Programmer's Guide to Drupal

Chapter 4. Drupal Programming Examples

Now that you have learned the basic principles of Drupal programming and how to avoid making common Drupal programming mistakes, it’s time to put your programming skills to work! This section of the book covers special topics in Drupal programming that you can use to enhance websites built with Drupal. My advice would be to skim the sections of this chapter now so you know what is there, and then read them in more detail when you need them.

I chose these particular examples because they are all things I’ve actually needed to do in my freelance work as a Drupal site builder and my volunteer work programming for the Drupal project. Actually, they cover nearly all of the programming I’ve needed to do as a freelance site builder, given that I tend to use existing contributed modules wherever I can, rather than jumping straight into programming at every opportunity. And in the realm of volunteer work that I’ve done for the Drupal project, which has included writing and maintaining contributed modules on drupal.org, custom programming for the drupal.org website, and providing patches for Drupal core and contributed modules, the Registering for URLs and Displaying Content section covers the common threads.

Further programming examples:

• The Drupal core code itself, which includes extensive documentation and tests
• The Examples for Developers project, http://drupal.org/project/examples, which has comprehensive coverage of the Drupal core APIs and how ...