Module development and code questions

Basically I want some blocks to be seen on both their taxonomy page, say taxonomy/term/5, and also on their page type, say type "agent." Right now to get this done I have to create 2 blocks. Are there any modules or hacks that extend the visibility options of blocks?

Thanks.

I suppose this will be pretty easy. I need a PHP block I guess that pulls nodes from taxonomy "agent" and orders them alphabetically. One more wrinkle, the Title is actually the agent's full name, it would be nice if I could sort by his last name. I don't know if there's an easy way to do that in the SQL. I'd like to do it this way instead of having a menu where I manually have to add names and sort them with weight (we all know that's a beating).

Thanks for the help.

I asked this question before but I think I worded it in a confusing way, so I'll try again.

Lets say I have a file called data.xml which calls template.xsl as a transforming template. How can I get the transformed results of data.xml to appear as content within a node?

I have previously done an SSI-like function as a PHP tag within the body of my node, but the same technique doesn't work with XML and I don't know enough about it to know why.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Sean

I've got a couple of questions concerning a module I'm creating:

I am using Drupal 4.6 with the theme Pushbutton.
Whenever I do an action command, I get a dialog box that says 'Configuration options complete'. All is well. I go to another page.. and it comes up again.

What is happening is these actions are not being cleared. So after making a few adjustments I've got an entire page of confirmation messages.. and they don't go away until logout, or emptying of the session table.

Is this a template issue causing the session information not the be cleared on page load? Or is this an issue with session management on the server end?

Hello,

I am developing a node module that involves access to a different type of database using a different set of database access functions. Certain important node hooks ask for a return value that is a query result resource. The problem would be solved if there is a way to return a query result resource that imitates the expected result resource? Is there a standard advised way to do this?

Alternatively, is there any way to get around using a query result resource to return data, so that the module hooks can provide data from other sources?