Plugins: Making code swappable

Crell — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:01:08 +0000

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.

Speaker bio:

After four years working with Drupal, Larry Garfield is the Senior Lead of Programming at Palantir.net. He also serves as the Director of Legal Affairs for the Drupal Association, and since 2008 has been the Drupal database system maintainer. He also maintains a number of modules, including several Views plugins. "When in doubt, make it configurable" is one of Drupal's guiding principles, and Larry is a firm supporter of it. That's why his goal is to make all of Drupal configurable, right down to what code even exists. That and swapping out code at runtime is fun.

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Plugins: Making code swappable