Drupal 7 Development by Example
Drupal 7 Development by Example
Beginner's Guide
Author: Kurt Madel
Follow the creation of a Drupal website to learn, by example, the key concepts of Drupal 7 development and HTML5
With 341 pages in 11 chapters this book is a hands-on, example-driven guide to programming Drupal websites. It will help you discover a number of new features for Drupal 7 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website. It will help you learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and new features for developers in Drupal 7.
The book promises it will help you learn how to build cutting edge websites with D7, discover important concepts for HTML5, learn important patterns for Javascript and AJAX, realize interesting ways to integrate multi-media with D7, find out how becoming more involved with the Drupal development community can help you build better websites, set up a development environment, and learn how to use Git and Drush, and last but not least – uncover how much fun it can be to build websites with Drupal 7.
Right from the start the book will help you set up a Drupal development environment, followed by an introduction to Custom Content Types and an introduction to Module Development. In Chapter 3 it will show you how HTML5 can be integrated in Drupal 7. Of course, Drupal 7 Theme Development is a must for every developer, as well as Enhancing the Content Author’s User Experience with an in depth exploration (finally) on how to configure WYSIWYG. The Drupal 7 Media Module can improve the multi-media integration significantly, keeping in mind that a site without any multimedia is just text!
Visitor site interaction is also important, after all, if well done it will increase time spend on the site. The book will also discuss Views, and show why this is the most popular contrib module on Drupal.org, and to put the icing on the cake, Rotating Banners and Project Promotion will show how to use Views in the most compelling way.
The last two chapters will teach you how to test your code with SimpleTest, and an introduction to the Features Module and Configuration Management will be provided.
All in all, this is a book that provides many much needed explanations of much used modules, and is a hands-on experience for the Drupal programmer. Learn by doing: less theory, more results.
Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing
First published: May 2012
Production Reference: 1160512
Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. Livery Place
35 Livery Street
Birmingham B3 2PB, UK.
ISBN 978-1-84951-680-8
www.packtpub.com
