Advanced Drupal coding

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This page relates to the Skill sets described in the open curriculum project, and tries to describe one of the skill sets. See this page as a collaborative notebook, and feel free to edit and improve it.

Someone with Advanced Drupal coding skills:

  • knows how to define and use entities (CRUD)
  • knows how to work with databases
  • understands the Database Abstraction Layer
  • knows how to use the schema API
  • knows how to handle the login process programmatically
  • knows how to work with nodes programmatically
  • knows how to add and handle fields programmatically
  • understands how to use programmatically template files
  • understands how caching is used within Drupal Core
  • knows how to handle sessions programmatically
  • knows advanced jQuery techniques