field api

Reflections on Drupalcon, D7, and DevSeed

Posted on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 02:35 by Barry Jaspan

I'm in my hotel room after the final day of Drupalcon San Francisco 2010. As always, I had a great time at the conference. I've been so busy building Acquia Hosting for the last year that I lost track of most of what went on with Drupal development in 2009 (except for the Field API project, of course), and I really enjoyed the opportunity to catch up.

My personal Drupalcon experience was largely focused around two new developments:

Field API: Get mentored and help out!

Posted on Tue, Apr 28, 2009 15:43 by Barry Jaspan

The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. Field API became part of Drupal 7 February, 2009, but there is still plenty of work to do. We need your help, and we’ll help you learn what you need to know to contribute.

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Field API: What would you like to know?

Posted on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 15:00 by Barry Jaspan

The Field API is major new functionality in Drupal 7 to provide custom data types just like CCK did for previous versions of Drupal. The Field API team has written fairly thorough API documentation but that is more useful as reference material than as a tutorial or HOWTO handbook.

So, here’s your chance to tell the Field API team what you want to know how to do. Comment on this post telling us what we should explain.