Module development and code questions

I'm fairly new to drupal, not new to PHP. I notice a very common pattern in module development when creating form inputs of various types:

$form['formname'] = array(
'#type' => 'checkbox',
'#title' => t('Overwrite'),
'#return_value' => 1,
'#default_value' => false,
'#description' => t('Overwrite the file if it exists.'),
);

I just installed the FlatForum module on Drulpal 4.7.0. I had some problems with combining the template.php (there were two function _phptemplate_variables which resulted in an error), but I think I got it to work.

However, I do not see the avatar picture below the user name in a post. When I click on the user name I can see the picture, but not in the forum. In the node-forum.tpl.php I can see the code:

Has anyone looked into useing Drupal to provide a REST API for end users.

seems like it would be fairly clean and easy to do.

I was looking into a module that would allow me to pick a node and what fields could be exported for a REST url.

say I have a node like a playlist.
I could create url http://www.example.com/REST/view/playlist
and then pick the fields to export such as
Title
Artist
Genre
Year

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.