Reading through various material I came across the web, there are often instances of posts resembling the following:
"oh, to do that, you could use:" and then comes some PHP code using Drupal lingo, but with no indication of where to insert or change the code.
Is there anywhere a quick and down-to-earth explanation/description of how Drupal can be supplemented with additional code, what is the order of execution, Drupal mechanisms, which files to modify, etc?
I have started to read some introductions to Drupal programming, but they were rather hermetic and used more unknown words...
I found this article quite interesting:
https://bryce.fisher-fleig.org/blog/ditching-views-for-sql
and I want to know more of the same vein.
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You need to learn three
You need to learn three things in order to understand where to put code:
1) How Drupal hooks work
2) How to build a module
3) What template.php is in a theme (called [themename].theme in D8 I believe).
thanks - is this a good
thanks - is this a good starting point?
http://alanstorm.com/drupal_module_hooks
As a side note, I am unable to understand things unless accompanied by hands-on examples that include all the steps to make them work.
Start here and keep clicking
Start here and keep clicking next: https://www.drupal.org/node/292
thanks!
thanks!
any developments regarding the forum?
In the meanwhile I have modified phpBB3 to work as single sign on with Drupal and imbedded in the site template, it can appear as block or content.