Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Our Terminology page does not include all Drupal-specific terms and usage. In editing the module documentation page for Trigger #1113554: Finish editing of D7 core module page for Trigger , I wanted to link to (or at least read) the terminology definitions supporting the meaning of Trigger and Action in the context of Drupal, but did not find them defined on the terminology page.
I didn't do an inventory, so I'm not sure if there are other entries that should be added. I'll start a list here:
- Action
- Trigger
- render arrays (aka structured array)
- element
- Entity
- verb form of 'theme'
- preprocess / process / alter operations
- install profile
- cache file
- User1 or User 1
If any additional terms are identified as missing, they can be added to this issue.
Comments
Comment #1
jjkd commentedAdditional suggestions for the Terminology page as scraped from the page comments:
Cache files
Posted by Fiable.biz on March 18, 2010 at 6:36pm
I suggest "cache file" be added here, and what cache files are used for, where they are, what they are named be explained.
User1
Posted by uNeedStuff on October 18, 2010 at 8:59pm
User1 should be added to this list as it's referenced everywhere in the documentation.
User1 the 1st user created on installation and granted additional (all) permissions. This user is now referred to as the site maintenance account in Version 7 and above.
Some Missing terms
Posted by mikehoward on January 19, 2011 at 10:40am
Please add definitions for:
- Render arrays (aka structured array)
- Element
- Entity
- verb form of 'theme'
- preprocess / process / alter operations
Grammatical error
Posted by g.kuizinas on March 16, 2011 at 11:59am
I am pretty sure there is a grammatical error in sentence "A URL is the add [..]." "An URL [..]" should be instead.
Comment #2
arianek commentedadding novice tag, as some of these would be good novice tasks
Comment #3
jjkd commentedNote that the page in question is not open for editing except by (I presume) docs admins. I can't edit it, so the average novice probably can't either. So, perhaps we'll need a workflow that includes proposed changes and new entries submitted as comments on the issue, which someone will need to consolidate and then make the changes to the page.
Comment #4
silverwing commentedI changed the input format to filtered so the page can be edited. Just please respect the formatting/structure of the page!
Comment #5
Carolyn commentedInstall profile could be added. RDF and WAI-ARIA could go in the next section on Acronyms and expressions used on Drupal.org
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Comment #6
batigolixWe now refer to the terminology page as the glossary.
In case you report missing terms, feel free to suggest a definition.
Comment #7
batigolixHere a more Missing terms
Posted by mikehoward on January 19, 2011 at 4:40pm
Please add definitions for:
- Render arrays (aka structured array)
- Element
- Entity
- verb form of 'theme'
- preprocess / process / alter operations
posted originally as comment on http://drupal.org/glossary
moved here so i can close comments on glossary
Comment #8
lomo commented(A bit off-topic, but just to help keep the grammar of Drupal docs correct...)
Actually, not all words (or acronyms) beginning in a vowel use "an" as the article. This is a case where "a" is correct; other examples: a university, a unit, a universe, a eulogy, a European ... all of these have a "y" sound and it's that consonant sound which determines that "a" comes before the word. Similarly, some words begin with an 'h' which is not voiced, so "an hour", "an honor", etc. For those interested in this somewhat trivial EFL (English as a Foreign Language) topic, this might clarify things a bit further:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071125102641AASUNQ6
Comment #9
tedfeely commentedAdd to glossary:
WKT
well known text
Comment #10
leehunter commentedJust a note for anyone working with glossary terms. In the heading, please write the term heading in lower case if it's a lower case term. For example, write "install profile" not "Install profile" or "Install Profile".
Using the actual case of the term (as opposed to using the title case) gives the reader additional information about how the word should be written and whether it might be the name of a product or just a technical term. It's also the near-universal convention for glossaries and dictionaries.
Comment #11
Sree commentedMore missing terms:
Vocabulary
Panel
Installation Profile
Cookie / Session
Token
Term
Throttle
Watchdog
I am working on updating few of these sections
Comment #12
Sree commentedterm & vocabulary details updated
Comment #12.0
Paul Simard commentedRolled suggested terms from comments into Issue Summary. Also, corrected caps on items, except where there's a module with item name.
Comment #13
tom_o_t commentedI just added API.
It would be worth adding widget.
Comment #14
mrienstra commentedhttp://drupal.org/glossary#roles
Last sentence is incomplete -- change to "Drupal allows creating additional roles." or something to that effect.
http://drupal.org/glossary#term
This definition links to a non-existence 'tags' term. Either add the 'tags' term, or remove the link.
Comment #15
jhodgdonThe glossary page is open for anyone to edit. If you find problems, please just use the time to edit the page and fix them rather than reporting them here. Thanks!
It would be great if someone could go through this issue and:
a) See if there are any proposed edits here.
b) Make those edits (if they make sense).
c) Mark this issue "fixed" (with a comment saying they've made the edits).
Thanks!
Comment #16
AndrewKWilson commented@jhodgdon I'm working through the comments now.
Comment #17
batigolixclosing this as comments have been incorporated.
feel free to re-open this issue when necessary
feel free-er to directly edit the glossary: http://drupal.org/glossary
Comment #18
batigolixchanged status
Comment #19.0
(not verified) commentedUpdated issue summary.