Formatting standards cover things like the use of whitespace, how to format control structures, and other aspects that affect your code's appearance and format.

In this tutorial we’ll talk specifically about standards regarding formatting. This is by no means an exhaustive list of PHP syntax rules, but rather is focused on formatting standards for Drupal.

By the end of this tutorial you'll know about the most common Drupal code formatting standards as well as where to find more information when questions arise.

Translations have their own special functions in both Drupal 7 and 8, and there are some rules for standardizing how they are used that make things clearer for everyone.

In this tutorial we'll look at:

• When to use, and when not to use, translation utilities to output translatable strings
• How placeholders work in translatable strings
• Tips for creating links inside of translatable strings

By the end of this tutorial you should know when, and how, to make strings in your code translatable using Drupal's translation utility functions.

Once you know what code standards are and why you should use them, you need to learn how to implement Drupal coding standards in your projects. This tutorial will walk through some of the steps you can take to make this as easy as possible. We'll cover:

• Configuring your editor or IDE to warn you of coding standards violations
• Setting up the Coder module and phpcs to scan and review your code
• Performing team code reviews

By the end of this tutorial you should be able to configure your development environment and implement processes in your workflow that help to ensure your code meets Drupal's coding standards guidelines.

Before you dive into using coding standards it makes sense to understand exactly what they are and why they’re important, generally and specifically in the Drupal community. In this tutorial we will look at:

• What coding standards are
• Why following coding standards is a good idea
• Where coding standards come from

By the end of this tutorial you'll have a better understanding of what coding standards are, and why you should be adhering to them when you write code.

Goes through how to implement the AHAH framework in Drupal 6 in order to provide more dynamic interactions on a Drupal form.

See how the new JavaScript APIs and ajax framework in Drupal 7 allows you to implement dynamic behaviors without having to register a menu callback in the menu system or to write any jQuery code.

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.

Provides 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));


Goes over the Macro Maker demonstration module in order to show what functionality we will be building over the next couple of chapters.

Shows how to pass variables from the PHP and Drupal side over to the front-end JavaScript scripts that are running so that you can use the Drupal interface to create customized settings that will appear in your jQuery scripts.

Goes into depth about some of the JavaScript constructs and tools that Drupal provides when writing JavaScript for Drupal. Topics include using Drupal.behaviors and variable settings.

There where a couple of changes to the Drupal.behaviors system for D7. You can find out more information about the changes here: http://drupal.org/update/modules/6/7#drupal_behaviors

And more general information about using the new system here http://drupal.org/node/756722

Once you've converted from the old Drupal.behaviors.myModule = function(context) to the new syntax

Drupal.behaviors.myModule = {
attach: function(context, settings),
detach: function(context, settings)
}

The rest is pretty much the same.

Shows the steps involved in converting a regular table into a table that is sortable by columns that you specify.

A review of the Form API properties that provide interactive user interface elements by automatically adding JavaScript behaviors to the form elements.

Create dependencies between form elements so that you can show/hide or disable/enable one form setting based upon the form state of another from setting.

Go on a brief tour of other jQuery and JavaScript-related contributed modules that are worth knowing about.

A review of all of the material covered within the jQuery & JavaScript in Drupal series.