Module development and code questions

Hi all,

I am currently facing a minor problem in my website development and I was hoping someone on this forum could provide some guidance.

I would like to have two distinct types of users on my website: members and publishers. These two user types will need to fill in different information on their user profiles - in addition to being assigned different roles. For example, for members I would be interested in their age, but for publishers, I would be interested in their Company Name.

I am new to Drupal, but am really impressed with the ease of use, good OO nature and elegance of the code and clean look and feel.

I have a problem, though, with the Event/Calendar module. I install it and enable it so that the calendar appears in a side block. However, when I click on the month at the top of the calendar or a day on the calendar where there is an event, I only get a Home >> Events page with two drop down lists. There is no calendar that is displayed in the middle/main column. From one standpoint, the problem is that on the URL, I get index.php?q=event/2005/05/05 (for example). If I append the '/month' on the end, then I do see a month calendar displayed. The problem is similar for clicking on the individual day in the block calendar on the side - there is no '/day' on the end of the URL. Also, selecting anything from the drop down boxes when there is no calendar displayed on the Home >> Events page will not display any of the calendars. I have to explicitly put the '/month' or '/day' or '/week' at the end of the URL.

I am looking into the code and have found a workaround for the month header in the calendar in the side block. I just append '/month' or set $view to "month" and then append '/' . $view to the end of the $headertitle when it is being created. Is this kosher? Am I missing something in all of this? This seems so close, but little things like this will be huge to a new user.

Hi,

I'm currently working on a module that allows users to create labels ready for printing. It should create labels with the snail-mail address of the community members, so that they can be used for paper mailings.

For now, a label definition contains a user defined sql statement, and a layout definition that uses special markup to be replaced with the properties that are retrieved with the sql statement. e.g.:

query : select name, mail from user
layout:

I have been looking through the Drupal code and have been trying to understand how it ticks. I understand the way that the hooks works, but do not understand where the base definitions are kept. I have been going through each of the files in my Drupal installation and do not see a definition of each of the hooks, except for init and exit. Where is this kept? How is it restricting which hooks are implementable?

I'm using Drupal 4.6 and uploaded hof folder under the modules folder.
But now my site gives "page cannot be displayed" error when I try to open the admin/modules page. All other admin pages are normal.
When I delete the hof module, then admin/module page works properly.

Hello there, I'm new to all this -- is there a conference management module (some people call it events management) ie conf. program, registrations, financials etc?

Larry