[development] authentication hooks - PLEASE HELP

[Earl Miles]

Sheryl (Permutations Software) wrote:
> Putting output buffer statements into my theme seems to have solved the
> tracing problem, at least. At the top and bottom of the hook_page() function
> in my PHP theme, I added these statements:
> 
> 	$output = eval('ob_start();');
> 	...
> 	$output .= eval('ob_end_flush();');
> 
> I still have many other problems, however. Drupal calls databases and
> functions at unpredictable times. I can't tell what's going on and there is
> no documentation.

There is actually quite a bit of documentation; there's so much, in fact, it can 
be hard to tell where to start. The handbook and drupaldocs.org both have a 
great deal of documentation on the Drupal architecture.