Language
  • English
  • Français
Drupal custom theming or module development price estimate calculator

Drupal Tutorials : Drupal Module Development

Home › Drupal Tutorials › Drupal Tutorials › Drupal Tutorials
drupal tutorials Welcome to my Drupal Tutorial listing. I have tried to make the tutorials as easy to find as possible by categorizing them by skill level and by the three major areas of Drupal development: Drupal Administration, Drupal Theming, and Drupal Module Development. If you are not able to find the information you are looking for feel free to post a Drupal question and I will do my best to answer it. (Note: you must login or register with this site in order to post content.)

How and why to use the l() function to create links in Drupal programming

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 17:57

If you have been doing web development for any significant amount of time chances are you know how to build a link by hand using the 'a href="link/to/some/page"' syntax. That method works fine and can even be used inside of Drupal modules, but it is generally frowned upon by the Drupal community. Using the l() function is the Drupal way of building links programmatically, and though it might take some getting used to, in the end you will find that it saves time.

l() is a function that is available anywhere within a Drupal installation. It accepts three arguments:

READ MORE

Official Documentation for the JQuery Menu API

Submitted by Aaron Hawkins on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 01:27

This document is intended for module developers who wish to make use of JQuery to process an array of hierarchical data into a click and expand menu. It is written with the assumption that you are a programmer and that you know how to create multidimensional arrays through recursive functions.
The only function that third party modules need to call from JQuery menu in order to create a click and expand menu is as follows:

theme('menu_creation_by_array', $menutree, $trail);

This calls the theme function menu_creation_by_array() and sends it two arguments:

3 Responses | READ MORE
Ask a question related to Drupal development or administration