Module development and code questions

I have pathauto controlling the alias' for all my nodes, however I am noticing some peculiarities with it.

Firstly, all my categories (taxonomy definitions) do not have the spaces removed and replaced by the "-" which i have specified. So the url ends up being "mysite.com/category name" which is pretty bad.

Secondly, how do i put a trailing "/" at the end of each alias? From my research in SEO, google prefers either an extension such as html, or a "/" to indicate a directory. I have set it in pathauto to put a trailing slash on the end, but it never does it.

I just finished a Ajax powered shoutbox (based on chategory).
Now I am trying to imporve it and one of the thing that I wanna do is to have "auto url link" thingy.
I replaced the http://... with link, which didn't do the trick.

So, could anybody plz point me to the right direction of how to do this ? I've looked at the APIs such as t, l, url and the hook_filter but have no clue how to use it.

Thanks a bunch!

I'm hunting for the 4.4 versions of some non-core drupal modules using the cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs interface. Inside the drupal/drupal/modules directory, I can see all the core modules, and can choose to filter according to the DRUPAL-4-4 tag. But inside the contributions repository (drupal/contributions) my only options to filter seem to be the MAIN and HEAD tags. This despite the fact that versions of individual contributed modules do seem to have been tagged with DRUPAL-4-4. Any advice?

Hi,

another problem:
I need to add some more fields to the user table (or create a new linked table with some fields).
Whats the best way to do that ?

. modify the user.module (probably I will have some problems on the new future versiono of drupal)
. inherits (in witch way?) the user.module and enhance his functionality
. create a new module and link in some way the functionalities of both

Any idea?

Thank's

Marcello

Hello everyone, I've been happily chugging along, trying to get my entire Drupal site going using PHP5 and PostGres 8.x

I've finally run into something that I don't think is a bug, but it sure seems illogical to me, and I can't figure out what the statement is trying to accomplish, so therefore I can't seem to convert it into a compliant SQL statement.

The following code is generated by the forums module.

Does anybody know if there already is a module that allows to select specific nodes and then automatically generate a newsletter from their abstracts?

Thanks for any hint,
Peter