Module development and code questions

I discovered Problems with the amazon module and maybe more modules.
You will not see the amazon settings in admin/system/modules after activating it.

The problem is the missing informations in the amazon_system(...) function.
You will need at least something like

function amazon_system($field){
  $system["description"] = t("Make use of the webservices of Amazon.");
  $system["name"] = t("Amazon");
  $system["link"] = t("Amazon");
  return $system[$field];
}

After you have insert these variables in the amazon_system(..) function in your amazon.module you can make the needed settings and sell items through your site.

Tested and implemented at http://www.kloeschen.de/drupal/?q=amazon

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German translation in progress

Apparently, the blog feed is not including the
tag. It would be nice if the module would do this, so that readers who subscribe to a blog via an RSS feed would know when particular items were published.

Dan

Hi,

this is my first drupal module.
I developed this, because i want to know the size of my MySQL Database.

Copy the module into the module directory an activate it on the module page.

Thats all.

Sorry for my bad english :-)

DarkDexter
webmaster of www.infostand.net

Downloadlink : dbsize.module

When i installed a weblink.module, i have created
a taxonomy vocabluary for it.
But when i`m viewing a weblink post - i see two taxonomies:
one is created by a weblink (at the bottom) and it`s needful other is created by node.module(at the top of a post) and viewed as a standart taxonomy.
So have 2 taxonomies for weblink posts and they both become not useful for visitor cause such situation addle and confuse them:)

some suggestions.

I've been thinking about feed aggregation inside a company intranet and am developing some ideas about how company weblogs can be aggregated and archived. It seems to me that this might be possible with import.module and node.module. I haven't really created Drupal modules on my own yet -- except for 1 tiny module I made that makes my home page show recent weblinks, blogs, images in separate lists -- but I am hoping to develop the concept around this one and perhaps get some suggestions on how to proceed.

My concept:
A business weblog aggregator is different from client's news feed readers. A business weblog aggregator would need to...

1) archive collected weblog entries for long-term storage and retrieval

2) provide a richer set of metadata for each entered record. A minimal set of metadata might include: author, title, publisher, URL, subject. Some of these metadata elements should be entered in an automated fashion.

3) provide some semi-automated means of classification via a controlled vocabulary (taxonomy), e.g. where terms occurring in the blog entry text (title, description) are compared with synonyms, phrases, more complex boolean expressions that can be mapped to terms in the controlled vocabulary.

Now, while I think I might be able to handle feature 1 above, I am thinking, as a non-programmer, there is no way I can do 2 and three. So before investigating this further, I want to get your ideas about the possibility of doing this in Drupal.

Hi All,

I have a Drupal site I use to showcase poetry. I would like to have the home page display a random node each time a user comes to it, or to randomly change the nodes appearing on the homepage each day. The idea is to make aure that older poems still get an 'airing' every now and then.

Does anyone have an idea of how I might achieve this? Maybe via a special 'home page' module? I have searched this site but can't find anything which helps me much.

Thanks