Responsive Web Design
TopicResponsive web design is a set of design approaches and development best practices that ensures that a web design can be used on many types and sizes of devices.
Modules are bundles of primarily PHP code that extend Drupal in order to add new features or alter existing functionality.
Patches are used to describe modifications made to one or more code files, and can be used to share those changes.
Testing in Drupal
TopicDrupal includes the PHPUnit testing framework. This enables us to write unit and functional tests to attempt to minimize the number of bugs in our application.
In order to run a Drupal site, the web server you are using must meet minimum technical requirements.
Deployment Workflows
TopicTools and workflows for deploying code and configuration changes from one environment to another with Drupal-specific considerations.
Drupal Coding Standards
TopicCoding standards provide a set of rules for how your code should be formatted, and best practice guidelines for naming conventions and the location of files.
PHP
TopicPHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a popular interpreted programming language that is especially suited for web development. Drupal core and all contributed modules are written in PHP.
Contributing to Drupal
TopicAs an open source project, Drupal depends on community contributions in many forms including documentation, code, translation, speaking, organizing events, mentoring others, and even donating money.
Development environments provide a sandbox where you can work on your application without affecting the live site.
Drush
TopicDrush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).
PhpStorm
TopicThe PhpStorm integrated development environment (IDE) contains dozens of useful features that make working with a Drupal codebase easier.
Hooks
TopicHooks allow modules to alter and extend the behavior of Drupal core, or another module. As a Drupal developer, understanding how to implement and invoke hooks is essential.
Blocks
TopicA block is a reusable widget that is placed inside regions (layout containers) of your theme. Blocks can be used by site administrators on the Block layout admin page or provided by a module using the Plugin API.
Learn how to integrate jQuery scripts into Drupal, and how to leverage the JavaScript capabilities of the Drupal API in both 6.x & 7.x
Jeff Robbins and Nate Haug introduce the jQuery and Drupal integrations that we'll be building in this series, based on the foundations of theming, module development, and jQuery.
- How to add jQuery to a theme
- How to utilize Drupal's drag and drop behavior to reorder elements on a page within any form that has orderable items
- Drupal's direct integration with jQuery through the Forms API in Drupal 6 and Drupal 7
- Building a highly optimized AJAX request to Drupal that will return a JSON result
- The JavaScript state system in Drupal 7
Note: The examples in the video span across Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, and jQuery code that will work either in jQuery version 1.2.6 or 1.4.
jQuery Overview
FreeProvides a high-level overview of jQuery to people who are brand new to this JavaScript library.
This lesson shows the steps and code to add on the Drupal side in order to load JavaScript scripts to you site. One thing to note is that the HTML5 placeholder attribute makes this plugin invalid markup.
NOTE:
There is a minor change between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, where you should use function($) to wrap your code. For Drupal 7 you can use:
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#search input.form-text').autofill({
value: Drupal.t('Search...'),
});
});
}(jQuery));