Extending Tripal

Contents:

• Object-Oriented Development
• Controlled Vocabularies (CVs)
  • How are CVs used in Tripal?
  • Identifying a CVTerm
  • Retrieving Tripal Terms
  • Chado CV module
• Biological Data Storage
  • Tripal DBX: Generic cross database support for Drupal
  • GMOD Chado Schema Integration
  • Chado Buddies
  • Bulk Schema Install for PostgreSQL
  • Custom Tables in Chado
  • Creating a Chado Data Importer
• Custom Module Development
  • Module File Structure
  • Menus, Links and URLs
  • Plugins and Services (Building blocks)
  • Pages and Page Types
  • Fields (Content building blocks)
  • Forms (user input)
  • Jobs (longer-running tasks)
  • Error Reporting and Logging
  • Views (content listings)
  • Configuration Variables
  • Theme (display)
  • Caching (performance)
  • Alternate Database Backends
• Deprecations in Tripal 4.x
  • chado_db_select() is deprecated in favour of the Tripal DBX Query API
  • Tripal Chado Query API is deprecated in favour of the Tripal DBX Query API
  • Tripal importer using Drupal::service() is deprecated in favour of dependency injection.
  • ChadoOrganismAutocompleteController is deprecated in favour of ChadoOrganismFormElementController
• Automated Testing
  • How run automated tests locally
  • Tripal-focused Testing
  • Automated testing across many Drupal/PHP Versions
  • Additional Resources
• Hands-On Training
  • How to use Custom Tables in Chado
  • Using XDebug to Profile Performance for a Tripal Site