The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

by Melancon, Benjamin; Luisi, Jacine; Negyesi, Karoly; Anderson, Greg; Somers, Bojhan

• ISBN13: 9781430231356
• ISBN10: 1430231351
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-19
• Publisher: Apress

Summary

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. Written by a panel of expert authors, the book covers every aspect of Drupal, from planning a successful project all the way up to making a living from designing Drupal sites and to contributing to the Drupal community yourself. With this book you will: Follow practical approaches to solving many online communication needs with Drupal with real examples. Learn how to keep teaching yourself about Drupal: administration, development, theming, design, and architecture. Go beyond the code to engage with the Drupal community as a contributing member and to do Drupal sustainably as a business. What yours"ll learn Launch a community-ready site in fifteen minutes. Talk to stakeholders and architect a siters"s structure and functionality around the goals it must achieve to successfully launch major enterprise sites. Find, evaluate, and configure packages of code (called modules) that extend Drupalrs"s functionality. Theme inspired designs into functional, future-proof templates. Build modules when you need to extend what Drupal can do beyond the thousands of solutions already coded by others. Work with Drupal sustainably as a professional and as a participant in the Drupal community. Who this book is forAnyone who has heard of Drupal and has a personal or professional reason to learn more: from Drupal administrators, themers, and developers to moonlighters and intense hobbyists. People considering a solo or collaborative career making websites will find this book their complete stop for Drupal.

Table of Contents

Building a Drupal 7 Site

Essential Tools: Drush and Git

Building Dynamic Pages Using Views

There's a Module for That

Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups

Security in Drupal

Updating Drupal

Extending Your Site

Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved

Planning and Managing a Drupal Project

Documenting for End Users and the Production Team

Development Environment

Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features

Developing from a Human Mindset

Theming

Advanced Theming

jQuery

Introduction to Module Development

Using Drupal's APIs in a Module

Refining Your Module

Porting Modules to Drupal 7

Writing Project-Specific Code

Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest

Writing a Major Module

Drupal Commerce

Drush

Scaling Drupal

Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics

The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal

Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page

Search and Apache Solr Integration

User Experience

Completing a Site: The Other 90%

Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles

Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events

Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal

Maintaining a Project

Contributing to the Community

Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7

Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance

Page Rendering and Altering

Visual Design in Drupal

Accessibility

Windows Development Environment

Installing Drupal on Ubuntu

Mac OS X Installation

Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop

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