Module Development: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Module
This session will give an introduction to module development for those who fear the module, or specifically getting knee deep in code and writing your own. It will introduce the basic concepts in building a Drupal module and will introduce the concept of hooks to help take knowledge gained from the session further.
During the session, we will build a module that will display a number of simple blocks and demonstrate how to build an administration/configuration page.
The session is a moderately technical session, aimed at those who know their way round Drupal, have PHP skills, have browsed the API and done some work in template.php.
Co-presented by: Alastair Moore and Paul Flewelling.
Code and slides for the presentation can be found at:
http://www.boost.co.nz/blog/ModuleDevelopment.pdf
http://www.boost.co.nz/blog/ModuleDevelopment.zip
and you can check the Boost Blog soon for a blog entry on this very subject.
Speaker: welly
welly
Web developer for Boost New Media in Wellington. I'm from the UK but now living in Wellington. I've been working as a web developer since 1998 and have been working with Drupal for around a year and a half. I've build numerous sites with Drupal (including www.alkane.co.uk, www.asianz.org.nz, www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk, www.adamfrost.co.uk). I've only recently started module development but wanted to share my experience with others that have shied away from building their own modules and give them a little leg up to get started.
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paulf
Originally living in the UK, I came to NZ on a working holiday visa 9 years ago and got stuck here.
I've been a developer for 18 years, building large corporate/government applications and then moving to web apps full-time 4+ years ago after realising the potential of "Web2.0tm"
I'm a firm believer in UX and if you can't show me a design or your designer, I almost certainly won't start the project.
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