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Plugins: Making code swappable

Your session in a few words: 
Do as Views does and let users rewrite your code
Track: 
Extra credit
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
views
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objects
Language: 
English

Plugins are a key part of the Views API. They allow a developer to write their own implementation of part of a View and swap it in at will, changing the behavior of a query.

Organic Groups and Views: Building Better Community Sites

Your session in a few words: 
Organic Groups and Views: Getting Started Building Groups Within Your Community Site
Track: 
From zero to hero
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Beginner
Tags: 
community
Tags: 
views
Tags: 
education
Language: 
English

Organic Groups and Views are two of the more popular modules on available on Drupal.org; however, they often go under-utilized, as people are unfamiliar with the range of options both modules provide.

In this session, we will cover how to use Organic Groups within your site, and how to use Views to display content within your groups. The content in this session will focus on what can be done using the administrative interfaces of both modules; in other words, all config, and no code.

Views modular and pluggable theming

Your session in a few words: 
Efficient views theming in a large development team
Track: 
User experience and design
Session Type: 
Panel
Level of expertise: 
Intermediate
Tags: 
views
Language: 
English

This session will show you how an efficient theming of the views' output can be achieved even when many developers are involved into the same task.
Typical scenarios are corporate's large sites or public institutions portals.
You will learn:

  • The benefits of the modular approach
  • How to apply all this to the views' list type
  • How this technique can be extended to other types of views to fit all your needs

This talk will cover Views 2

Views 2 for developers

Your session in a few words: 
Writing Views plugins for fun and ponies
Date: 
September 2, 2009 - 14:50 - 15:40
Room: 
La Galerie
Track: 
Code it, test it, deploy it
Session Type: 
Lecture
Level of expertise: 
Advanced
Tags: 
views
Language: 
English

Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. Views is also perhaps the most extensible system in all of Drupal, able to be extended in ways that make it the swiss army knife of data querying, marshalling, and formatting. But how do you extend it cleanly to bend it to your will?

This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins and handlers. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. Production code samples will be included.

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