maanas

Drupal batch api is one of the modern and web 2.0 api which gets over the limitation of max_execution time of php script. If you are dealing with a large amount of data or function which does a multiple update. Then batch api is the way to go.

yum is easy to use tool for upgrade of the various components on linux machine.

Cetos comes with php 5.1.4 and php 5.2.6 is must for today's application as there has been a lot of change in php 5.2.6
You can install php 5.2.6 from the Centos Test repository. I prefer test repository.

#wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo
# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-testing list \*php\*


You also need to install php-mbstring on centos to work properly.


# yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c5-testing install php-mbstring


http://www.davidnewkerk.com/book/export/html/35

I was trying to access $_GET variables in drupal. After a long search when i did not find any thing. I decide to give a try by writing a module which give the $_GET variables.

To my surprise drupal support the $_GET variables.


switch ($_GET['op']){
case 'action':
{your code here}
break;
case 'message':
{your code here}
break;
}


The URI parser is excellent it cleanly removes the path url which is available in arg(n) and the variables after ?op is cleanly stored in the $_GET['op']