Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook
Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook
Author: Vernon Denny
With 249 pages divided into 12 chapters this book is the ideal starting point for both beginners as well as more experienced users regarding webforms. It is a step-by-step guide on how to start right from downloading and installing the Webform module through configuring and setting user roles and permissions. The book is packed with exercises and discussions. Drupal 7 Webform Cookbook gives one the tools needed to turn ones Drupal website into an interactive information-gathering superhighway.
The Webform module consistently ranked in the top 15 of the most installed Drupal contributed modules, and it facilitates two distinct, yet related, sets of functionality. First, it is a great tool for creating forms designed to capture required data from users, such as a customized Contact Us form for example. Secondly, Webform has a backend interface for website administrators to work with the submitted data. We can see then that Webform is designed for scenarios where many people (for example, users, subscribers, and so on) are submitting data handled by a small group of administrative users.
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What the book covers
• how to install and configure the Webform module
• introduction of Webform components, building, and testing your first Webform module.
• it covers the Webform backend and explains how to work with data submitted to forms.
• it explores the availability of other Webform components.
• it covers how to customize the form’s user interface and feedback to respondents.
• it helps discover additional modules to enhance the user experience of forms, protecting with CAPTCHA, and an introduction to the Webform API.
• it explains how to make use of the Drupal theming layer to give the form a look and feel of its own.
• it helps create custom modules that interact with user submitted data, adding custom validation rules.
• it explains how to build your own custom Webform component from the ground up.
• it discusses carrying out multiple actions with a single click.
• it explains how to make use of extra modules to produce customized submitted data listings and covers how to keep track of changes made to submitted data.
• it also discusses displaying and hiding fields based on previous input, validating input data on the client side, and importing submissions.
In short, for all Drupalistas struggling with forms, this book is exactly what users of all levels have been waiting for. It is clear, concise and clever. And it will help you grow, and make the interactivity of your sites better, much better.
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First published: May 2012
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