Module development and code questions

I am developing a module that is controlling access to content. However, at the moment, despite having given what I think is access to a given node to the anonymous user the front page is empty (or at least it asks him to create the first admin account). I want to track down what is happening. Can anyone tell me in which module the contents of the front page are constructed

Thanks

Currently I'm trying to update the guestbook module for drupal 4.4 (http://drupal.org/node/7673) to 4.5.
Within the entries I want to display the user picture of registred users with an uploaded picture in their profile using the theme_user_picture($account) function.
Unfortunately this function returns nothing, although user pictures are enabled an the user has an uploaded picture.
What I'm doing wrong, or is there an other (better) way to display the picture?

Hi,

I am very glad to see the enhancement in 4.5.0 release in term of blogger api module. Thank you.

But if calling the newly added function "mt.publishPost", categories of the post lost .

Regards,

Yiyi Sun
http://www.wbeditor.com

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/NotJustUsability.html

I'm in the process of migrating from phpBB2 to drupal. I'll post my migration script soon. (If I had a nickel for everytime I've seen that sentence on the drupal.org website).

I worked up a theme to make phpBB2 work more like the joelonsoftware discussion pages. I'm thinking that somewhere between the graphical clutter of the basic phpBB install and the stripped down joelonsoftware forums is a good middle ground.

Options we have
By default, drupal brings "upload" module that allow us to attach files to nodes that we create. We can test this by enabling the "upload.module" and then by adding a new node (e.g. page) we see an "Attachments" section.

Then we have "filemanager" that says that "Modules using this repository don't have to deal with filenames, directory, size limits, or creating download URLs."
While the module description resumes what the "settings" panel has (and it's very good), unfortunally I don't seem to know how to work with it. How would I use it to attach files to nodes or just upload files to the server?

"Filestore2" has the name indicates, provides a repository of files. This module has the functions needed to upload a file (has a node) and add to it some information fields. It also provides an hook to upload (one file) when we are adding nodes of other type. "Filestore2" uses "fscache" API to work with files.

What we need
Has you see there are quite some options (and that is exactly the problem) but none of them satisfies completely the need of a "file managment" enviroment.
What do we really need for "file uploading"? Basicly we need:

• upload files has a node type, so it can have a diferent layout and fields to fill
• the option to attach one or more files to any node type
• the administrative option to control all files (within a big list), see the downloads of every one, deactivate, control download permissions
• enough settings to set limits and control upload permissions

Are there any plans for modules like Wiki and Article to be ported to 4.5?

Thanks,
Vishal.