Overview
This course has been created for junior Drupal developers.
Requirements
Basic Drupal user knowledge, PHP and MySQL practical knowledge
Course Outline
Drupal Core
- Drupal Architecture
- Inversion of Control (IoC)
- Drupal Core Modules
- Menu Creation Process
Drupal Modules
Creating Own Module
- Info files
- Module files
- Install files
- Updating exiting module
- Disabling and uninstalling modules
Hooks
- Core Hooks
- Modules Hooks
- Defining Own Hooks
- Implementing Basic Hooks
Database Abstraction Layer
- Executing queries
- Inserting, updating and deleting rows
Forms
- Create a Form
- Validate a Form
- Multi Form Sites
- Add and modifying validation of existing form
- Overriding default submit functionality
Theming
- Theming Engines
- Using default theme functions
- Overriding theme function in a theme
- PHP Template
- tpl Files
- Variables
- theme Function
- CSS Inclusion
Caches
- CacheAPI
- Utilizing Caches in Modules