Views Module in Drupal
TopicLearn to use data from your Drupal site to create customized lists in various forms, such as bulleted lists, grids, calendars, or sliders.
Learn about Drupal’s configuration system and how to manage configuration with both the administrative user interface and command-line tools.
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.
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.
Deployment Workflows
TopicTools and workflows for deploying code and configuration changes from one environment to another with Drupal-specific considerations.
Debug Drupal Code
TopicDebugging is the practice of troubleshooting an application through the use of tools and processes in order to find and fix bugs, or better understand the underlying code.
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.
Drupal manages information and access for all visitors to your site, called users, through a system of roles and permissions.
Web services allow two or more applications to share data and instructions with one another across the Internet.
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.
Forms (Form API)
TopicDrupal provides a standard, secured method for module developers to add forms to a Drupal website. Learn how to use the Form API to build, validate, and submit a custom form.
The process for keeping Drupal core and contributed modules and themes up to date with the latest security and minor version releases.
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.
In order to run a Drupal site, the web server you are using must meet minimum technical requirements.
Drupal's vendor-agnostic database abstraction layer provides an API that can query different underlying databases.
Taxonomy
TopicTaxonomy in Drupal provides a way to classify your site’s content. Taxonomy vocabularies are created with terms within those vocabularies.
Patches are used to describe modifications made to one or more code files, and can be used to share those changes.
Entities are the fundamental building blocks that make up any Drupal site. Having a good understanding of the Entity system is an important part of ensuring the data model of your Drupal site is set up properly.
Modules are bundles of primarily PHP code that extend Drupal in order to add new features or alter existing functionality.