Module development and code questions

Hello all. I am new to the entire drupal scene still, and now that the academic semester is winding down I am cranking up my drupal developement. Anywho, I am trying to create two things, but they are related to each other. I am attempting create a content type and a module that will allow me to create menu driven system that stirs away from the blog look and feel. I am trying to acomplish this by using blocks, content types, and taxonomy. I have added an extra table called vocabulary_department which holds the vid and varchar that represents a departments name. I am in the middle of constructing a block that will ask you for which department you want to create a block for, and after choosing the department it will create a block with a list of all the vocabulary names the department is associated with as hyper links. These links will point to nodes, for sake of discussion lets call these content types homepages. The goal of the home pages will be to display the children of the parent that directed them to that page, so clicking on a link in the block with all of the vocabularies of a specific department will give you page with all the children/terms of that vocabulary as links. Once again these links will point to homepages that will list the children, in my case would be nodes of type page, for that term in a page. Now I can accomplish this all fine and dandy with php code embeded into the body of blocks and nodes of type page, but I dont want to give not technical people heart attacks with php code, so I want to turn this concept into an offical module type deal.

Hello all! I would very much like to use Pathauto but the 128 character limit is rather annoying, so I've thought of changing it to 255 (or very close).

Has anybody else done this? Would there be any problems?

Thank you!

Right now, I think the project module is lacking in some areas. Here's what I want to be able to do with it:

1) Project heads can invite users to work on their project. Alternatively, users can apply to work on a project. Once head and user have agreed, the user gets listed on a page of users.

2) Project heads can name the positions that their workers hold. They can also upload a mini-image describing the position.

I am currently working on a port of the image gallery that comes with image.module to work with category.module.

One gripe i have is that you loose the image gallery tiled page display functionality of image.module with category.module, so I decided to rewrite it for category.module :)

First attempt at coding with Drupal, but it seems dead easy (im a .net programmer/data analyst by trade), I started with the category_display.module to grab all the required hooks into the category module, rewrote them all.

Hi, I'm trying out the views module on drupal 4.7.
I'm developing a site for a commercial activity. Using the ecommerce module only for what regards product (tangible)
nodes and not really any commerce will be going on (such as shopping cart or paying with credit card on line)
What I would like is to use the views module to only show a fixed number (say 8) of products per page and have a NEXT/PREV
links at the bottom to navigate to the next and previous products pages.

Hi everyone,

i'm looking for abit of advice from anyone out there who is experienced with using Drupal for ecommerce.

I'm making a site in the coming months which will sell guitar tutorials in video format along with a PDF to explain the tut. The site will basically be an archive of songs and lessons that people can buy.

The client wants to reward people everytime they buy by offering customers a discount or points when they buy. Is there anyone out there who has tried with before or will i have to make something custom??