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Fixing Apache on CentOS/RHEL 5 for Drupal

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While not strictly a requirement, in the interests of not having crazy URLs on your Drupal site it's recommended to set up your web server to support .htaccess files. This will let you have URLs like "/products/cool/stuff" instead of "?q=products/cool/stuff" - obviously much nicer, and better for both usability and search engine optimization.

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Removing the acquia_subscription_status menu

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For a Drupal site I was developing I originally tried out the Acquia distribution but ultimately dropped it in favor of the vanilla core release. In doing so I also removed the custom Acquia modules that provided integration with their network as I wasn't going to be using it either. All was good, except that the admin menus retained an unneeded menu item named "acquia_subscription_status" that just linked to acquia.com - I had to vanquish it!

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Disabling the Views_Bulk_Operations default view

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The Views_Bulk_Operations module for Drupal is really pretty awesome, out of the box it solves one of the top 5 problems newcomers have with Drupal - the standard content admin page, /admin/content/node, does not include a field to search for content by the title, instead you have to do a search in the main search engine and then click the edit link, presuming you haven't hidden it or something.

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Fixing update_sql() to accept parameters

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A pretty simple yet cool feature of Drupal's db_query() function is that you can pass in parameters that will make it automatically adjust the query to correctly escape the arguments. This is one of the simple security features in Drupal as it will properly escape the string to avoid SQL injection attacks, and just simply safe you hassle. Good stuff!

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