You might want to look at
http://drupal.org/project/feedapi
This project is aimed at providing an api to do some of what you want.
Ideally use cck fields /modules so that the content types that you store can be used with views module, etc. I guess what I'm trying to say is that in this case, avoid creating your own table and use what drupal has.
Dave
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Ole Kerpel Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:29 AM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Developing module
For a project I am doing I need to build the following:
A content type with url (txt), metadata(txt) and tags(txt).
The url comes from a search result from a webservice, metadata and tags can be entered by user.
Do I create a new table for this, or do I use what Drupal offers?
Thanks in advance for the trouble taken,
cerpy