As with the other modules, we will start by creating our new biography module. As usual, we will put this module in the drupal/sites/all/modules/biography directory. Also, as with other modules, we will immediately create the biography.info and biography.module files.
The biography.info module includes nothing new or notable:
; $Id$ name = "Biography Content (Node) Type" description = "This provides a custom content type to store simple \ online biographies." core = 6.x php = 5.1
As with the other modules, we will start our biography.module by implementing the hook_help() hook:
<?php
// $Id$
/**
* Provides the biography content type.
* @file
*/
/**
* implementation of hook_help().
*/
function biography_help($path, $arg) {
if ($path == 'admin/help#biography') {
$txt = 'A biography is a textual description of a '
.'person\'s life and works. The summary should give '
.'a brief overview of the person explaining why the '
.'person is important. The \'dates\' area should...