VanDyk / Tomlinson Pro Drupal 7 Development

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4302-2839-4
Verlag: APRESS
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 720 Seiten, eBook

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

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

VanDyk, John

Tomlinson, Todd

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

John K. VanDyk has been a Drupal developer since 2004. In 2005, he organized the first Drupal conference in Antwerp, Belgium, with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. John has contributed several modules to Drupal including the actions, workflow, publish, subscribe, and pubcookie modules and has been instrumental in the design of Drupal's Content Construction Kit. John's day job is as an entomology professor and systems analyst at Iowa State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses about insects. In his spare time, when not hacking on Drupal, John enjoys squash hunting and raising children.