Drupal development

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

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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