Chapter 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network
During the course of this book, we have seen just how powerful Drupal's modular structure is by downloading and installing new modules to extend our site. Until now, we have almost exclusively used existing modules to extend our site. In this chapter, we will look into the module system in more detail and create new functionality for the site following a "crash course" in module development. In this chapter, you will learn the following:
The basics of how Drupal's modular system works
How to create new custom content types
How to rapidly develop a module
How to create new custom content types as part of the module installation process
How to use Google Maps within our module
About other useful APIs which are available for us
Tip
An important disclaimer
Drupal's module system contains a huge wealth of features, and to fully explain it and provide a tutorial for it would require a book in its own right. As such, the main focus of...
