Mike Ryan

A Developer's Assistant: Using Coder for Module Developers and Maintainers

Session led by Doug Green from Civic Action, maintainer of the coder module.

The Coder module aids developers in adhering to Drupal's community coding standards as well as helping with security pitfalls and upgrading modules from one version of Drupal to the next. Specifically, Coder reviews:

• style (lots)
• comments (lots)
• sql (some)
• upgrades (lots)
• security (some, but not a lot)
• performance (well - not so much)

Coder mainly uses regular expressions to perform the various checks. It is able to check modules regardless of if they are enabled or not. Doug announced today that the module now supports drush (=drupal shell - running Drupal from the command line).

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