Drupal development
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The document discusses technical tools and organizational hints for Drupal development. It recommends setting up a LAMP stack with Apache, MySQL, PHP 5.3+, and modules like xdebug. Development tools mentioned include debugging with xdebug, using arrays and the devel module. Version control systems like Git and IDEs like NetBeans or Eclipse are suggested. Coding standards and Doxygen comments are important for the Drupal ecosystem.
Drupal development
- 1. How to? Drupal developer toolkit Drupal Camp Donetsk November 2011 Dennis Povshedny
- 2. Drupal developer toolkit Two major areas to discuss: Technical tools
- 4. 80% is a 'should' not a 'must'
- 5. Technical tools The platform: *AMP
- 7. LAMP / WAMP OS
- 8. Linux / Windows / Virtual Machine
- 9. LAMP / WAMP Webserver
- 10. Apache / nginx / Microsoft IIS
- 11. Any Apache version is fine (1.3, 2.0, 2.2) .
- 13. LAMP / WAMP Database
- 14. MySQL / Postgres / SQLite
- 15. SQLite implementation is still weak;
- 16. Postgres users may have problem with some modules
- 17. Tune MySQL Adjust default MySQL 5.x settings innodb_buffer_pool_size = 256M
- 22. LAMP / WAMP PHP 5.2 PHP 5.3+ Drupal 5 + Drupal 6 + Drupal 7 + + Drupal 8 +
- 23. Tune PHP Tune PHP modules / settings php5-gd, php5-xdebug, php5-pdo, php5-mysql(i), php5-xml memory_limit 128M (check) register_global off max_execution_time 30 sendmail or module SMTP
- 24. Development tools: debugging Use xdebug (default port: 9000)
- 25. Use the 'watchdog' function watchdog( 'Apache Solr', 'Adding @count documents.', array('@count' => count($documents)) );
- 26. 'watchdog' function result http://example/admin/reports/dblog
- 27. Arrays, arrays, more arrays, nested arrays, ... object(stdClass)[57] … public 'rdf_mapping' => array 'rdftype' => array 0 => string 'sioc:UserAccount' (length=16) 'name' => array 'predicates' => array … 'homepage' => array 'predicates' => array … 'type' => string 'rel' (length=3) Use dpm() function from the module 'devel'
- 28. Need to run quick PHP snippet? Such things are nice: http://ideone.com (no Drupal there) However this is better: http://example.local/devel/php (by devel module, with Drupal stuff)
- 29. Environment tools Version control system
- 31. Drupal ecosystem
- 32. We're at 50% of slides!
- 33. Version control system Git / SVN / Mercurial SVN – simple, centralized
- 34. Git – complicated, native for Drupal, powerful
- 35. Mercurial – in between
- 36. CVS – outdated!
- 37. Other: Bazaar, MS TFS (former VSS)
- 38. Use IDE IDE
- 39. NetBeans / Eclipse / CodeLobster
- 40. Provides syntax highlighting, autocompletion, integration with debugging and VCS.
- 41. Environment tools Install several browsers for different user roles
- 42. or
- 43. use Masquerade module Often you'll need to see the site by different groups of users – administrators, anonymous users, registered users, etc . Several browsers is more preferable – this have other usage as well.
- 44. Respect Drupal ecosystem Drupal directory structure
- 46. Doxygen
- 47. Location of custom code / themes Place all downloaded and handmade packages under
- 49. Even better is to split
- 52. Drupal ecosystem Follow the coding style. Use correct variable_names, ClassNames,tab settings, comments. see http://drupal.org/coding-standards
- 53. Respect Doxygen headers. That is the reason why do we have nice documentation out-of-box at http://api.drupal.org . /** * Fetches a user object based on * an external authentication source. * * @param string $authname * The external authentication username. * * @return * A fully-loaded user object if the user * is found or FALSE if not found. */ function user_external_load($authname) {
- 54. BONUS TRACK: I NEED MORE!!
- 55. What's next? Nice FF plugins like Poster https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/poster/
- 56. Firebug, extended integration http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug
- 57. Drush – DRUpal Shell
- 58. TRAC/RedMine
- 59. PHP 5.2/PHP 5.3 on the same machine
- 61. Contribute!
- 62. Make session
- 77. Thank you! Dennis Povshedny Freelance IT expert +38 096 2323346 Skype: djdenikin http://drupal.org/user/117896