<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Cross-posting this to the docs team as well. :-)<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Senpai <<a href="mailto:senpai_san@mac.com">senpai_san@mac.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 25, 2008 5:36:28 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[development] Proposal: A new Handbook page outlining Best Practices</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Well, we've gone and done it. Several of us got to talking in IRC today and realized that there wasn't a readily available set of Best Practice guidelines for programming within the Drupal framework. This page is a beginning towards a fix for that.<br><br>Best Practices is now at <a href="http://drupal.org/node/287350">http://drupal.org/node/287350</a><br><br>We're hoping that everyone on this list who cares enough to send the very best will place a comment on this page with something that they do as a matter of course, and wish everyone else did too. Once the docs team gets enough of these, we'll begin rolling them into a cohesive set of guidelines for Coding within Drupal as it pertains to PHP, MySQL, and the like. High level stuff.<br><br>Let the fallout commence!<br>-- <br>Joel 'Senpai' Farris<br>"Protection and captivity so often look the same."<br> ** Robert Ludlum<br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>