Your First Module - A Mostly Painless Intro to Drupal Development

One of the big features that separates Drupal from other CMSs and frameworks is its rich set of APIs for building custom modules. It’s even reasonably well documented. Indeed, it is essentially baked into Drupal’s DNA that you will need to write some code to reach the goals of the website you’re building.

That said, it can be intimidating to get started writing code. This talk is aimed primarily at designers, themers, site builders, whatever you want to call yourself if writing code is not your strong suit. A little bit of experience with or exposure to programming or scripting (this includes Javascript) is helpful, but not required. We will step through some relatively easy ways to make modifications to a stock Drupal site using the core API, writing a basic module from scratch.

It is my intention to show you that it’s easy to get started, and adds a very useful set of tools to your belt.