Development

Table of Contents

Devel

  • A set of development helper tools for debugging, content generation, etc.

Masquerade

  • allows site administrators to switch users and surf the site as that user (no password required).
  • Helpful for site developers when trying to determine what a client, logged in as themselves, might see when logged into the site.
  • @todo Do not use on production?

Entity API

  • Extends the entity API of Drupal core in order to provide a unified way to deal with entities and their properties.
  • It's very probable that you'll have it as dependency of other modules.
  • Very helpful in dealing with nodes and other entities in your code, or if you define your own entity types.
  • Entity Token module defines tokens for defined entity types (not only for core's node, user, etc.).