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Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

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Learning Drupal 6 Module Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Drupal 6 Module Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Our Target Module: What We Want


Before we begin developing a module, here's a brief overview of what we want to accomplish.

The module we will write in this chapter is the Philosophy Quotes module (philquotes will be our machine-readable name). The goal of this module will be to create a block that displays pithy philosophical quotes.

We will implement the following features:

  • Quotes should be stored along with other basic content, making it possible to add, modify, and delete this content in exactly the same way that we create other articles.

  • Since our existing themes aren't aware of this quotes module, it must provide some default styling.

We will progress through the creation of this module by first generating a new "quote" content type, and then building a theme-aware module.