Explore the glory of Drupal 7's improved render and theming systems

Submitted by weitzman on June 24, 2009 - 03:26

Your session in a few words:

Explore the glory of Drupal 7's improved render and theming systems

Date:

September 2, 2009 - 13:40 - 14:30

Room:

Adenauer

Track:

Code it, test it, deploy it

Session Type:

Lecture

Level of expertise:

Advanced

Language:

English

One focus of Drupal 7 has been to empower module developers and theme developers to more easily achieve the look the want for their final output. We added hook_page_alter() where a themer or module developer can alter any part of the page just before it is rendered. At this point, the page is still a raw array that can be easily manipulated.

Similarly, granular theming and a new give themers better tools during the preprocess and template layers for outputting exactly what they want and not sacraficing forward compatibility as new modules/features are added.

This is going to make our lives much easier.

Tiny clarification

Submitted by JohnAlbin on June 24, 2009 - 07:47.

Themes can’t call hook_page_alter(), so themers can’t use that function. They would have to put on their “module developer” hat to use it. :-)

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Moshe Weitzman

Moshe Weitzman has been a consistent contributor to Drupal core and Contrib since November 2001 (i.e. before drupal.org was born). As such, he has pretty much touched the whole core code. He maintains the Organic groups, devel, and drush projects, the core bootstrap code, and the groups.drupal.org web site. He is the #1 Drupal developer on Ohloh. He is also a member of the Security team and a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.