Drupal development

Framework architecture

• Drupal Entities - Part 2 - The what, where and when of Entities
• An Introduction to Entities

An entity is a kind of content stack. The entity base table is tied to fields using bundles. Entity types include node, comment, taxonomy term, user profile, organic group, etc. Fields are used to store and display various data types and can be reused. Entity types and fields can be saved as bundles (i.e., types of node).

• http://www.slideshare.net/ronald_istos/drupal-entities-emerging-patterns-of-usage
• http://www.slideshare.net/erikwebb/drupal-7-and-entities-7036807

• How to create a new entity

hook_entity_info - "Inform the base system and the Field API about one or more entity types."

Themes

• Semantics, structure and presentation

• Structure of the .info file
• Default .info values
• Assigning content to regions
• Creating a sub-theme
• JavaScript and jQuery

Templates

• Overriding themable output
• Core templates
• Drupal 7 Template Suggestions
• Theming forms in your theme

• Default theme implementations

Core templates

• node.tpl.php
• block.tpl.php

Forms

For beyond basic content types field layouts;

• http://drupal.org/node/751826

• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/7
  • http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/7
  • http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/group/forms/7
  • http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--form.inc/group/form_api/7

• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/7 - programmer's reference to the Drupal Form API

function milk_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  if ($form_id == 'contact_node_form') {
    $form['actions']['submit'] = array(
        '#type' => 'submit',
        '#value' => t('Send'),
    );
  }
}

• hook_form_alter
  • A Very Introduction to Drupal's hook_form_alter()
  • Hook snippets: hook_form_alter

• Basic Form with submit button

JavaScript

• http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/drupal-7-javascript-developers

• Adding JavaScript to your theme or module
• http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--common.inc/function/drupal_add_js/7

<?php
  drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('theme', 'mytheme') .'/my_js_file.js', 'theme');
?>

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