About this course
In this course you will learn to build a Drupal custom module by completing short tasks and ultimately weave the tasks together to get a completed and fully functional module. Drupal 7 Module Development introduces you to module development by understanding the essential hooks and functions, building tables and querying the Drupal database, exploring module security, performance and how our module interacts with Drupal core and contributed modules. Each video walks you through essential Drupal functions and demonstrates how to use these functions in a module that we build hands-on together Drupal 7 Module Development starts by showing you how to set up your local development environment to support custom module development. You will learn how to use the best tools and configure them. Next you will learn to configure a Feeds importer to import content into your site that you will then leverage with your custom module and write a menu callback using hook_menu and hook_permissions. We will then look at the form API and write a hook_form_alter function and create a .install file and build a db schema function to create a table in our database Finally we create a block using our module and theme the block. We end the course by reviewing our module from a security and performance standpoint. From the local development to the review of security we build a custom module step-by-step throughout the course's short videos.
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What are the requirements?
- You should have a familiarity with Drupal but no experience with programming Drupal custom modules or PHP is required to follow this course.
- All videos include hands-on practical examples to follow along with. This course is geared towards beginners in Drupal development and anyone who wants to learn to use Drupal code.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 43 lectures and 3 hours of content!
- Build a .info and .module file to set up your module.
- Write hook_menu and hook_permissions functions
- Set up an admin settings form and use hook_form_alter
- Create database tables using hook_schema and .install files
- Write node hooks and database queries
- Create a custom block via your module
- Theme the block and write CSS to style it
- Use t function and other sanitization functions to secure your module
- Use and create custom Drupal variables
- Explore the research functions in the Drupal API
What is the target audience?
- This course is perfect for any Drupal user who is just starting to explore Drupal core and contributed modules. If you've used some contributed modules you can now turn to learning how to write your own custom Drupal 7 module.
