Pro Drupal 7 Development

ISBN-13: 9781430228387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 720 str.

Dave Reid

Opis

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

Spis treści

1. How Drupal Works
2. Writing a Module
3. Hooks, Actions, and Triggers
4. The Menu System
5. Working with Databases
6. Working with Users
7. Working with Nodes
8. Working with Fields
9. The Theme System
10. Working with Blocks
11. The Form API
12. Manipulating User Input: The Filter System
13. Searching and Indexing Content
14. Working with Files
15. Working with Taxonomy
16. Caching
17. Sessions
18. Using jQuery
19. Localization and Translation
20. XML-RPC
21. Writing Secure Code
22. Development Best Practices
23. Optimizing Drupal
24. Installation Profiles
25. Testing
26. Database Table Reference
27. Resources

O autorze

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.