Drupal 7 Module Development: Create Your Own Drupal 7 Modules from Scratch - Softcover

Butcher, Matt; Dunlap, Greg; Farina, Matt; Garfield, Larry; Rickard, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849511160 ISBN 13: 9781849511162

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

This book takes a hands-on, practical approach to software development. The authors, all professional Drupal developers and contributors to the Drupal project, provide accessible coding samples designed to exhibit not only the technical merits and abilities of Drupal, but also proper architectural and stylistic approaches to coding on one of the world's most popular content management systems. Every chapter provides fully functional code samples illustrating the APIs and strategies discussed in the chapter. With this foundation, developers can quickly build sophisticated tools on their own by making use of the strategies and techniques exemplified in this book. If you are a PHP developer or a Drupal user looking to dive into Drupal development then you will find this book an excellent introduction to coding within Drupal. Those with some Drupal experience will also find this an invaluable tool for updating their knowledge about the powerful new features of Drupal 7. Theme developers looking to extend their abilities will find this an accessible introduction to PHP coding within the Drupal environment. This book assumes that you are familiar with basic PHP programming, along with HTML and CSS. No experience with programming Drupal is required, although it is also a handy way for experienced Drupal developers to get up to speed with Drupal 7.

About this title

From the Author

From John Albin Wilkins, author of Chapters 3 & 4: Only a handful of people claim to understand the entire Drupal theming system, so I was very happy to share my experience with theming strategies and my knowledge of the theme system internals. These chapters represent the first thorough explanation of Drupal 7's theme system, a critical system all module developers will need to interact with.

From the Back Cover

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, 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. This book will walk you through the development of complete Drupal modules and show you how to add various features to meet your requirements.

Who this book is written for

If you are a PHP developer or a Drupal user looking to dive into Drupal development then you will find this book an excellent introduction to coding with Drupal. Those with some Drupal experience will also find this an invaluable tool for updating their knowledge about the powerful new features of Drupal 7. This book assumes that you are familiar with basic PHP programming, along with HTML and CSS.

No experience with programming Drupal is required, although it is also a handy way for experienced Drupal developers to get up to speed with Drupal 7.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to work with Drupal's hook system
• Explore the major APIs introduced in Drupal 7 that the pros use to build successful Drupal websites
• Build and extend themes and modules to make Drupal 7 shine
• Apply the principles of Test Drive Development (TDD) and test your code programmatically using Drupal's new built-in Simple Test framework
• Leverage the book's working module examples as a starting point for your own code
• Discover the secrets of Drupal professionals as they explain the practical aspects of good Drupal development

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849511160
• ISBN 13: 9781849511162
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 394