Views 2 for developers
Submitted by Crell on June 9, 2009 - 00:15
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
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.
