Best practices in Drupal 7 (Views, Panels ...)

Views & Panels

Sergiu Savva

Drupal Developer for 3 Years

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Broken windows theory

Views

Views Execute order

http://www.kdweb.co.uk/blog/drupal-module-views-hook-sequence

hook_views_pre_view (&$view)⇓

hook_views_pre_build (&$view)⇓

hook_views_query_alter (&$view, &$query)⇓

hook_views_pre_execute (&$view)⇓

hook_views_pre_render (&$view)⇓

hook_views_post_render (&$view)

Fields excludesViews

Fields excludesViews

Views Custom text

Views Alternatives

Panel fields

Display mode (node, comment, entity … )

VS

Views Display mode

Views Additional tools

Entity View ModeViews Additional tools

hook_field_extra_fields()Fields Additional tools

/** * Implements hook_field_extra_fields(). */function HOOK_field_extra_fields() {

$extrafield_name = 'my_field';

foreach (array('page', 'article') as $node_type) {

$extra['node'][$node_type]['display'][$extrafield_name] = array(

'label' => t('Some freaking title'),

'description' => t('A serious description.'),

'weight' => 50, // default weight, can be changed on display form by site-builder.

); } return $extra; }

http://www.vdmi.nl/blog/attach-extra-or-pseudo-fields-any-entity-drupal

hook_node_view()Views Additional tools

/** * Implements hook_node_view(). * Also HOOK_entity_view() can be used. */

function HOOK_node_view($node, $view_mode, $langcode) {

$extrafields = field_extra_fields_get_display('node', $node->type, $view_mode);

$extrafield_name = 'my_field'; if (isset($extrafields[$extrafield_name]) && isset($extrafields[$extrafield_name]['visible']) && $extrafields[$extrafield_name]['visible']) {

// Your logic here.$node->content[$extrafield_name] = array('#markup' => 'Build array with content');

}}

http://www.vdmi.nl/blog/attach-extra-or-pseudo-fields-any-entity-drupal

Views Additional toolsViews pane field

Views & Panels Custom layout

Panels 3: Creating a custom layout in your theme https://drupal.org/node/495654

; Panels layouts. You can place multiple layouts under the "layouts" folder.plugins[panels][layouts] = layouts

my_theme.info

$plugin = array( 'title' => t('One row two columns'), 'category' => t('onerowtwocols'), 'icon' => 'onerowtwocols.png', 'theme' => 'onerowtwocols', 'css' => 'onerowtwocols.css', 'regions' => array(

'top' => t('Top'),'right' => t('Right side'),'left' => t('Left side')

),);

my_plugin.inc

Views & Panels Overloaded Pages

(Views == listing) == TRUE

(Views != one node) == TRUE

Views & Panels Overloaded Pages

Views & Panels SQL in template files

Do not use SQL in template files

Views Fields handler

Panels

block VS ctools content type plugins

Views Panels, Why so slow?

Thank You !!