Module development and code questions

In every page I make I have either one image, a file or a gallery. So I figured I would write module that prompts me for a file and formats the node to display/attach the file. What is the correct way to format the content of my modified node. Or am I ment to not use a node and define something else? Even then do I use tables or is there some other way which will work better with the themes etc.

cheers
Laurence

Is anyone thinking about an 'advanced search' module that can let you filter nodes on multiple terms of the same vocabulary or of different vocabularies ???
This could help very much Drupal Users !!

I would be interested in doing it....

Matteo

Using drupal 4.2.0, image.module 4.2.0

When clicking on the 'Read More' or 'Add Comment' links for an image node, I am presented with this error:

I've installed the current event module on my site and I'm having problems with the way it pulls events and places them on the calendar. Here's an example...

http://er7600.com/event/2003/08

The event "Afterburn" that is displayed as taking place on the 1st of August is scheduled to be on the 1st of September. I've checked the node and there's nothing wrong with it as far as I can tell.

What's the best way to write a guestbook.module? (Like a real guestbook with nice links) Not a static page where people can add comments, now but a nice little static texts whith some links under it that say "read the guestbook" and "sign the guestbook"

The random thumbnails weren't working for me -- sometimes I wouldnit get a thumbnail for an album on the gallery page.

When I looked at the code, the query didn't seem to make sense...

A patch follows, although it uses the mysql specific LIMIT clause -- Postgres has something similar, but what is the prefered way of handling this type of thing?

J

--- image/image.module	2003-08-18 12:03:14.000000000 -0700
+++ image2/image.module	2003-08-18 12:08:21.000000000 -0700
@@ -1229,10 +1229,10 @@
     $albums[$term_id]->thumb = $last_update->thumb_path;
 
     if (variable_get("image_gallery_thumb", "last") == "random") {
-      $nodes = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT MIN(nid) as min, MAX(nid) as max FROM {node} WHERE type = 'image'"));
-      $id = rand($nodes->min, $nodes->max);
-      $random = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT i.thumb_path FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {image} i ON  n.nid = i.nid INNER JOIN {term_node} t ON n.nid = t.nid WHERE t.tid IN (". implode(",", $terms) .") AND n.type = 'image' AND i.personal = 0 AND n.nid >= ". $id ." LIMIT 1"));
-      $albums[$term_id]->thumb = $random->thumb_path;
+      $id = rand (0, ($albums[$term_id]->image_count - 1));
+      $result = db_query ("SELECT i.thumb_path FROM {term_node} tn INNER JOIN {image} i ON tn.nid = i.nid WHERE tn.tid = ". $term_id ." LIMIT " . $id . ", 1" );