Module development and code questions

Hi, I am pretty new to drupal, spent a few days reading the docs and the forums, haven't really figured out what's the real difference between story and page. Looks like a page is just a story with an additional link that's not shown anywhere? And how is the page type implemented as opposed to the story type?

I am trying to store information about companies, such as name, phone number, address, contact person, etc, and then categorize them using the taxonomy/term system. I am hoping that I can then search by maybe company name, phone number, zip code etc.

I like the ease of adding news feeds with the import module - lots of content for little work.

However, not all the users want to see all the news feeds that I selected (there's just no pleasing some people). Is there an import module look alike that allows users to select from a list, of the site subscribed news feeds, the ones they want to view? I'd be happy with something that only used the user criteria on the "block" view of the news feeds.

Cheers,

Paul

I'm using the htmlarea module on a web-site I'm developing. I'd like to be able to turn it off when non-complient browsers access the web site. Anybody got any hacks (either to the module or to themes) to do this?

Cheers,

Paul

I decided that I needed to put some restrictions on photo's I have on my site. Has anybody else done this? I still wanted anonymous users to view my blog and leave comments, but not look at the pictures. I also wanted users to be able to create an account without having to wait for approval, so I decided just knowing who was looking was good enough for now. I am using Drupal 4.1.0.

installed amazon module as directed. when i click on "amazon" (after enabling it successfully in module section) i get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: la() in /home/.dahli/jmm/tfftech.net/dmain/modules/amazon.module on line 34

looked all over, not been able to find a function called la() anywhere.

what am i missing?

Hi,
I'd like to create a node that displays a chronological list of all posts by a user regardless of the node type and that returns it's own search results.

I'm thinking of fairly simple search results. I'd like site visitors to be able to type in part of a user's name and get a list of possible matches. While this is currently possible, I want the link to point to the chronological list of all posts and not to the user profile page.