Understanding Drupal 6 Themes

Al Steffen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:58:52 +0000

Drupal 6 is a powerful system that has a steep learning curve for those new to it. The included theme system is no exception to this. As with any complex system, the key to using it effectively is to understand it. The purpose of this session is to increase your understanding to get you on your way towards creating a look all your own.

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Speaker bio:

Al Steffen is the Lead Themer for pingVision, LLC based in Boulder, CO USA and has been building custom Drupal themes for over 2.5 years and have taken advantage of almost every facet of the system. He also created and co-maintain the Studio Theme Pack with Matt Tucker.

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Video and slides

Objectifying PHP

Crell — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:57:19 +0000

After years of being a strictly-procedural framework, Drupal is starting to embrace object-oriented programming in a big way. Views is now mostly object-oriented. The Drupal 7 database layer is entirely object-oriented, with a thin procedural veneer. Unit testing is object-oriented. Various other efforts at media handling, plugins and handlers, and more are leveraging objects.

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. Although object-oriented development was not the main goal of the 2007 GoPHP5 initiative that Larry spearheaded, it was a side-effect that has now opened the OO floodgates. Larry feels horribly guilty about that and believes that he must do penance by teaching the world how to use objects safely before more horrific OO code is unleashed on an unsuspecting web.

DrupalConParis2009 - php

Understanding Drupal 6 Themes

Objectifying PHP