building modules

This series of 8 videos will walk you through the process of starting to develop a real Drupal module. Most of what the videos cover are techniques for accomplishing the process.

Komodo is the PHP debugger I use on the Mac.

There's an easy way to start the learning process of using a debugger for PHP. You don't have to know how to compile Xdebug (at least if you're on a Mac).

The Devel module is a SUPER CRITICAL module which you need to use if you're even considering developing within Drupal.

One of the key elements to knowing what is going on while you develop your module is watching what happens.

Knowing how to search within the code of a project is what helps you learn any system faster.

The best way, I find, for learning is to look at what exists and then pick and pull from those examples to accomplish what you want.

An 18 minute video about REALLY researching existing code for modules. I reference a number of methods to do your research.

A quick discussion about choosing your coding editor. I discuss a few items about TextMate and BBEdit.

This video is a quick overview of what will be covered by the other videos about building a Drupal module.