With modules like CCK and Views developers rapidly create solutions with little custom module development. What if you need to deploy the same configuration of content types and views on multiple sites? The following example takes the power of the Views and CCK to create a sort of mashup module packaging your views and content type. I find this helpful time saver when having to repeat the same configuration on multiple sites.

While developing a module for search I was looking for a way to override the output of search results before they were displayed out on the page. I flipped through the pages of the book Pro Drupal Development and read about hook_search_page().