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Ever need to create additional search blocks for your Drupal installation? One use might be so that you can theme or position the block differently depending on which page the block appears on.

It's actually quite easy to do - all you need to do is create a new module that implements "hook_block" and then create a new block and call the "search_box" function (from search.module) to populate the box with the correct form elements. Here's the code:

Everytime I have to dig a little deeper into the views module, I'm always more and more impressed with the thought that went into the module by Earl Miles and the other authors. A recently had a request from a client to modify the "more" link that is shown at the bottom of blocks that are generated by views.

Let me start this post by saying that I'm not an expert on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I do know the basics about Google's PageRank and keywords, but I've made it a point in the past few months to start getting to know some of the various Drupal modules that can assist in SEO.

SEO is at best an artform. If you're looking for strategies that will guarantee your site a top ranking on Google, you've come to the wrong place.

I recently attended Drupalcon at the Open Source Content Management Summit (OSCMS) held at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, California. Here's a few tidbits I wanted to pass along:

The conference keynote was given by Rasmus Lerdorf , the creator of the PHP scripting language . Rasmus's talk focused on security and demonstrated how easy it is to perform cross-site-scripting (XSS) on various CMSs. The one important rule I took away from the talk: never browse in another window/tab when you're logged in to a site you want to keep secure (banking, bill paying, etc...)

There's some really great stuff going on with video on Drupal. Both the video module and the CCK video field are making great strides.