The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7


The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for building web sites using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management framework.

Written by active community members and contributors (some of the “brightest and most innovative minds in the Drupal community,” to quote Angela Byron, Drupal 7 maintainer), the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 covers the basics then quickly advances to in-depth exploration of the functionality and tools that make Drupal so powerful for building web applications. Just as important, this book provides the reader with a guide to participating in the Drupal community: an international, committed, rapidly growing community of themers, developers, and open source advocates who write the modules, test the code, and work ceaselessly to make Drupal great. The release of Drupal 7, with its dramatic improvements in usability and system architecture, will take Drupal to a new level of popularity, and this book will help give you the foundation and scaffolding to grow with Drupal.

With The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, you will be able to:

  • Plan and build a complete Drupal site with core alone.
  • Extend Drupal’s functionality by selecting from thousands of modules.
  • Make your Drupal site look like anything you want with theming and jQuery.
  • Extend Drupal by coding your own modules.
  • Install Drupal in many environments.
  • Use essential tools such as Drush and Git to make your life easier.
  • Contribute to the Drupal community as an organizer or a coder.

Who this book is for
Anyone who is serious about getting better at Drupal.

Table of Contents

  1. Building a Drupal 7 Site
  2. Essential Tools: Drush and Git
  3. Building Dynamic Pages Using Views
  4. There’s a Module for That
  5. Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups
  6. Security in Drupal
  7. Updating Drupal
  8. Extending Your Site
  9. Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved
  10. Planning and Managing a Drupal Project
  11. Documenting for End Users and the Production Team
  12. Development Environment
  13. Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features
  14. Developing from a Human Mindset
  15. Theming
  16. Advanced Theming
  17. jQuery
  18. Introduction to Module Development
  19. Using Drupal’s APIs in a Module
  20. Refining Your Module
  21. Porting Modules to Drupal 7
  22. Writing Project-Specific Code
  23. Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest
  24. Writing a Major Module
  25. Drupal Commerce
  26. Drush
  27. Scaling Drupal
  28. Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics
  29. The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal
  30. Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page
  31. Search and Apache Solr Integration
  32. User Experience
  33. Completing a Site: The Other 90%
  34. Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles
  35. Drupal’s Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events
  36. Now You’re in Business: Making a Living with Drupal
  37. Maintaining a Project
  38. Contributing to the Community
  39. Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
  40. Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
  41. Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
  42. Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
  43. Appendix E: Accessibility
  44. Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
  45. Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
  46. Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
  47. Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1112 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (July 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430231351
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430231356
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