Introduction

o How is Drupal built?
o What is "Core"
o Drupal's folder structure and why its important.
o The ever important sites folder
o /modules, sites/all/modules, sites/mysite.com/modules
o Which one is used? How do you know?
o Drupal's module weighting and selection process
o basic structure of a module - .module, .info, .install files

o Drupal coding standards
o Doxygen, and its importance
o demonstration of api.drupal.org and the API module
o writing secure code
o ricks of the trade
o Devel and coder module

o We fishing or writing code?
o Overview of what a hook is
o Demonstration of a hook
o Simple module implementing hook_nodeapi and drupal_set_message($op).
o naming conventions
o introduction to few important hooks: init, menu, nodeapi, block, user
o How to create your own hooks for other modules

o What if you need custom storage?
o adding a table to Drupal's DB
o using the .install file for installation and updating
o D6, the schema API and why

o FAPI, uugggh another acronym don't be scared FAPI is good
o Why use an API? writing forms HTML is really easy
o A simple form
o validating the form
o submitting the form
o hook_form_alter() hooks for forms! WOW, can you feel the power!?!

o How to create a custom node
o Why not just use CCK? A comparison
o A node module's tacklebox hook_load, hook_update, hook_delete, etc.

o the theme_ function and when to use
o print vs. return

o Analyzing a core module
o peering into the node module
o peering into the comment module
o demystifying the magic of "core"

o Creating a project on drupal.org
o Getting CVS access
o becoming a maintainer
o what does it mean?
o what if I don't have time?
o Managing the issue's queue

o Creating a non-node module part 1/3
o Create a new module called user_info
o Create the .info and .module file, enable the module
o Implement hook_user to store the IP address of the user when they registered their account
o Store this in the data column of the user table
o Implement hook_user to display this IP address on the user's profile page
o "You originally registered from IP address: 192.168.0.1"
o Implement hook_user to display user statistics on the user profile page
o How many nodes the user posted
o How many comments the user posted

o Create an administrative settings page for the module
o /admin/settings/user_info
o Use Forms API (FAPI) to provide...
o A category entitled "User profile display settings"
o a checkbox with the label "Originating IP"
o a select box containing show, hide and the label "Node statistics"
o a select box containing show, hide and the label "Comment statistics"
o optionally a radio selection with a "display node stats, display comment stats, display both"

o Create a tab on the user profile page that display the IP and statistics
o Create a tab on a node page entitled "Author's other work"
o utilize theme('table') to create a table listing with links to the author's other nodes
o Create a hook for other modules to implement entitled "user_info_tab"
o The hook will put additional information on the user's profile page
o create a second module that implements this hook.