Saturday, March 10, 2012

** Other Drupal developer Links

This post will be my site of reference for all drupal developer's website that have tutorial on drupal specifically on modules and theming.


  1. http://www.jerdiggity.com/how-to/drupal/ - a site that shows basic module creation. Suitable for beginner level and not for intermediate. Doesn't show any tips & tricks and not so much details.
  2. Drupal Tutorial - Tips and Tricks - the last update i've checked was on May 2011, last year. I presumed this site is already dead and not updated. Anyway, just for my reference there's no harm reading his effort.
  3. Youtube administrating Drupal - This is a site that show the Drupal Administration Guideline based on Videos. I found it rather helpful because the video content is pretty detail. One video in particular that i first watched was about backup and restoring Drupal dB into different site. This could be a handy-reference once i'm in my heavy gear of managing my own drupal site. Currently it is loaded with 204 videos comprising other web areas such as HTML, CSS and some Photoshop tips & techniques.
  4. Build a Module - This site contains hundreds of videos on the how-to and tutorial of Drupal. It goes in-depth on the understanding on Drupal covering from the very basics such as installing & managing Drupal from the view of administrator up to creating your very own module. The specialty of this site from my opinion is that it's just not showing how to create module but also explains in detail how drupal works; eg: how do the basic functions work inside drupal(or how do they inter-relate) - module_init() -> module_permission() -> module_menu() -> module_c???(). module_invoke_all(), etc. Anyway it is a paid website but affordably cheap of USD23/mo for full membership. module_cron() laaaa. The YouTube also stores some of their videos.
  5. Youtube - Creating Drupal Module with dB - This is a video at youtube from one author that presents his writing of drupal module codes and being cramped up into 5minutes show. despite his 5-min-video, i think his attempt of showing all the required functions, hooks and file structure really a good reference for a beginner. In short it is compact, inituitive and ample of info for drupal novice to be able to write his own module. He has touched on filemodule.install, menu, form and block view. (1)filemodule.install is a file that drupal executes during activation, (2)menu has hook_menu() that enables the admin to open up specific module-related content, (3)form - he explains on how to create form and form submission. (4) Block - shows how the content inside the dB is displayed at drupal site.

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