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1. Introduction to Module Development for Drupal 7 FREE 5m
2. Helpful tools for module development 6m
3. An overview of the Devel module 14m
4. Drupal API documentation FREE 10m
5. Anatomy of a Drupal module 7m
6. The event-driven hook system 16m
7. Tips for writing secure code 8m
8. Overview of the Drupal menu system 19m
9. Using URL arguments in page callback functions 20m
10. Adding contextual menu links and using menu autoloaders 15m
11. Using the Drupal Render API 14m
12. Attachments and caching with the Render API 10m
13. Altering the page array 7m
14. Integrating with the theme system 28m
15. An Overview of the Form API 10m
16. Creating, submitting and validating a simple form 17m
17. Organizing collections of form elements 8m
18. Creating dynamic forms with the states system 8m
19. Altering forms with hook_form_alter() 11m
20. Altering specific forms and customizing validation 14m
21. Creating a configuration settings form for your module 24m
22. An overview of the database layer in Drupal 7 18m
23. Querying the database with db_select() 17m
24. Adding a table to the database 11m
25. Querying the database with query methods 25m
26. Altering the database 14m
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This video shows how a module can integrate with Drupal's theme system by exposing a new themeable item to the theme registry with hook_theme(), and then creates a function in order the customize the output of that themeable item. The then video demonstrates how the theme layer can override the markup defined with theme functions at the module layer.

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Luco on February 10, 2013 - 4:38am

um, went ahead and I cleared the cache - and realised my website had picked up on the HTML from the TPL file without the need for the spy_glass_preprocess_spy_glass_item described in 22:00. how come?

Luco on February 10, 2013 - 5:42am

also, if I wanted to build two TPLs - one for the page that builds an item list and another for the actual items - how would I go about doing that?

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