Learn to customize and extend Drupal's features and functionality
This video is ginormous! Originally, we hoped we'd have two
smaller videos with titles like "Module Development Basics" and
"Advanced Module Development", but they just wouldn't hold up on
their own. We didn't want people to end up with only half the
story, so we decided to just create one massive comprehensive
video with everything you need to know to create Drupal modules
of your own. The result is "Drupal Module Building", the first
Lullabot double-album - 5 hours and 10 minutes of action-packed
PHP coding, Drupal hooks, and Form API arrays. After watching this
video, you'll be a module building ninja, ready to customize and
extend Drupal and bend it to your will!
In this video, James Walker, Jeff Eaton and Matt Westgate walk you
through everything you need to know in order to build, extend and
contribute a Drupal module. Starting with some of the essential
development tools, they'll show you how to use the Drupal API
reference material and explain all of Drupal's major conceptual
systems. After creating the proper files to register the module,
they'll implement a few Drupal hooks that plug into Drupal's event-
driven architecture. You'll learn how to register both static and
dynamic URLs with Drupal's menu system. Then you'll get an
introduction to Drupal's database abstraction layer, how to select
and insert data from it, and how to update the database schema.
You'll learn to securely capture and sanitize user-submitted data
with the Forms API, as well as how to properly alter any other
Drupal form on your site. Finally, you'll learn how to write secure
code, conform to Drupal's coding standards, and how to contribute
your module back to Drupal.org and apply patches provided by the
community.
Over the course of this video, the team builds the Stalker Module,
so head on over and download that module if you'd like to be able
to open the example code and "play along at home".
http://drupal.org/project/stalker
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