How to? Drupal developer toolkit. Dennis Povshedny.
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This document provides recommendations for the technical tools and development environment for a Drupal developer. It discusses setting up a local LAMP stack with Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP configured for development. It also recommends version control with Git, debugging with XDebug, and using IDEs like NetBeans or Eclipse. Additional tips include installing browser plugins, following Drupal coding standards, and contributing code back to the community.
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How to? Drupal developer toolkit. Dennis Povshedny.
- 1. How to? Drupal developer toolkit Dennis Povshedny http://donetsk.drupal.ua
- 2. How to? Drupal developer toolkit Drupal Camp Donetsk November 2011 Dennis Povshedny
- 3. Drupal developer toolkit Two major areas to discuss: Technical tools Organizational hints 80% is a 'should' not a 'must'
- 4. Technical tools The platform: *AMP Developer sofware toolkit
- 5. LAMP / WAMP OS Linux / Windows / Virtual Machine
- 6. LAMP / WAMP Webserver Apache / nginx / Microsoft IIS Any Apache version is fine (1.3, 2.0, 2.2) . Enable mod_rewrite .
- 7. LAMP / WAMP Database MySQL / Postgres / SQLite SQLite implementation is still weak; Postgres users may have problem with some modules
- 8. Tune MySQL Adjust default MySQL 5.x settings innodb_buffer_pool_size = 256M innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT innodb_log_file_size = 128M innodb_log_buffer_size = 4M
- 9. LAMP / WAMP
- 10. 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
- 11. Development tools: debugging Use xdebug (default port: 9000) Use the 'watchdog' function watchdog( 'Apache Solr', 'Adding @count documents.', array('@count' => count($documents)) );
- 12. 'watchdog' function result http://example/admin/reports/dblog
- 13. Arrays, arrays, more arrays, nested arrays, ... object(stdClass)[57] β¦ public 'rdf_mapping' => array 'rdftype' => array 0 => string 'sioc:UserAccount' (length=16) 'name' => array 'predicates' => array β¦ 'homepage' => array 'predicates' => array β¦ 'type' => string 'rel' (length=3) Use dpm() function from the module 'devel'
- 14. 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)
- 15. Environment tools Version control system Integrated development environment Drupal ecosystem We're at 50% of slides!
- 16. Version control system Git / SVN / Mercurial SVN β simple, centralized Git β complicated, native for Drupal, powerful Mercurial β in between CVS β outdated! Other: Bazaar, MS TFS (former VSS)
- 17. Use IDE IDE NetBeans / Eclipse / CodeLobster Provides syntax highlighting, autocompletion, integration with debugging and VCS.
- 18. Environment tools Install several browsers for different user roles or use Masquerade module Often you'll need to see the site by different groups of users β administrators, anonymous users, registered users, etc . Several browsers is more preferable β this have other usage as well.
- 19. Respect Drupal ecosystem Drupal directory structure PHP/Drupal coding style Doxygen
- 20. Location of custom code / themes Place all downloaded and handmade packages under sites/all/modules/ , sites/all/themes/ Even better is to split sites/all/modules/contrib/ sites/all/modules/custom/
- 21. Drupal ecosystem Follow the coding style. Use correct variable_names, ClassNames,tab settings, comments. see http://drupal.org/coding-standards
- 22. 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) {
- 23. BONUS TRACK: I NEED MORE!!
- 24. What's next? Nice FF plugins like Poster https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/poster/ Firebug, extended integration http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug Drush β DRUpal Shell TRAC/RedMine PHP 5.2/PHP 5.3 on the same machine APC/xCache/eAccelerator Contribute! Make session
- 25. Useful links http://drupal.org/requirements http://www.denwer.ru http://drupal.org/requirements http://drupal.org/project/smtp http://localhost/phpinfo.php :) http://drupal.org/project/devel http://drupal.org/project/coder http://git-scm.com/ http://drupal.org/project/masquerade http://ideone.com http://example.local/devel/php http://drupal.org/coding-standards http://api.drupal.org http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug
- 26. Thank you! Dennis Povshedny Freelance IT expert +38 096 2323346 Skype: djdenikin http://drupal.org/user/117896