If you've been itching to add more whiz-bang excitement to
your Drupal website but felt like you just don't understand
all this Ajax/JavaScript stuff, then this video is for you!
This video builds off of concepts covered in videos such as
Theming Basics for Drupal, Advanced Theming for Drupal, Drupal
Module Development and Introduction to jQuery. This video ties
together these concepts as we delve into Drupal's JavaScript
and Ajax APIs.
Warning: This video covers some higher-level topics and
advanced Drupal alchemy not known to many developers. With a
grasp of the concepts contained in this video, we expect that
you will be transformed into an unstoppable Drupal wizard. We
hope that you will use these powers for good.
jQuery & Javascript in Drupal carefully walks you through all
of the Drupal-specific JavaScript conventions that you'll need
to know to begin integrating jQuery scripts into your Drupal 6
or Drupal 7 websites. You'll get a brief introduction to jQuery
and learn how to add JavaScript code through the theme layer as
well as via a module. You'll also learn how to pass variables
from PHP into your JavaScript files through the Drupal-specific
Drupal.settings variable.
We've written six example modules in this video and we walk you
through each one in order to demonstrate how to integrate jQuery
scripts into your Drupal website. This hands-on approach will
help you learn how to leverage Drupal's JavaScript-related Form
API properties, how to create sortable table forms, and how to
leverage the AHAH framework in Drupal 6 as well as the powerful
Ajax framework in Drupal 7. This video will teach you everything
you need to know to start creating fully Ajax-enabled Drupal
websites. In this video we also explore the new JavaScript states
system in Drupal 7, which allows you to create dynamic form
dependencies and increase the usability of forms in Drupal.
Finally, we'll take a look at some of the ways to keep your
jQuery version up to date and some of the other popular
JavaScript-related Drupal contributed modules.
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