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Hooks, tokens, rules, elements, plugins Developing for Drupal the “right” way “I know a way” (c) Saul Berrenson
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Who am I? Head of Web-development for Axel Springer Russia Author of 20+ contrib modules Maintainer of several other contrib modules Module application reviewer Recently a father to a cute daughter Anastasia
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Plan first, code second You should know the code flow before writing anything Plan for flexible and light architecture Think about exposed APIs your module would need
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Utilize Drupal’s best parts Drupal is really good in text filtering, but only server-side (PHP code) Paste Format uses Drupal text filtering features to filter the pasted text (and you rule what actually gets filtered and what stays in your content)
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Tokens Expose your module information to other modules Examples HybridAuth and uLogin modules use it to expose social information
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Rules Rules are ruling Power and flexibility Examples HybridAuth and uLogin Yandex Webmaster Original Texts
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Views Bulk Operations Batch API Queue Very useful for content manipulations You just need to code the actual changes
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Elements Easy to reuse in any renderable array #properties to control your element Study drupal_render() to understand the rendering flow ‘#pre_render’ is really powerful
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Plugins Views, Panels use it – and you should Flexible architecture Eases maintenance and support (Image Editor) Allows other developers to extend your module Drupal 8 does the same
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What a plugin is? Array of properties utilized by another module Properties may be function callbacks
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Most popular content Module design example
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Most popular content Always fresh statistics By day, week, month By content section on our site No load on our servers Is there a module for that?
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https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/chyvakoff/2370095
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Thank you! andrew.berezovsky@gmail.com
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