Module development and code questions

xMessage

Purpse:
- a block that would show messages of the following type
.........."Joke of the Day"
.........."Prayer of the Day"
.........."Did you know..."
.........."Fact of the Day"

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I hope to learn PHP soon. Until that day comes, (maybe months away) I hope some wonderful Drupal citizens will contribute the first version or phase of this proposed module. Thank you!
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Hi Guys.

Have searched high and low for this - am trying to adapt a module to output a page in drupal as PHP...

e.g.

//** the following line outputs a themed page
print theme('page', $output);

i.e. when you invoke the PRINT command...is there a switch/command that tells drupal to "output this as php"?

Apologies in advance if this is a dumb question..have searched everywhere and there's no obvious indication in the API docs..

Cheers

Dub

the nmoderation module allows users to vote on nodes. i would need a feature which allows the administrator to determine the amounts of votes someone has and to track the votes. there is some funding available and the script would be released on OS basis afterwards.

if someone can add this feature, there is one more site running drupal.:)

I'm trying to track down a bug handling revisions in book nodes. The book module makes reference to a node->revision (as opposed to node->revisions) field. This boolean field gets set by a checkbox in the adminstrative page for a book node. However, I can't find any indication of that revision field in the database. So I can't figure out how its state is maintained across invocations. Any pointers appreciated.

http://drupal.org/project/review

Is anyone using this module?

I can't find where to ADD A REVEIW

- - What I can do...

(1) I can activate it @ Admin > Modules
(2) Edit the "Reviews" menu @ Admin > Menus
(3) Change some end-user view settings for Review @ Admin > Settings > Review

But where do you add reviews?

I would have thought @ Create Content > Reviews? But it doesn't exisit....

I know there has been discussion of overhauling the core for this, but there is a simple way to help declutter the pages: have all content submission modules contain role level permissions. I like having modules like sidecontent, excerpt, and node privacy to help editors display content better, but regular users don't need to, and in some cases shouldn't see this. If all these modules had a hook into permissions so that admin could set who can access these features, it would help declutter for regular users.