In this tutorial, learn about PHP's built-in magic methods: __toString()
, __get()
, and __set()
.
In this tutorial, learn how to use PHP's built-in interface ArrayAccess
and when you might want to use it.
Additional resources
In this tutorial, learn how to implement PHP's built-in interface IteratorAggregate
to loop over an object.
In this PHP tutorial, we'll introduce Traits in PHP and how you can utilize them to reuse your code.
In modern PHP, you're going to spend a lot of time working with other people's classes: via external libraries that you bring into your project to get things done faster. Of course, when you do that: you can't actually edit their code if you need to change or add some behavior.
Fortunately, object-oriented code gives us some really neat ways to deal with this limitation. In this tutorial, you'll learn a method called composition in which we'll create a wrapper class, which has some subtle advantages over using inheritance.
Additional resources
Object-Oriented PHP (Topic) (Drupalize.Me)
Hands-On Theming
GuideTheming Cheat Sheet
GuideLearn Drupal
GuideAJAX is one of the main reasons to use a Javascript library such as jQuery. See how simple it is to perform a previously difficult task that required complex browser specific code to preform reliably and was prone to simple mistakes. Implement basic AJAX requests using jQuery's built in methods which make it extremely simple to send an asynchronous request to a server, gather the returned data, and insert it into the page.
Example code:
// AJAX Live Function
$('.content p').live('mouseenter mouseleave',
function() {
$(this).toggleClass('hilight');
}
);
// AJAX Example
$('.node_read_more a').click(function() {
var url = $(this).attr('href');
var link = this;
$.ajax({
url: url,
success: function(data) {
var $fullContent = $('#content-output .content', data);
var html = $fullContent.html();
$(link).closest('div.node').find('div.content').html(html);
$(link).hide();
}
});
return false;
});