Developer - Training Exercises

Code walkthru Exercises

• Enable all debugging switches in Global Settings Screen
• Add the following to your settings file:
• Add a smartyDebug=1 to a GET request and see the smarty variables exposed
• Hack the template and add (hint: find the tpl file using view source)
  to the top of the file to display the contents of an Event Registration Confirmation page
• Use firebug with the contact search autocomplete and find the file/query that is responds to this ajax call
• Send an email to a contact (or use CiviMail) and check the logged email

Hook Exercises

• Hook documentation

• Implement the validate hook (hook_civicrm_validate) on the Contact Edit Form:
  • Make external_identifier a required field
  • Validate external_identifier to ensure it is a valid SSN ( 123-45-6789)

• Implement the pageRun hook on the user dashboard: q=civicrm/user&reset=1&id=XX
  • Expose some data to the template via the pageRun hook
  • Customize the template to include this data at the top of the template

• Implement the buildForm hook on the Contact Edit Form
  • Introduce a text form field. Make this field required
  • Add this field to the template
  • Implement the validate hook to ensure that this field is numeric
  • Implement the postProcess hook and save the value to the CiviCRM log file

Views2 Exercises

• Implement a Contact Directory (name, address, phone)
• Implement a Latest Contributions block, ordered by receive_date desc