Often there is a need to make some big block of text in the middle of a CCK input form. And on node display, show that same text and the value of the text field. Something like this:

An important requirement is your site admin (often your non-technical client) can edit the text. Any sort of CCK form widget require permission and change to the form. Not easy for plain user.

But CCK fields just don't have any way to include lengthy text. They can have help text which are displayed below the input in gray text. The second problem is I need this text to be shown when the page is displayed but the various modules I found (markup, form_markup) do not show anything on output. So I created the nodeincck module to solve this need.

Drupal core comes with two input formats: Filtered HTML and Full HTML. Filtered HTML format lets both authenticated and anonymous users enter comments and contents safely by limiting the allowed HTML tags to a very limited set with the HTML Filter. Full HTML is indented for admin use only because it allows any HTML tags and attributes to be used. WYSIWYG editors make use of many more tags and attributes to satisfy the full range of format options. Since the HTML Filter is only capable of allow or dis-allow of HTML tags, it is inadequate for complete safety because Wysiwyg editors make use of a large range of HTML tags and attributes. But for safty from XSS and other attacks, HTML tags and and attributes must be very precisely controlled so the Wysiwyg editor can safely render full range of styling format. The Wysiwyg Filter precisely satisfy this need: it lets you specify exactly what tags and what attributes are allowed in such a way that gives you the full rang of HTML tags and attributes required by the Wysiwyg editors and yet keeping the format completely safe. It's a replacement of the built-in HTML Filter.

This module provides a set of pre-made menu links for 'Login', 'Register', 'My account' and 'Logout'. After the user is logged in, he/she is returned to the page from where he/she clicked the login link. The 'My account' link is integrated with the realname module to use the user's actual realname. The 'register' link can be shown to take the user directly to the register page.

The Content Construction Kit (CCK) lets you define custom content type with many different kinds of data fields. The default display and input form are generic looking and may not be the way you like. But the look of the node output and the node edit form are completely customizable. I will illustrate how to do this by making change to the active theme. But at the end, I will show how to do this from a module, which is a better approach because it's not married to the active theme. This is better for site maintenance and allows you to freely switch theme.