Module development and code questions

Hi everyone,

I requested a CVS acct about two weeks ago so I could submit a "mypage" module. I haven't heard back. I think my module is quite useful. In fact, although it doesn't handle node permissions, as you've been discussing, it does solve the opposite problem, which is allowing the user to filter content so he/she only sees posts that are in the categories he/she chooses.

The create content menu for personal blogs states:

"The most interesting blog entries or those blog entries that fit the site's topic well might get promoted to the front page by the community or by users with the access do this."

A great idea, but I have not found a way for the community to do this. I am interested in commissioning a module for the Drupal project and would like to hear what others think about it. I would like to have a mechanism to allow the community to promote blogs or other nodes to the front page. It could work like this:

Below each blog, users would see a form with a "Vote to Front Page?" option. Using this, users could register their approval (or not) of the current Blog.

A script could run at a user defined interval that would go through the days blogs, pick out the most highly rated one(s), and slap it/them on the front page. There would obviously be thresholds involved. Like a story node, it would have to have a certain number of votes before it will appear on the front page. The actual thresholds would be user definable.

Ideally, you could change your vote at any time during the day, and nobody will be able to see your vote until the blog actually makes it to the front page. This could be helpful to stop it turning into a popularity contest. Another threshold should be available to define the number of days votes are counted and possibly another threshold for minimum number of votes. The idea is to have 1 or 2 blogs per day filtering over to the front page no matter what.

Does anyone have a clean event.module that functions in the current cvs? I have tried numerous times and keep getting "page not found" errors. I hate to go back to a 4.4 after all the trouble updating. I see that there are patches for the module, but that assumes an already properly functions in the system, so I know SOMEBODY has to have one that works. TIA

Hello,

How do you set permissions on the download module?
It is showing up under the navigation menu when users are logged out.
I have the module working, but it shows the following in navigation menu which shouldn't be showing up.

* create content
o download
* downloads

Any ideas as to how I can set permissions so that the navigation menu will not show up?

Thank you.

I didn't really know where to post this, so this place seemed appropriate. I would like to extend the event module so that it supports more than one calendar based on terms under the calendar vocabulary. I feel it would be fairly easy to do by changing the SQL syntax that grabs the calendar information. I assume this could be done by JOINing using the node's tid in the table term_node. This is of course just a guess based on what info I understand, that being not much.

I have been working on automatically rendering some site statistics in scatter plots. The utility does not handle arbitrary plots. It shows a set of six scatter plots. Some of the functionality could be extended to generating generic scatter plots. However, that is way beyond the scope of what I want to do. I do plan to make this a real Drupal module in the near future.