Understanding drupal
grace@www.drupa... - May 19, 2007 - 11:20
Hi,
I have just installed drupal and so I'm leading out. I glanced the handbooks looking for some informations about drupal architectural and detailed design, but I wasn't able to find out anything. I mean something like workflow diagrams, a list of files and their specific tasks and call stack and so on...
the problem was risen also here: http://drupal.org/node/1161
Somebody can help me please?
Real programmers don't need
Real programmers don't need diagrams... they just stare at the code and know what's going on. Haven't you seen The Matrix?
;)
Actually, I don't know of any complete resources on the topic. There are a few handbook pages on the subject, but even those are from various versions of Drupal. They can still be helpful in understanding the underlying philosophy and approach of Drupal code, but there may be a few discrepencies if the info was not written for 5.x. Documentation is one of our weak points at the moment.
What I did was to trace through the code a few times (probably only twice) mentally, and now I pretty much know what's going on. I know... This probably wasn't the answer you were looking for.
- Corey
but it's an answer, anyhow
but it's an answer, anyhow :)
it's a bit strange to me, beacuse the handbooks in general are really useful and I thought to find even those infos! Anyway, it's a good target for near future
thanks a lot, now I know where to look for: code rules!
Drupal book
The new Drupal book gets pretty in depth with flowcharts of how forms work and such.
Michelle
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