Just a quick one this, and not strictly Drupal related - but might save you some time when you are writing modrewrite rules to rewrite legacy URLs.
The problem : We had a whole bunch of legacy URLs in the format index.php?Page=SomePageHere which we needed to rewrite to point at some shiny new Drupal URLs.
You have to be a little careful with this one, but there are many times when in would be very handy to have HTML in your Drupal menu items. For example, you might want your Drupal menu to have a <br> to force a break, or perhaps insert a <span> around some content to get a two-tone menu item
Add the following to your Drupal theme's template.php file
The Drupal search block form is one of those things that gets used in most themes, and frequently needs a bit of themeing to bring it in line with your target design.
The following snippet (which needs to live in your template.php file) will change the word "Search" in the submit button to "Go", and will add a title to the search terms box ...
The contact page exposed by the Drupal contact module is great, it allows you to put together a contact form quickly and easily. But there is one small(ish) problem, the header text for the form is being filtered - which prevents you from using certain tags (for example embed). We found this problem when trying to embed a youtube movie onto the drupal contact form.
One of the classic Drupal problems that catches a lot of newbies out is the memory error exhausted error. Typically you get this on the modules page - but it could appear almost anywhere.
Its nothing much to worry about and can be easily solved by following the advice posted here http://drupal.org/node/76156
Its always the way, you go months without dealing with flash in Drupal when all of a sudden you get 5 people all asking the same thing, how do you deal with flash in Drupal.
We use the swftools module (http://drupal.org/project/swftools), these excellent modules give you an easy way to embed flash objects in your Drupal site. We will cover the basics of adding flash content to your Drupal site below.
There are times when it's necessary to add some additional markup to a particular menu item, for example a link to DrupalMinds might need a strong tag around the Drupal portion.
This can be achieved in a couple of ways, both using a very similar theme override.
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