Book Description

“Even if you’re already a seasoned Drupal user of CCK, Views, or Panels, I’ve no doubt that this book will provide you with several new techniques and methods for getting the most out of these extremely essential modules. It certainly has for me.”
—Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal, and CTO of Acquia

With Drupal, Web professionals can create full-featured Web sites with just a few clicks. Drupal’s core is compact and well documented, but much of Drupal’s immense power lies elsewhere—in external modules. Drupal’s Building Blocks is an authoritative tutorial, reference, and cookbook for Drupal’s most valuable modules.

The authors are Drupal insiders who’ve spent years creating and supporting these modules—Earl Miles, developer of the Views and Panels modules, and Lynette Miles, Drupal documentation team member. They’ve brought together indispensable information you won’t find anywhere else, as well as extensive sample “recipe” code designed for easy adaptation and reuse. Learn how to

• Use Content Construction Kit (CCK) to customize your data input forms around your needs
• Improve site flexibility with Drupal’s node system
• Add optional field types, including PHP-based fields Download Now »

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In today’s global society, online collaboration has gained tremendous importance as businesses look for ways to share ideas and collaborate easily. Open Atrium is a powerful and flexible Drupal installation that provides intranet solutions to businesses and organizations for sharing ideas. It is used to create intranets where co-workers or teams can collaborate easily. But Open Atrium is filled with so many powerful features that you may need some help to use it to its full potential.

Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium unlocks the power of Open Atrium and guides you through real-world examples of an Open Atrium intranet. Examples and screenshots are used throughout the book so that you can follow along on your Open Atrium installation. The examples walk through setting up your site, user administration, implementing core features, and maintaining your intranet site.

This book starts off with explaining how to set up a web server on a Windows or Mac computer and install Drupal with the Open Atrium distribution. After installing Open Atrium you will learn how to add and maintain users. The book also covers some exciting topics such as the different “spaces” or “workgroup” micro-sites that can be created to match your organization’s structure. Reading each of these sections, you will understand and become familiar with managing the Open Atrium interface. Once you comprehend the Open Atrium interface, you will learn how to create a blog, document library, and issue tracker for each group’s dashboard or site page. The book covers everything from editing a single piece of content to arranging the layout of that content on each page. Download Now »

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Make Drupal run like a greased cheetah!

Want to learn the secrets the pros use for making Drupal scale huge and perform with grace high traffic situations? In Drupal Performance & Scalability, Matt Westgate and James Sansbury teach you all you need to know to get peak performance out of Drupal on the LAMP stack. They carefully walk you through both installation and customization of the entire LAMP stack. They go over the highly-optimized Pressflow distribution of Drupal. They teach you how to benchmark your site’s performance, how to install many types of caching layers and how to optimize each layer of your server infrastructure. They even teach you all about things like CDN integration, APC, Varnish, Memcache and other caching layers within Drupal and MySQL. They discuss scaling strategies, looking at hardware topologies for both co-located and cloud infrastructures. They teach you how to isolate performance bottlenecks and cover strategies for monitoring. They also go over some of the changes in Drupal 7 and the next release of Pressflow. By the end of this video you’ll be an old pro at creating high performance Drupal deployments!

Chapter Listing:

1. Introduction
2. Overview of performance optimizations
3. LAMP stack installations
4. Prepping MySQL
5. Installing Pressflow Download Now »

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Drupal is an award-winning open-source Content Management System. It’s a modular system, with an elegant hook-based architecture, and great code. Modules are plugins for Drupal that extend, build or enhance Drupal core functionality.

In Drupal 7 Module development book, six professional Drupal developers use a practical, example-based approach to introduce PHP developers to the powerful new Drupal 7 tools, APIs, and strategies for writing custom Drupal code.

These tools not only make management and maintenance of websites much easier, but they are also great fun to play around with and amazingly easy to use.

If you’re eager to learn about these new APIs and start creating modules for Drupal 7, this is your book. Walk through the development of complete Drupal modules with this primer for PHP programmers.

From basic modules and themes to sophisticated Drupal extensions, learn how to use Drupal’s API and hook system to build powerful custom Drupal websites. With an emphasis on practical programming, this book takes a project-based approach, providing working examples in every chapter

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Book Description

Pro Drupal 7 Development updates the most popular development reference for the newest major release of Drupal. With several new and completely-rewritten essential APIs and improvements in Drupal 7, this book will not only teach developers how to write modules ranging from simple to complex, as well as learn how Drupal itself works.

• Learn the Drupal APIs and major changes in Drupal 7
• Learn how to write Drupal modules using the APIs
• Learn proper development practices and how to become a contributing community member

What you’ll learn

• How to get started with writing basic modules
• The flexible Drupal APIs and how they interact with modules
• How new features in Drupal 7 make modules even more powerful and sophisticated
• Best practices when developing in Drupal (coding standards, help developer modules)
• How to write safe, secure, and tested code
• How to contribute modules back to the Drupal community and maintain their modules using CVS Download Now »

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Drupal 7 contains features for which site administrators have been clamoring for years, including support for fields, an improved administration interface, better database support, improved theming, and more. You could of course make a laborious search on sites, blogs, and many online tutorials that would promise to update you about every new feature, but there’s an even better way to know all about Drupal 7′s new features: Drupal 7 First Look is the first and only book that covers all of the fantastic new features in Drupal 7 in depth and covers the process of upgrading your Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7. If you’ve used Drupal 6 and want to use Drupal 7, you need this book.

Drupal 7 First Look takes an in-depth look into all of the major new features in Drupal 7 so you can quickly take full advantage of Drupal 7. It also assists you in upgrading your site to Drupal 7. Some of the new features in Drupal 7 include:

• Fields API, based on Drupal 6 CCK, which allows you to easily build your own content types
• Improved user interface for administering your website
• Built-in support for working with images and files
• Improved security for the site and users of the site
• Completely rewritten database layer DBTNG to make working with the database easier and more secure.
• Improved API for custom module development and user interface theming Download Now »