Pro Drupal 7 Development

by John VanDyk, Todd Tomlinson

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430228387
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/29/2010
Series:	Expert's Voice in Open Source
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	720
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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.

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