Drupal 7 for Developers

• Basic Drupal user knowledge
• PHP and MySQL practical knowledge

Audience

• Junior Drupal developers
• Web developers with some Drupal experience
• PHP developers looking to extend Drupal functionality

Drupal 7 is a powerful content management system used for building dynamic websites and applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level developers who wish to create custom modules, implement hooks, manage forms, and work with themes in Drupal 7.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Drupal 7 architecture and core components.
• Create custom modules and implement Drupal hooks.
• Build and validate forms using Drupal’s Form API.
• Customize themes and work with template files.
• Interact with the database using Drupal’s abstraction layer.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Drupal Core

• Drupal Architecture
• Inversion of Control (IoC)
• Drupal Core Modules
• Menu Creation Process

Drupal Modules

Creating Own Module

• Info files
• Module files
• Install files
• Updating exiting module
• Disabling and uninstalling modules

Hooks

• Core Hooks
• Modules Hooks
• Defining Own Hooks
• Implementing Basic Hooks

Database Abstraction Layer

• Executing queries
• Inserting, updating and deleting rows

Forms

• Create a Form
• Validate a Form
• Multi Form Sites
• Add and modifying validation of existing form
• Overriding default submit functionality

Theming

• Theming Engines
• Using default theme functions
• Overriding theme function in a theme
• PHP Template
• tpl Files
• Variables
• theme Function
• CSS Inclusion

Caches

• CacheAPI
• Utilizing Caches in Modules