Drupal Development : Tools, Tips, and Tricks

{Tools, Tips, and Tricks}

Gerald Villorente, X-TeamDrupal, DevOps, Father

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Vagrant

Drushhttp://bit.ly/1bYZbBi

XHPROFhttp://bit.ly/1JPxmah

Xdebug

tailf$ tailf /var/log/apache2/error.log

mytop

Grep$ grep -R 'test' sites/all/modules/custom

Geany +

Geanyratorhttps://github.com/geraldvillorente/geanyrator

gulp

PHP Codesniffer

Git

Tips

pre-commithttps://github.com/geraldvillorente/drupal-pre-commit

post-mergehttps://github.com/geraldvillorente/drupal-post-merge

Featureshttps://www.drupal.org/project/features

Develhttps://www.drupal.org/project/devel

FS Structure

Tricks

WSODwhite screen of death

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);

ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

// $Id: index.php,v 1.94 2007/12/26...

<?php

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']==='domain.name') {

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);

ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

}

Shutdown Handler http://bit.ly/1e6E0ih

Configuration Override

*settings*.php

$conf['preprocess_js'] = 1;$conf['preprocess_css'] = 1;$conf['cache'] = 1;

Theme Debug$conf['theme_debug'] = 1;

krumokrumo($vars); // Requires Devel module.

dpmdpm($vars); // Requires Devel module.

Questions?

Disclaimer

Photos used in this presentation are not mine.