Module development and code questions

Hi, I'm the web developer for a non-profit independent library whose been using drupal for about a year now. I'm currently trying to develop a simple searchable catalog for items. So far, the best and easiest combo I've found is flexisearch + flexinode. However, flexisearch seems wraught with bugs that aren't being addressed (such as the search engine doesn't limit it searched to specified flexinodes and it also returns duplicates).

Does anyone know of an alternative to what I'm working with now? Or are their flexisearch patches that I've been missing?

I have some experience with Drupal (20+ installs/configurations) but have not really spent much time "under the hood" creating modules etc. untill recently.

I would like to create a new content type and would like to use a different id/ primary key, pid (player id) as opposed to nid or cid

Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing? Is it just a matter of writing my table that way, and designing my DB calls in to pull that content? Are there other factors that I should consider? API/compatability nightmares down the road?

I wanted to customize the login block (in 4.7) in a way that can't be done with just string replacement, i.e. adding some div and span tags. It appears that logintoboggan used to do this, but decided that it was no longer needed in 4.7.

Greetings,
Can anyone tell me how to modify the taxonomy_context module to keep it from loading the titles of nodes in the block?

This module does exactly what I need as far as loading taxonomy terms from the selected node as a menu block but it also loads a set of titles into the block which make it cubmersome as a menu.

It would be an awesome enhancement to the module to make it selectable whether or not to have node titles/links in the block...

Many thanks

Hello drupal community,

I just installed a voting module (voting-cvs.tar.gz) and I have a problem.

The install instructions read:

Set default workflow settings for nodes. This
allows you to set whether voting should be on or off by
default for specific types of nodes. This option is
set for each type of node by going to:
'administer/content/configure/content types'

This path does not exist in my version of drupal, but I was able to find something in /settings/voting.

When I click on that link I get an error:

I would love a little help setting up the ability to inject spans and imgs into a menu item anchor tag. I have been able to acheive this by hacking the common.inc file on line 1081 from:
return '<a href="'. check_url(url($path, $query, $fragment, $absolute)) .'"'. drupal_attributes($attributes) .'>'. ($html ? $text : check_plain($text)) .'</a>';

to: