The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for building web sites using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management framework.

Written by active community members and contributors (some of the "brightest and most innovative minds in the Drupal community," to quote Angela Byron, Drupal 7 maintainer), the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 covers the basics then quickly advances to in-depth exploration of the functionality and tools that make Drupal so powerful for building web applications. Just as important, this book provides the reader with a guide to participating in the Drupal community: an international, committed, rapidly growing community of themers, developers, and open source advocates who write the modules, test the code, and work ceaselessly to make Drupal great. The release of Drupal 7, with its dramatic improvements in usability and system architecture, will take Drupal to a new level of popularity, and this book will help give you the foundation and scaffolding to grow with Drupal.

With The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, you will be able to:
Plan and build a complete Drupal site with core alone. Extend Drupal's functionality by selecting from thousands of modules. Make your Drupal site look like anything you want with theming and jQuery. Extend Drupal by coding your own modules. Install Drupal in many environments. Use essential tools such as Drush and Git to make your life easier. Contribute to the Drupal community as an organizer or a coder. Who this book is for Anyone who is serious about getting better at Drupal.
Table of Contents Building a Drupal 7 Site Essential Tools: Drush and Git Building Dynamic Pages Using Views There's a Module for That Creating Community Web Sites with Organic Groups Security in Drupal Updating Drupal Extending Your Site Drupal Community: Getting Help and Getting Involved Planning and Managing a Drupal Project Documenting for End Users and the Production Team Development Environment Putting a Site Online and Deploying New Features Developing from a Human Mindset Theming Advanced Theming jQuery Introduction to Module Development Using Drupal's APIs in a Module Refining Your Module Porting Modules to Drupal 7 Writing Project-Specific Code Introduction to Functional Testing with Simpletest Writing a Major Module Drupal Commerce Drush Scaling Drupal Spice Your Content Up with Tasty Semantics The Menu System and the Path Into Drupal Under the Hood: Inside Drupal When It Displays a Page Search and Apache Solr Integration User Experience Completing a Site: The Other 90% Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles Drupal's Story: A Chain of Many Unexpected Events Now You're in Business: Making a Living with Drupal Maintaining a Project Contributing to the Community Appendix A: Updating a Drupal Site from 6 to 7 Appendix B: Profiling Drupal and Optimizing Performance Appendix C: Page Rendering and Altering Appendix D: Visual Design in Drupal Appendix E: Accessibility Appendix F: Windows Development Environment Appendix G: Installing Drupal on Ubuntu Appendix H: Mac OS X Installation Appendix I: Setting Up a Drupal Environment with the Acquia Dev Desktop Authors
Benjamin Melançon Jacine Luisi Károly Négyesi Greg Anderson Bojhan Somers Stéphane Corlosquet Stefan Freudenberg Michelle Lauer Ed Carlevale Florian Lorétan Dani Nordin Ryan Szrama Susan Stewart Jake Strawn Brian Travis Dan Hakimzadeh Amye Scavarda Albert Albala Allie Micka Robert Douglass Robin Monks Roy Scholten Peter Wolanin Kay VanValkenburgh Greg Stout Kasey Qynn Dolin Forest Mars Sam Boyer Mike Gifford Claudina Sarahe George Cassie Mike Ryan Dmitri Gaskin