Pretty, solid code

Have you ever forgotten to return the menu items array in an implementation of hook_menu? Then after spending a frustrating hour you know that very small errors can make Drupal really disgruntled.

PHP is a wonderfully flexible programming language, but its flexibility also opens a lot of dangerous pitfalls. The goal of this session is to make you think about PHP code and how to make it more robust. We all write code that has the occasional error or bug in it (at least I do), but there are a number of best practices and tricks that can make it easier to find the bugs and errors early on. Both Drupal core and contributed modules contain some good, tested, and reusable functions that all programmers should know and use instead of writing the same code. The session will go over some of the ones I find that are the most helpful.

Coding standards are important for any software, but as Drupal is growing it becomes more and more important that we all adhere to the standards. I will cover ways to quickly ensure that your code is up to the formatting standards.