Module development and code questions

Before I post this a feature request, wondering if anyone has tried something like this? What happens when a user has their own blog somewhere else and wants to syndicate it your drupal site. I suppose with blogger they could just dump html into their own blog and never touch it again, although the entries would be grouped weird. I was thinking it would be cool if there was an option for a user to enter the RSS of their blog from another site, and somehow have the content show up in their own blog. Is this possible that anyone knows of?

Still working on a very simple "check-out" module. I have looked at the discussion about locking nodes to prevent concurrent competing updates, however this does not really address my problem which is actually very standard in document management systems.

The purpose of the module is very simple: whenever a user edits a node, the module "checks out" the node for editing, by applying an exclusive logical edit lock to the node. This prevents anybody else from editing the node until the lock is removed.
The big difference with the proposal described in the link above lies in the removal of the lock, which is done by the requesting user "checking in" the document when he has finished editing. To allow this the module will provide:
a) an extra checkbox in the node edit form: if the user leaves this unchecked, then the lock is removed when the "submit" button is pressed; if the user leaves it checked, then the lock remains in place AFTER the submit button has been pressed. The document is now "checked out" and will remain locked for editing by anybody other than the person who checked it out.
b) an adminstration module for "checking in" documents which got forgotten by their editors for example.

I'm not planning anything sophisticated (no version control etc etc), and the module is basically all cribbed from path.module.

However, I would like to tidy up the error handling: at the moment, if a user tries to edit a "checked out" node, I can easily get the module to provide an error message to the user in the node EDIT view. However, this is not very satisfactory since the purpose of the error message is to inform the user that the node is inaccessible for editing because already checked out by another user. I really want to provide an error message and display the node VIEW view (a bit like the nice green message you get when you've finished editing). But I can't see how to switch the flow from within nodeapi away from EDIT and towards VIEW.

Hi there,

is it possible to use the glossary.module to describe some fields in the profile modul? (Drupal 4.5.1)

For Example:

Profile Field:
(freeform list) responsibilities: Server-Administration, Module Development

Now I want to describe what Server-Administration is this case should be.

I've been wondering for sometime now whether they is any small module/util out here which one can use to see the total content(text, images etc) used/uploaded/submited by a user for all node types. Or whether it was possible to create something small to limit users' total upload/submissions to any node.

And there is one now, what would I need to know to start creating such a mod? i.e. any other mods I could modify, steel some ideas? functions...

Hiya guys,

I'm toying with the idea of developing a Voice over IP or Voicechat module for a drupal community based site.

Voice over IP is quickly becoming one of the hottest things on the web...where two people can talk to each other phone-2-phone over the internet very very cheaply...the phone call basically goes across the internet as opposed to the phone lines..if you know what I mean.

So, my idea is very simple and am wondering what other drupalers think or if you guys have had experience of doing same/similar:

the functionality would be very simple:

a) in a drupal built community - not only would members be able to text chat online in the chat area (already possible via chatbox.module), but they would be also be able to have voicechat functionality...i.e. member AA clicks on a little phone icon that appears if the member ZZ is online...and connects the two in a voice chat. like a phone call..but simply computer-2-computer chat via the internet.

That's it. I think it would be very valuable for commercial/community based networking sites, for example. the text chatbox module is fine for community sites built around similar interests..but I'm thinking of taking that a step further...

I am fairly new to drupal..php etc. but I have managed to teach myself just about enough to "create" my first module...so what I'm doing now is checking out how other voice over IP systems work...or how webphones work with a view of just picking up on the core php that makes them work.

Hello everybody!

I need to do a little hack on this module... basically I've changed it a bit to have it on 3 columns and alphabetically.

Now I need to put a seperation between the terms. I.E.

C
Cars
Catering
CIdontknow

D
Database

so...... $term... how does it work? I am not really confy with objects.