update someones dns records using dynamic updates. The dns server is not neccessarily the drupal server but it could be.

2) Zone Administration:
Web interface to add and remove resource records from a zone. An administrative backend to allow modifications to all zones handled by the server and a user's front end to allow self serve to a user's own dns zone.

Appeal of drupal for this project:
User database and security system is already done and the separation of back-end and front-end functionality is useful also.

It seems like a relatively small project but no doubt it will be 3 times more consuming than I expect depending on how many features end up being implemented. My current ddns solution is in perl so to get things rolling the functions to add, remove and update dns records will just call the relative perl script but I have a view to using the pear Net::DNS to keep it all php so I'm allowing for this.

Some issues I see:
The module would add some tables to drupal and I'm not sure at this point how to make it work with the data abstraction layer. Are there docs about this somewhere - I have looked, there's so many (which is what I like about drupal coincidentally) a point in the right direction would really be appreciated.

i've been hired to build several mobile/wap/phone display module for drupal cms.

I want to do something similar to the l() function - but it don't want html markup in return.. I want just the URL which i'll then use in my custom hook to display in varying non-html markup (wml, mcd etc) or in a sms response.

Can anyone tell me the "right" way to get the correct url, i.e. including pathalias and any other changes made by other modules.

and - is there documentation somewhere for the l() function? i'm getting lost in the drupal handbook..

I currently run a site and we use the Views module to try and sort our queue in order of how many votes it has . Now this seems to work fine for our front page, but on the queue page the view sort seems to have no effort at all! The settings are identical for frontpage and for queue (expect front page has stickies above voting results and queue doesn't have anything sorting of stickies).

The criteria I've used is:

Voting result --- Descending

Works on the frontpage but not on the queue page.