[development] Drupal 7 - views

Iain Wiseman iwiseman at bibble.co.nz
Mon May 2 07:05:53 UTC 2011


On 02/05/11 12:54, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:
> In general, I don't split the module up until it gets to some point in 
> size, which is just a judgment call. Then the first thing I look at is 
> splitting the admin functions out to mymodule.admin.inc. If it keeps 
> getting bigger, I look at what the functions are and which ones they 
> use. If a function is not used commonly, I will split it off. I 
> suspect my call on that is from the early days of my career when 
> commercial virtual memory was in its early days too and we worried 
> about "locality of reference." I know PHP is different to some extent, 
> but I like to keep calling and called code near each other to reduce 
> page faults. That's also why I try to keep "one time" (actually only 
> infreqent) calls, such as hook_menu(), separated from the more active 
> code in my modules.
>
> /*NancyDru*/
>
> Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. 
> King, Jr.
>
>
>
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> *From:* Iain William Wiseman
>
> Will be looking a views again tonight (day job to do!). I am looking 
> into helping out port LinkedIn to Drupal 7 but felt I might be best 
> just getting a simple view/database module going first. I do have on 
> question with regard to building the code though, is there a standard 
> approach to where to put the bits. I understand .install and .info but 
> where how to split up the pages seems unclear to me.

Thanks all who provided help. For reference, my issue was caused by not 
uninstalling and re-installing the module. Once this was done all worked 
fine. Next, multi-step form.
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