Professional Module Development

"What sets DrupalEasy apart is Mike's exceptional teaching style. Nowhere else will you encounter
someone who can seamlessly create pockets of learning opportunities in Drupal, catering from fundamental to advanced levels with composure and genuine compassion for the subject."
Daniel Wilkerson, Winter 2024

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This course provided tons of hands-on practice with many Drupal APIs and best practices like writing automated tests. I feel more motivated and confident both in my ability [to] contribute back to Drupal core and to train others in Drupal development.
Amber Matz, Winter 2023

"This is a great class, I am much more confident in my module building and have improved my coding standards... A "must do" for anyone who wants to write code that you can share with confidence."

Adam Bauer, Summer 2022

Professional Module Development is DrupalEasy's newest long-form, best-practice focused, professional Drupal training course.

The full version of the course, approximately 90 hours of instruction, leads students through the process of learning modern Drupal module techniques and skills, setting up their development environment, running automated tests, and using modern code quality tools.

The course is presented with weekly rotating combinations of PhpStorm, Visual Studio Code, Lando, and DDEV. Developer tool lessons include details for all four of these tools.

If you're looking to become a professional Drupal module developer; there is no better way to learn the skills necessary as part of our friendly and professional DrupalEasy Learning Community.

Cost: $3,500

Special pricing is available to Drupal Career Online alumni, non-profit organizations, and groups of 3 or more students.

PMD Lite

The Lite version of the course, approximately 60 hours of instruction, provides a select portion of the curriculum for those who don't require the full menu of topics. PMD Lite runs concurrently with the full version of the course and is offered at a reduced price.

PMD Lite focuses on the core module development aspects of the class, skipping topics such as developer tools, events, custom Drush commands, and caching.

Cost: $2,500

A fantastic course covering some really advanced stuff. If you understand the principles of Drupal, but want to move forward to deal with advanced development topics, this is a good place to start.
James Shields, Winter 2023

Excellent course - cannot recommend highly enough! Covers all the necessary topics in great detail.

Ian Finlay, Summer 2022

PMD not only provides the how to, but also always strives to answer the why.

Why are coding standards important?
Why should I use PhpStan?
Why do I care about dependency injection?
Why is Xdebug better than other debugging tools?
Why should I take the time to write automated tests?
Why do I need to pay attention to caching?
Why does it matter which IDE I use?

Many PMD lessons start by making the case for why the topic about to be taught will save you time, make you more efficient, or allow your code to be more flexible - real motivation for you and your fellow classmates to fully embrace the topics.

Winter 2025

Registration deadline: January 24, 2025
Class begins: January 28, 2025
Payment deadline: February 3, 2025
Class ends: May 8, 2025

Lite registration deadline: February 7, 2025
Lite class begins: February 11, 2025
Lite payment deadline: February 14, 2025
Lite class ends: March 27, 2025

Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon-3:30pm ET.

Summer 2025

Registration deadline: August 8, 2025
Payment deadline: August 15, 2025
Class begins: August 12, 2025
Class ends: November 20, 2025

Lite registration deadline: August 22, 2025
Lite payment deadline: August 29, 2025
Lite class begins: August 27, 2025
Lite class ends: October 23, 2025

Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon-3:30pm ET.

"Fantastic dive into the details of module development. An excellent way to develop new skills or strengthen/hone your existing module development skills.

Marvin Crippen, Summer 2022

Syllabus overview

Part 1 - Full course participants

Course custom module user stories
Course site configuration
Developer tools (phpcs, PhpStan, Xdebug)
Integrated development environments (PhpStorm, Visual Studio Code)
Automated testing overview

Part 2 - Full and Lite course participants

Overview of course custom module architecture
Starting a custom module with test-driven development (functional PhpUnit test)
Creating a configuration form (including configuration schema)
Creating a plugin type
Creating a plugin
Creating a unit test
Creating kernel tests

Part 3 - Full and Lite course participants

Overview of services and dependency injection
Custom form validation and submission
Service parameters

Part 4 - Full and Lite course participants

Managing custom modules with Composer
Creating a plugin with an external dependency
Creating a kernel test
Implementing hook_user_login() and hook_cron()
Using the Drupal Queue API
Creating a admin form
Using the Drupal Batch API

Part 5 - Full course participants

Custom events and event subscribers
Creating a custom Drush command
Hooks related to installing and uninstalling modules
Overview of Drupal caching techniques

Very thorough and detailed module development course that has given me a more comprehensive understanding of module development.

Devon Ek, Summer 2022

Prerequisites

Experience with a local development environment (DDEV or Lando preferred)
Experience with Composer
Experience with Drush
Knowledge of object-oriented PHP
Knowledge of introductory Drupal module concepts (routes, controllers, forms, hooks)

Additional suggested prerequisites for the Lite version

Comfort running local PhpUnit tests
Drupal Coder
PhpStan
Xdebug

The best part of this course was that it gave me CONFIDENCE! I now know where to look for coding help, and can read/understand OO code. I have a better understanding of PHPStorm and how it's integral to coding PHP and Drupal.

John Learned, Summer 2022