Content Types, Views and Features: Creating your (re-usable) Drupal Site

This session is targeted towards the intermediate Drupal developer. First, we are going to explore the anatomy of the new Field API in Drupal 7. We will create a sample content type, exploring the different field options that Drupal core now provides. We will then generate some content using the Devel Generate module. After we have sample content with our new content type, we will then turn into the Views module to create a custom output of our new content.

Finally, we are going to look into the excellent Features module to save our content types, fields, and views so we can later import them.

At the end of the session, attendees will be:

• Aware of projects such as Drush, Devel, Devel Generate
• Knowledgeable about the uses of the different types of fields in the Field API
• Comfortable using the Field API to create and/or modify a content type
• Comfortable using Views to generate a page and a block with the desired outcome
• Comfortable using the Features module to export and import their brand new re-usable feature

Creating content types and views on your site gives you extra flexibility in terms of what you can do/output with the site. Plus what better then exporting your work so it can be re-usable later? Come check out the session! And we'll show you its not as difficult as you might think.