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Pro Drupal 7 Development updates the most popular development reference for the release of Drupal 7. 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, but also 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 the Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
Who this book is for
This book is for existing Drupal module developers wanting to learn about Drupal 7 and people already knowledgeable in PHP who are interested in developing for Drupal. Simply put, if you are working with Drupal, then you need this book.
Table of Contents
- How Drupal Works
- Writing a Module
- Hooks, Actions, and Triggers
- The Menu System
- Working with Databases
- Working with Users
- Working with Nodes
- Working with Fields
- The Theme System
- Working with Blocks
- The Form API
- Manipulating User Input: The Filter System
- Searching and Indexing Content
- Working with Files
- Working with Taxonomy
- Caching
- Sessions
- Using jQuery
- Localization and Translation
- XML-RPC
- Writing Secure Code
- Development Best Practices
- Optimizing Drupal
- Installation Profiles
- Testing
- Database Table Reference
- Resources
About the Author
Todd Tomlinson is the Vice President of Public Sector Consulting for ServerLogic Corporation. He is the former Senior Director of EBusines Strategy at Oracle Corporation, VP of Internet and eBusiness Consulting for Claremont Technoloyg Group, VP and CTO of Emerald Solutions, Senior Manager with Accenture, and a senior faculty member and area chair for a large University where he was the lead professor for web design and development. He has been using Drupal for the past several years and had a significant number of high profile sites on the web that he's developed using Drupal.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The earlier two editions of this book were the definitive books for the versions of Drupal they covered.
The current book is larger as Drupal has grown in complexity, and tries to cover the large area of both site building for those who want to avoid writing code, while also writing a lot about how to code for Drupal.
It does a fairly good job of this - but inevitably can't get everything in and sometimes the code sections are just too short for my taste.
Drupal 7 had a bumpy road to release with API changes made long after they were expected to be closed, and as this book was written before Drupal 7 was released there are inevitably some areas where the book doesn't match the actual product. I've found errors in the book - and the errata website for it is pretty large.
The book is still highly useful as a reference and explains well what happens in Drupal and how to do things - just don't rely too much on the code examples.
The current book is larger as Drupal has grown in complexity, and tries to cover the large area of both site building for those who want to avoid writing code, while also writing a lot about how to code for Drupal.
It does a fairly good job of this - but inevitably can't get everything in and sometimes the code sections are just too short for my taste.
Drupal 7 had a bumpy road to release with API changes made long after they were expected to be closed, and as this book was written before Drupal 7 was released there are inevitably some areas where the book doesn't match the actual product. I've found errors in the book - and the errata website for it is pretty large.
The book is still highly useful as a reference and explains well what happens in Drupal and how to do things - just don't rely too much on the code examples.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is a great book. A lot of details, but still missing af few real advanced examples.
Besides that, it's a great look-up book.
Besides that, it's a great look-up book.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is very helpful if you want to learn Drupal 7. The truth it that it has an identical structure as the second edition of the book, but the code and the examples are updated for Drupal 7.
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