Drupal 6 for Developers Training Course

Node ID: 1341
 

Duration

14 hours
 

Requirements

Drupal user knowledge, basic PHP or any other procedural language (like C, Pascal, VB or other) required

 

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Overview

This course has been created for developers, architects, project managers interested in developing with Drupal 6 platform.

The participants will learn how to override existing functionality and how to write deployable modules.

 

Course Outline

What is New in Drupal 6

  • Architecture changes
  • New hooks
  • Form API changes

Drupal Core

  • Drupal Architecture
  • Inversion of Control (IoC)
  • Drupal Core Modules
  • Menu Creation Process

Drupal Modules

Creating Own Module

  • Module name, directory and group
  • Module dependencies
  • Installation scripts (hook_install, hook_uninstall)
  • Updates (hook_update)
  • Database schema changes during an update

Hooks

  • Core Hooks
  • Modules Hooks
  • Defining Own Hooks
  • Implementing Basic Hooks

Database Abstraction Layer

Forms

  • Create a Form
  • Validate a Form
  • Multi Form Sites

Theming

  • Theming Engines
  • PHP Template
  • tpl Files
  • Variables
  • theme Function
  • CSS Inclusion

Caches

  • CacheAPI
  • Utilizing Caches in Modules