Module development and code questions

I've read lot of hooks, but i'm not shure top understand well.

The problem
I need to perfome some more task upon a special event ...
I want that when ... a user change language --> the system could update a series of information based on that parameter ...

for example ...

I'm developing a new module which, among other things, carries out a some updates as part of the cron hook. For the last part of the cron hook, I want to create a new 'story' node which will appear on my front page and let the users know that the updates are complete.

It only happens once a week at most, so I don't care that each one will contain the same or similar text.

What is the best way of creating this new node?

Cheers,
Ian

I setup paypal and ecomerce package on my site for selling some non-shippable goods. I setup the paypal account and put its cert_key_pem.txt file at /home/abc/cert/cert_key_pem.txt . The website is located at /home/abc/public_html/ folder. I put the correct api information received from paypal.com at admin/settings/paypalpro. But trying to purchase something it gives error:

Communication error. Failed to connect to the authentication server. Please try again later.
(libcurl error #35: SSL: error:14094418:SSL routines:func(148):reason(1048))

Is there a way of editing the More link in the block for upcoming events? We have developed our site to have all links with ">>" after them and would like to change the more link to show this also.

Thanks in advance

Chris Hogg

http://www.karate-tring.co.uk

Ok I'm still trying to grasp the concept and terminology of the Category Module - but after reading through all the docs and search on the website I've run into an issue (which I'm sure is just a quick fix).

Atm I have it setup as in this image http://danethomas.net/imagestore/categories.jpg

I have setup the hidden contains below the root containers so the user can enter their content into the correct section.

Hi

I patched the privatemsg module and have found that my users can no longer see how many private messages they have -- although I as admin can see it.

Any ideas?