Drupal Training in Jaipur- Webdealsoft Technologies
Drupal is a free and open source content management framework, which is written in PHP and provides a back-end framework to build a website. Since it is CMS, so it is used to build a website in short time period. Webdealsoft Technologies provides drupal training in jaipur, India. We have experienced experts with strong working knowledge of Drupal CMS having 4+ years experience.
Drupal Training Course Modules
Introduction to Drupal
- Why to build to module instead of modifying source.
- Setting up the module file structure
- Writing secure code for secured drupal
- Using doc block comment
Hooks
- What is hook
- How hooks works
- Basic Introduction of some hooks with examples
What is Entity in Drupal vs Bundle ( Content Type) , Fields
- Use entity for custom data storage
- Creating custom entity with a custom table
- Why Content Type are not for all kind of data ?
- Drupal default entity i.e content, user, taxonomy, comment, file
- Using hook_entity_info() ,entity_load()
Form API
- Benefits of using form api
- Creating a simple form , validating and submitting form using Form API
- drupal_get_form()
- Exploring more elements
- Populating dynamic select options, radio button option
- Submitting (Insert or Update) form in any drupal database table
- Sending email using drupal_mail
- Showing message using drupal_set_message('message')
- form alter
- autocomplete and #ajax form
File Upload System
- Understanding file_managed and file unmanaged
- File unmanaged with an example
- File managed with an example
- Understanding drupal table 'file_managed' - Using drupal inbuilt ajax to upload files
- Preview files on form
- Validating files
- Uploading files in drupal 'files' directory using file_save_upload
- Use $file->status=1 and save_file($file) to permanently save file
- Showing uploaded files using theme_image_style($params)
- Register custom image style
Working with Menus
- How to use render array and creating tabs & subtabs
- How to pass argument through path
- Using placeholder
- Using hook_page_alter & menu_alter
- Use include files to improve performance
Theming
- How theme layers can helps work together designer and coders
- How to invoke a theme function, e.g theme_item_list() & theme_table()
- Creating own theme function or creating templates
- preprocess a theme function to alter data
- Adding css & js
- Override template files
Database API
- Running drupal dynamic mysql query using db_select()
- Insert Query
- Update Query
- Delete Query
- example to show latest members , recent comments
- Rollback query using drupal Transactions
Entity Field Query
- Understanding why use entity field query
- Using EntityFieldQuery() to interact drupal entity base table like node, user, comment
- Showing any taxonomy term (vocabulary terms) using EntityFieldQuery()
Node Access Rights
- Understanding Drupal node_access, role_permission table
- using hook_permission to register a permission
- user_access() function to check permission
Drupal Module development Debug Method
- Using Drupal Devel Module for better debug options. usage dpm($vriable_name)
- Understanding dpm(get_defined_vars()) to show available variable in the page
- Using drupal inbuilt watchdog() function for debug log
- using simple & easy drupal_set_message($vars)
Creating Custom Module from scratch (i.e Ads Management Module)
- Declaring custom tables using hook_schema in .install file
- Registering 2 menu for ads listing and ads add
- Creating ads add page using form API, file upload system
- Creating ads listing page using entityFieldQuery()
- Creating new bloc using hook_block_info(), hook_block_configure(),hook_block_save()
- Showing all ads in form add/edit page to select with checkbox
- Saving form custom checked ads value in our custom table
- show ads on front end site using hook_block_view() - Testing and debuging our newly created module
Time Duration- 40 Days (3-4 hours per day)