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

3. Organizational hints

4. 80% is a 'should' not a 'must'

5. Technical tools The platform: *AMP

6. Developer sofware toolkit

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) .

12. Enable mod_rewrite .

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

18. innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2

19. innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT

20. innodb_log_file_size = 128M

21. innodb_log_buffer_size = 4M

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

30. Integrated development environment

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 CVS – outdated!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

45. PHP/Drupal coding style

46. Doxygen

47. Location of custom code / themes Place all downloaded and handmade packages under

48. sites/all/modules/ , sites/all/themes/

49. Even better is to split

50. sites/all/modules/contrib/

51. sites/all/modules/custom/

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

60. APC/xCache/eAccelerator

61. Contribute!

62. Make session

63. Useful links http://drupal.org/requirements

64. http://www.denwer.ru

65. http://drupal.org/requirements

66. http://drupal.org/project/smtp

67. http://localhost/phpinfo.php :)

68. http://drupal.org/project/devel

69. http://drupal.org/project/coder

70. http://git-scm.com/

71. http://drupal.org/project/masquerade

72. http://ideone.com

73. http://example.local/devel/php

74. http://drupal.org/coding-standards

75. http://api.drupal.org

76. http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug

77. Thank you! Dennis Povshedny Freelance IT expert +38 096 2323346 Skype: djdenikin http://drupal.org/user/117896

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