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