With the release of Drupal 11.1, there’s a cool new feature for developers: Hooks can now be implemented as class methods using PHP attributes instead of functions. This change is a major step forward in modernizing Drupal’s codebase. While procedural function-based hooks are still supported (and will be for some time), developers writing new code should strongly consider using the object-oriented (OOP) approach introduced in Drupal 11.1.

One of our core commitments at Drupalize.Me is ensuring that our tutorials remain accurate and relevant as Drupal evolves. So we’re working on updating all of our tutorials to take into account the new OOP approach to adding hooks in a module. We’re also aware that procedural hooks have been around for 24 years, and aren’t going to disappear overnight. You’ll see them in example code and existing documentation for a long time to come. So for now we’ll be including both approaches in our content whenever doing so makes sense.

You should plan on learning both approaches, and then using the one that makes the most sense given your specific case.

Continue reading to learn a bit about the evolution of hooks in Drupal core and how to implement hooks as classes in Drupal 11 in this latest Drupalize.Me blog post by Joe Shindelar.

At Drupalize.Me, we've been talking with Dries and folks at the Drupal Association about how we can contribute high quality documentation for Drupal CMS. The plan for Drupal CMS documentation is emerging. We believe Drupal CMS documentation should be a highly polished and organized user guide for end-users of Drupal CMS. And that it should be funded. Why?

This week, we've added 7 new videos to existing tutorials in our Module Developer Guide. The Module Developer Guide was created for developers familiar with PHP but new to Drupal module development.

We have been working on recording, editing, and publishing videos for the step-by-step "task" tutorials in our Module Developer Guide. As many of these tutorials are code heavy, you have the advantage of a video walk-through as well as code examples to copy and paste in the written version of the tutorial. Read more to see which tutorials in the guide now have videos embedded.

When Drupal CMS launched, we built a guide to help users get started—but now we’re facing a big question: how does it relate to the existing Drupal User Guide? Should we keep them separate or merge them into a single, streamlined resource? In this post, Joe breaks down the challenges, and explores what’s next.