Drupal 7 Module Development

Creating Your First Module
Not in JavaScript!
Drupal programmers make the mistake of using a similar syntax in
Drupal JavaScript. Object literal definitions (the JavaScript equivalent of
associative arrays) do not allow the last item to terminate with a comma.
Doing so causes bugs in IE and other browsers.
Now we have walked through our first module's code. For all practical purposes, we
have written an entire module (though we still have some automated testing code to
write). Let's see what this looks like in the browser.
The first module in action
Our module is written and ready to run. To test this out, we need to first enable the
module, and then go to the block administration page.
The module can be enabled through the Modules menu. Once it is enabled, go to
Structure | Blocks. You should be able to find a block described as A listing of all of
the enabled modules. (This text came from our first_block_info() declaration.)
Once you have placed this module in one of the block regions, you should be able to
see something like this:
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