Module development and code questions

First of all, I'd like to say how impressed I am with Drupal. It has a lot of great features and runs well on my server. Keep up the good work!

I've done a search in the forums and know this has come up before, but I wanted to know if anyone is working on writing/merging phpBB as a module for Drupal?

phpBB also seems to set the standard for forums (Free ones anyway) and an awefull lot of people use it. I have yet to frind a free one that rivals it in features and performance. vBulleten and Invision Power Board are the only two I have found that come close or beat it and they both cost money.

I understand that people are reluctant to write it into the CMS itself. I've had a discussion about it in another forum. However, I'd still like to see something done for those of us who use it and want to use Drupal.

I don't mean to criticize, but the forum module that comes with Drupal is wholely inadiquate for large complex forums and lacks many features (even if you install notification, post count, and other contrib modules).

I am currently developing a site in Drupal but need to keep my forums as they are. For the time being I have deactivated user registration in Drupal and shut off some of the features like commenting and set others to allow input from unauthenticated users (not a good idea I know).

Well I got a wish and since a lot of people always have wishes I thought about a module which is actually similar to a shoutbox but then limited here is an example. I call it the wishout. Most visitors dont got much to comment but I ams ure they always have wishes.

http://img154.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img154&image=iwishdrupal8df.jpg

have a look, tnx ;)

I have a block page that needs to have links to itself using varaibles, i.e., mypage.php?pg=2, 3, 4 and so on.
I've tried:
?q=node/64/pg=2 and
?q=node/64/mypage.php?pg=2 and several other link strings that don't work.

Any suggestions? my first question to this forum - a forum search didn't help.

Thanks a bunch...

I really like the idea of showing the 'Recent comments' block... so far I have modified it to show just the Subject and the full comment. However, some comments are very very long.

Would somebody be able to add a bit of code which shows the first 6 words of a comment?

Here is the code so far....

Dear all,

I would like to create a simple module (e.g bookmarks) with folder management. Users can create any folders or items on it. In fact, it is similar to the menu system in drupal. But the folders/items should not be stored in the {menu} table in the database. I guess there should be some functions which can be reusable to help me in doing this part. Could anyone give me some ideas ?

Regards,
James

I'm integrating the taxonomy_context module into my site. It works perfectly on the actual node pages, but fails to work on the specific main node type pages (blogs, forums, etc).

How can I get the taxonomy_context block to appear on these overview pages? Am I missing something obvious?