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
- 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
- Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7
- Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance
- Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering
- Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal
- Appendix E: Accessibility
- Appendix F: Windows Development Environment
- Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu
- Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation
- Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop
Authors- Benjamin Melançon
- Jacine Luisi
- Károly Négyesi
- Greg Anderson
- Bojhan Somers
- Stéphane Corlosquet
- Stefan Freudenberg
- Michelle Lauer
- Ed Carlevale
- Florian Lorétan
- Dani Nordin
- Ryan Szrama
- Susan Stewart
- Jake Strawn
- Brian Travis
- Dan Hakimzadeh
- Amye Scavarda
- Albert Albala
- Allie Micka
- Robert Douglass
- Robin Monks
- Roy Scholten
- Peter Wolanin
- Kay VanValkenburgh
- Greg Stout
- Kasey Qynn Dolin
- Forest Mars
- Sam Boyer
- Mike Gifford
- Claudina Sarahe
- George Cassie
- Mike Ryan
- Dmitri Gaskin
Benjamin Melançon builds web sites to give people a little more power over their online presence. He loves his work, but seeks to build ways to connect people for planning and coordination that will help us all gain a lot more power in our lives.
Jacine Luisi (neé Rodriguez) is a front-end developer, specializing in Drupal theme development. She spends much of her free time working on markup and CSS related issues for Drupal core and also works on contributed projects such as the Skinr module and the Sky theme. She is the HTML5 initiative leader for Drupal 8.
Károly Négyesi, since his life became hopelessly entangled with Drupal in 2004, has risen to be one of the most prolific core contributors and had a brief stint as the first leader of the security team.
Greg Anderson is one of the co-maintainers of drush, the Drupal shell. He runs the Developer Technical Support Group in the Americas for Ricoh Corporation.
Bojhan Somers has been involved with the Drupal community, helping form the UX team and taking a leading role in bringing user experience changes to the core software.
Stéphane Corlosquet holds a master's degree specializing in Semantic Web from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland. He works at the Mass General Hospital Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) on a Drupal-based distribution to build online communities of researchers in biomedecine.
Stefan Freudenberg is a backend developer with experience in Linux system administration. Drawn into developing websites with Drupal and into the community in late 2008, his debugging and profiling skills make him popular with his teams. Arguing for simpler architecture and standards compliance is what he enjoys most but is not always as well received.
Michelle Lauer (aka miche on Drupal.org) started her Drupal adventures in 2006 and quickly became known for combining a keen sense of detail while possessing the ability to see the big picture.
