In two days learn how to get custom functionality using Drupal’s hook system, as well as how to extend or alter contributed module functionality. Participants in this course will have used CCK, Views and Panels to create websites but have never built their own module. Participants will start writing a simple module to writing a complex module, step by step which uses Forms API, Schema API, all of the top ten Drupal hooks, creates custom database tables.

Fee includes lunch and materials. Please bring your own laptop, if not able to one will be provided for you (please notify us in advance to reserve on).

Learning Goals

Understand Drupal's hook system and development architecture
Learn about the construction of 90% of Drupal modules
Know how to develop simple to complex modules
Know how to insert and extract data using Drupal's core database abstraction layer
Be able to responsibly modify contributed modules using patches.
Understand best practices, security techniques, conventions and coding standards

Course Format

The course is a two day course with a mixture of lecture, demonstrations, exercises and workshop time.

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