d7tip

This post will give you a list what to check when you go live with a drupal 7 website and how you can control it and automate it. You need to check this go live checklist each time you keep integrating new stuff during deployment to test if everything is still working. To save time this task can be automated.

In drupal 7 we have something called contextual links. It is that little wheel you see when you hover over blocks so you can edit them in place. It is a great usability improvement but it is not always that clear how to implement them.

The contextual links functionality used to be a contrib module in d6 now it is a core module.

In drupal 7 the recommended method to render output is by using the render api. So no more calling theme(...) directly. Here is a simple example based on the example from the examples module.

If you want to render only one field of your entities you can in drupal 7. Here in the example we have an entity called model which contains an image field.

To render the field you have to specify to the field_attach_view function which entity type, the entity and the view mode you want to use. The function returns a renderable array.