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Welcome to the Drupal 6 developer's documentation. Newcomers to Drupal development should read the conceptual information provided in the "Components of Drupal" section, and then proceed to examine one of the heavily-documented example modules below. The examples are fully-functioning Drupal modules, so you can download them from the contributions repository and alter them as you experiment.

• Components of Drupal
  • Module system (Drupal hooks)
  • Database abstraction layer
  • Menu system
  • Form generation
  • File upload system
  • Search system
  • Node access system
  • Theme system
  • Constants
  • Global variables
• Example modules
• In-depth discussions
  • Form API Quickstart Guide
  • Form API Reference
  • JavaScript in Drupal 5 and Drupal 6