Module development and code questions

I was recently reading about Ohmynews and they have a tipping 'service' which allows readers to make donations to individual authors. As I am aiming to have a similar 'citizen journalism' site, I would love to have this feature.

Is there any way to set up the donations or the paypal tip jar modules to do this? As far as I can tell, they only work sitewide with one account.
Alternatively, would it be possible to create a module to allow people to tip individual users and authors?

Hey there,

After reading many posts and this excellent description of the menu generation process - http://drupal.org/node/10901 - I have questions of exactly how to start building a module to supplant the menu items and links derived from the menu callback with icons. It would seem there are a few ways to do this:

1) possibly with CSS : to implement this properly I think you would have to patch core to add/have both an 'id=' and a 'class=' to the menu output so that you end up with, for example

Hello everybody!

So... I'm starting to write my own module for drupal.
I did not find a downloadable version of drupaldocs.org.

Is it available?

I still have a dial-up connection and I can't go online everytime
I need to read an api documentation.

Is it also available the Drupal handbook?

Thanks.

Fabio

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I'm taking a stab at writing a flexinode field and was wondering if there was any API documentation that I'm missing. I looked around and didn't find any. I searched through the flexinode.module code and found what I think appears to be a comprehensive list of all hooks that are called:

By default, when you access a taxonomy term, Drupal lists all of the nodes under that term with its teaser, author, etc.

Can someone recommend to me the best way to modify a specific taxonomy term such that when it is accessed, it will list only the node title and author (and perhaps some other field)?

In the past, I've simply hacked code to do this, but since I tend to do this for every Drupal installation I do, I'm wondering if someone can help me with the design of a module that will allow this. Iknow that there's a number of modules that will provide lists, such as project and forums, but I would ideally like this to NOT look like a forum. I really want to have customized fields for the node that are displayed. In theory, this kind of display would cooperate very well with flexinode so you candisplay a summary list of flexinodes with appropriate information.

What I want to do with my Drupal site is to maintain a community of role-players. I want players to be able to maintain their own characters online and to access other people's characters. I am thinking of creating a flexinode type to represent a character, and placing them all under a taxonomy "Characters". When someone browsing the site clicks on "Characters", they get a table displaying the character's name and the player's name. I don't want to use a book because it's not really a book, and although the forum works, it's not as nice to want to access a character list, and then you stumble across a forum page.