July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1146 pages
32h 29m
English
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The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
by Greg Stout, Michelle Lauer, Mike Ryan, Stéphane Corlosquet, Nathaniel Catchpole, Robin Monks, Dan Hakimzadeh, Jacine Luisi, Kasey Qynn Dolin, George Cassie, Albert Albala, Bojhan Somers, Dmitri Gaskin, Stefan Freudenberg, Jake Strawn, Allie Micka, Florian Lorétan, Sam Boyer, Forest Mars, Mike Gifford, Susan Stewart, Peter Wolanin, Roy Scholten, Robert Douglass, Greg Anderson, Brian Travis, Kay VanValkenburgh, Ryan Szrama, Amye Scavarda, Benjamin Melançon, Ed Carlevale, Dani Nordin, Claudina Sarahe, Károly Négyesi
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C H A P T E R 19
Using Drupal's APIs in a Module
The nature of the game in making modules for Drupal is using the tools Drupal provides you. API stands for Application Programming Interface and is a fancy way of saying that code has clearly defined ways of talking to other code. This chapter is devoted to introducing APIs, the hooks and functions Drupal provides to you, in the context of building the X-ray module introduced in Chapter 18. As each feature of the module requires using another tool from the extensive selection in Drupal's API toolbox, I will introduce it and use it.
At the time of this writing, Drupal core ...
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