Drupal 6 in a nutshell
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This document provides an overview of key Drupal concepts including: 1. Drupal's page serving mechanism which uses index.php to load necessary files and bootstrap the configuration and database. 2. Drupal's menu system which checks permissions and identifies callback functions to serve pages. 3. Drupal's theming system which allows creating templates, overriding functions, and adding variables to template files. 4. Additional concepts covered include writing modules, working with databases, nodes, files, forms, and various Drupal hooks.
Drupal 6 in a nutshell
- 1. Drupal 6 in a nutshell Topics Drupal Basics Drupal page Serve Mechanism Drupal Menu System Writing a Module Drupal theme system Drupal Beyond the Basics Working with Databases Working with Nodes Working with files How to define a page Form API Drupal hook system(some hooks) Useful links
- 2. Drupal Page serving mechanism Index.php does all the work(don’t panic, it only loads the necessary files) The bootstrap process Initialize the configuration Early page cache Initialize the Database, session Late page cache Determine the language and path (menu system) Serve the page
- 3. Menu System Checks the site is offline or not Rebuild the menu if necessary Check the access permissions Identity the callback function Return the output form the fucntion
- 4. Writing a module Create module under sites/all/modules Needs three files yourmodule.info yourmodule.module, youremodule.install
- 5. Theme system Template engines smarty, phptal, phptemplate Create a theme Create a normal html file Create a css file Create an info file Rename files according to drupal Put variables to your tpl file. Create additional files Template file page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php etc Overriding theming fucntions
- 6. Working with databases Define database information db_query Manipulate the query in other modules Connecting to multiple databases
- 7. Working with nodes Create a node module hook_node_info() Hook_form Hook_insert Hook_update Hook_delete Cck module
- 8. Working with files Public private files Hook_file_download Upload module Image module ,cck image module for image galleries
- 9. Define a page Hook_help Hook_menu Callback function
- 10. Form Api Form work flow Hook_form Form elements Validate function Submit function Redirecting after submit Theme a form Changing form handlers
- 11. Some Hooks Hook_form_alter Hook_node_api Hook_block Hook_node_operations Hook_init Hook_perm Hook_perm Hook_user
- 12. Useful links http://api.drupal.org/api http://drupal.org/handbooks http://drupal.org/contributors-guide http://drupal.org/node/508 http://drupal.org/theme-guide http://drupal.org/handbook/customization/videocasts http://www.lullabot.com/ http://developers.slashdot.org/