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Creating my own newsticker module
I need to construct a newsticker for Diálogo Digital. We have been re-redesigning our news site for about 8 weeks now (except for the web designer that prepared the plain HTML/CSS files) I am alone. Initially I felt inclined to use a community provided (contrib) module, but here were my options:
- http://drupal.org/project/newsticker
It is built for Drupal 6, uses JQuery's serialscroll plugin, outputs the newsticker into a block. Does not use Drupal's node system.
- http://drupal.org/project/views_ticker
Built for Drupal 5 only, so it wasn't really an option.
Károly Négyesi on Drupal 7 APIs: scalability mindset
Károly, or better know on the #Drupal community as ["Chx"](http://drupal.org/user/9446 "Chx member profile"), is a renowned drupaler who writes for http://drupal4hu.com and can be almost always be found giving support to fellow community members at the #drupal IRC channel.
He has contributed many #drupal patches, and on this video, he enlightens us of the upcoming Drupal 7 API architecture, very important:
Overriding Drupal 6 taxonomy pages HTML output
So you are using the devel module to see what preprocessing and #theming functions are getting called in the page-taxonomy.tpl.php pages in your #Drupal installation (hereafter simply referred to as taxonomy pages). Are you wondering who is generating all that stuff inside the $content variable? Why can't you get an array of $node objects, just like when you get a single $node object when viewing each individual node page? [inline:devel_page_taxonomy.PNG=page-taxonomy.tpl.php $content variable viewed with the devel module]
Drupal 7 - What's new (from an end-user perspective) ?
By: Davy Van Den Bremt of www.drupalcoder.com






