Drupal 7 Module Development

Table of Contents
Tools for developing Drupal code 20
Version control with Git and CVS 21
The book's code and Git 21
The API site and coding standards 22
Developer-oriented modules 22
The developer module 22
Drush (the Drupal shell) 23
Coder 23
Summary 23
Chapter 2: Creating Your First Module 25
Our goal: a module with a block 25
Creating a new module 26
Module names 27
Where does our module go? 27
Creating the module directory 29
Writing the .info file 29
Creating a module file 33
Source code standards 35
Doxygen-style doc blocks 36
The help hook 38
The t() function and translations 39
Working with the Block API 42
The block info hook 43
The block view hook 45
The first module in action 48
Writing automated tests 49
Creating a test 50
Starting out 50
Writing a test case 51
The basic pattern 51
The getInfo() method 52
Setting up the test case 54
Writing a test method 55
Summary 60
Chapter 3: Drupal's Theme Layer 61
Business logic versus presentation logic 62
Data granularity 64
Theme engines 66
Two ways to theme 66
Theme functions 66
Preprocess functions 68
Theme overrides 69
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