[development] What is the similiar Joomla-Mambot in Drupal?

[Drupal Indonesia]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Khalid B" <kb at 2bits.com>
To: <development at drupal.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [development] What is the similiar Joomla-Mambot in Drupal?


> On 10/11/06, Drupal Indonesia <support at drupal-id.com> wrote:
>> I want to extend blogger.module with blogheader feature. What do I need is
>> something like mambot in Joomla. The mambot can add on before/after a page.
>> So, when use click on http://localhost/drupal/blog/2 then the Blogheader 
>> (this
>> is a new field on the user profiles) will be displayed on the top of this 
>> blog
>> page.
>>
>> I need any doc or link that can help me doing this task in Drupal. Better if 
>> oen
>> can show me any Drupal module that work like mambot.
>
> A Mambot is a "small, task-oriented function for Joomla! software.
> Joomla! mambot intercepts content and manipulates it in some way
> before it's displayed. Joomla! provides a number of Mambots in the
> core distribution."
>
> Therefore, there are many ways in Drupal to do these things:
>
> - hook_init() http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_init
>
> - hook_footer() http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_footer
>
> - Conditional PHP in page.tpl.php
>
As a new dev I am searching almost all module that works like mambot. 
Unfortunately, Drupal module page has no classification/category, thus difficult 
for me to pick the right one. Could you help me point to any sample module that 
works like mambot? also, the hook_init() 
http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_init contain too small info for a 
new dev like me.
Regards.